Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with February+ 2023 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Women playwrights. | 1/31/23 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| Attleboro Community Theatre | Any | Comedy, drama, murder mystery, etc. | 1/31/23 | Attleboro, Massachusetts | n/a |
| Capital Repertory Theatre | Full Length | Scripts with racial, ethnic, generational, religious and gender diversity. Scripts that engage art and social justice. Pieces written by and featuring POC stories and characters. Comedy and drama welcome! | 1/31/23 | Albany, New York | n/a |
| Everybody’s Theater Company | 10-30 mins | Comedy, drama, mystery, thriller, monologue, or musical. | 1/31/23 | Maple Glen, Pennsylvania | No Fee |
| Kumu Kahua Theatre / Bamboo Ridge Press | See right. | 5-page monologues or 10-page scenes based on this prompt: A first kiss. | 1/31/23 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Prize: $100 |
| Feels Blind Literary | n/s | Writers who are nonbinary or identify as women. Plays accepted. *Submission fee is always waived on Mondays. | No deadline posted. | n/a | Fee: $3 |
| Blue Mountain Center | max 30 pages (sample) | Residency. Encourages apps from people of color, women, and LGBTQ artists & activists. | 2/1/23 | Blue Mountain Lake, New York | App Fee: $25 |
| Breadcrumbs Productions | 30 mins – 2 hrs | Fully produced shows of any size that would suit a black-box style, intimate, or non-traditional performance space venue. | 2/1/23 | Syracuse, New York | No Fee |
| Heartland Theatre Company | 10 mins | Theme: THE WAITING ROOM | 2/1/23 | Bloomington, Illinois | n/a |
| The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award | Full Length | New plays and performance texts by women and genderqueer writers for the stage that present a feminist perspective and present significant roles for female-identified performers. | 2/1/23 | Washington, D.C. | Prize: $1,000 |
| Teatro Vivo | Full Length | Scripts that speak to the diverse Latinx experience. Plays can be monolingual (English or Spanish), bilingual, or multilingual. | 2/5/23 | Austin, Texas | n/a |
| Carlow Little Theatre Society | 20-40 mins | Writers over 18 years old, local and international. | 2/10/23 | Ireland | Fee: €5 Prize: €500 |
| MacDowell Colony | Full Length | Residency. Int’l submissions ok. No residency fees. | 2/10/23 | Peterborough, New Hampshire | App Fee: $30 |
| The Playwrights Realm | Full Length | 15-hour developmental reading process. Plays can be anything from a rough first draft to a play that is close to production-ready. | 2/13/23 | NYC | n/a |
| The Playwrights Realm | Full Length | Script that would benefit from a nine-month, intensive development process. | 2/13/23 | NYC | n/a |
| Blue Institute | max 9 pages | Must be appropriate for all ages. Theme: Water | 2/14/23 | Harwich Port, Massachusetts | Fee: $10 suggested donation |
| Geneva Theatre Guild | max 30 mins | One-act plays. | 2/14/23 | Geneva, New York | n/a |
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| Muskegon Community College | 10-15 pages | Comedic or dramatic plays of all types. Theme: Joke’s On You | 2/14/23 | Muskegon, Michigan | Fee: $10 Prize: $100 |
| Playhouse on Park | Full Length | BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, womxn, Latinx, and differently abled artists are strongly encouraged to submit. Connecticut-based and NYC playwrights are strongly encouraged to submit. | 2/14/23 | West Hartford, Connecticut | n/a |
| East Valley Children’s Theatre | 60-90 mins | Plays must be suitable for children to perform and for an audience of children. | 2/15/23 | Mesa, Arizona | No Fee Prize: $500 |
| Live & In Color | 10 pages (sample) | Playwrights, composers, and lyricists of color and/or other underrepresented communities interested in developing their new musical. | 2/15/23 | Salem, Connecticut | n/a |
| The New American Theatre | One Act (max 15 mins) | Int’l submissions ok. The plays must not have been previously produced in Los Angeles, CA. | 2/15/23 | Culver City, California | Fee: $15 |
| Tofte Lake Center | n/s | Residency. | 2/15/23 | Ely, Minnesota | n/a |
| College of Charleston | Full Length | US playwrights only. | 2/18/23 | Charleston, South Carolina | Fee: $10 Prize: $400 |
| Wayne Literary Review | max 3,500 words | One-act plays or excerpts no longer than 3500 words. | 2/19/23 | Detroit, Michigan | n/a |
| Wild Imaginings | Full Length | Drama, comedy, or book of a musical. Open to all playwrights. | 2/20/23 | Waco, Texas | n/a |
| Ox-Bow | n/s | 3-week residencies. Fully funded. | 2/27/23 | Saugatuck, Michigan | n/a |
| Durango Arts Center | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. | 2/28/23 | Durango, Colorado | Fee: $12.50 Prize: $500 |
| Mine 4 God Productions | 15-30 mins | One-act plays. Theme: The Right to Choose | 2/28/23 | Dublin, Ohio | n/a |
| The ONE Festival | See right. | Full-length plays (45 mins to 1 hr) and short plays (max 30 mins). | 2/28/23 | Brooklyn, New York | n/a |
| Berkshire Theatre Group | Full Length | Plays, musicals, translations, and adaptations. | Year Round | Pittsfield, Massachusetts | n/a |
| Lee Review | Any length | Publication opp. Int’l submissions ok. Does not accept anything with graphic violence or gore, overly sexual content, slurs or hate speech, blatant emphasis of drugs and/or alcohol, or heavy swearing. | Year Round | Cleveland, Tennessee | n/a |
| MT Space | n/s | Always open to submissions of productions interested in being presented at the biennial IMPACT festival – from international, national, and local artists, collectives, and companies. | Year Round | Canada | n/a |
| Playwrights Offering Free Feedback | Full Length | Full-length trade program. You must read a play and give feedback, and in return will have an opp to send a play and get feedback from other playwright. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
| Trade A Play Tuesday | 10 mins | Send in 10-min play and get same-day feedback. You must also read 10 pages of another playwright’s work, and give thoughtful feedback. Runs every Tuesday. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
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