Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with February+ 2025 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Raleigh Little Theatre | n/s | Writing workshop for those who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+. | 1/31/25 | Raleigh, North Carolina | No Fee |
| Wild Imaginings | Full Length | Original work. Drama or comedy. Open to all playwrights. | 1/31/25 | Waco, Texas | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Center | max 30 pages (sample) | Residency. Encourages apps from people of color, women, and LGBTQ artists & activists. | 2/1/25 | Blue Mountain Lake, New York | App Fee: $25 |
| East Valley Children’s Theatre | 60-90 mins | Plays for children to perform and for an audience of children. Musicals ok. | 2/1/25 | Mesa, Arizona | No Fee Prize: $500 |
| Heartland Theatre Company | max 10 mins | Theme: The Rummage Sale – If one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, what happens when those people come together? Int’l submissions ok. | 2/1/25 | Bloomington, Illinois | n/a |
| James Madison University | Full Length | Prefers unpublished plays that are seeking dev’t, address contemporary issues, stories and questions, and include characters that are suitable for college-age actors. | 2/1/25 | Harrisonburg, Virginia | $1,000 honorarium |
| Live & In Color | See right. | Dev’t opp for early-career women/femme and/or non-binary storytellers that will culminate in a 60-90 min 2-person play that will be workshopped and presented as a reading. | 2/1/25 | Salem, Connecticut | $3,000 commission |
| SPELLBINDER | max 5 pages | Publication opp. Plays accepted. Play extracts and monologues are welcome. | 2/1/25 | n/a | £3 honorarium |
| New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest | max 2 hrs or 90 pages | Full-lengths, one-acts, short plays, children’s plays, etc. | 2/2/25 | NYC | Fee: $27 Prize: $500 |
| Thrown Stone Theatre Company | 10 pages (sample) | New play commission. Playwrights who have had at least 1 professional (AEA) or academic production. Theme: Persuasion | 2/3/25 | Ridgefield, Connecticut | Commission Fee: $5,000 |
| The Artistic Home Studio | One Act (max 12 mins) | The play must be previously unproduced in Chicago. Theme: what is real? | 2/5/25 | Chicago | n/a |
| MacDowell Colony | Full Length | Residency. Int’l submissions ok. No residency fees. | 2/10/25 | Peterborough, New Hampshire | App Fee: $30 |
| New Roots Residency | max 25 pages (sample) | Week-long, fully funded artist retreat for creative writers including playwrights. | 2/10/25 | Middleburgh, New York | Fee: $10 |
| The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship | See right. | 9 months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help early-career playwrights reach their professional and artistic goals. | 2/10/25 | NYC | $5,000 Award |
| The Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series | See right. | A paid developmental process of up to 1 week culminating in a reading of the play. | 2/10/25 | NYC | $1,000 Award |
| Muskegon Community College | 10-15 pages | Comedic or dramatic plays of all types. Theme: SEEN AND UNSEEN | 2/14/25 | Muskegon, Michigan | Fee: $10 Prize: $100 |
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| Hypatia-in-the-Woods | 10 pages (sample) | 1-3 weeks residency. Apps from women playwrights accepted. | 2/15/25 | Shelton, Washington | Fee: $20 |
| NYLon Fusion | max 10 pages | Theme: The Gilded Age/Cage | 2/15/25 | NYC | n/a |
| The Road Theatre Company | Any length | The work must remain unproduced on the West Coast and unpublished through July 1, 2025. | 2/15/25 | North Hollywood, California | Fee: $20, $15 |
| IndyFringe Festival | 45-60 mins | Int’l submissions ok. Any genre including drama. | 2/16/25 | Indianapolis, Indiana | App Fee: $30 |
| Ox-Bow | n/s | 3-week residencies. Fully funded. | 2/16/25 | Saugatuck, Michigan | n/a |
| Inkslinger Playwriting Contest | Full Length | Plays for a college-aged cast and audience. | 2/21/25 | Hammond, Louisiana | Fee: $10 |
| Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild | n/s | Residency. | 2/22/25 | Woodstock, New York | App Fee: $30 |
| Atmosphere Press | n/s | 5-day writing residency. | 2/28/25 | Costa Rica | No Fee |
| Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women | Full Length | Women playwrights. Submission fee waived for current members of the Dramatists Guild of America. | 2/28/25 | Knoxville, Tennessee | Fee: $30 Prize: 1,000 |
| Mine 4 God Productions | One Act (15-20 mins) | Theme: Still Standing Strong | 2/28/25 | Dublin, Ohio | No Fee |
| Mine 4 God Productions | 5-10 mins | Monologues. Theme: Still Standing Strong | 2/28/25 | Dublin, Ohio | No Fee |
| Stageworks Studio | One Act (max 20 mins) | One person plays are accepted. Fee waived for members of Dramatist Guild. | 2/28/25 | Pompton Lakes, New Jersey | Fee: $20 Prize: $250 |
| GreenMan Theatre Troupe | max 8 pages | Any genre except monologues, musicals or children’s shows. Prompt: Moving On | 3/1/25 | Villa Park, Illinois | No Fee Prize: $200 |
| Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts | See right. | Residency with a weekly $175 stipend. Submit up to 2 one-act plays or up to 2 excerpts from a longer work. | 3/1/25 | Nebraska City, Nebraska | App Fee: $35 |
| Sewanee Writers’ Conference | Full Length | Playwriting scholarship/fellowship. | 3/1/25 | Sewanee, Tennessee | Fee: $15 |
| Tulsa Review | One Act (max 3,000 words) | Publication opp. Works by emerging and established writers worldwide. | 3/1/25 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | Fee: $3 |
| University of New Hampshire | max 60 mins | New children’s plays and musicals. Open to playwrights residing in the US and Canada. | 3/1/25 | Durham, New Hampshire | Prize: $500 |
| PAUL | One Act, Full Length | Accepts scripts for dev’t & production consideration. Plays that demonstrate unique artistic vision – unusual stories, settings, etc. | Year Round | NYC | 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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