35 Play Submissions Opps w/ June 2021 Deadlines (FULL)
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| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| BMI Theatre Workshop | Any length | Librettists. | 6/1/21 | NYC | No Fee |
| Frostburg State University | One Act (max 40 mins) |
Previously unproduced plays. | 6/1/21 | Frostburg, Maryland | Fee: $20 Prize: $750 |
| Galaxy Theater Company | One Act (25-55 mins) |
Comedic plays. Must be family-friendly (rated PG-13 or lower with no nudity or over-explicit language). | 6/1/21 | La Grange, Illinois | n/a |
| Playwrights’ Round Table | 10 mins | US playwrights only. STRONGLY encourages BIPOC, female and LGBTQIA+ writers to submit plays. | 6/1/21 | Orlando, Florida | Fee: $1, $25 stipend |
| Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest | 20-90 mins | Submissions must be family friendly in both subject and language. NO cursing. NO explicitly adult content. Prefers casts that are either balanced or favoring females. | 6/1/21 | Centennial, Colorado | Prize: $1,000 royalty advance |
| The Braid (formerly Jewish Women’s Theatre) | One Act (max 8 mins) |
Contemporary American stories that have some Jewish content or Jewish resonance. Playwrights need not be Jewish to submit. One-person shows ok. Musicals ok. Theme: Remembrance of Things Present | 6/1/21 | Santa Monica, California | n/a |
| WordWave One-Act Play Competition | One Act (max 60 mins) |
Plays must be written within the last five years. | 6/1/21 | South Lake Tahoe, California | Fee: $25 Prize: $500 |
| Writer’s Digest | first 15 pages | Scripts (stage play) are accepted. Int’l submissions ok, except Syria, Iran, North Korea or Crimea. | 6/7/21 | Blue Ash, Ohio | Fee: $35 Prize: $5,000 |
| The Bechdel Group | 20-35 pages | New plays, scripts in development, partial scripts, drafts – anything in progress. Must pass the Bechdel Test. | 6/11/21 | NYC | Fee: $6 |
| Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company | Full Length | Week-long workshop residency culminating in a staged reading. Seeking plays written by a parent with at least one child 18 years of age or younger as of June 14, 2021. Must be a US resident. | 6/14/21 | Boulder, Colorado | Prize: $500 + $500 childcare stipend |
| Quince Magazine | 10 pages/mins | Publication opp. Theme: “Arrivals.” Extracts from a full-length work are acceptable. | 6/14/21 | n/a | n/a |
| A&U Magazine | max 10 pages | All submissions must be HIV/AIDS-related and previously unpublished. All styles are welcomed. Drama may be an excerpt from a longer work or a ten-minute play. | 6/15/21 | Magazine | No Fee Prize: $75 |
| American Theatre Group PlayLab | 10-15 pages (sample) | Playwrights who are both/either BIPOC and LGBTQ+. Applicants from anywhere in the US are welcome, though preference will be given to NJ, PA and NY writers. | 6/15/21 | Bedminster, New Jersey | n/a |
| Caldera | n/s | 2 or 3.5 weeks residency. Int’l submissions ok. | 6/25/21 | Sisters, Oregon | n/a |
| Page 73 Development Programs | 10-page sample + full script | Playwriting fellowship. The applicant must be a US resident. Must have completed at least 2 full-length plays or at least 3 one-act plays. Must have never received a production of his/her work in New York City that was larger than an Actors’ Equity Showcase Code presentation. | 6/28/21 | Brooklyn, New York | Award: $10,000 |
| Arts & Letters Prize for Drama | One Act (30-60 pages) |
Previously produced scripts are acceptable. | 6/30/21 | Milledgeville, Georgia | Fee: $10 Prize: $500 |
| IATI (International Theater Arts Institute) | Full Length | Open to authors from anywhere in the world with original works in English or Spanish. | 6/30/21 | NYC | No Fee |
| Little Fish Theatre | max 15 mins | First play submitted is FREE. Second play requires a $5 fee. There will be a $75 flat fee royalty payment to playwrights per play produced. | 6/30/21 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
| Long Beach Playhouse | Full Length | Un-produced, un-published, non-musical plays only. | 6/30/21 | Long Beach, California | Fee: $15, $100 honorarium |
| Playwrights’ Round Table | Full Length | US playwrights only. STRONGLY encourages BIPOC, female and LGBTQIA+ writers to submit plays. | 6/30/21 | Orlando, Florida | Fee: $5, $100 stipend |
| The 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends | Any length | Scripts based on people or events from Quaker history. Any genre: biography, fictionalized documentary, etc. Any style: epic, naturalistic, etc. For any audience: young audiences, young adult, general, etc. Suitable for any venue (except scripts demanding a proscenium): outdoors, large hall, medium-sized room, etc. Note: No deadline although it’s best to submit by the end of June. Info not posted on their website. Send scripts (MS Word of PDF) – or enquiries for further information – to: stevecapra@pipeline.com |
6/30/21 | NYC | n/a |
| The Naples Players | One Act (max 30 mins) |
Must be non-musical. Any genre. | 6/30/21 | Naples, Florida | $100 performance royalty |
| Theatre Odyssey | 20-35 mins | US playwrights. Comedy, drama, mystery, thriller or monologue. | 6/30/21 | Bradenton, Florida | Fee: $10 Prize: $500 |
| Basecamp Theatre Co. | Any length | Original, non-musical, plays. | Year Round | Jacksonville, Florida | n/a |
| Childsplay | 10 pages (sample) | Plays for children. | Year Round | Tempe, Arizona | n/a |
| Cleveland Public Theatre | See right. | Development opp – ongoing event held on the second Tuesday of each month. Provides new and experienced writers the opportunity to test drive their new play. | Year Round | Cleveland, Ohio | n/a |
| Clubbed Thumb | max 90 mins | Plays that are funny, strange & provocative. Must be unproduced in NYC. Must include substantial & challenging roles for women. | Year Round | NYC | n/a |
| Dragonfly Theatre Company | See right. | Adaptations of classic texts (*Shakespeare mostly or something else in the public domain). Preference will go to scripts by female/diverse authors that incorporate modern/current ideas and themes. | Year Round | Chicago, Illinois | n/a |
| FORGE Fuel | “sample” | Writers retreat. Open to writers of all kinds, including playwrights. | Year Round | Danbury, Connecticut | Fee: $80 |
| 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 |
| Review Americana | short play | Publication opp. Accepts short plays. NO profanity, gratuitously violent, or erotic work. American citizenship is not a requirement for submission; the only requirement is that the work hold some appeal for an American readership and bear some relationship with American culture. | Year Round | n/a | No Fee |
| Stay True Theatre Company | Full Length | New work written by LGBTQIA+ playwrights. Plays and musicals ok. | Year Round | NYC | n/a |
| The Tank | 10 mins | An ongoing series that premieres 7 new short plays by 7 writers. Each writer devises a rule (such as “Rihanna must be mentioned” or “a back-handed compliment on page two) & then each creates a new short play incorporating ALL 7 rules. *Submit a 10-minute play, preferably comedic. | 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 |
| TYPE! | 1-2 pages | Publication opp. Micro-plays. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
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