Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with June+ 2023 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| The Mini Plays Magazine | max 2 pages | Mini plays and monologues. Theme: Love | 5/30/23 | n/s | No Fee |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Playwright must be a woman. | 5/31/23 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| Emerald Theatre Company | max 10 mins | Theme: The 7 Deadly Sins | 5/31/23 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $10 Prize: $100 |
| Frostburg State University | One Act (max 40 mins) | Previously unproduced plays. | 6/1/23 | Frostburg, Maryland | Fee: $20 Prize: $750 |
| Mesa Refuge | Full Length | 14-day residency. | 6/1/23 | Point Reyes Station, California | App Fee: $50 |
| Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award | Full Length | Open to submission from people who are lesbian, queer or gay, trans and nonbinary. | 6/1/23 | n/s | Prize: $5,000 |
| Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase | 7-10 pages or 8-11 mins | Entries may not have been a previous contest winner on any stage and may not have been performed for a paying audience. | 6/1/23 | Flagstaff, Arizona | Fee: $15 |
| Tampa Bay Theatre Festival | Full Length, 10 mins | All material must be original, published or non-published. Playwrights must produce. | 6/1/23 | Tampa, Florida | n/a |
| The Coachella Review | max 5 pages | Publication opp. Short scripts/monologues. | 6/1/23 | Coachella Valley, California | n/a |
| Jewish Plays Project | Full Length | Plays or musicals. Must contain significant Jewish themes, characters, content, or points of view. | 6/2/23 | NYC | No Fee |
| Soapbox Stage Works | 10 mins | No children’s works. | 6/3/23 | Monterey, California | Fee: $15 Prize: $200 |
| Headlands Center for the Arts | Full Length | Fully sponsored 4- to 10-week residencies. | 6/5/23 | Sausalito, California | Fee: $45 |
| A Light in Dark Places | 5-15 pages | The plays are to explore themes of suicide prevention and mental health conditions with a focus on community, connection, hope, resources and healing. | 6/9/23 | Los Angeles, California | Fee: $20 Prize: $100 |
| American Theatre Group PlayLab | two 10-page excerpt | Play development lab for playwrights who are BIPOC. Applicants from anywhere in the US are welcome to apply, though preference will be given to NJ, PA and NY writers. | 6/10/23 | Bedminster, New Jersey | n/a |
| Long Beach Playhouse | Full Length | Un-produced, un-published, non-musical English language plays. | 6/15/23 | Long Beach, California | Fee: $15 $100 honorarium |
| Northport One-Act Play Festival | One Act (10-20 mins) | Drama and comedy. Must be appropriate to be performed in a church. | 6/15/23 | Northport, New York | $75 fee if accepted |
| Speranza Theatre Company | Full length | Development opp. All women-identified playwrights who reside in the US are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to women playwrights who are in PA, NY, NJ, CT, and DE. | 6/15/23 | Jersey City, New Jersey | No Fee |
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| The Bechdel Group | n/s | New plays, scripts in development, partial scripts, drafts – anything in progress. Must pass the Bechdel Test. | 6/16/23 | NYC | Fee: $7 |
| Fault Line Theatre | max 30 pages (sample) | Development opp. Accepts proposals for pitches, outlines, drafts, and everything in between. | 6/21/23 | NYC | $1600 stipend |
| Towne Street Theatre | max 10 mins | Theme: Something Old or Something New or Something Borrowed or Something Blue (no weddings please) | 6/21/23 | Hollywood, California | Fee: $10 “cash prize” |
| SHIFT | 10 mins, One Act | Publication opp. Plays accepted. Theme: Identity Shift | 6/24/23 | Murfreesboro, Tennessee | n/a |
| Literature Today | 1 min | Theme: To Err Is Human | 6/28/23 | n/a | n/a |
| Actors’ Theatre | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. | 6/30/23 | Santa Cruz, California | Fee: $10 |
| IATI | Full Length | Open to authors from anywhere in the world with original works in English or Spanish. | 6/30/23 | NYC | No Fee |
| Lake Tahoe WordWave One-Act Play Competition | One Act (max 60 mins) | Plays must be written within the last five years. | 6/30/23 | South Lake Tahoe, California | Fee: $25 |
| North Park Playwright Festival | max 12 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Any subject matter. | 6/30/23 | San Diego, California | No Fee |
| Review Americana | short play | Publication opp. 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. | 6/30/23 | n/a | No Fee |
| Witching Hour Theater | 10 pages | Horror plays. Theme: “Camp.” US submissions only. | 6/30/23 | NYC | Fee: $2 |
| Free State Review | 1 min | Publication opp. One-minute plays. | 7/1/23 | n/a | Fee: $3.50 |
| New Works, New Voices | Full Length | Open to any writers and composers who feel their perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon. | 7/1/23 | Syracuse, New York | n/a |
| PlayZoomers | 10-15 mins | Scripts about theatre, suitable for online production. Humorous or serious, clever plays with themes related to actors, directors, playwrights, plays, critics, backstage crews, audiences, etc. | 7/1/23 | online | n/a |
| Crow Name | max 20 pages | Publication opp. Scripts accepted. | Year Round | n/s | 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 |
| Script2Stage2Screen | Full Length | Anything from thought provoking, gripping drama to belly laugh comedies. Int’l submissions ok. | Year Round | Rancho Mirage, California | 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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