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Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 36 play submission opportunities with December 2020 deadlines. This is just a small sample of what is in our mega-list available to paid members. Join now to get access to 135 play submissions opportunities with deadlines + the list of opps that are accepting submissions year-round! Take note that although theaters are dark now due to the pandemic, they’ve found a way to continue presenting plays — via Zoom, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Opportunities are still there! We’ve got at least nine from the list below. Check it out now!
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Barely Seen | 1 page | One-paged plays. This is an on-going opp, but submissions are due by November 30 for Featured Writer of December. | 11/30/20 | n/a | n/a |
| The MAIN Theatre | Full Length, One Act, or Two Act | Online theatre fest. Int’l submissions ok. Encourages plays about different cultures that feature an int’l cast and crew. | 11/30/20 | Santa Clarita, California | n/a |
| Arizona Theatre Company | Full Length, One Act | Latinx playwrights residing in the US, its territories or Mexico. Scripts may be in English, English and Spanish, or solely in Spanish. Any subject. | 12/1/20 | Tucson, Arizona | n/a |
| Bloomington Playwrights Project | Full Length | Plays must be unpublished drama. Agent submitted scripts require no fee. | 12/1/20 | Bloomington, Indiana | Fee: $10 Prize: $3,000 |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre | Full Length, One Act | Plays and musicals. Open to a broad range of topics related to the issues, people, ideas, processes, leading-edge discoveries, inventions, and/or history of the “hard” sciences and technology. | 12/1/20 | NYC | Commissions: $1,000-10,000 |
| Jewish Women’s Theatre | One Act (max 10 pages) | The play must be contemporary. Playwrights need not be Jewish to submit. Prefers work that have some Jewish content or Jewish resonance. Musicals ok. Theme: Family Matters | 12/1/20 | Santa Monica, California | n/a |
| Mesa Refuge | Full Length | 14-day residency. Apps from playwrights accepted. | 12/1/20 | Point Reyes Station, California | App Fee: $50 |
| The Public Theater of San Antonio | 50-120 mins | US playwrights. Submissions may have had readings but not have had a prior production. | 12/1/20 | San Antonio, Texas | No Fee |
| TriQuarterly | short play | Publication opp. Accepts short drama. | 12/1/20 | Evanston, Illinois | n/a |
| This Moment Productions | max 10 mins | Seeking submissions that fit the Zoom or online streaming format. Plays must be the original work of persons who are residents of the U.S. Comedy, drama, mystery, thriller or monologue. | 12/5/20 | online | No Fee |
| The Center at West Park | max 10 pages (sample) | 2 weeks residency culminating in at least 1 and up to 10 streaming performances for virtual audiences. | 12/6/20 | NYC | n/a |
| Smith & Kraus Publishers, Inc. | max 10 pages | Plays must be produced between January 2019-September 2021. Staged readings performed live or virtually during the Pandemic will be accepted. | 12/11/20 | n/a | n/a |
| Smith & Kraus Publishers, Inc. | 1-3 mins | Monologues from plays. They cannot be stand-alone pieces. Must be from plays produced between January 2019-September 2021. Staged Readings performed live or virtually during the Pandemic will be accepted. Should be active! No stories about something that happened in the past. | 12/11/20 | n/a | n/a |
| The Bechdel Group | 20-35 pages | Accepts new plays, scripts in development, partial scripts, drafts – anything in progress. Must pass the Bechdel Test. Must support the mission of fostering strong, complex, dynamic roles for women. | 12/11/20 | NYC | Fee: $6 |
| B3 Theater | 5-15 pages | Subject matter is open, although preference will be given to experimental & progressive works. All genres welcome, incl. monologues, except musicals. Int’l submissions ok. | 12/15/20 | Phoenix, Arizona | No Fee Prize: $50 |
| Concord Theatricals | max 15 mins | Short plays and musicals. | 12/15/20 | NYC | n/a |
| Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest | 15-50 pages | Open to anyone writing in the English language who has not previously published a full-length book. Any genre including plays. | 12/15/20 | Flagstaff, Arizona | Fee: $10 |
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| Exposition Review | max 15 pages | Theme: “Hunger.” One-act plays and scenes. Previously unpublished works only. Author receives $35 USD for accepted work. | 12/15/20 | California | Fee: $3.50 |
| Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival | Full Length | New American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors. Plays that have a cast of primarily (or exclusively) characters in their teens and twenties. Plays that have significant representation (in both number and quality) of roles for female-identifying actors. | 12/15/20 | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | n/a |
| RipRap Literary Journal | 10 mins / max 2,500 words | Accepts plays. Must be unpublished. | 12/18/20 | Long Beach, California | n/a |
| Chain Theatre | Full Length | 6 weeks dev’t lab culminating in a professional virtual staged reading. All meetings and rehearsals will be done virtually via Zoom or over the phone. Playwrights must be NYC based. Must be part of an under-represented community in the arts. | 12/20/20 | NYC | n/a |
| Irondale | Full Length | Female-identifying artists. Fully-produced play. Must be women-centered. Must be a NY premiere or not have been performed in the New York area within the last year. Staged readings ok. | 12/21/20 | Brooklyn, New York | Selected shows will receive a $1,000 fee. |
| Ucross + The Blank Theatre | See right. | Early-career playwrights, 21-30 yrs of age, from all backgrounds and genders residing in the US. Includes two-week residency AND a professionally produced staged reading. Writers must submit one short play and one full-length play. | 12/21/20 | Wyoming and Hollywood | No Fee Prize: $5,000 |
| Invisible Girl Creative | 25-45 mins | One-person shows. Must only use one actor, but can feature as many characters as you feel fit. The play must feature a drastic turn of events. | 12/25/20 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
| Childsplay | Full Length | Open to ANY playwright of color, currently residing in the US, who is specifically writing for young audiences (children aged 2-18). Looking for projects that are in an early-to-mid stage of development. | 12/30/20 | Tempe, Arizona | $3,000 financial support |
| 365 Women A Year | Any length | Plays about historical women. Plays can be any language, any genre. Musicals ok. Note: See the list of women who have not yet been covered.Choose a woman or women to write about. They must be women who have not yet been covered. | 12/31/20 | n/a | n/a |
| Ghostlight Ensemble | max 15 mins | Scripts geared toward young audiences (children 10 and under). Priority will be placed on scripts that are ethnically and culturally diverse, and written by writers of color and/or LGBTQ writers. Open to playwrights in any geographic area, though writers in the greater Chicago area will receive priority. Plays must be adaptable to virtual and live performances. | 12/31/20 | Chicago | No Fee |
| KC Melting Pot Theatre | Full Length | Original plays by Black playwrights. Any theme. Comedy, drama, futuristic, abstract, or otherwise experimental piece. | 12/31/20 | Kansas City, Missouri | n/a |
| Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award For Playwriting | Full Length | Plays addressing the question “What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?” | 12/31/20 | New Hampshire & Vermont | $5,000 honorarium |
| Pulitzer Prize in Drama | Full Length | Award for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life. | 12/31/20 | NYC | Fee: $75 Prize: $15,000 |
| Stage to Screen | Full Length | Plays and musicals. | 12/31/20 | Milpitas, California | No Fee Prize: $1,000 |
| Sundog Theatre | One Act (10-30 mins) | Original plays set on the Staten Island Ferry. Set in contemporary time period. The theme is anything related to our current circumstances imposed by Covid-19. Humor is appreciated. | 12/31/20 | Staten Island, New York | No Fee Prize: $100 |
| The Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence | Full Length | Unproduced plays and musicals. Children’s plays accepted. | 12/31/20 | Coldwater, Michigan | Prize: $200 |
| 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 |
| 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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