Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 36 play submission opps with February+ 2024 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Durango Arts Center | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Theme: MYSTERY, MURDER and MAYHEM | 1/30/24 | Durango, Colorado | No Fee |
| Jakespeare Theatre Company | max 60 seconds | Sci-fi plays. Comedies, dramas, and everything in between. Plays should be (mostly) family-friendly. | 1/31/24 | Marlborough, Massachusetts | No Fee |
| East Valley Children’s Theatre | 60-90 mins | Plays must be suitable for children to perform and for an audience of children. Musicals ok. | 2/1/24 | Mesa, Arizona | No Fee Prize: $500 |
| Heartland Theatre Company | max 10 mins | Theme: GHOSTS | 2/1/24 | Bloomington, Illinois | n/a |
| HERE Artist Residency Program | n/s | Open to individual artists or collaborative teams (writers, performers, composers, etc.). | 2/1/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Wild Imaginings | Full Length | Drama, comedy, or book of a musical. Open to all playwrights. | 2/1/24 | Waco, Texas | n/a |
| The Playwrights Realm’s Writing Fellowship | Full Length | Nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help early-career playwrights reach their professional and artistic goals. | 2/5/24 | NYC | $5,000 Award |
| The Playwrights Realm’s Scratchpad Series | Full Length | A paid developmental process of up to one week culminating in a reading of the play. | 2/5/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Tofte Lake Center | n/s | Residency. | 2/5/24 | Ely, Minnesota | n/a |
| Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC | See right. | Performance grant to individuals focused on the production of theatre, dance and performance art. Must be a current resident of NYC. If the performance is a play, it must be a full production. | 2/6/24 | NYC | Up to $10,000 grant |
| Carlow Little Theatre Society | 20-40 mins | Int’l submissions ok. | 2/9/24 | Ireland | Fee: €20 Prize: €500 |
| MacDowell Colony | Full Length | Residency. Int’l submissions ok. No residency fees. | 2/10/24 | Peterborough, New Hampshire | App Fee: $30 |
| IndyFringe Theatre Festival | 45-60 mins | Int’l submissions ok. Any genre including drama. | 2/11/24 | Indianapolis, Indiana | App Fee: $30 |
| Gloucester Stage Company | Full Length | New climate action plays, preferably coastal climate change, but open to all plays tackling any theme of climate action. | 2/12/24 | Gloucester, Massachusetts | n/a |
| Muskegon Community College | 10-15 pages | Comedic or dramatic plays of all types. Theme: EMPOWERMENT | 2/14/24 | Muskegon, Michigan | Fee: $10 Prize: $100 |
| Denver Quarterly | max 4,000 words | Interested in texts intended to be performed in some capacity, including one-act plays. Excerpts from longer works are permissible. | 2/15/24 | n/a | n/a |
| Hypatia-in-the-Woods | 10 pages (sample) | 1-3 weeks residency. Apps from WOMEN playwrights accepted. | 2/15/24 | Shelton, Washington | Fee: $20 |
| Loft Ensemble | Full Length | Plays that are rich in theatrical imagination and exploration of the human condition. | 2/15/24 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
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| 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. | 2/15/24 | Washington, D.C. | Prize: $1,000 |
| The Road Theatre Company | Any length | Any genre. The work must remain unproduced on the West Coast and unpublished through July 1, 2024. | 2/15/24 | North Hollywood, California | Fee: $20, $15 |
| Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild | n/s | Residency. | 2/16/24 | Woodstock, New York | App Fee: $30 |
| McNerney Playwriting Contest | Full Length | US playwrights only. | 2/18/24 | Charleston, South Carolina | Fee: $10 Prize: $400 |
| Wayne Literary Review | max 3,500 words | One-act plays or excerpts no longer than 3500 words. | 2/18/24 | Detroit, Michigan | n/a |
| T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre | max 15 mins | Seeking a wide variety of plays both comedic and dramatic. Theme: Wake Up! | 2/19/24 | NYC | Fee: $5 stipend of $75 |
| Geneva Theatre Guild | One Act (max 30 mins) | The play must be unpublished. | 2/20/24 | Geneva, New York | n/a |
| Ox-Bow | n/s | 3-week residencies. Fully funded. | 2/25/24 | Saugatuck, Michigan | n/a |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre | 25 pages (sample) + Full Length | NYC metro area resident playwrights. | 2/26/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Mine 4 God Productions | One Act (15-30 mins) | Theme: Peace Within the Storm | 2/28/24 | Dublin, Ohio | n/a |
| Mine 4 God Productions | 5-10 mins | Theme: Peace Within the Storm | 2/28/24 | Dublin, Ohio | n/a |
| 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. | 3/1/24 | Nebraska City, Nebraska | App Fee: $35 |
| Live & In Color | 15 pages (sample) | Playwrights, composers, and lyricists of color and/or other underrepresented communities interested in developing their new musical. | 3/1/24 | Salem, Connecticut | n/a |
| OnyxFest | One Act (45-60 mins) | Black writers. | 3/1/24 | Indianapolis, Indiana | n/a |
| Orlando Shakes | Full Length | Stories that speak to diverse community in Central Florida. New plays that deal with modern issues of our times. Int’l submissions ok. | 3/1/24 | Orlando, Florida | n/a |
| riverSedge | max 15 pages | Publication opp. Accepts dramatic scripts. | 3/1/24 | Texas | Fee: $3 Prize: $350 |
| The Growing Stage | 45+ mins | Plays should be intended for young audiences through high school age. Musicals ok. BIPOC plays and playwrights are encouraged. | 3/1/24 | Netcong, New Jersey | 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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