Hello, Playwrights! I know you didn’t become a playwright to get rich… But that doesn’t mean you can’t take home a big pay from writing a great play! Check out the play submissions opportunities below, which includes over $5,000 worth of cash prizes…
Remember: Never stop writing, and never stop submitting your plays.
Time and again, we find that the people who make the investment to become full members of Play Submissions Helper (rather than reading only these free blog posts) gain greater motivation to submit, and realize their dreams…
So this month, instead of providing all the details to every opportunity, some of them are only available to full paying members…
When you make the investment to become a full member, not only will you get all member benefits, but you’ll also give yourself one of the greatest gifts of all: the motivation needed to make 2018 your best playwriting year yet!
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Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Life-sized Meme Productions | 45-55 mins | Script that has never been performed in the Minneapolis – St. Paul metro area. Comedy, drama, tragedy, mystery or a combination. | 4/24/18 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Prize: $50 |
| 15-45 mins | Audio shows produced or created within the past 2 years. No restrictions on content. | 4/29/18 | Atlanta, Georgia | Fee: $25 Prize: $100 | |
| 4th Street Theater | max 10 pages | The plays should not have been produced anywhere else. | 5/1/18 | Chesterton, Indiana | No Fee |
| Any length | New plays, unpublished or unproduced. Any subject. | 5/1/18 | Kainaliu, Hawaii | n/a | |
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Already a paid member? Login here. | $50 fee / participant | |||
Prize | Fee: $25 | ||||
Theatre | n/a | ||||
Residency | n/a | ||||
Playwriting Award | Prize: $1,000 | ||||
Residency | No Fees | ||||
Theater Company | n/a | ||||
Competition | Prize: $200 | ||||
| Any length | Unproduced “problematic” play — e.g. play that has been rejected because they break some kind of universal rule. | 5/1/18 | San Francisco, California | n/a | |
| Park For Your Problems | 3-5 mins | Looking for writers to submit monologues about a secret they’ve always wanted to tell. All genres accepted. | 5/4/18 | NYC | Fee: $5 |
| max 10 mins | Previously unproduced plays. No theme. All kinds of play, nothing with nudity. Open to plays by women and people of color. | 5/4/18 | Orlando, Florida | Fee: 99 cents, stipend of $25 | |
| max 10 mins | Must include a sock monkey — a prop that must be incorporated into the play. It must be seen on stage. No characters under the age of 16. Plays must be unproduced. | 5/4/18 | Akron, Ohio | Fee: $10 Prize: $350 | |
| Writer’s Digest | Full Length | No restrictions on content, language, subject matter, etc. Int’l submissions ok, except Syria, Iran, North Korea or Sudan. | 5/4/18 | Blue Ash, Ohio | Fee: $30 |
| 10 mins | Theme: Can You SEE Me? | 5/6/18 | NYC | n/a | |
| Rapid Lemon Productions | 10 mins | Playwrights must be from the DelMarVa area. Theme: Sacrifice | 5/7/18 | Baltimore, Maryland | n/a |
| max 20 mins | Stage adaptations of non-dramatic material — short story, essay, memoir, poetry, excerpt from a novel, video game, etc. Must be a world premiere adaptation. Playwrights must provide the director and actors. | 5/8/18 | Chicago | Prize: $500 | |
| Austin Film Festival | Full Length (max 90 mins) | Full-length plays, original or adapted. | 5/15/18 | Austin, Texas | Fee: $25 |
| Any length. | New or previously produced works. Science fiction, fantasy, horror and all genres in between. Innovative plays with chimerical themes. | 5/15/18 | Denver, Colorado | No Fee | |
Playwriting Contest | If you like these blog posts, you’ll LOVE members-only access to our 400+ play submissions opps (including the ones missing from this blog post)… As one of our member-playwrights says: “Play Submissions Helper is THE go-to resource tool for playwrights everywhere.”
Click here now to learn more!
Already a paid member? Login here. | Fee: $20 | |||
Residency | Fee: $25 | ||||
Award | Prize: $45,000 | ||||
Residency | App Fee: $40 | ||||
Conference | No Fee | ||||
Award | Prize: £6,000 | ||||
Productions | No Fee | ||||
Scriptwriting Competition | No Fee | ||||
| One Act (10-20 mins) | Playwrights must produce. | 5/28/18 | Long Island City, New York | Prize: $100 | |
| Village Playwrights | 10 mins | Playwrights must be from Metro New York area. Plays must be about the LGBTQ experience. Playwrights must produce the reading of their own play. | 5/28/18 | NYC | No Fee |
| Full Length | Original, unproduced or unpublished plays or musicals. | 5/30/18 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $15 Prize: $750 | |
| 5th Wall Productions | Full Length | Unpublished, unproduced stage plays. *Plays that have had three or more performances for a paying audience will be considered previously produced. | 5/31/18 | Charleston, South Carolina | No Fee |
| One Act, Full Length | Playwrights must currently reside or work in Maryland or the DC or have previously maintained their primary domicile, or place of employment, within Maryland or DC. | 5/31/18 | Baltimore, Maryland | Fee: $10 | |
| 10-30 mins | Playwrights of Middle Eastern heritage writing about any topic or playwrights of all backgrounds writing about the Middle East. | 5/31/18 | San Francisco, California | n/a | |
| Little Fish Theatre | max 15 mins | Short plays. $50 flat fee royalty payment to playwrights per play produced. | 5/31/18 | Los Angeles, California | No Fee |
| 10 mins | 10-min plays, short plays, one-acts, full-length plays. Play production program for summer/fall slots. | 5/31/18 | NYC | Fee: $795 – $6,000 | |
| Manhattan Repertory Theatre One-Act Play Competition | One Act (7-20 mins) | Fully produced plays (cast, directed and ready to be performed by July 2018) . | 5/31/18 | NYC | Fee: $150 once accepted |
| One Act (10-20 pages) | Submissions are required to fall in the genre of Film Noir and tradition of the vintage crime novels of the 30s and 40s by Chandler, Hammett, & Cain (think private detectives, femme fatales, unscrupulous villains, etc.). | 5/31/18 | Los Angeles, California | n/a | |
| Seoul Players | max 10 mins | Scripts selected will have two or three performances in Seoul, Korea. | 5/31/18 | Seoul | Fee: $5 |
| Full Length (preferred) | Plays should be intended for young audiences aged 2-14. | 5/31/18 | Tempe, Arizona | n/a | |
2019 LITE | One Act (5-15 mins) | Prefers plays that haven’t been produced in North Carolina recently nor have been published (unless the royalty fee is very minimal). PG-clean (no serious profanity) plays that are not depressing – no therapy sessions, pets dying, people dealing w/ dread diseases. Note: No website. Send scripts to Jack Berry at carokann@nc.rr.com | 6/1/18 | North Carolina | No Fee |
| Any length | Any form, style, or genre. Greendrafts is a website that provides both seasoned and brand-new writers with a platform to share their creative work. | Year Round | n/a | n/a | |
| 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 another playwright’s work and give feedback. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
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