Hello playwrights! Check out below to find your 47 play submissions opportunities with April deadlines, which includes over $3,000 worth of cash prizes…

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Name
Length
Nature of Opportunity
Deadline
Location
Add’l Info
Beverly Hills Theatre Guild
Full Length
US citizens or legal residents. Hard copy submissions only.
4/1/17
Beverly Hills, California
Fee: $25
Prize: $3,500
Crosshatch
10-20 pages (sample)
2-4 weeks residency.
4/1/17
Michigan
Fee: $35
Elsewhere Studios
10-20 pages (sample)
1-6 months residency.
4/1/17
Colorado
Fee: $30
Fade to Black Play Festival
8-10 mins
Original, unproduced, unpublished works by an African American playwright. Any theme & subject.
4/1/17
Houston, Texas
No Fee
Nylon Fusion Theatre Co
10 mins
Theme: The L Word
4/1/17
NYC
n/a
Southeastern Louisiana University
Full Length
Original & unpublished plays, for a college-aged cast & audience.
4/1/17
Hammond, Louisiana
Fee: $10
Stony Brook University
10 mins
Plays w/ substantial science component. Must be unpublished.
4/1/17
Stony Brook, New York
Prize: $500
Dionysian Magazine
1-10 pages
Any content, style, theme.
4/1/17
n/a
n/a
Fresh Ground Pepper
n/s
6-day retreat.
4/2/17
Pennsylvania
n/a
Page 73
10 pages (sample)
App for the playwriting fellowship or playwriting group. Playwrights who have completed at least 2 full-lengths or 3 one-acts.
4/2/17
  Brooklyn,   New York
Award: $10,000
Frostburg State University
One Act
(max 40mins)
New works, not previously produced.
4/7/17
Frostburg, Maryland
Fee: $20
Prize: $750
Int’l Talent Club
20-25 pages
Int’l submissions ok. Unproduced, original plays for children & teens.
4/10/17
Canada
Prize:$1,000
Artists’ Exchange
One Act
(10-20 mins)
Original plays. Previous prods ok. Musicals ok.
4/15/17
Cranston, Rhode Island
No Fee
Athena Project Festival
Full Length
Playwright must be female or identify as female. No previous fully mounted prod.
4/15/17
Denver, Colorado
n/a
Bogliasco Fellowships
n/s
30 to 34-day residency. No residency fees.
4/15/17
Italy
Fee: $30
Equity Library Theater
 max 10 pages
Monologues & musicals ok. Must be family-friendly. Playwrights must produce.
4/15/17
NYC
No Fee
Hambidge
Full Length
2-8 weeks residency. $235/week. Scholarships available.
4/15/17
Georgia
Fee: $30
MacDowell Colony
Full Length
Residencies of up to 8 weeks.
4/15/17
New Hampshire
Fee: $30
Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival
30-90 mins
Plays or musicals. Any genre. Playwrights must produce.
4/15/17
NYC
n/a
New England Theatre Conference
Full Length
Open to all playwrights. Unpublished & unproduced plays.
4/15/17
Hamden, Connecticut
n/a
Open Space Art
10-15 mins
Must be family friendly, suitable for an outdoor stage & involve characters ages 13 to 35. Theme: Smoke & Mirrors
4/15/17
Reisterstown, Maryland
n/a
Pipeline Theatre Company
Full Length
Dev’t opp incl. monthly meetings & an annual retreat.
4/15/17
NYC
n/a
Stage Left Theatre
“sample”
Dev’t opp. See theatre’s mission.
4/15/17
Chicago
n/a
Stage West Theatre
Full Length
 Prefers plays that have already been through some dev’t process.
4/15/17
Fort Worth, Texas
Fee: $15
Prize: $500
Festival

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No Fee
Theatre
No Fee
Residency
Fee: $15
Theatre
Fee: $35 once accepted
Competition
Prize: $600
Foundation
n/a
Festival
Fee: $5 for digital submissions
Theatre
n/a
Theatre
No Fee
Repertory Theatre
n/a
Theatre Festival
n/a
Festival
No fee for 1 script, $10 for each add’l
Red Bull Theater
max 10 mins
Play that makes use of any, or all, of the ff: heightened language or verse, a classical theme or style, a classical story. Theme: Delusions of Grandeur
4/29/17
NYC
 Fee: $15
Prize: $270 + $250 for travel
Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation
Full Length
Dramas, comedies, musicals. Must involve LGBTQ characters and/or themes, and be based on, or directly inspired by, a historical person, culture, work of art, or event.  
4/30/17
  Brooklyn,   New York
No Fee
Prize: $3,000
Elite Theatre Company
Full Length
Plays must be unpublished & unproduced. Pref. small casts, more women than men.
4/30/17
Oxnard, California
n/a
Embassy of Foreign Artists
n/s
3 or 6-month residency.
4/30/17
Switzerland
Grant of 1200CHF per month
Geva Theatre Center
Full Length
Full-length plays, translations, adaptations.
4/30/17
Rochester, New York
n/a
Left Coast Theatre Co
10-15 mins
Any genre. Must include an LGBTQ theme, character, event, etc. Theme: The Morning After
4/30/17
San Francisco
$50 stipend
Magnolia Arts Center
max 10 mins
Unpublished plays.
4/30/17
Greenville, North   Carolina
Fee: $7
Prize: $50
Tenured Son Theatre
Full Length, One Act
New, original plays. Must not have been produced in Missouri / Kansas.
4/30/17
Kansas City, Missouri
“cash     stipend”
The Chameleon Theatre Circle
Any length
Original works, unproduced. All styles & genres ok.
4/30/17
Burnsville, Minnesota
No Fee
Prize: $25-$100
Playwrights Offering Free Feedback
Full Length
Full-length trade program. You must read a play & give feedback, & in return will have an opp to send a play & get feedback from other playwright.
Year Round
n/a
n/a
Trade A Play Tuesday
10 mins
Send in 10-min play & get same-day feedback. You must also read another playwright’s work & give feedback.
Year Round
n/a
n/a

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