Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 36 play submission opps with January 2022 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| South Street Players | max 15 pages | Comedic and dramatic plays from playwrights in the Tri-State area. Must be suitable for a family theatre. | 1/2/22 | Spring Lake, New Jersey | n/a |
| Creative Circuit Studios | One Act (max 30 mins) | Open to playwrights from all walks of life. | 1/3/22 | San Antonio, Texas | n/a |
| Kumu Kahua Theatre | Full Length | Open to residents and non-residents of Hawai‘i. The play must be set in Hawai‘i or deal with some aspect of the Hawai‘i experience. | 1/3/22 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Prize: $600 |
| Kumu Kahua Theatre | Full Length | Open to residents and non-residents of Hawai‘i. The play must be set in or deal with the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim, or the Pacific/Asian American experience. | 1/3/22 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Prize: $450 |
| Theatre Southwest | 5-10 mins | Original work, unpublished or unproduced. All genres accepted with no regard to language or subject matter. | 1/5/22 | Houston, Texas | No Fee Prize: $100 |
| RipRap Literary Journal | 10 mins | Accepts plays. Must be unpublished. | 1/7/22 | Long Beach, California | n/a |
| Fresh Fruit Festival | Any length | Submissions in all artistic disciplines & lengths are considered for presentation as long as they highlight or showcase a spectrum of the LGBTQ experience, and are finished, self-produced shows. | 1/8/21 | NYC | n/a |
| James Merrill House | max 10 pages (sample) | 4 and 6-week residencies. Includes a stipend of $1,100/month. | 1/9/22 | Stonington, Connecticut | App Fee: $30 |
| National Alliance for Musical Theatre | Full Length | New musicals. Any subject matter, style and concept. Must be complete and ready for readings, workshops and/or productions. | 1/10/22 | NYC | n/a |
| The ONE Festival | See right. | Full-length plays (45 mins to 1 hr) and short plays (max 30 mins). | 1/14/22 | Brooklyn, New York | No Fee |
| Anderson Center | 20-page excerpt | Residency. Open to emerging, mid-career, and established writers from across the globe. | 1/15/22 | Red Wing, Minnesota | Fee: $20 |
| Anderson Center | 20-page excerpt | Residency. Deaf artists including playwrights. | 1/15/22 | Red Wing, Minnesota | No Fee, $1,100/month artist stipend |
| 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. | 1/15/22 | NYC | Commissions: $1,000-10,000 |
| Hambidge | Full Length | 2 to 8 weeks residency. Offers several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships which remove the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. | 1/15/22 | Rabun Gap, Georgia | App Fee: $30 Res. Fee: $250/week |
| Molecule | max 50 words | Publication opp. Accepts play submissions. Must be previously unpublished. | 1/15/22 | n/a | n/a |
| Qu Literary Magazine | max 4,000 words | For literary magazine. Excerpts or full pieces written for stage. Unpublished works only. | 1/15/22 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Fee: $2.50 Payment Upon Publication: $100 |
| The Road Theatre Company | 25 pages (sample) | Playwrights group. Open to playwrights on a national level. | 1/15/22 | North Hollywood, California | n/a |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts | n/s | Residency. Apps from playwrights accepted. | 1/15/22 | Amherst, Virginia | App Fee: $50 |
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| Helene Wurlitzer Foundation | Full Length | 10 to 12 weeks residency. $300 deposit if selected. | 1/18/22 | Taos, New Mexico | App Fee: $25 |
| Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs | 10 mins | Comedy or drama plays of all types accepted. Int’l submissions ok. | 1/19/22 | Bonita Springs, Florida | Fee: $15 Prize: $100 |
| Playwrights’ Center | Full Length | Play development workshop. Available to professional playwrights in the US. | 1/20/22 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | n/a |
| Metropolitan Playhouse | One Act (10-30 mins) | Plays inspired by the life and history of New York’s Lower East Side. | 1/21/22 | NYC | $100 honorarium |
| Vassar Review | 30 pages | Publication opp. Excerpts from longer dramatic works ok. Must be previously unpublished. Theme: Sense & Splendor | 1/21/22 | Poughkeepsie, New York | n/a |
| ATHE’s Playwrights and Creative Teams Program | 10 mins | New, previously unproduced plays. No restriction on subject matter, style, or intended audience. Submit script as a PDF in standard Samuel French playwriting format. | 1/23/22 | Detroit, Michigan | n/a |
| The Literal Challenge | Any length | Complete a playwriting challenge every day in February. Int’l submissions ok. Submissions can be written in any language. Note: Check the website for more info. | 1/28/22 | n/s | n/a |
| Blue Moon Plays / HaveScripts | 10 pages (sample) | Publication opp. Plays with casts that reflect the growing and varied American landscape, as well as characters with different skin colors, gender identifications, and mental and physical abilities. | 1/31/22 | Virginia Beach, Virginia | n/a |
| Drip Action Theatre Company | 30-40 mins | Int’l submissions ok. | 1/31/22 | Arundel | No Fee Prize: £250 |
| Dubuque Fine Arts Players | One Act (max 40 mins) | Original, unproduced plays. | 1/31/22 | Dubuque, Iowa | Fee: $20/$15 Prize: $600 |
| Fort Worth Community Arts Center | Full Length | Original play, unpublished. | 1/31/22 | Fort Worth, Texas | Fee: $15 |
| Mine 4 God Productions | One Act (15-30 mins) | Plays that have diversity, inclusion, and equity of Black and Brown characters. Theme: Speaking Truth That Heals | 1/31/22 | Dublin, Ohio | n/a |
| Mine 4 God Productions | 5-10 mins | Monologues. Plays that have diversity, inclusion, and equity of Black and Brown characters. Theme: Speaking Truth That Heals | 1/31/22 | Dublin, Ohio | n/a |
| New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest | max 2 hrs or 90 pages | Full-lengths, one-acts, short plays, etc. | 1/31/22 | NYC | Fee: $25 Prize: $300 |
| Springhouse Journal | max 30 pages | Publication opp. Accept unsolicited submissions of plays. | 1/31/22 | n/a | 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 |
| 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 |
| Wayward Sisters Theatre Ensemble | Full Length | Stories of female-identifying people: women in poverty, women of color, immigrant women, survivors of abuse, and every identifying woman in between. | Year Round | Chicago | n/a |
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