Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with June+ 2024 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Women playwrights. | 5/31/24 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| Cone Man Running Productions | 5 mins | Plays and monologues that focus on holidays. Comedies or dramatic work. Int’l submissions ok. | 5/31/24 | Houston, Texas | No Fee |
| Jewish Plays Project | 10 mins | The play must contain significant Jewish themes, characters, content, or points of view. EXTENDED DEADLINE | 6/10/24 | Pittsfield, Massachusetts | n/a |
| The Acorn | 10 mins | Original works. US playwrights only. | 5/31/24 | Three Oaks, Michigan | Fee: $15 Prize: $500 |
| Emerging Artists Theatre | Any length | Solo shows, musicals, plays, etc. | 6/1/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| Northport One-Act Play Festival | One Act (10-20 mins) | Drama and comedy. Must be appropriate to be performed in a church. | 6/1/24 | Northport, New York | $75 fee if accepted |
| The Post-Meridian Radio Players | 50-60 mins, 25-30 mins | Radio drama adaptations of the novels or short stories of H.G. Wells for Halloween 2024 anthology. | 6/1/24 | Boston, Massachusetts | No Fee |
| Left Coast Theatre Co | 10-15 mins | Scripts that explore the future of queer folk. | 6/2/24 | San Francisco, California | n/a |
| American Stage | Full Length | Women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ playwrights. Must reside in the US. | 6/10/24 | St. Petersburg, Florida | Prize: $600 |
| Headlands Center for the Arts | Full Length | Fully sponsored 4- to 10-week residencies. | 6/10/24 | Sausalito, California | $45 |
| Jewish Plays Project | Full Length | Plays or musicals. Must contain significant Jewish themes, characters, content, or points of view. | 6/14/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| The Center at West Park | max 2 hrs | Original works of theater, dance, music, comedy, and interdisciplinary performance by NYC-based artists. | 6/14/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Long Beach Playhouse | Full Length | Unproduced, unpublished, non-musical English language plays. | 6/15/24 | Long Beach, California | Fee: $15 $100 honorarium |
| Short+Sweet Theatre | 10 mins | Any genre. Int’l submissions ok. | 6/15/24 | Various Int’l Locations | Fee: $13 |
| The Secret Theatre | One Act (10 or 20 mins) | Playwrights must produce. Solo shows or excerpts under 15 mins are submittable. | 6/16/24 | NYC | n/a |
| SHIFT | 10 mins, One Act | Publication opp. Theme: Bending, Blurring, & Breaking Genres | 6/24/24 | Murfreesboro, Tennessee | No Fee |
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| AACT NewPlayFest | Full Length | Non-musical plays. Any subject. | 6/30/24 | Fort Worth, Texas | Fee: $10, No fee for AACT members |
| Actors’ Theatre | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. | 6/30/24 | Santa Cruz, California | Fee: $10 |
| Fault Line Theatre | max 20 pages (sample) | Proposals for pitches, outlines, drafts, and everything in between. Socially relevant, character-driven plays. | 6/30/24 | NYC | $1,800 stipend |
| Fred Ebb Award | Full Length | Each applicant must be a composer/lyricist or composer/lyricist team wishing to create work for the musical theatre, and must not yet have achieved significant commercial success. | 6/30/24 | NYC | Prize: $60,000 |
| Hominum Journal | One Act | Publication opp. | 6/30/24 | n/a | n/a |
| IATI (International Theater Arts Institute) | Full Length | Authors from anywhere in the world with original works in English or Spanish. | 6/30/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| North Park Playwright Festival | max 12 pages | Int’l submissions ok. New works. Any subject matter. No nudity or off color humor. | 6/30/24 | San Diego, California | No Fee |
| Playhouse on the Square | Full Length | Original plays or musicals. | 6/30/24 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $15 Prize: $750 |
| Review Americana | short play | No profanity, gratuitously violent, or erotic work. | 6/30/24 | n/a | No Fee |
| Centre Stage | max 120 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Musicals and plays with music ok. | 7/1/24 | Greenville, South Carolina | n/a |
| Echo Theater Company | 60-150 pages | Original, unpublished and unproduced, non-musical stage plays. | 7/1/24 | Los Angeles, California | Fee: $40 Prize: $1,000 |
| Frostburg State University | One Act (max 40 mins) | Previously unproduced plays. One person plays are accepted. | 7/1/24 | Frostburg, Maryland | Fee: $20 Prize: $750 |
| New Works, New Voices | Full Length | Musicals by writers and composers whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon. | 7/1/24 | Syracuse, New York | n/a |
| One Night Stand Theater | short play | Plays can be new or old. See website for the themes. | 7/1/24 | Aurora, Colorado | “small honorarium” |
| Pan Theater | max 10 pages | Plays must include a cat in the background, as a character, on the cover, or through another reference. | 7/1/24 | Oakland, California | Prize: $100 |
| PLAYA | max 10 pages (sample) | 12 or 26 day residency. Int’l submissions ok. | 7/1/24 | Lake County, Oregon | App Fee: $30 |
| Valhalla Tahoe | One Act (max 60 mins) | Plays must be written within the last five years. | 7/1/24 | South Lake Tahoe, California | Fee: $30 |
| Theatre Exile | See right. | Stories that either push forward ideas or expose part of the human condition that we prefer to keep in the dark. Out of town artists may submit 10-page sample. Philadelphia local area artists may submit full scripts. | Year Round | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 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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