Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with March+ 2025 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Woman, trans or nonbinary playwright. | 2/28/25 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University Literary Press | Full Length | Emerging playwrights. | 2/28/25 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Fee: $25 Prize: $500 |
| Elmwood Playhouse | max 20 mins | One-act plays. Any genre. Playwrights must produce. | 2/28/25 | Nyack, New York | n/a |
| Strongbox Theater | max 20 mins | Comedies or dramas. Monologues ok. | 2/28/25 | East Rockaway, New York | No Fee $100 royalty |
| Breaking & Entering | 45-90 mins | Early career playwrights. | 3/1/25 | New York | n/a |
| Crow Name | max 20 pages | Publication opp. Scripts accepted. | 3/1/25 | n/s | n/a |
| Durango Arts Center | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Theme: Lovers & Sinners | 3/1/25 | Durango, Colorado | No Fee Royalty of $100 |
| 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. | 3/1/25 | Nebraska City, Nebraska | App Fee: $35 |
| riverSedge | max 15 pages | Publication opp. Accepts dramatic scripts. | 3/1/25 | Texas | Fee: $3 Prize: $350 |
| Tulsa Review | max 3,000 words | Publication opp. One-act plays. Emerging and established writers worldwide. | 3/1/25 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | Fee: $3 |
| University of New Hampshire | max 60 mins | New children’s plays and musicals. Playwrights residing in the US and Canada. | 3/1/25 | Durham, New Hampshire | Prize: $500 |
| Edmonds Driftwood Players | 10-12 mins | Theme: “CROSSROADS: a choice or event that changed courses” | 3/2/25 | Edmonds, Washington | n/a |
| Ghostlight Ensemble | max 30 mins | Scripts set at a bar. Playwrights in any geographic area. Writers in the greater Chicago area will receive priority. | 3/2/25 | Chicago | No Fee |
| River Styx | Any length | Publication opp. Plays accepted – all forms and lengths. | 3/2/25 | St. Louis, Missouri | Fee: $5 |
| Theatre Workshop of Owensboro | max 20 pages | One-act plays. Playwrights anywhere and everywhere. | 3/3/25 | Owensboro, Kentucky | Fee: $20 Prize: $1,000 |
| Waxing & Waning | max 25 pages | Publication opp. Accepts play submissions. | 3/3/25 | n/a | Fee: $7 |
| The Old Opera House | 10-40 mins | Non-musical works only. No thematic restrictions. | 3/5/25 | Charles Town, West Virginia | Prize: $250 |
| Scribe Playwriting Competition | Full Length, One Act | Plays or musicals. | 3/7/25 | Oil City, Pennsylvania | Fee: $7.50 to $19.99 |
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| Black Men Talk Play Festival | 8-10 mins | New and emerging Black male playwrights. | 3/15/25 | Chicago | n/a |
| Broom Street Theater | 10 mins | Plays about the states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, or Washington. | 3/15/25 | Madison, Wisconsin | Prize: $25 |
| Hendersonville Theatre | 10-15 mins | One-act plays. Accepts nationwide submissions. | 3/15/25 | Hendersonville, North Carolina | Fee: $5 / $10 “cash prize” |
| Live & In Color | 15 pages (sample) | Playwrights, composers, and lyricists of color and/or other underrepresented communities interested in developing their new musical. | 3/15/25 | Salem, Connecticut | $1,000 stipend |
| Ponder Review | 10-15 pages | Script excerpt or short play. | 3/15/25 | n/a | Fee: $2 |
| Rogue Theater Festival | 10-150 mins | Live staged reading, live fully staged show, or digital streaming presentation. Straight plays, monologues, musicals. Int’l submissions ok. | 3/15/25 | NYC | n/a |
| The Edward F. Albee Foundation | Full Length, One Act | Residency. | 3/16/25 | NYC | n/a |
| Boise Contemporary Theater | Full Length | Original works. | 3/23/25 | Boise, Idaho | $1,000 stipend |
| Red Bull Theater | max 10 mins | Play that makes use of heightened language, and/or is in conversation with a classical theme, style or story from any cultural tradition. Theme: DEFIANCE | 3/24/25 | NYC | Fee: $10 |
| The Players Theatre | max 15 mins / 15 pages | Plays and musicals. Theme: “NYC.” Playwrights must produce. | 3/26/25 | NYC | Fee: $50 if selected |
| Boxland Inc | 10 mins | Stories must center around LGBTQIA+, POC, or marginalized characters. All genres are welcome. | 3/31/25 | Columbus, Ohio | $50 honorarium |
| Hopkinton Center for the Arts | max 20 mins | One-act plays. Any subject. Must be appropriate for a PG-13 audience. Pls. consider whether your play can be performed outdoors with modest technical requirements. | 3/31/25 | Hopkinton, Massachusetts | Fee: $20 Prize: $200 |
| The Shawnee Playhouse | See right. | Short plays and full-length plays. | 3/31/25 | Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania | Fees: pls. inquire |
| Weathervane Playhouse | 7-12 mins | Each play must take place on the 2025 set, a subway car. No characters under the age of 16. | 3/31/25 | Akron, Ohio | Fee: $10 Prize: $500 |
| Wild Imaginings | Full Length | Musicals. Open to all playwrights. | 3/31/25 | Waco, Texas | n/a |
| Your Theatre | 10-30 mins | One-act plays. Opp for both new and established playwrights to develop and refine their original works. | 3/31/25 | New Bedford, Massachusetts | No Fee |
| 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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