Howdy, Playwrights! Check out below to find your 30 Play Submissions Opps with October deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Guinea Pig Lab | Full Length, One Act | One-woman plays. Open to all playwrights. Any topic. No restrictions. | 9/30/18 | Wichita, Kansas | No Fee |
| Laughing Pig Theatre | 10-min, One Act | Ten-minute and/or one-act play inspired by Shakespeare. | 9/30/18 | Mesa, Arizona | Fee: $5, $10 Prize: $50, $100 |
| Adirondack Theatre Festival | Full Length | Plays that have received previous readings, workshop or full productions ok. | 10/1/18 | Glens Falls, New York | n/a |
| Feels Blind Literary | One Act (max 10 pages) | Literary magazine. New and emerging writers who identify as women. Submissions must be previously unpublished, original works. Theme: Community | 10/1/18 | n/a | n/a |
| Phillips’ Mill Community Association | 10-15 mins | Original, unpublished and not previously produced plays. Playwright must currently live within a one hundred mile radius of Phillips’ Mill. *Playwrights may cast their plays with actors of their own choosing. | 10/1/18 | New Hope, Pennsylvania | Fee: $10 Prize: $100 |
| PlayFest Santa Barbara | Full Length | Plays, musicals, translations and adaptations, and works for young audiences (approximately fourth grade level & above). | 10/1/18 | Santa Barbara, California | Fee: $25 |
| The Fine Arts Association | 10 mins | Original plays, never been produced in the state of Ohio. Comedy and drama. | 10/1/18 | Willoughby, Ohio | No Fee |
| Village Playwrights Productions | max 10 mins | Playwrights must be from Metro New York area. Plays must be about the LGBTQ experience & have a Halloween theme or be scary. Playwrights must produce (reading). | 10/1/18 | NYC | No Fee |
| The Sauk | One Act, Full Length | Unproduced plays. Any style: comedy, drama, young audience and/or musical. Play dev’t opp including public staged readings. | 10/5/18 | Jonesville, Michigan | “royalty” |
| The Twilight Hour | max 15 mins | Int’l submissions ok. Theme: “The Twilight Zone.” Fantasy, sci-fi, suspense, psychological thriller often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist and usually with a moral. No website. Send plays to shortsatthecanal@gmail.com | 10/7/18 | London | n/a |
| Seattle Playwrights Salon | One Act (15-20 mins) | Young female playwrights, 19 years old or younger, from Washington State. | 10/8/18 | Seattle, Washington | No Fee |
| ScreenCraft | 15-120 pages | Original, unpublished stage plays. Int’l submissions ok. | 10/10/18 | Los Angeles, California | Fee: $59 Prize: $1,000 |
| 50 Playwrights Project | Full Length | Latin@/x playwrights. The script must be original, can be in English or Spanish, cannot have been produced before March 1, 2019. | 10/14/18 | n/s | n/a |
| Camino Real Playhouse | 10 mins | Plays can be on any subject. | 10/15/18 | San Juan Capistrano, California | Fee: $10 |
| New Perspectives Theatre Company | 10-15 pages (sample) | Development lab for emerging and mid-career women playwrights. | 10/15/18 | NYC | n/a |
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| Penn State Abington | Full Length, One Act | Looking for never-produced plays by local (PA/NJ/DE/NY) playwrights. Plays about these issues/topics are sought: Indigenous vs Colonial Culture, Mass Incarceration, Immigration, Sustainability, Opioid Addiction, and Educational Equity | 10/15/18 | Abington, Pennsylvania | “stipend” |
| Rover Dramawerks | 10 mins | Comedies or farces. Plays may have been produced previously but not in the DFW Metroplex. Plays may not be published. | 10/15/18 | Plano, Texas | No Fee Prize: $150 |
| Shakespeare in the ‘Burg | One Act (max 30 mins) | Open to all playwrights. Scripts must be original. Any style and genre. Must be appropriate for an audience of all ages. | 10/15/18 | Middleburg, Virginia | No Fee Prize: $550 |
| Stage Right Theatrics | 10-15 mins | All plays must forward a conservative point of view on past or contemporary topics of cultural and societal relevance. | 10/15/18 | Columbus, Ohio | No Fee $100 stipend |
| Tree City Playhouse | One Act (8-12 mins) | Original works, unpublished. No restrictions on genre or theme. Prefers “family-friendly” plays. | 10/15/18 | Sylvania, Ohio | Fee: $5 Prize: $150 |
| Coachella Review | 10-30 pages | Looking for short theatrical works to publish online in their Winter 2018 issue or for ongoing posts on their blog. | 10/26/18 | Coachella Valley, California | n/a |
| Theatre Southwest | 5-10 mins | Original work that has not been published or produced. All genres are accepted with no regard to language or subject matter. | 10/26/18 | Houston, Texas | No Fee Prize: $50 |
| Caltech Theater | Full Length | New play that centers on science-driven questions. Never before published or professionally produced. Open to United States playwrights, particularly women playwrights, playwrights of color, and playwrights from the Greater Los Angeles area. | 10/30/18 | Pasadena, California | n/a |
| Smith & Kraus and True Acting Institute | 10 mins | 10-minute plays. Opportunity to be published in a book. | 10/30/18 | n/a | n/a |
| Bloomington Playwrights Project | Full Length | Plays must be unpublished, with no previous productions at major regional theaters. Musicals ok. | 10/31/18 | Bloomington, Indiana | Fee: $10 Prize: $1,000 |
| Forward Theater | 2-10 mins | Monologues. Theme: Two Steps Forward | 10/31/18 | Madison, Wisconsin | $100 royalty |
| Itinerant Theatre | 10 mins / short play | Theme: Women Leading | 10/31/18 | Lake Charles, Louisiana | n/a |
| New York University – Steinhardt | Full Length | New, unpublished and unproduced play scripts for young audiences. | 10/31/18 | NYC | n/a |
| Seattle Playwrights Salon | See right. | Accepting full-length scripts and collections of short and one act plays in development from any playwright in the Northwestern United States and British Columbia. | 10/31/18 | Seattle, Washington | Fee: $10 |
| The Little Theatre of Alexandria | One Act (20-50 mins) | Original, unpublished and un-produced plays. | 10/31/18 | Alexandria, Virginia | Fee: $20 Prize: $350 |
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