Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opportunities with April+ 2025 deadlines. This is just a small sample of what is in our mega-list available to paid members. Join now to get access!
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| LAB Theater Project | Full Length | Original, new works. | 4/30/25 | Tampa, Florida | n/a |
| Missed the Boat Theatre | Full Length | Plays or musicals. | 4/30/25 | Twin Cities, Minnesota | n/a |
| Soapbox Stageworks | 10-20 mins | Plays that are steamy (not necessarily sexy), funny, poignant and/or surprising. No deadline posted. Plays will be performed in August 2025. | See left. | Carmel, California | Fee: $15 |
| Barter Theatre | Full Length | Plays written by an Appalachian playwright or set in the Appalachian region. | 5/1/25 | Abingdon, Virginia | n/a |
| Foglifter | max 20 pages | Publication opp. LGBTQ+ writers. Accepts drama submissions. | 5/1/25 | n/a | $50 honorarium |
| Left Edge Theatre | max 10 mins | Int’l submissions ok. Any genre. Must not have been previously performed in Sonoma County, CA. Theme: TYRANNY | 5/1/25 | Santa Rosa, California | n/a |
| Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting | Full Length | Plays addressing the question “What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?” | 5/1/25 | New Hampshire & Vermont | $5,000 honorarium |
| New England Review | max 5,000 words | Publication opp. Short plays and monologues. | 5/1/25 | Middlebury, Vermont | Fee: $3 |
| Exposition Review | max 4 pages | Publication opp. Theme: Quitting | 5/6/25 | California | Fee: $5 “cash prize” |
| The Acorn | 10 mins | Original, compelling stories. | 5/9/25 | Three Oaks, Michigan | Fee: $15 Prize: $500 |
| Chaotic Merge Magazine | See right. | Publication opp. Accepts up to 2 unpublished plays totaling to 10 pages. | 5/10/25 | n/a | No Fee / optional fee $2 to $15 |
| Advance Gender Equity in the Arts’ Legacy Playwright Grants | Full Length | Playwrights must identify as BIPOC, 40+ years of age. Must live and work in the US or Puerto Rico. | 5/15/25 | Portland, Oregon | Prize: $10,000 |
| Free Fall Stage | One Act (10-15 mins) | Brand new works that have not been performed before. | 5/15/25 | Sacramento, California | Fee: $25 Prize: $200 |
| Kaplan Prize | Full Length | The play must have a direct connection to Cape Cod & the Islands. | 5/15/25 | Dennis, Massachusetts | Fee: $25 Prize: $1,000 |
| The Barr Hill Players | Full Length | New works by emerging playwrights. | 5/15/25 | Greensboro, Vermont | No Fee |
| The Studios of Key West | max 15 pages (see right) | Residency. Int’l submissions ok. No fee for the residency. Submit 1 one-act play or 1 excerpt from a longer work. | 5/15/25 | Key West, Florida | App Fee: $45 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts | n/s | Residency. | 5/15/25 | Amherst, Virginia | App Fee: $30 |
| Redhouse Arts Center | Full Length | New plays and musicals that feature new voices and new perspectives. | 5/16/25 | Syracuse, New York | No Fee $1000 commission |
| The Southeast Texas Festival of New Plays | Full Length | New work. The content must be PG-13 and not be excessively violent or very sexual in nature. Theme: America 2025 | 5/16/25 | Beaumont, Texas | Fee: $8/16 |
| Austin Film Festival | Full Length | Original or adapted plays. Int’l submissions ok. | 5/27/25 | Austin, Texas | Fee: $35 |
| L’Esprit Literary Review | max 7,000 words | Publication opp. Drama accepted. Translations ok. | 5/29/25 | n/a | Fee: $3 |
| Emerald Theatre Company | max 10 pages | Original vignettes inspired by the classic nursery rhyme: “Monday’s Child” | 5/30/25 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $15 Prize: $100 |
| Nashville Repertory Theatre | Full Length | Script development lab. | 5/30/25 | Nashville, Tennessee | n/a |
| Urbanite Theatre | Full Length | Women playwrights. The play must include quality, female roles that are well-represented. | 5/30/25 | Sarasota, Florida | No Fee stipend of $1,500 |
| Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence | 7-10 pages | New works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. Apps from playwrights accepted. | 5/31/25 | Upperville, Virginia | $10,000 individual grant |
| PLAYA | See right. | Residency. Int’l submissions ok. Provide 3-5 writing samples not to exceed 10 pages total. | 5/31/25 | Lake County, Oregon | App Fee: $30 |
| Punk Monkey Productions | One Act (max 25 mins) | The play should be written with the classic Noir fashion in mind and the tradition of the vintage crime novels of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Pieces with multiple strong female roles are encouraged. Comedy, drama or both. | 5/31/25 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
| Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition | 90-120 mins | Plays where downside risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. Int’l submissions ok. | 5/31/25 | Canada | Fee: $49 Prize: $10,500 |
| The Westchester Review | 10 mins | Publication opp. In’tl submissions ok. Any subject or style. | 5/31/25 | Westchester, New York | n/a |
| Dappled Things | n/s | Publication opp (Catholic magazine). Drama accepted. Pays $100 per published piece. | 6/1/25 | n/a | n/a |
| NYLon Fusion | max 10 pages | Theme: The New Deal | 6/1/25 | NYC | n/a |
| PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants | n/s | Translations of drama, originally written by a single individual (translated into English). Int’l submissions ok. | 6/1/25 | n/a | n/a |
| Prism Theatre Company | max 20 mins | Plays or monologues. Theme: HOPE | 6/1/25 | St. Louis, Missouri | n/a |
| Spokane Playwrights Laboratory | Full Length | Any genre, topic, or theme, except musicals. | Year Round | Spokane, Washington | 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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