Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opportunities with August+ 2024 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 |
| The Players Theatre | max 15 mins | Plays and musicals. Playwrights must produce. Theme: Boo! | 7/25/24 | NYC | Fee: $50 if selected |
| Clamour Theatre Company | Full Length | Playwrights’ retreat. Send a draft of a non-musical play. | 7/26/24 | Penney Farms, Florida | No Fee $100 stipend |
| Phoenix Theatre | Full Length | Plays and musicals. | 7/26/24 | Phoenix, Arizona | Fee: $10 |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Women playwrights. | 7/31/24 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| Avant Bard Theatre | Full Length | Playwrights who live in the DC region will be given preference. | 7/31/24 | Arlington, Virginia | n/a |
| Go Try PlayWrite | See right. | Write a 10-page max scene or an 8-page max monologue of someone having road rage. | 7/31/24 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Prize: $100 |
| Molecule | max 50 words | Publication opp. Plays accepted. | 7/31/24 | n/a | n/a |
| Eastern Front Theatre | max 75 mins | Productions aimed at both mature and youth audiences. Prefers shows that are created by Atlantic Canadian artists or tell Atlantic Canadian stories. Int’l submissions ok. | No deadline posted. | Canada | n/a |
| SPELLBINDER | max 5 pages | Publication opp. Drama accepted. Play extracts and monologues are welcome. | 8/1/24 | n/a | £3 honorarium |
| PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants | n/s | Translations of drama, originally written by a single individual. Works must be translated into English. | 8/2/24 | n/a | n/a |
| L’Esprit Literary Review | No limit | Publication opp. Drama accepted. Translations ok. | 8/4/24 | n/a | No Fee |
| Café Royal Cultural Foundation | See right. | Performance grant. Must be US citizen or resident alien and a resident of NYC. If the performance is a play, it must be a full production. | 8/5/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Congo Square Theatre | Full Length | African American playwrights. | 8/5/24 | Chicago | n/a |
| New Art City Theatre | Full Length, One Act | Plays and musicals. | 8/11/24 | Ventura, California | Fee: $25 |
| Fresh Words | max 1 min | One-min play/monologue that rewrites a scene or incident or monologue or soliloquy from Shakespeare’s play. | 8/12/24 | n/a | No Fee |
| Strand Theater Co | max 10 pages | Playwrights must identify as Black women or non-binary. Must include a Black woman or non-binary protagonist, and a brown sugar. | 8/12/24 | Baltimore, Maryland | n/a |
| Hypatia-in-the-Woods | 10 pages (sample) | 1 to 3 weeks residency. Apps from WOMEN playwrights accepted. | 8/15/24 | Shelton, Washington | Fee: $20 |
| International Human Rights Art Festival | 10-20 mins | Performance work in any form – every discipline. Must be fully produced. New York and Tri-state area based artists are encouraged. | 8/15/24 | NYC | No Fee $100-$200 stipend |
| Qu Literary Magazine | max 4,000 words | Publication opp. Excerpts or full pieces written for stage. | 8/15/24 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Fee: $2.50 |
| Faces of America Monologue Festival | max 2 mins | Monologues that represent America’s incredible diversity. Must include the word “GRACE” somewhere in the monologue. | 8/19/24 | TBA | n/a |
| Jan Michalski Foundation | n/s | 2 weeks to 3 months residency. Int’l submissions ok. | 8/26/24 | Switzerland | n/a |
| Agbowó | One Act (10-30 mins) | Publication opp. Any theme and genre. Plays can be experimental. | 8/30/24 | n/s | n/a |
| Chaotic Merge Magazine | See right. | Publication opp. Accepts up to 2 unpublished plays totaling to 10 pages. | 8/31/24 | n/a | No Fee / optional fee $2 to $15 |
| Eclectic Full Contact Theatre | max 20 mins | Radio play. Genre: Fantasy | 8/31/24 | Chicago | Prize: $250 |
| Gitelman & Good Publishers | Full Length | Publication opp. Plays appropriate for high-school actors and audiences. Theme: Friendship and Loyalty | 8/31/24 | n/a | n/a |
| Static Frequency | 5-15 mins | Audio drama. Weird, strange, or unusual. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are all accepted. Material may not be excessively violent or include explicit sexual situations. | 8/31/24 | n/a | No Fee Prize: $100 |
| Ten-Minute Musicals Project | 7-20 mins | Any musical style or theatrical format. Max of 10 performers — 5 women and 5 men. Int’l submissions ok. | 8/31/24 | West Hollywood, California | $250 royalty advance |
| Theatre Oxford | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok | 8/31/24 | Oxford, Mississippi | Fee: $12 Prize: $1,000 |
| Woodward/Newman Award | Full Length | Plays must be unpublished at the time of submission (independently published is acceptable). | 8/31/24 | Bloomington, Indiana | Prize: $3,000 |
| Equity Library Theater of New York | max 10 pages/mins | Int’l submissions ok. Also seeking monologues (max 5 pages/mins). Musicals ok. Playwrights must produce. | 9/1/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| Forward Theater Co | 2-10 mins | Monologues. Theme: Guilty Pleasures | 9/1/24 | Madison, Wisconsin | n/a |
| Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts | max 30 pages (sample) | 2-8 weeks residency. Submit up to 2 one-act plays or up to 2 excerpts (monologues, acts, scenes) from a longer work. | 9/1/24 | Nebraska City, Nebraska | App Fee: $35 $175 stipend/week |
| Theatre Three | max 30 mins | One-act plays. Int’l submissions ok. | 9/1/24 | Port Jefferson, New York | $150 stipend |
| 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 |
| Working Theater | Full Length | Stories for, about or made with working people, and/or the issues which affect them, in mind. | Year Round | NYC | n/a |
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