Model Contracts for Theatre Writers

What happens when the collaboration expands beyond our traditional definitions?

Download a forms for authors, producers, or other theater professionals to distribute at auditions and in rehearsal.

APC or Approved Production Contract for Broadway/First Class musical productions. Requires Guild certification.

APC or Approved Production Contract for Broadway/First Class straight plays. Requires Guild certification.

For dramatists weighing contest & festival submission opportunities. Can also be used by theatres and organizations to craft contests or festivals.

Form agreement for collaboration between authors writing a musical.

Form agreement for collaboration between authors writing a straight play.

For the rare circumstances in which a director's extraordinary contributions to a work transcend dramaturgy, and the author elects to assign a portion of the work's future revenues to the director.

This model agreement should be used when a group of individuals (alternatively, “creators”) begins a collaborative process without first knowing who the authors will be.

This agreement can be used when it comes time to present the devised work before a live audience.