The Humana Festival is the premier event of its kind in the nation, drawing theatre lovers, journalists, and film and stage producers from around the world. About 38,000 patrons attend the six weeks of plays and associated events, including students from more than 50 colleges and universities. 10-12 fully produced new plays (world premieres) are chosen to run February-April. The Festival culminates in two industry weekends, which bring together a collection of amazing new plays with one-of-a-kind panels, cocktail parties, discussions and networking events. It is the perfect opportunity to...

Beginning July 2014, Derby City Playwrights has been meeting monthly, organizing reading series, producing new work by local writers, and experimenting on what exactly DCP needs to be for both our local playwrights and the Louisville Community. The first year, we hosted 12 writers with the goal of driving them to complete a brand new full length script and producing that work as a staged reading within that year. In July of 2015, we began accepting submission for ideas for full length plays that would become the First Derby City Playwrights New Play Festival, a three week long celebration of...

Mary Chelf Jones founded Ragged Edge Community Theatre in 1983.

Est. 2013 by Studio Players. Our 10-Minute Play Festival is presented annually. We present 7 strong, entertaining plays to feature. This competition is open to any playwright. The judges are members of the Studio Players theater community: board members, directors and patrons. The top 7 scripts (as determined by the judges) will be performed by active members of the Bluegrass theater community. Each play will be a fully staged production; each performance showing all winning scripts. The 7 Selected playwrights will each receive $250 in prize money.

Cincinnati LAB Theatre is an organization for established and emerging artists in the Greater Cincinnati Area dedicated to a collaborative creative process that will present established works of drama and develop new plays through a traditional workshop model. Cincinnati LAB Theatre will provide a solid platform for artists to cultivate, strengthen and hone their artistic crafts and talents and offer quality theatre for Cincinnati audiences. Cincinnati LAB Theatre is now planning its ninth producing season and accepting submissions to fill three original play readings and two fully staged...

Est. 2011. Conceived, written, directed, performed, and produced entirely by local high school-aged artists, FringeNext represents the future of theatre by giving these younger artists a chance to flex their theatrical voices in an uninhibited and unique setting.

Each year we present over 200 live performances from more than 40 local, national, and international groups and artists over 13 consecutive days in a dozen venues around the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) neighborhood of Cincinnati. These productions are selected for our Primary Lineup, the biggest programming component of the Festival, with help from a jury of 30+ local theatre professionals and educators. While jurying is a rarity among Fringes, we love how our curation process helps us thoughtfully select a lineup that’s rich with variety and representations. Cincy Fringe also includes visual art...

The mission of the Cincinnati Black Theatre Company is to keep alive the spirit of Black Theatre by offering top-notch theatrical productions, performance and employment opportunities, children’s theatre, educational programs and community outreach in all aspects of theatre arts. CBTC is committed to increasing literacy, promoting diversity and multiculturalism, pursuing community outreach and collaborations, and providing access to the arts.

Rapture Theatre is always looking to identify gaps in the theatre community. Local playwright and founder of Rapture Theatre, Megan Ann Jacobs, noticed that despite almost every playwright having a holiday-based short (or two or ten) there are very limited local opportunities for these shows to see the light of day. That's why Rapture Theatre is proud to announce its next production "Merry Fringemas."

Announcing the First Annual Indiana Ten Minute Play Festival! We need your submissions! Sponsored by IndyFringe, Indiana Writers Center, and Indiana Playwrights Circle Six plays will be selected by local theatres for production at the 10-Minute Play Festival. Playwrights will be notified of selections by February 1 (or before), and MUST be available for a table read of all six plays on February 2 at IndyFringe. The Festival will take place May 1st-3rd, 2020, with Friday and Saturday evening performances and a Sunday matinee.

Front Row Fringe Festival has been created to help artists continue creating art during the CoVid-19 pandemic, in 2020. We believe our artists and performers deserve to have a platform from which they can continue to share their creative and innovative works. Our goal is to provide our audiences an artistic and emotional experience they won’t forget.

The Dayton Playhouse is a community theatre providing outstanding theatrical productions to Miami Valley audiences of all ages for more than fifty years. The Playhouse is nationally recognized for FutureFest, a festival of new plays.