Est. 1989. The festival is produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. There are several submission opportunities, each with different deadlines.

SETC is the strongest and broadest network of theatre practitioners in the United States. We provide extensive resources and year-round opportunities for our constituents. Our services, publications, and products contribute significantly to the careers of emerging artists, seasoned professionals and academicians. SETC energizes the practical, intellectual and creative profile of theatre in America.

The Greensboro Fringe Festival introduces audiences to emerging artists with live theatre and dance performances in Downtown Greensboro. Each performance piece featured at the Greensboro Fringe Festival is a premiere by local talent who typically do not have access to a venue.

Ten short plays by North Carolina playwrights will be selected for full production in NC 10 by 10. The festival runs July 16-19 at The Cary Theatre in Cary and July 23-26 at The PSI Theatre in the Durham Arts Council building in downtown Durham. NC 10 by 10 has grown to be the most-attended short-play festival in the region, with last year’s show having over 1300 patrons.

The Cary Playwrights’ Forum’s mission is to provide NC playwrights and aspiring playwrights opportunities to develop as dramatic writers.

Convention registration and SETC membership is required for all individuals participating in the Ten-Minute Play Festival. Sometimes the best way to take exciting risks, jump at new chances, and explore new ideas is to remove the time it takes to talk ourselves out of it, and the SETC Ten Minute Play Festival strives to do just that! By working within a strict guideline of one twenty-four hour period playwrights, actors, and directors band together to create brand new works and present them in front of an audience under a fun and intense time crunch. New play development is such an...

The Storefront Theatre is accepting submissions for our 8th annual 10-minute play festival. Like all theatres at this time, we are uncertain as to the future but we’re going to take a chance that by next March, we will be able to present the plays on stage as live concert readings. If that isn’t possible, then we will present online as a video recording or live-stream. A blind panel of judges with broad theatre experience will select 8-10 plays to be presented as concert readings and will choose a first place winner who will receive a cash award of $75.00.

The National Women’s Theatre Festival announces the call for production proposals for the 2023 WTFringe festival. WTFringe will be part of the 8th Annual National Women’s Theatre Festival happening in person in Raleigh, NC and virtually from June 22 - July 1, 2023. Proposals for in-person productions, virtual productions, and hybrid productions will be accepted for consideration.

This annual festival celebrates the richness of the Appalachian tradition by showcasing the stories of the region, both past and present, and the inspiration it provides the writers who live here.

The Asheville Fringe Society is dedicated to cultivating strange and wonderful work that lies outside the mainstream. The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Our continual goal is to curate experiences that expand the minds and hearts of our audiences and to be inclusive of artists who work within a myriad of genres, styles, and forms to create truly unique and original pieces in our community.

The South Carolina New Play Festival curates a weekend of yet-to-be-produced plays and musicals by today’s hottest playwrights. Over a 3-day weekend, we’ll present readings of two new plays, one new musical, and one new children's play, along with professional training classes for actors and singers, and a closing night cabaret featuring Broadway stars Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett. Readings feature TONY-Nominees, Drama-Desk winners, and other well-known Broadway actors, as well as beloved performers from the local community, and are helmed by established and experienced directors with a...

For the last decade and a half, Centre Stage has counted it a privilege to celebrate works from far and wide as part of our Annual New Play Festival. It has always been the goal of the festival to promote nationwide new work development and encourage a broad range of regional perspectives to participate. Now we turn our attention to local playwrights, honoring artists affiliated with South Carolina and the surrounding states in accordance with our organizational mission.