Ashland New Plays Festival assists playwrights in the development of new works through public readings and offers an educational forum to the community through discussions and workshops.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a nonprofit professional theatre founded in 1935. Our eight-month season runs through the month of October, and we have three theatres: our two indoor stages—the Angus Bowmer Theatre and the Thomas Theatre—and our flagship outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre, which opens in early June and runs through mid-October. We offer up to 11 different plays that include works by Shakespeare as well as a mix of classics, musicals and world-premiere plays. When you visit you can see one or two plays or up to nine plays in one week!

At the heart of EMOS is the Ecodrama New Play Contest, which calls playwrights and theatre makers to engage in the global and local ecological issues that face societies across cultures. The concurrent EMOS Symposium fosters dialogue about the intersection of environment, culture, and performance.

Script submissions for the Northwest Ten Festival of Ten-Minute Plays are accepted annually from September 1 through October 31, with auditions taking place in late January. All community members are welcome to audition for the NW10 Festival each year. With approximately 18-24 roles available each festival, this is a great opportunity to meet and work with lots of other local artists.

Grass Valley’s NorCal Fringe Theater Festival is part of a network of over three dozen fringes taking place in the United States every year. The local festival joining these two networks helped attract award winning acts from all over North America. NorCal Fringe was created by Quest Theaterworks which is dedicated to “small but mighty” theater. As a 501(c)3, Quest Theaterworks presents plays and workshops designed to capture the power of live theater to open the heart. They always offer rich, engaging experiences so that you will leave the theater a little lighter than when you came...

The festival welcomes a handful of playwrights, whose scripts are chosen from nearly 200 annual submissions, to spend two weeks collaborating with directors, dramaturgs, actors, and other theater professionals from across the nation. During these workshops, JAW playwrights get to hear, revise and sometimes completely rewrite their plays in a supportive environment where their creative needs set the agenda.

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild will produce a reading of the selected new play by a Portland metro area playwright as part of the 2020 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. The production will include a paid professional director and paid professional actors. The playwright will receive a stipend of $200.

While we would like nothing more than to host this festival in front of a live audience, we realize that this will be unlikely given the current pandemic. As a result, we are planning to continue the second annual Winters Theatre Company (WTC) 10-minute play festival in an online podcast format (audio only), which will be made available in 2 acts of 4 plays each, similar in format to the live performances last year. For many of us, this is a new approach to directing, acting, and managing a theatrical performance. Be sure to review the new set of rules and requirements to ensure that this new...

On February 7, 2022, B Street Theatre will begin taking submissions for the third, annual New Comedies Festival which will take place from June 26 – July 3, 2022 at The Sofia: Home of B Street Theatre. “That's great art -- nothing is self-evident. I am made to laugh about those who cry, and cry about those who laugh.” – Bertolt Brecht In the ever-changing landscape of our country and the American theatre, B Street is soliciting submissions of comedies in all shapes and sizes for their third, annual New Comedies Festival. We encourage local, national and international artists to submit full-...

To entertain, engage and challenge our audience with bold, thought provoking theatre.

PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. Through the development of original short and full-length plays, PlayGround creates a microcosm of the greater theatre scene, supporting emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking, while helping them to hone their style and technique.