The Warner International Playwrights Festival recognizes the work of emerging and established playwrights from across the country and around the globe. The Festival gives playwrights a forum for production of their one-act plays that engage and entertain audiences through exploration of the human experience and the human spirit.

This festival provides a way for playwrights and actors to form relationships, sharpen skills and create raw work under pressure.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc, a professional not-for-profit theatre for family audiences in Milford, Connecticut, is now accepting submissions for its “POW" (Pantochino Original Works) Festival of new musicals by early career and emerging playwrights, composers and lyricists. Details at www.pantochino.com

Aery Theatre Company was founded by Patrick J. Lennon in 2006 to develop and produce original dramas written, directed and performed by local artists. Richard E. Knipe, Jr., was appointed Artistic Director in 2007.

Rooted in the landscape of the Hudson Valley, with the plays of William Shakespeare as our touchstone, HVSF engages the widest possible audience in a theatrical celebration of our shared humanity.

GoJo Clan Productions and Theatre Revolution are happy to announce that submissions for Glass Ceiling Breakers: A Celebration of Women Playwrights 2020 are now open. GCB was the first women's festival in the Hudson Valley and has sold out it's first two years and looking forward to sold out shows in its third year hopefully with your play in it! The guidelines can be found on the Theatre Revolution web page: https://www.theatrerevolution.org/

After a COVID induced hiatus, Theatre Revolution is proud to announce the return of Glass Ceiling Breakers 3! In addition to short plays, we will also include an evening short films. GCB3 will present the work of female and female identifying artists. GCB3 is scheduled for June 16, 17 and 18, 2023 at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison NY. Here are the details and submission guidelines for plays: Plays must be written by female or female identifying playwrights. Plays should be no more than 12 pages (excluding the title page) in standard play format. Type size (12) with 1” margins. If...

We produce classic and new plays with distinction and verve, and to present artists with production opportunities and challenges seldom available elsewhere; we provide a training program in which emerging theater talents collaborate with accomplished mentors in a vital, professional, and educational atmosphere; and we also create and present programs that serve and engage a diverse community.

Shakespeare on the Sound is committed to producing affordable, professional open-air productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and related authors in Fairfield County. Working in collaboration with area civic, business and educational institutions, Shakespeare on the Sound presents an annual theatre festival, which brings great dramatic works to a broad audience, creating a forum for learning, appreciation and celebration. Our Educational programming goal is to build community through the arts, giving the works of Shakespeare a vibrant life beyond the summer festival with a variety of...

A festival of one act plays. Stipend: $125.00.

The recipient of two Tony Awards and National Medal of Arts, the O’Neill is a world-renowned developer of new work and new artists for the American theater. Employing the signature "O'Neill process," the festival provides local middle and high school students professional-level support to develop their original one-act plays. Young Playwrights will spend a weekend at the O'Neill with a dedicated creative team - director, dramaturg, and actors - comprised of National Theater Institute alumni helping them stage their plays. The development process draws on principles and techniques used during...

The ITHT Stage Door Playwrights Festival celebrates original plays developed by local and NY metro area playwrights. It is dedicated to providing an arena for theatrical exploration of significant historical and modern issues that are relevant to our times.