Vermont Pride Theater at Chandler (VPT) requests submissions for its annual Summer Pride Festival. Chandler has a long tradition of developing innovative community arts programs, serving a diverse population. Within this tradition, Vermont Pride Theater aims to build bridges of understanding between LGBTQ Vermonters and families, friends, and communities. The plays presented, the conversations these generate, and the wide publicity given these in the written press as well as on radio and TV assist our society’s progress toward full acceptance of LGBTQ Vermonters, with life choices and...

American Dreaming: 2023 New Play Festival Through an open submission process, Middlebury Acting Company is looking for three new plays for our second American Dreaming New Play Festival. This festival aims to amplify three unproduced, unpublished plays that address the question: What does the American Dream mean today? The selected plays will each receive two rehearsals, dramaturgical feedback, and a culminating public staged reading followed by a carefully moderated talkback with the audience. The goal of this festival is to assist the chosen playwrights in the development of their new...

Dorset Theatre Festival's mission is to create bold, innovative, and authentic theatre that engages a diverse, multi-generational community, and economically diverse region: enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring our audience through the celebration of great plays. We aim to redefine the landscape of theatre by presenting thought-provoking productions drawn from the new and classic canon, as well as through the development of new plays, new audiences, and new artists for the future of American theater. We produce theatre that matters.

ATF produces new scripts of the highest caliber throughout each season. To help fulfill this mission, we welcome the opportunity to read submissions from skilled playwrights who feel their work would be a good fit at the Adirondack Theatre Festival.

Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education (Hubbard Hall Projects, Inc.) is a non-profit rural community multi-arts center dedicated to bringing the best of theater, music, dance and the visual arts to our region.

Each fall, Pendragon Theatre encourages aspiring young playwrights to take pen to paper and fingers to keyboard for the annual youth playwriting event open to all middle and high school-age students! Last fall we asked young playwrights to submit original, 10 minute long one-act plays and musicals based on the theme "Insider/Outsider. The winning playwrights will work with a creative team including directors, designers, and actors to develop and stage the scripts. The Festival usually culminates in a full performance of the winning plays and a script-in-hand public reading of the runners-...

New World Theatre acknowledges that there is a crisis of understanding and awareness that is deeply rooted in our history of racism, and if we are ever going to fully dismantle the institutions of systemic racism, we need to stop... and listen to those who continue to suffer simply because they are black. We can no longer afford to ignore what is happening to our fellow human beings, which is why we are creating a collection of monologues that will give voice to those who can no longer remain silent. Through the power of writing and theatre, we can do our part to amplify the stories of...

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.

Next Act! is an expansion of Capital Repertory Theatre's continued commitment to the development of new work.

The leading professional theater in Northern New England, Portland Stage is committed to creating great art, passionate about using the theater to educate, and dedicated to enriching our community.

The mission of PortFringe is to support theater and performance artists, to encourage experimentation and innovation, and to provide an accessible, affordable outlet for exciting work that enriches our creative community.

Building on the annual Brit d'Arbeloff Women In Science Production, Underground Railway and The Nora at Central Square Theater have long envisioned a Festival bringing together scientists, theater artists and creative thinkers from around the country. Our work with Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a collaboration between Central Square Theater and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the nation’s only on-going partnership between a professional theater company and a world-class research institution. Each season, URT or The Nora produces plays that open the door between art and science and...