The Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival is spearheading a new cultural tradition in Atlanta by creating a place for musical writers to get their stories on the stage. Atlanta is an artistic hotbed and we have created an outlet for the incredible talent that lives and thrives in the southeast. We accept and are thrilled to read submissions from all over the world and select stories that move us with their music and characters to bring our community together. That way those stories can continue on to show the whole world how we are all more alike then we think. …simply saying; we are here to...

The Atlanta Fringe Festival is dedicated to connecting adventurous artists with appreciative audiences for the betterment of the Atlanta arts community. The Atlanta Fringe is produced by Twinhead Theatre, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and is operated by a core volunteer committee of 10 dedicated people, with assistance from many event volunteers, as well as paid festival technicians and front-of-house staff.

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival (ABTF) is a collaboration of the nation's preeminent Black theatre producers, writers, artists, and art lovers gathering from around the corner to around the globe. The event takes place annually in the Black entertainment capital---Atlanta! Our prime aim is to develop, promote, and present stories of the African diaspora while providing an authentic voice for and about the Black experience. Our signature marathon event includes world-class theatre, panels, music, workshops, short films, spoken word and comedy shows, readings, an awards gala, games,...

Students, high school through college, are invited to submit completed one act plays for consideration in Horizon Theatre Company’s New South Young Playwrights Festival Contest. Twenty playwrights will be selected to participate in the New South Young Playwrights Festival at Horizon Theatre in the trendy Little Five Points area of Atlanta. This week long festival is free and will include playwriting workshops, seminars, and rehearsals with professional theatre actors, directors, and playwrights.

Atlanta's national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off.

Est. 1997. The New South Play Festival has been dedicated to producing new plays from, for, and about the contemporary South since 1999. The Festival focuses on new plays by writers who live or have roots in the South, creating stories that our relevant to our community today. The Festival is particularly interested in plays by women and African Americans. See website for details.

Essential Theatre’s mission is to nurture and produce new works by Georgia playwrights and to enrich our audience’s experience by actively engaging them in the process. The annual Essential Theatre Playwriting Award is for unproduced plays by current Georgia residents only. See website for details.

The Earth Matters on Stage (EMOS) Ecodrama Playwrights Festival was founded in 2004 by Theresa May and Larry Fried in order to foster new dramatic works that respond to the ecological crisis, and explore new possibilities for being in relationship with the more-than-human world. EMOS calls for new plays that focus on current and historic environmental issues, and enliven and transform our experience of the world, inspiring us to listen better, and instilling a deeper or more complex sense of our ecological communities.

Est. 2004, Earth Matters on Stage (EMOS) Ecodrama Playwrights Festival, a triennial event, was founded in order to call forth and foster new dramatic works that respond to the ecological crisis, and, as part of that response, to explore new possibilities of being in relationship with the more-than-human world. EMOS calls for new plays that not only focus on current and historic environmental issues, but also looks for plays that enliven and transform our experience of the world around us, that inspire us to listen better, and instill a deeper or more complex sense of our ecological...

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The Southern Playwrights Competition seeks to identify and encourage the best of Southern play writing. An annual award of $1,000 will be presented to the first-prize winner, as well as a consideration for production by the Jacksonville State University Department of Drama. Southern Playwrights Competition reserves the right to use the name of the play and the author's name in all publicity and promotions. See website for details.

The prize-winning one-act play winner receives a $500 prize and travel support to attend the prize play production at the Georgia College campus (usually in March.)