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.

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.

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.

Grays Harbor College has classes and degrees relating to both music and theater. Take a few classes just to gain experience or take the entire program and earn a degree you can use to transfer to a four-year university.

Producers of The World's Quickest Theater Festival & other feats of impossible theater, spanning the globe.

BAT is committed to treating audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage, and involve both the local and the expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region. See outstanding performances rivaling any live theatre in the Seattle area. Musicals, drama, and comedy presentations by excellent local performers, directors, and playwrights.

Funhouse Anthology is a recurring play anthology inspired by The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, and Adult Swim. Funhouse is a collection of subversive and experimental original content. Our show serves as a rotating platform for diverse, emerging and established playwrights, directors, actors, and designers, often with ties to the Pacific Northwest. The creators of Funhouse want artists to take bold risks in their storytelling.

We are currently working with the City of Seattle and Seattle Center, to create a new model for Bumbershoot that honors both the festival’s origin and history, while ensuring the festival is sustainable for the long haul. Bumbershoot will return to Seattle Center September 4-6, 2020.

Yellow Fish provides an organized platform for durational performance work in the form of a festival. The festival supports innovation and experimental curation of performance art that includes but is not limited to movement, sound, taste, clothing, language, environment, and time as concept and material in performance. Yellow Fish aims to bring awareness to the significance and study of time through a multitude of cultural practices and artistic mediums while facilitating community involvement in historical and contemporary thought surrounding durational performance.

GreenStage’s mission is to inspire our audiences to engage in live theatre as part of their recreation. We wish to instill and foster in our community an appreciation for live theater, with a strong belief that theater can be enjoyed in the same spirit as a picnic or a ballgame. We make high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays freely accessible to all residents and visitors to Seattle and King County. Our productions are free, fun, and family oriented, focusing on the text and story of the play.

​PNWCA is the producing arm of "March is Cabaret Month" (MICM) festival. The festival is committed to providing artists the opportunity to create their own show and to giving the artists the majority of the ticket sales. We can only continue to fiscally do this with your support.