Playwrights Local is dedicated to supporting the dramatists of Northeast Ohio. As a playwrights’ development and production center, we foster diverse talents and present locally written works.

BorderLight’s vision is to present visionary international theatre and build cross-cultural understanding.

Hosted by the Notre Dame College of Performing Arts, the New Play Festival showcases unproduced plays and musicals for young adults and children. The weekend-long festival will consist of 4-5 staged readings of previously unseen theatrical works, and will take place in the Regina Auditorium on the Notre Dame College campus. A winner will be chosen through committee/audience voting and will receive a $500 prize, as well as the opportunity to present fully-staged production during the subsequent NDC Spring Semester.

Cleveland Play House develops and presents a variety of new work from nationally recognized artists, and each year produces a centerpiece production. Our reading series is for unoptioned/unproduced new plays.

Biennial four-week festival of staged readings. Assistance: room/board, travel, per diem.

Weathervane Community Playhouse produces high-quality live theater with volunteer artists, designers, and technicians under professional direction, provides education and training in theater arts and appreciation, and engages and entertains its audience and constituents to enrich the quality of life in Northeast Ohio.

The Ohio Shakespeare Festival regards the actors, the script and the audience as the quintessential elements of the theatre. As a professional theatre company, we are dedicated to articulating the inherently theatrical components of Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights throughout the ages in a manner that enables the collected imaginations of the artists to meet the collective imagination of the audience in a public celebration that transforms the world in which we live.

Obsidian, produced in the city of Detroit, by Detroiters, is a celebration of Black stories that will highlight the prolific work of emerging Black voices, focusing on the vast array of diverse experiences of those within the African diaspora in America. MISSION STATEMENT It is the mission of the Obsidian Theatre Festival to feature the work of exciting Black voices, and illuminate the rich diversity of experiences relevant to the African diaspora in America. PURPOSE STATEMENT We will entertain, educate and provoke the thoughtful consideration of a broad theatrical audience, while...

The Detroit New Works Festival showcases playwrights, promote new plays and musicals which focus on the subjects of equality and diversity, mental health, and/or social issues, and encourage community in the theatrical process. Through the DNWF, Outvisible Theatre Company produces five staged readings of new plays, holds post-show discussions for play development, and one show will be given the opportunity be produced as a World Premiere the following season.

The Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival showcases locally written plays with a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered theme. The Festival is produced under the auspices of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. The primary mission of the Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival is fourfold: (1) to showcase the works of local playwrights; (2) to build a racially and culturally diverse theater community with particular emphasis on attracting lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (lgbt) participants to work together with straight participants; (3) to develop racially and culturally diverse audiences with...

Welcome to Ridgedale Players, one of the oldest community theaters in the state! Let us tell you a little about our history. Our group was born during the Great Depression – October 1931 to be exact. A teacher at Lincoln High School named Minna Miller Smith was asked to form a cultural group using funds provided by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Because of widespread unemployment, morale was at a low point all over the country and this agency was formed to give people something to do. A group of 27 would-be thespians met at Mrs. Smith’s home (20 Poplar Park in Pleasant Ridge)...

We are accepting original, non-musical short plays (10-30 minutes) from Michigan playwrights for the 1st Annual Farmington Players One-Act Festival. Selected plays will receive three productions during the festival on June 21-23, 2019. Selected playwrights will receive two complimentary tickets to one performance, and be featured in the playbill.