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

A native of Hartford, CT, Sharece M. Sellem is a playwright, choreographer, director and performing arts instructor based out of New Haven, CT. She was trained by Headlong Performance Institute of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Yale University’s Practical Approach to Directing Summer Program 2014. Her resume includes performances at Bregamos Community Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Pride Arts Center of Chicago, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Carriage House Theater, Illinois Voices Theatre, Norwich Arts Center, University of California San Diego and more. She is the founder of Vintage Soul...

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

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

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...

This diverse and intimate theatrical event debuted Summer 2017 at the historic Vail-Leavitt Music Hall. As a catalyst for cultural and community development, The East End Fringe Festival is dedicated to connecting adventurous emerging and established artists, appreciative audiences and supportive businesses and organizations to foster the growth of creative arts on Long Island.

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.

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...

Be Well Productions highlights theater as a place of healing. Productions include solo plays written and performed by Emma Palzere-Rae.

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...

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.

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.