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...

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.

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.

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,...

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 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...

Birdhouse Theatre is an incubator for professionally driven artists, of multiple mediums, that recruits and nurtures talent, while delivering professional quality. Utilizing local and outside talent, while educating and enhancing civic engagement of modern issues, we hope to create dividends of participants driven and motivated by the arts to be active citizens.

For the last decade and a half, Centre Stage has counted it a privilege to celebrate works from far and wide as part of our Annual New Play Festival. It has always been the goal of the festival to promote nationwide new work development and encourage a broad range of regional perspectives to participate. Now we turn our attention to local playwrights, honoring artists affiliated with South Carolina and the surrounding states in accordance with our organizational mission.

The South Carolina New Play Festival curates a weekend of yet-to-be-produced plays and musicals by today’s hottest playwrights. Over a 3-day weekend, we’ll present readings of two new plays, one new musical, and one new children's play, along with professional training classes for actors and singers, and a closing night cabaret featuring Broadway stars Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett. Readings feature TONY-Nominees, Drama-Desk winners, and other well-known Broadway actors, as well as beloved performers from the local community, and are helmed by established and experienced directors with a...

SWF commissions, develops, and produces new plays by Southern Writers that explore Southern issues and topics. The Festival of New Plays, hosted by ASF, allows interaction between visiting scholars, critics, producers, playwrights, and the public.

The Asheville Fringe Society is dedicated to cultivating strange and wonderful work that lies outside the mainstream. The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Our continual goal is to curate experiences that expand the minds and hearts of our audiences and to be inclusive of artists who work within a myriad of genres, styles, and forms to create truly unique and original pieces in our community.