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Submission Opportunity: Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival

Each year, Red Bull Theater selects new works of heightened language and classical themes from today’s top established and emerging playwrights. Six brand-new short plays will be selected from a competitive open submission process and be presented in staged readings alongside the commissioned plays.
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Submission Opportunity: ASF Translation Competition

The American-Scandinavian Foundation has announced the opening of its 41st annual Translation Competition for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a Nordic author born after 1900.
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Submission Opportunity: Rhinebeck Writers Retreat

For the past decade, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat has provided weeklong residencies for musical theatre writers to develop their musicals in the Hudson Valley. Musicals developed in Rhinebeck have received productions at The Public Theater, Barrington Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Second Stage Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons.
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Submission Opportunity: V Day Presents: Voices!

Voices is a poetic performance piece and artistic campaign. This is an urgent call for submissions of poems and monologues written by Black Women for all women and those who love us. We welcome all poems and monologues that speak to our hurt, our hope, and our wisdom. This project seeks to get out of the stories that have been constructed for us. What are the stories we have inherited and carried that have been hard to give up for the sake of...
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Submission Opportunity: Campbell Opera Librettist Prize

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the official launch of its newest grant program: the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize (COLP). Conceived and funded by acclaimed librettist and lyricist MARK CAMPBELL, the Prize is the first award in the history of American opera that specifically recognizes the work of the opera librettist. Applications are now open.
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Submission Opportunity: Miranda Family Fellowships

Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced the launch of the Miranda Family Fellowships, a program designed to provide talented candidates from historically excluded communities with the resources and training necessary to build their careers as arts administrators and theatre technicians.
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Applications Open for FORGE NYC Fellowship for Makers

Dramatists Guild members are welcome to apply to FORGE NYC's new, year-long fellowship program, Fellowship for Makers.  FORGE NYC believes that how you work matters just as much as why you create and what you want to make. Fellowship recipients will be ...
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Submission Opportunity: Good Medicine and/or Indigenous Futurism

New Native Theatre is accepting 10-minute play submissions written by Native American, Alaska Native, Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights for our December 2020 Virtual Festival: Good Medicine. We are seeking submissions for scripts with theme(s) of Good Medicine and/or Indigenous Futurism. If interested, please submit your script...