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8 Tens @ 8 Festival
ASF Translation Awards
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Arts & Letters Prize in Drama
ATHE Award for Excellence In Playwriting
ATHE Awards
August Wilson New Play Initiative
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award
Babes With Blades - Joining Sword and Pen
Biennial One-Act Playwriting Contest
Biennial Promising Playwright Award
California Young Playwrights Contest
Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition
Charles M. Getchell Award
City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest
CTAM Playwriting Contest
Cunningham Commission for Youth Theatre
Darrel Ayers Theatre for Young Audiences Playwriting Award
David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize
David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Down For #TheCount
Ecodrama Festival Univ. of Oregon
Francesca Primus Prize
Fred Ebb Award
Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award
Goshen College Peace Playwriting Contest
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
IHT/SRT International Playwriting Competition
International Radio Playwriting Competition
Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Contest
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award
Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award
Jewel Box Theatre Playwriting Competition
John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play
John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award
Julie Harris Playwright Awards
George R. Kernodle New Play Award
L. Arnold Weissberger Award
Latinx Playwriting Award
Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award
Mario Fratti & Fred Newman Political Play Contest
Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition
McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition
The Miranda Family Foundation Voces Latinx National Playwriting Competition
Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition
Milken Playwriting Prize
Mississippi Theatre Association Playwriting Competition
National Audio Theatre Festivals (NATF) Script Competition
National Latino Playwriting Award
National New Play Network
National New Play Network NNPN Smith Prize
National One-Act Playwriting Competition
National Translation Award
New Voices One-Act Play Competition
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
North Carolina New Play Project
Woodward/Newman Drama Award
Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award
Paula Vogel Award for Playwriting
PEN Center USA Literary Awards
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Awards for Drama
Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival
Kumu Kahua Theatre/UHM Theatre Department Playwriting Contest
Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence
Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Script Tease of Short Plays Competition
Scripteasers
Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest
Sky Cooper New American Play Prize
Inkslinger Playwriting Competition
Southern Playwrights Competition
Stanley Drama Award
Summerfield G. Roberts Award
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference Playwriting Prize
The Reva Shiner Comedy Award
Theater for Youth Playwriting Award
Annual New Play Contest
National Ten Minute Play Contest
Towson University Prize for Literature
American Translators Association (ATA) Honors and Awards
Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award
USA Songwriting Competition
Vermont Playwrights Award
Verse Drama Prize
W. Keith Hedrick Playwriting Contest
Whiting Awards
Wichita State University New Play Competition
Yale Drama Series/David C. Horn Prize
Young Playwright Contest
Play Competition for Youth Theatre
Free Speech Play Contest
Richard E. Sherwood Award
NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition
International MUT Authorʼs Competition for Musical Entertainment Theatre
Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women
NJ Young Playwrights Contest
InterAct Theatre New Play Development Award
Shakespeare's New Contemporaries
Susan Glaspell Short Play Award [QC Theatre Workshop]
Essential Theatre Playwriting Award
Drury University One Act Play Contest
Dubuque Fine Arts Players One-Act Playwriting Contest
Opera for All Voices
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Contest
Todd McNerney Playwriting Contest
Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights
Women Playwrights Series Susan Glaspell Contest [Centenary Stage]
Young Playwrights in Process
Founders' Award for Emerging Playwrights
New Works Festival [MA]
Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative
Leah Ryan's FEWW Playwriting Prize
Papatango New Writing Prize
Open Submissions (Playwrights Local, Cleveland)
New Play Contest
Bonnie & Terry Burman New Play Award
Relentless Award
Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival
Citadel Theatre 10 Minute Play Contest
Pulitzer Prize in Drama
POW! Pantochino Original Works Festival, New Musicals by Emerging Playwrights
National YoungArts Foundation
First Annual Power Plays Competition
Theatre In the Raw Biennial One-Act Play Writing Contest
InspiraTO Playwriting Contest
Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award
The Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists
Joinging Sword & Pen Playwrighting Competition
Valley Players
Scribe Playwriting Competition
Neukon Award For Playwriting
JETFest
Cocktails & Classics
Plays on "The Powerof Engagement" for Women in Theatre Conference--RepStage, Baltimore/Washington area
The Power of Engagement: 10-Minute Plays by and about women
The 10-Minute Taste at The 4208 Group
Andi Matheny Acting Studios Call for 10-minute Plays
Stage Q Shorts
Scratchpad Series
Texas Nonprofit Theatres, Inc. TNT POPS! New Work Contest
Athena Project 2020 Plays In Progress Series
10-Minute Play Fest
Annual Valley Beth Shalom Short Play Festival
James Stevenson Prize
Sky Blue Playwriting Competition
The Page Is Printed Creative Writing Competition
Slackline Stories
Pleasance Reading Week
Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition
California Young Playwrights Contest
Alleyway Theatre - Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition
Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival
10x10x10 10-Minute Play Contest
The Loom
Walking Shadow's Script Pitch Program
Notre Dame College Performing Arts New Play Festival
International Thomas Wolfe Playwrighting Competition
Emerald Prize, The
New Works Initiative
Local Lab
Brelby Theatre Night of Shorts
3rd Annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Plawriting Competition
Underground New Play Festival
The Crossroad Project: Diverse Playwriting Initiative
Nashville Repertory Theatre / Ingram New Works Project
Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards
Parity Productions’ Annual Parity Commission
Parity Productions
Parity Productions’ Annual Parity Commission
Parity Productions
Gregory Awards, The
Laughing Dog Comedy Shorts
New Victory LabWorks
USA Fellows
A is For Playwriting Contest
Cary Playwrights' Forum PlaySlam
The Woodward Prize
Playwrights First
Blue Ink Playwriting Award & Festival
Shakespeare's New Contemporaries
NC 10X10 Play Festival of 10-Minute Plays
Voices of the Earth Short Play Fesitival
Young Native Storytellers Contest
Citizens' Climate Lobby 10 Minute Play Competition
Open Call (The Shed)
Premiere Stages Senior Endeavor Awards
North Carolina New Play Project
Oregon Play Prize
NEA Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge
#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence
Contest For Emerging Playwrights
M Elizabeth Osborn Award
AFO Solo Shorts
New South Young Playwrights Contest & Festival
Virtual Theatre Festival
Black Writer Monologues at NWT
Next Generation Works: Playworks
Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys)
Virtual Theatre Festival Live
Native Voices Festival and Retreat
Dr RJ Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights' Contest
New Works in Action
Virtual Festival of Short Plays
Storefront Theatre Festival of 10 Minute Plays
Players Workshop 10 Minute Play Festival
Cross Award
Theatrefolk One-Act Middle School Play Call
IN CHARACTER - The Monologue Plays
EarthQuake
Fresh Ink Festival
Lift Every Voice - Black Women Speak Monologue Festival
NC Radio Play Festival
Eight 10s in Tuscon Ten-Minute Play Festival
MKE MaKEs
Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival
SITA Awards
Sliver Linings
Irons in the Fire
MSP New Play Competition
Jeff Awards
Botanicum Seedlings
Eggtooth Editions
University of Houston 10 Minute Play Festival
Rockford New Words
Rise Against Fanaticism Through The Arts Scriptwriting Award (RAFTA)
Snow Dance 10-Minute Comedy Festival
Voices! Call for Submissions
The Latest Draft
One Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)
Dragon Short Play Clinic
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
FMCT 10 Minute Plays Contest
Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing
Zepick Modern Opera Competition
The Bridge Award for Screenwriting
Campbell Opera Librettist Prize
Consequences: Commission Opportunity
Lortel Theatre NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship
The Literal Challenge
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