Organizations Type : Conferences

Each year at the Arkansas Writers' Conference, the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame recognizes and honors one or two outstanding writers born in Arkansas. To qualify, writers published a minimum of three books, recieved a significant literary award, and/or presented ample proof of journalist ability with news columns, editing, or credits for screen or staged plays.

Develop and produce predominantly new work, specifically in the short play and short musicals genre; Leverage our theatrical expertise to engage and educate the community; Provide thought leadership to the theatrical industry.

Est. 1965, GTC seeks to encourage and coordinate a close relationship among the community, educational and professional theatres in Georgia; maintain quality in both live theatre and theatre education.

Provides a supportive and challenging environment in which emerging and established creative artists can take huge risks in order to refine and illuminate their work’s vision during its formative stages. Each summer, the National Music Theater Conference includes several playwrights, lyricists, and composers endeavoring to create fresh and bold work from an array of music theater genres.

Est. 1964. Month residency (June-July), includes 4-day workshop and two in-hand readings with professional actors and directors. Assistance: stipend, room/board, travel. Application details and deadline change annually. Please consult website for additional information.

Thanks to the generosity of the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund, supported by the estate of the late Tennessee Williams, the Conference will gather a distinguished faculty to provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in poetry, fiction, and playwriting. Limited number of scholarships and fellowships are available on a competitive basis. See website for details and deadlines.

SETC is the strongest and broadest network of theatre practitioners in the United States. We provide extensive resources and year-round opportunities for our constituents. Our services, publications, and products contribute significantly to the careers of emerging artists, seasoned professionals and academicians. SETC energizes the practical, intellectual and creative profile of theatre in America.

Est. 1979. Kentucky Women Writers is the longest running literary festival of women in the nation, launched to showcase the talents and issues unique to female writers. Foremost, KWWC is a national event: typically 8 of 10 featured presenters and 30-40% of conference registrants hail from out-of-state. We feature the work of women writers only but welcome men to our audiences. For readers we offer "non-workshop" registration that costs less and gains admission to all readings, panel discussions, craft talks, and publishing advice--which can be relevant not only for writers but also for anyone interested in editing and publishing.

The Kentucky Women Writers Conference awards a biennial Prize for Women Playwrights to bring more scripts by women to the stage, through a collaboration among our program, partnering director Eric Seale, and guest judge Ifa Bayeza. The winner receives a world premier production for a paying audience in November 2019, with royalties, plus a cash prize of $500. The winning script may be workshopped prior to its production. If you would like to receive our bi-monthly listserv with updates about this contest and our other programming, please send your request to kentuckywomenwriters@gmail.com.

The New Play Conference was founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College, and continues, now that the GPTC is its own nonprofit, as a vibrant community partnership between the two organizations. The conference takes place each spring at the Swanson Conference Center on MCC’s historic Fort Omaha Campus. Each year, the Conference helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Conference, local and national playwrights, actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers and Omaha community members, share a week of stories, workshops, readings, meals, performances and celebrations. All public conference events are free to attend.

New England Theatre Conference is the network that connects, supports and provides resources to theatre artists and educators throughout our region, while promoting excellence in the field.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation is a not-for-profit organization recognizing the great work of New York City's Off-Off-Broadway/Independent theatre artists, honoring its artistic heritage, and providing a meeting ground for this extensive and richly varied community. The organization, co-directed by Cat Parker, Akia Squitieri and Jazmyn Arroyo, advocates for OOB/Indie theatre and recognizes the unique and essential role it plays in contributing to NYC, American and global theatrical cultures. They believe that publicly recognizing excellence in this sector will expand audience awareness and foster greater appreciation of the New York theatre experience.

The Autry brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future.

This is a Play Competition held by Rep Stage. Founded by Valerie Lash in 1993, Rep Stage is the only professional regional theatre in the country in residence at a Community College. Committed to artistic excellence Rep Stage has been honored with several Helen Hayes Awards, and over fifty nominations. The theatre offers its audiences a variety of evocative programming focused on both contemporary American classics, as well as new works, often including regional and/or world premieres.

This is a 10 Minute Play Competition held by Rep Stage. Founded by Valerie Lash in 1993, Rep Stage is the only professional regional theatre in the country in residence at a Community College. Committed to artistic excellence Rep Stage has been honored with several Helen Hayes Awards, and over fifty nominations. The theatre offers its audiences a variety of evocative programming focused on both contemporary American classics, as well as new works, often including regional and/or world premieres.

We're a Houston-based playwright’s theater dedicated to the development of new theatrical works from formative stages through full production.

Annual theatre conference formerly sponsored by the American Theatre Association (ATA).

About PlayPenn: We are a development conference rather than a festival or showcase for new work. The distinction is important and meaningful to us in the current climate of the increasing commercialization of play development; We work to avoid participation in what has become known as “development hell” by placing authority in the hands of the playwright and fostering an environment in which risk is rewarded and honest assessment is encouraged and provided; We make a concerted effort to provide an experience that relieves writers of the distractions of the day-to-day world; We expect playwrights who accept a place at the Conference to work on their play. The Conference is not intended as an opportunity for playwrights to simply hear their plays in a rehearsed reading. We focus o...

FABnyc is launching an open call for socially-engaged artistic projects that draw attention to African and African-American histories of the Lower East Side. From the African Burial Ground under Sara D. Roosevelt Park to the African Free School of the 18th century; from the mixed-race dance halls on the Bowery to the impact of the Draft Riots, the Lower East Side is home to crucial layers of African-American history, too often missing from the stories of struggle and transformation that continue to define the neighborhood. While some remnants of these narratives can be read on building plaques and seen in other public memorials, many details remain hidden. This call aims to bring greater visibility to African and African-American histories in the Lower East Side, to better understand t...

The Midwest Dramatists Center is back with its playwriting conference September 27-29, 2018. More than 50 visiting playwrights and theater professionals from around the country will be in attendance. Conference events are open to the public.

RETROSPECT: The Worst of Times We have some epic fails in our past. Explore one of them. Was this a failure to all or just some? Could it have been prevented? Should it have been prevented? Take any angle you want, even speculating what it would mean if things were different. PROSPECT: The Future Every era has a “future” style. A future outlook based on the present. What does “future” look like now? What does it sound like? What does it feel like? We look at The Jetsons or Back To The Future and say “where is my flying car?” What do we expect now that we know that flying cars aren’t (yet?) a thing? Speculate. Have fun!

Abingdon Theatre Company is dedicated to developing and producing brave, new American work by emerging and established artists.

The mission of the Center for Black Literature is to expand, broaden, and enrich the public’s knowledge and aesthetic appreciation of the value of Black literature. Through a series of programs that build an audience for the reading, discussion, and critical analysis of contemporary Black literature and that serve as a forum for the research and study of Black literature, the Center convenes and supports various literary programs and events such as author signings, conferences, panel discussions, symposia, and writing workshops. Its intellectual approach to programs and activities is an integrative one that focuses on the ways in which the literary arts and cultural values inform the work of Black writers and the ways in which these works influence the culture at large.

Our mission is to connect artists around the world to explore the virtual space between theatre and film. We pledge to seek out stories that explore the truths of today and continue to prioritize a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives in all of our work.

Calling all transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming musical theatre writers and performers! A creative team led by transgender writer/composer Preston Max Allen has announced a Pride Month concert evening celebrating trans voices in musical theatre, featuring new music written and performed by TGNC artists with appearances by Broadway allies. This free virtual event, which will announce a June streaming date shortly, aims to support and give visibility to trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists in the theatre community, as well as provide education and resources for continued structural change. More information on concert title, lineup, and affiliations will be released in the coming weeks.

SETC is the strongest and broadest network of theatre practitioners in the United States. We provide extensive resources and year-round opportunities for our constituents. Our services, publications, and products contribute significantly to the careers of emerging artists, seasoned professionals and academicians. SETC energizes the practical, intellectual and creative profile of theatre in America.

The SETC Convention Grant is intended for non-academic professional theatres that are not yet organizational members of SETC. The grant provides a trial membership and convention registration, and funds to assist theatres with lodging and related travel for up to four theatre staff members attending the event. The 2022 SETC Convention will be held March 9-13 in Memphis, TN.

Mission: The purpose of The New Harmony Project is to create, nurture and promote new works for the stage, television, and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.

Convention registration and SETC membership is required for all individuals participating in the Ten-Minute Play Festival. Sometimes the best way to take exciting risks, jump at new chances, and explore new ideas is to remove the time it takes to talk ourselves out of it, and the SETC Ten Minute Play Festival strives to do just that! By working within a strict guideline of one twenty-four hour period playwrights, actors, and directors band together to create brand new works and present them in front of an audience under a fun and intense time crunch. New play development is such an incredible process and ten-minute plays really allow us to get to the heart of an idea very quickly, especially with open-minded and kind collaborators.The process is like this: Directors and playwrights get pa...

Our mission is to support theatre on Austin stages, primarily through the management of the B. Iden Payne Awards. Our Nominations Committee is composed of local theatre performers, producers, and advocates. Each member is required to view four eligible performances each month, and we meet to discuss performances for inclusion on our short list. This list is reviewed at the end of the year, and narrowed down to the final nominations in each category. We add new members to our Nominating Committee every August, and begin the recruitment process in June. We are always interested in adding new perspectives, and are currently most interested in adding individuals from the technical theatre community, people of color, and playwrights. If you are interested in joining,

STA is a member service organization that began in 1991 and convenes annually to provide support and mentorship as well as share best practices with colleagues from within the United States and internationally. Membership now includes over 125 theatres, and approximately 30 Associate Members representing diverse types of theatre (indoor, outdoor, year-round, seasonal, university-affiliated, free) with wide-ranging budgets ($25,000 to $60,000,000) and Equity as well as non-Equity companies. STA’s member organizations cover a vast diversity of audiences and staffs composed of a variety of ethnicities, genders, ages and abilities. Our US national and international focus ensures a diversity of mission, vision and values within the Organization. International membership includes Argentina, Aus...