Organizations Type : Festivals

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    8x10 Eileen Moushey TheatreFest

    Weathervane Community Playhouse produces high-quality live theater with volunteer artists, designers, and technicians under professional direction, provides education and training in theater arts and appreciation, and engages and entertains its audience and constituents to enrich the quality of life in Northeast Ohio.
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    AACT New Play Fest

    There is no shortage of works, especially by unpublished playwrights. But how do theatres find the time to read them and cull out the ones their communities will enjoy? Many theatres have new play contests, but few produce the winning scripts and talk to other theatres about them. Yet a script is not likely to be published unless it is produced and creates a buzz-- and it is not likely to reach future audiences if it is not published. So how do playwrights get their work produced and published?
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    About Love Festival

    The goal of the festival is to provide encouragement for emerging playwrights, the opportunity to emerging directors to work with exciting new works, and to showcase dedicated talented actors.
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    A Contemporary Theatre (ACT)

    A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) is dedicated to producing relevant works on contemporary themes. ACT is where artistic ambition and civic engagement unite. We envision a world where the power of theatre expands our collective understanding of community and our own humanity. One of the great benefits of having a contemporary theatre in our community is that we ensure all artists shaping our culture have a voice in driving the theatre of tomorrow. Over the last 55 years, ACT has supported these voices as they sharpen and grow and has honed its mission around nurturing the theatre makers of the next generation. Our renewed commitment to New Works by local playwrights leads our theatre back to life during this extraordinary time of transition bringing Seattle’s voice beyond our stage into the...
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    Adirondack Theatre Festival

    ATF produces new scripts of the highest caliber throughout each season. To help fulfill this mission, we welcome the opportunity to read submissions from skilled playwrights who feel their work would be a good fit at the Adirondack Theatre Festival.
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    Southern Writers' Festival

    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.
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    ALAP New Works Lab

    The Lab is intended to help playwrights by providing initial readings of new plays which have reached that stage of development where hearing them out loud, with professional actors reading the roles, is the most logical, helpful next step. A moderated post-reading discussion helps the playwright focus on what works, what doesn’t, and where the play needs to go from that point.
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    Amy's Horse

    Amy's Horse is accepting submissions for its podcast series that plays around the world and releases new episodes twice monthly each featuring a couple new works. The podcast brings together writers and actors to read new works and chat and maybe have a drink. The twist is that all the participants are working remotely from the comfort of their own homes.
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    Midwest Regional Black Theatre Festival

    The mission of the Cincinnati Black Theatre Company is to keep alive the spirit of Black Theatre by offering top-notch theatrical productions, performance and employment opportunities, children’s theatre, educational programs and community outreach in all aspects of theatre arts. CBTC is committed to increasing literacy, promoting diversity and multiculturalism, pursuing community outreach and collaborations, and providing access to the arts.
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    Arkansas New Play Festival

    Est. 2009. Two-week workshops and public staged readings of 4-5 unproduced plays annually each March/April at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. For writers outside Arkansas, agent submissions or professional referrals only.
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    Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF)

    Ashland New Plays Festival assists playwrights in the development of new works through public readings and offers an educational forum to the community through discussions and workshops.
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    Austin Latinx New Play Festival

    The Austin Latinx New Play Festival, produced annually by Teatro Vivo in collaboration with ScriptWorks, brings together playwrights and audiences for staged readings and rich conversations about new works of Latinx theatre. Each reading presents a different full-length work.
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    Baltimore Playwrights Festival

    The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has served Baltimore/D.C. playwrights since 1982 through public readings, discussions, critiques and workshopping of new plays. Local theaters produce some of the submitted plays during the summer season. Since its inception, the BPF has evaluated more than 3,000 play submissions, presented more than 500 public readings and staged more than 300 full productions through local theaters. Our mission is to provide an environment that nurtures the talents of Maryland and DC playwrights. The BPF does this through public readings, discussions, critiques and workshopping of new plays. Our summer season is devoted to the presentation of these newly developed works, for the entertainment and cultural edification of our audiences.
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    Bay Area Playwrights Festival

    Applications for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival are open to any playwrights living in North America and writing primarily in English (multilingual plays are accepted) who consider themselves either an emerging writer (of any age) or mid-career playwright. Playwrights Foundation is strongly committed to developing the work of emerging and mid-career writers, and we offer other opportunities for more established playwrights and long-time alums to continue sharing work with us. We invite playwrights to apply for the 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where ultimately, four to five plays will be chosen for development. The reading process spans several months and everyone who applies will receive notification of their status before we announce BAPF’s 2021 summer festival. Applications mu...
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    Bilingual Foundation of the Arts (BFA)

    The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts (BFA) has commitment to all people in the greater Los Angeles area, presenting the finest Hispanic literary culture for both Spanish- and English- speaking audiences. BFA's presence is an integral part of the Los Angeles cultural scene, and provides an added dimension of understanding between the diverse cultures of the area by emphasizing the similarities of the human condition, which serve to unite us.
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    BAT Playwrights Festival

    BAT is committed to treating audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage, and involve both the local and the expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region. See outstanding performances rivaling any live theatre in the Seattle area. Musicals, drama, and comedy presentations by excellent local performers, directors, and playwrights.
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    Black Box New Play Festival

    The Gallery Players in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, is seeking plays for its Annual Black Box New Play Festival to be held in January of each year. Each play selected will be given a black box production at Gallery Players and will be performed in a festival format with non-Equity actors.
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    Black Playwrights Festival

    he mission of the Black Ensemble Theater is to eradicate racism and its damaging effects upon our society through the utilization of theater arts. BE is the only theater in the nation whose mission is to eradicate racism. We utilize theater and educational outreach programs to bring races together in a community which embraces similarities and fosters dialogue, understanding and acceptance.
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    Boston Theater Marathon

    Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is a home for new works for the stage. We believe the successful development, production, and promotion of new plays is key to continuing theatrical achievement in Boston and New England, and we measure our success first by a generous dedication to our playwrights’ visions.
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    Boulder International Fringe Festival

    The Boulder Fringe provides a platform for artists to showcase their artwork often in non-traditional spaces. We educate about independent art that is accessible, and affordable. We present a year round way of life capped by an annual 12-day performance art festival, that brings together local, national, and international shows and other events in Boulder.
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    Breaking Ground Festival

    The Huntington Theatre Company engages, inspires, entertains and challenges audiences with theatrical productions that range from the classics to new works; we train and support the next generation of theatre artists; we provide arts education programs that promote life-long learning to a diverse community; and we celebrate the essential power of the theatre to illuminate our common humanity.
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    Centre Stage [SC] New Play Festival

    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.
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    Philadelphia Children's Festival

    The Annenberg Center is dedicated to the advancement of a diverse and thriving cultural community through the pursuit of excellence, innovation and intellectual engagement in the performing arts.
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    Cincinnati Fringe Festival

    Each year we present over 200 live performances from more than 40 local, national, and international groups and artists over 13 consecutive days in a dozen venues around the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) neighborhood of Cincinnati. These productions are selected for our Primary Lineup, the biggest programming component of the Festival, with help from a jury of 30+ local theatre professionals and educators. While jurying is a rarity among Fringes, we love how our curation process helps us thoughtfully select a lineup that’s rich with variety and representations. Cincy Fringe also includes visual art projects, musical guests, street performance, free public classes, nightly after parties at Know Theatre (which serves as Fringe HQ) and more! It’s a HUGE event in the Cincinnati arts community, gatheri...
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    Cincinnati Fringe Next Festival

    Est. 2011. Conceived, written, directed, performed, and produced entirely by local high school-aged artists, FringeNext represents the future of theatre by giving these younger artists a chance to flex their theatrical voices in an uninhibited and unique setting.
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    Contemporary American Theater Festival

    Our mission is to produce and develop new American theater, in pursuit of the ultimate theater experience. Our core values are fearless art, daring and diverse stories, and a profound dynamic among the artist, the audience, and the work.
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    Contemporary American Theatre Company

    CATCO (Contemporary American Theatre Company) is Columbus' largest professional theatre. Pre-Covid-19, CATCO was production twelve productions per year, six for general audiences, and six for young audiences. CATCO is an SPT Equity company that produces work with both Central Ohio and National artists. CATCO's focus is on contemporary work that delights, transforms, and inspires.
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    Dayton Playhouse Futurefest

    Dayton Playhouse has sponsored FutureFest, a festival of new and unproduced plays since 1991, put on by a community theater run entirely by volunteers. Each year we bring you in one weekend six new unproduced plays as chosen by the FF committee from the submissions entered that year. Each play is dramatized as either a staged reading or a full dramatization. Each play is a full length play and we do not limit the subject matter. We bring the playwrights to the festival for the weekend so you can mingle with them and we have talk back sessions with them after their show. We bring in adjudicators from around the country to pick the best play and give the playwrights a professional critique in front of the FF audience. It’s a play lover’s dream come true, and an opportunity a playwright can’t...
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    Deathscribe Festival

    Every year we seek 10-minute audio drama scripts that are genuinely scary, imaginative, chilling, intelligent, suspenseful, horrific or downright grotesque. Writers may submit up to two audio drama scripts to Deathscribe in any given year. Five scripts will be selected from all submissions. These five pieces will be performed on stage in front of a live audience. The writer of the winning piece, chosen by a celebrity panel of judges, will receive the coveted Bloody Axe Award, as well as a $100 cash prize.
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    Discovery New Musical Theatre Festival

    Ball State University’s College of Fine Arts and Department of Theatre and Dance, in association with Discovery--Ball State Women's Fund, and the Provost Immersive Learning Initiative, are looking for unpublished musicals and plays to be presented as part of the DISCOVERY NEW THEATRE FESTIVAL. Submissions of new musicals and plays are examined and screened by students until a final selection is made. Selected works are presented at the Summer Festivals as staged readings performed by Ball State students and professional artists. These readings are adjudicated by industry professionals. Festival participants are considered for future development, workshops, and fully-realized productions through the Discovery New Theatre Festival and the Department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State Univer...
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    Dorset Theatre Festival

    Dorset Theatre Festival's mission is to create bold, innovative, and authentic theatre that engages a diverse, multi-generational community, and economically diverse region: enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring our audience through the celebration of great plays. We aim to redefine the landscape of theatre by presenting thought-provoking productions drawn from the new and classic canon, as well as through the development of new plays, new audiences, and new artists for the future of American theater. We produce theatre that matters.
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    Down For #TheCount

    Down for #TheCount features six short plays by women of all backgrounds. The purpose of the festival is to amplify the female voice in American theatre. This event will bring exciting, humorous, and heartbreaking stories by local and national celebrated playwrights. Currently, approximately 22% of American theater productions have been written by women, for women of color the numbers are even lower – a dismal 3%. Now in its 3rd year, this event is a call to action to change those numbers locally and nationally and to give a platform to the voices and perspectives of women on the American stage.
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    Downtown Urban Arts Festival

    Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) is a five-week annual multi-disciplinary arts event with cultural offerings in theater, film, music and poetry held during the spring at renowned venues in downtown Manhattan, NYC. DUAF treats New Yorkers, East Coasters and tourists to the best of new groundbreaking theater and film from around the world. Storytellers from America’s burgeoning multicultural landscape and from around the world have the opportunity to share their stories that interpret our history and our times.
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    Delaware Young Playwrights Festival (DYPF)

    The Delaware Young Playwrights Festival (DYPF) is a program designed to provide an outlet for DE students grades 8-12 to get the professional playwright treatment! From standards-based feedback on first-round drafts to thorough workshops with industry professionals, playwrights selected in DTC's festival bring their ideas from page to stage.
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    Ecodrama Festival Univ. of Oregon

    At the heart of EMOS is the Ecodrama New Play Contest, which calls playwrights and theatre makers to engage in the global and local ecological issues that face societies across cultures. The concurrent EMOS Symposium fosters dialogue about the intersection of environment, culture, and performance.
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    EcoDrama Playwright Festival

    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 communities.
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    Edmonton International Fringe Festival

    Fringe Theatre is for YOU because fringing is for everyone! It’s an experience that captivates and cultivates. It brings artists and audiences together to celebrate creativity, risk, craft, and community. Together, we are transforming theatre, fostering artists, and taking chances – all year long!
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    Emerging Artist Theatre New Work Series

    Emerging Artists provides the necessary backdrop of resources so that there is no cost to the artists involved and does not believe in charging artists for submission, consideration, or participation. This factor alone makes Emerging Artists unique and a true refuge for the underserved artist who does not have the means to develop their work.
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    EU

    These events are wonderful opportunities for artists, actors and writers alike. They offer a chance to perform, to workshop new pieces and ultimately to share and create fantastic stories. The arts are as important and vital to our world as ever and this evening will be a charitable experience in more ways than one. While benefitting the NY Foundling and the amazing work that they do, it will also be a special opportunity to share gifts, to give from your heart, and to be delightfully entertained amongst friends, colleagues, fellow artists, and an appreciative audience
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    Evening of New Plays

    TNP Readers Theatre “Evening of New Plays” contest is an annual event designed to give playwrights an opportunity to have their one-act plays presented to an audience in a staged reading. Entries must be one act, non-musical, and no longer than 30 minutes. We suggest that the cast not exceed seven characters. Writers may submit only one play.
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    Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival

    The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival presents classic and contemporary works, new musicals, and in-school arts education for a diverse audience, to spur social awareness and cultural development in the Finger Lakes region. Home to the PiTCH–For Writers.
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    First Flight New Play Festival

    Established in 1999, the Boomerang Theatre Company is dedicated to producing new, classic and neglected plays that add to the vibrancy of the national theatre canon. One of the premiere new play development festivals in Indie Theatre. Each play selected to participate in the festival received 6 hours of rehearsal time over the course of one week, culminating in a public reading of the play for a supportive audience.
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    Fresh Fruit Festival

    The Fresh Fruit Festival is presented by All Out Arts to celebrate the LGBTQ community’s unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, be they local or international.
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    Toronto Fringe Festival

    Toronto Fringe offers a variety of opportunities to connect your art with an audience including a New Play Contest and the Paul O'Sullivan Prize for Musical Theatre.
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    Greensboro Fringe Festival

    The Greensboro Fringe Festival introduces audiences to emerging artists with live theatre and dance performances in Downtown Greensboro. Each performance piece featured at the Greensboro Fringe Festival is a premiere by local talent who typically do not have access to a venue.
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    Headwaters New Play Festival

    We foster the development of new plays for CRT’s stages and beyond. Unleash vibrant new work into the world of theatre, because new voices and stories reflect back to us the shared anxieties and aspirations of our age.
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    FRIGID New York

    FRIGID New York's continuing mission is to seek out new art, new artists, and new audiences. We do this by creating an accessible community of varied voices that value collaboration, resourcefulness, diversity, and innovation. We provide a home for independent theater artists, with a focus on voices that require amplification. We nurture their development, and we help to establish their careers by promoting their work to local, national, and international audiences.
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    Humana Festival

    The Humana Festival is the premier event of its kind in the nation, drawing theatre lovers, journalists, and film and stage producers from around the world. About 38,000 patrons attend the six weeks of plays and associated events, including students from more than 50 colleges and universities. 10-12 fully produced new plays (world premieres) are chosen to run February-April. The Festival culminates in two industry weekends, which bring together a collection of amazing new plays with one-of-a-kind panels, cocktail parties, discussions and networking events. It is the perfect opportunity to see new work, make new connections, and support the creation of new American theatre.
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    Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

    Est. 1969. KCACTF is a national theater program involving 20,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the US.
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    Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival

    Est. 1990. Selected scripts receive 15-20 hours of rehearsal, one public reading in June, and a $100 honorarium for the playwright. We are using the New Play Exchange exclusively for submissions for our New Works Festival. Playwrights may submit only one script. An eligible script aligns with the mission of our theater and has never received a full professional production.
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    Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Play Festival

    Lakeshore Players Theatre is now accepting submission of 10-minute plays for its season's contest. Scripts should be approximately ten-minutes in length and should have no more than five on-stage (speaking or non-speaking) characters. The ten winners of the contest will be performed for our Annual Festival, in the spring. High school playwrights are encouraged to enter.
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    Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

    The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) empowers women artists to engage and inspire communities through the production of multidisciplinary solo performers and educational outreach. The Annual Festival honors the achievement of extraordinary women in theater.
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    Love Creek Productions

    Love Creek Productions is celebrating over 35 years of producing "off-off" theater.
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    Mach 33 Festival

    MACH 33: The Caltech│Pasadena Playhouse Festival of New Science-Driven Plays energizes the conversations about scientific, mathematical, and technological questions by staging readings of new, unpublished, unproduced science-based plays.
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    Midtown International Theatre Festival

    Est. 2000. MITF celebrates the diversity of theatre in NYC and beyond. We emphasize imaginative, low-tech staging. We now produce 3 festivals a year.
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    Mind the Gap BritBits Short Play Festival

    Mind The Gap Theatre exists to find, read, evaluate, develop and ultimately produce new British theatrical writing in New York City. While our focus is on presenting new British works, with a company of mad talented actors and playwrights from BOTH sides of the pond, we occasionally like to show off what the Yanks in our company can do by taking a new American play to the UK.
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    Minnesota Fringe Festival

    Each year Minnesota Fringe works with more than 1,000 artists to organize adventurous performing arts experiences featuring an array of genres and support the development of new and adventurous work through a variety of programs that create open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
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    Minnesota Shorts Festival of Plays

    The goal of Minnesota Shorts is to bring short play festivals to Minnesota and make theater accessible to a wider audience. All plays are 10 minutes or less.
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    NAMT Festival of New Musicals

    In 1989, the Festival of New Musicals was created to provide a forum to celebrate the new musicals that were being produced and presented around the country. Since then, the Festival has introduced musical theatre producers to 300+ musicals and 565 writers from around the world. More than 85% have gone on to subsequent readings, workshops, productions and tours; been licensed; and/or recorded on cast albums as a direct result of the Festival! Held over two days in New York City every fall, the Festival produces 45–minute presentations of eight new musicals before an audience of over 800 industry professionals with the experience and resources to move the work forward. We look for new musicals at all stages of development from the broadest possible range of voices.
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    National Black Theatre Festival

    Est. 1989. The festival is produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. There are several submission opportunities, each with different deadlines.
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    New Ground Theatre Festival

    Cleveland Play House develops and presents a variety of new work from nationally recognized artists, and each year produces a centerpiece production. Our reading series is for unoptioned/unproduced new plays.
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    New South Play Festival

    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.
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    New Voice Play Festival

    This one-act play writing competition draws some of the country’s best new playwrights each year
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    New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC)

    FringeNYC is a smaller adjudicated festival, all within one block, area, or complex; Convening – of indie theatre, featuring panels, workshops, speakers; FringeBYOV – a twist on Bring Your Own Venue, where venues in other boroughs bring their own artists. See website for updates and details
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    newTACTics (New Play Festival)

    newTACTics seeks new original full length plays that have not yet been published or received a full production in New York City.
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    Next Act!

    Next Act! is an expansion of Capital Repertory Theatre's continued commitment to the development of new work.
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    Oregon Shakespeare Festival

    The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a nonprofit professional theatre founded in 1935. Our eight-month season runs through the month of October, and we have three theatres: our two indoor stages—the Angus Bowmer Theatre and the Thomas Theatre—and our flagship outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre, which opens in early June and runs through mid-October. We offer up to 11 different plays that include works by Shakespeare as well as a mix of classics, musicals and world-premiere plays. When you visit you can see one or two plays or up to nine plays in one week!
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    Park Plays Festival

    Park Plays is a festival of ten short plays exploring and celebrating the events, environs, and denizens of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Five plays will be commissioned from internationally known playwrights, and half will be selected from an open submissions process.
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    Penn State NU Musical Theatre Festival

    Penn State Centre Stage is the professional arm of the Penn State School of Theatre and serves as a training program for emerging theatre professionals. Est. 2006. The festival explores, encourages, and fosters new works of musical theatre by today's progressive playwrights and composers in an educational setting, giving students at Penn State access to the collaborative process between the artist, the art form, and the professional world of musical theatre. Hard copy submissions only.
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    Penobscot Theatre

    Mission: To inspire a life-long passion for the theatrical art form in the heart of Maine and beyond.
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    Philly Fringe

    FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that expands the imagination and boldly defies expectation. Our programming exposes audiences to genre-defying dance, theater, and music performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who push the boundaries of art-making and redefine the artistic landscape worldwide.
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    Pick of the Vine Short Play Festival

    To present quality productions year-round, drawing material from the wealth of new, contemporary and classic plays that lend themselves to an intimate performance space. We aim to provide provocative, stimulating theatrical entertainment, while providing a nurturing environment for theatre artists and an inviting nexus for local and visiting audiences to our venue in the San Pedro/LA Waterfront Arts District.
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    Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF)

    The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Inc. is a non-profit organization with a mission of encouraging and supporting the writing and production of original one-act plays. Since its founding in 1991, PNWF has served as a collaborative organization, pooling the talents and rich resources of western Pennsylvania’s emerging theater community and playwrights from around the world in a series of creative activities.
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    Planet Connections Theatre Festivity

    The Planet Connections Festivity is New York’s premiere socially-conscious arts festival. The Festivity is designed to invoke the power of art in motivating philanthropy, community outreach and social change.
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    Playfest

    PlayFest is an annual festival which presents up to seven new plays in staged readings.
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    Playwright's Express

    Short-play reading marathon as annual fundraiser for company. Fees: $25 tax-deductible donation Frequency: annual Production: piano only
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    Playwrights' Week

    Playwrights’ Week is an annual, intensive, seven-day festival designed to foster a peer-based community among a cohort of writers with new work in development. Selected via a year-long Open Submissions process, we provide five playwrights with crucial creative resources in a nurturing and rigorous laboratory setting, which includes a series of group conversations around the work. Each new play receives ten hours of rehearsal in advance of a public staged reading, focused on the writer’s self-stated developmental goals.
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    Premiere Stages Play Festival

    Premiere Stages is committed to supporting emerging and regional playwrights by developing and producing new plays. Since 2005, the Premiere Play Festival has offered playwrights the opportunity to develop their work in an encouraging, focused environment through discussions, rehearsals, readings, workshops, and Equity productions. Through the Premiere Play Festival, Premiere Stages has developed many plays that have gone on to have successful productions in New York and at regional theatres throughout the country. We strive to facilitate relationships between writers and theatre professionals who we think will respond to their work, in hopes that plays developed at Premiere will go on to subsequent productions. We offer Play Festival winners the option to retain the coveted “World Premie...
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    Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival

    Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival returns on Monday, July 11, 2022. Six brand new short plays will be selected from an open-submission process and presented in live in-person staged readings alongside two new short plays by commissioned writers, STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS (Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Our Lady of 121st Street) and LARISSA FASTHORSE (The Thanksgiving Play, What Would Crazy Horse Do?). INSPIRATION We are looking for work with classical inspiration. The word ALCHEMY is just a jumping-off point for creative thematic juices. Review our Mission and take a look through our history of Readings and Productions to see the kind of work we have done. Respond to a play we’ve produced or choose a classic of your own to adapt. You might riff on a classical character, borrow a classic...
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    ReOrient Festival of Short Plays

    Est. 1999. Presenting alternative perspectives of the Middle East and showcasing the multiplicity of stories, voices and styles from the region. This ambitious festival, now presented biennially, turns San Francisco into a mecca for innovative, spirited, and thought-provoking theatre from and about the Middle East. ReOrient welcomes artists who challenge the dominant depictions of the Middle East and audiences who seek unconventional and provocative programming.
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    San Francisco Fringe Festival

    Est. 1991. San Francisco Fringe Festival will present 84 performances by 21 different theater companies between September 5th and September 14th, 2019. The SF Fringe is non-censored and is open to all artists.
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    Rep Lab Short Play Festival

    This year’s Rep Lab explores the uncertainty and unfamiliarity of what lies ahead. Placed in a variety of situations—historical figures on the cusp of change, lovers at turning points in their relationships, and people trying to make sense of their everyday lives—the characters in these short plays find themselves faced with choices about how to move forward through the unexpected and navigate their way through life.
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    Stratford Shakespeare Festival [ON]

    We are committed to developing and producing new Canadian work that complements and enhances our focus on what is traditionally defined as the classical repertoire. While we’re open to all forms – drama, comedy, adaptations, musicals and family-friendly fare – we’re especially interested in ambitious, large-cast plays that articulate the great themes of classical theatre. We also favour plays that feature a female point of view and offer sizeable opportunities for female actors, and that reflect the cultural diversity of life in Canada today.
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    Summer Shorts

    Summer Shorts: America’s Short Play Festival features the nation’s best new 10-minute plays and musicals in one evening that proves to be as hilarious as it is thought-provoking.
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    Summerfest Festival

    If your play is selected, you are given a 3 performance run. Cash prizes awarded.
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    Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short-Play Festival

    Concord Theatricals presents the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (OOB) is the nation’s leading short play festival. Beyond playwrights, the Festival has given voice to many emerging directors, performers, and production companies. As part of our unique model that requires playwrights to partner with sponsoring producers, we’ve hosted prestigious theatre companies on our Festival stage such as The Royal Court, Circle-in-the-Square, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Yale School of Drama. It is an honor to provide a home for so many exceptional artists, and we’re humbled when thinking back to the many great performances that have happened on our stage.
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    Tiny Storefront Concert Series

    It's not a cabaret. It's the Tiny Storefront Concert Series. Four times a year, Underscore produces TSCS, a high-energy, BYOB weekend of new songs by emerging musical theatre writers, all arranged around a core theme. ​ Audiences come because it's a big, fun party. Writers submit because they can test their work in front of a live audience, and get high-quality videos for their portfolio. Actors and musicians take part because it's a blast, and because even for small-scale events like TSCS, Underscore believes in paying our artists well.
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    Women's Work Lab

    The WOMEN’S WORK LAB for short plays provides a supportive and nurturing environment to emerging and mid-career women playwrights. Six members are selected each year, along with a similar number of directors. The LAB meets monthly (Sundays) from February through June, allowing for time in between sessions for writers to continue to develop and revise their work in response to feedback. Members are expected to bring work to each session beginning with the development of an original short play based upon an assigned theme.
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    Words Cubed

    As part of an ongoing commitment to create a diverse body of work, Words Cubed, a new play initiative at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, nurtures and develops openly-submitted and commissioned-based new plays by providing a professionally supported (i.e. funded) platform for readings, workshops, and fully realized productions.
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    Vancouver Fringe Festival

    The Vancouver Fringe is a celebration of all kinds of theatre. Produced annually by the Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society over 11 days in September, with over 500 volunteers supporting 700+ performances and attracting over 40,000 attendees, the Vancouver Fringe Festival is consistently voted Vancouver’s Best Arts Festival by Georgia Straight readers.
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    Williamstown Theatre Festival

    We produce classic and new plays with distinction and verve, and to present artists with production opportunities and challenges seldom available elsewhere; we provide a training program in which emerging theater talents collaborate with accomplished mentors in a vital, professional, and educational atmosphere; and we also create and present programs that serve and engage a diverse community.
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    Hubbard Hall Winter Carnival of New Work

    Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education (Hubbard Hall Projects, Inc.) is a non-profit rural community multi-arts center dedicated to bringing the best of theater, music, dance and the visual arts to our region.
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    Fall/Winterfest

    PLAYS/MUSICALS - TOTAL PRIZES $7,500 - FIRST PRIZE $3,500 - FULL LENGTHS - ONE ACTS - SHORTS - SOLOS Best actress $500, Best Supporting Actress 500, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor $500, Best Director $500, Singer $500, Best Short $500, Most Creative Play or Musical $500, Best Music Score $300, Best Choreography $200 You can take advantage of our Audience Feedback System. We find that it is usually constructive for playwrights and other members of a production team to receive audience feedback concerning the quality of their productions. If you so choose, the Festival will reach out to all audience members who attended your production, with a questionnaire they can fill out, answering specific questions and providing general feedback. Audience input can be very helpful if you are sh...
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    WordPlay

    WordPlay is a new spin on the age-old tradition of storytelling. WordPlay stories don't have a specific theme, but we love funny stories and poignant stories and all combinations thereof. However, we try to steer clear of the maudlin and overly sentimental. 1,500 to 2,000 words max.
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    Young Playwrights Festival - Center Stage [MD]

    A theater committed to artistic excellence. We engage, enrich, and broaden the perspectives of diverse audiences through entertaining and thought-provoking work and educational programs. Students in grades K-12 throughout the state of Maryland are eligible to enter and may even get to see their play on stage. Numerous plays are honored each year with workshops, in-school performances, and even performances at Center Stage.
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    Urbanite Theatre

    Urbanite Theatre brings compelling, intimate live theater experiences to downtown Sarasota. Our commitment to fresh works, burgeoning playwrights, and actor-driven productions provides the region with exciting, contemporary playgoing opportunities.
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    Big Apple Theater Festival

    Big Apple Theater Festival is a new monthly event which presents a series of 10-12 minute one act plays. Each month the festival will highlight 5 short one act plays from playwrights and cast from the New York City metropolitan area.
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    North Park Playwright Festival

    The North Park Playwright Festival provides a platform for brand new, short (ten minute), plays written by playwrights from around the world. Over the past twelve years more than 440 new plays have been produced. We seek short new plays (no more than 12 pages, less is fine) that are easily staged and have casts with no more than four people. Our theater is very small and we normally use a minimal set concept in this festival. We have to be able to change sets in just a few minutes as we do six to seven plays each evening of the festival. We don't have space for large casts.
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    Kampala International Theatre Festival

    The festival is a celebration of East African playwrights and other theatre makers, directors from across the globe, this edition of the Kampala International Theatre Festival programme will host performances on its various stages with a diverse program of provoking, topical and theatrically beautiful performances from Uganda, Kenya, India, Iran, UK, USA and more. Artists from the disciplines of theatre are invited to submit their applications. Next to full productions we also welcome staged readings or workshop productions. Please note that we will be offering very limited rehearsal time. Therefore, your production needs to be ready for staging should you be selected to participate in the festival. What we offer: A modest performance fee to participating artists. For artists from outside...
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    Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

    We are dedicated to embracing the festival spirit by accepting only new, complete works by emerging, exceptional playwrights, expanding the festival definition by working closely with playwrights in producing their plays within the festival framework, educating and nurturing new playwrights to develop their work for the bigger stage.
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    Irvington Town Hall Theater: Stage Door Playwrights Festival

    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.
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    Great Plains Theatre Commons

    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.
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    Rough Draft Festival

    The Rough Draft Festival (RDF) is a two week festival that provides innovative and boundary-pushing artists with space and stipends to further develop their works-in-progress. Allowing artists an opportunity to view their work on its feet, equally the Rough Draft Festival gives audiences a unique, inside peek into the creative process.
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    Summer Shortcuts

    Our Summer Shortcuts series is an annual program where playwrights are invited to submit up to two short plays to be staged and performed at The Open Eye Theater in Margaretville, New York. We are especially interested in plays with good roles for young teens and/or senior adults.
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    New York Theater Festival

    The New Theater Festival competition is for plays and musicals. Productions includes; full length plays, one act plays, shorts, solos and musical theater. The Festival has more than 10 years of continuous production which offered opportunities to more than 1,250 playwrights. Submissions accepted year-round.
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    21st Century Voices New Play Festival

    American Stage is committed to producing powerful and relevant professional live theatre. Our 21st Century Voices is an initiative dedicated to developing and presenting new works for the stage that speak to a contemporary audience in fresh and compelling ways. 21st Century Voices programming includes an annual staged reading festival, workshopping of new scripts, playwriting residencies and fully produced new plays receiving one of their first three professional productions at American Stage.
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    Native Voices Annual Short Play Festival

    The Autry brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future. Months prior to residencies at the Playwrights Retreat and Festival of New Plays, selected playwrights participate in dramaturgical conversations with an assigned director and dramaturg. Workshops with these creative teams and a cast of professional actors commence once the playwright arrives on-site.
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    Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to express themselves through creativity and experience the thrill of live performance. No matter who you are or where you come from, everyone is welcome on the Fringe. No individual or committee determines who can or cannot appear. You, the audience, curate your own festival.
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    Coe College Playwriting Festival

    Winning playwright receives a $500 award plus travel, room and board for a week-long residency at Coe. We seek a new, full-length, original, unproduced and unpublished play in its final stages of development that would benefit from a week-long workshop at Coe. We want to provide you resources, time and space with which to develop and experiment with your work. In addition to helping you take your play to the next level, we also will give you some teaching experiences, as you will conduct master classes with our students. Finally, you'll have some networking opportunities to learn about and connect with theatre professionals in eastern Iowa.
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    Playwrights Voiced

    Relative Theatrics strives to present thought-provoking theatre that examines the joining qualities of the human race. Taking artistic risk, we provide a community gathering place where thoughts can be exchanged about society, culture, and the power of creativity. We are looking for full-length plays with an estimated run time from 80 to 120 minutes, a small cast, and a single or flexible set that speak to the mission of Relative Theatrics. Selected plays will receive a staged reading with qualified actors to assist in the development process and a $50 honorarium. The playwright must be able to attend the festival in May.
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    Phoenix Theatre Festival of New American Theatre

    Located in Phoenix, AZ, The Phoenix Theatre Company is a 100 year old not-for-profit institution that provides year round education, entertainment and audience engagement. We operate under a LOA-Lort D contract and produce up to 12 productions annually across three venues. Our Main Stage venue is a proscenium theater that seats 378 patrons. In addition our two black box spaces include The Hormel and The Judith Hardes theaters which seat 225 and 115 respectively.
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    Lift-Off New Play Series

    The Navigators’ mission is to incubate and produce Science Fiction Theater with a clear feminist perspective. NYC-based company accepts submissions for 10-minute, 20-30 minute (one act), and full-length plays. The 10-minute plays will be staged. One-acts and full-lengths will be given readings.
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    Little Festival of the Unexpected

    The leading professional theater in Northern New England, Portland Stage is committed to creating great art, passionate about using the theater to educate, and dedicated to enriching our community.
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    King's Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays

    King’s Shorts has two main goals. The first is to make live theatre more accessible to all: the audience, playwrights, directors and performers alike, and the second is to help them experience, or continue to experience, the joy of live theatre. The organizing committee will choose eight plays, by eight different playwrights, to be staged by the Annapolis Royal Drama Group utilizing local directors. Of those eight, one will be chosen by Theatre Nova Scotia as the winning entry and receive a prize of $300. A second place winner will receive a prize of $150.
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    International Playwrights Festival

    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.
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    She NYC Arts and She LA Arts

    Established in 2015, SheNYC Arts became NYC's first festival devoted to producing full-length plays, musicals, and adaptations by women writers. In 2018, She NYC became bi-coastal! The annual She LA Arts festival now runs in tandem with the She NYC Arts festival during the summer. For more information please visit www.shenycarts.org.
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    Summer Pride Theater Festival

    Vermont Pride Theater at Chandler (VPT) requests submissions for its annual Summer Pride Festival. Chandler has a long tradition of developing innovative community arts programs, serving a diverse population. Within this tradition, Vermont Pride Theater aims to build bridges of understanding between LGBTQ Vermonters and families, friends, and communities. The plays presented, the conversations these generate, and the wide publicity given these in the written press as well as on radio and TV assist our society’s progress toward full acceptance of LGBTQ Vermonters, with life choices and challenges similar to those of straight Vermonters.
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    New Works Festival

    TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival is the artistic highlight of the summer. An extraordinary opportunity to experience new plays and musicals in their early stages of development, the Festival has launched many new works onto TheatreWorks’ mainstage and on to productions nationally.
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    JAW: A Playwrights Festival

    The festival welcomes a handful of playwrights, whose scripts are chosen from nearly 200 annual submissions, to spend two weeks collaborating with directors, dramaturgs, actors, and other theater professionals from across the nation. During these workshops, JAW playwrights get to hear, revise and sometimes completely rewrite their plays in a supportive environment where their creative needs set the agenda.
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    Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF)

    The Toronto Fringe is a platform for everyone to access, discover, and experiment with the arts. By valuing creative experiences, we contribute to a healthy arts economy and, ultimately, a thriving society. The Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF) is a 12-day celebration of indie theatre that takes place every January at Factory Theatre. While our summer Fringe shows are selected by lottery, our 10 NSTF shows are programmed by a jury of industry professionals.
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    The Kennedy Center

    The Kennedy Center is the nation's busiest performing arts center, hosting approximately 2,000 events each year for audiences numbering more than 2 million. Since 1971, we have been bringing the world to Washington with magnificent performances of music, dance, theater, and more. The Kennedy Center, located on the banks of the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., opened to the public in September 1971. But its roots date back to 1958, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed bipartisan legislation creating a National Cultural Center. To honor Eisenhower's vision for such a facility, one of the Kennedy Center's theaters is named for him. The National Cultural Center Act included four basic components: it authorized the Center's construction, spelled out an artis...
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    Corkscrew Theater Festival

    Our mission is to showcase original productions by early-career theater artists who are creating work through robust and/or innovative collaborations. We aim to advocate for underrepresented artists and viewpoints, and to mount a festival annually that offers audiences a unique mix of work at various stages of development, promotes interaction and dialogue among artists, and builds a community around a season of theater.
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    Reboot Short Play Festival

    RTC will choose 4-6 plays to perform at a central London theatre on 2-4 evenings in late Spring / early Summer 2020.A £150 fee will be paid to each writer whose work is chosen.
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    Campfire Theatre Festival

    Campfire Theatre Festival is a three day festival created by theatre makers, for theatre makers. Our goal is to strengthen the fabric of the American theatre community by creating a theatre hub right at home in Boise, Idaho.
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    LaBute New Theater Festival

    The St. Louis Actors’ Studio is proud to announce call for submissions for the LaBute New Theater Festival at the Gaslight Theater.
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    Athena Project Plays In Progress Series

    In this exciting and innovative program, women playwrights collaborate with directors, dramaturgs and actors, to bring brand new work to the public. The Plays In Progress Series has grown to be a vital arena for fostering new work by female writers. This Series is an opportunity for new plays to be developed in one of three models: concert or table readings, and our workshops. Rehearsals and presentation will take place in Denver at a location to be determined over the course of approximately March-April 2020. Three to six new plays will be selected based on a blind submission process and given a dramaturg, director, cast and basic design elements during presentations. Scripts are being accepted from March 1 – April 15, 2019. Please find the detailed submission guide here:...
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    Theatre Southwest Festival of Originals

    Theatre Southwest of Houston, Texas has extended their submissions deadline to April 5th, 2018 for the Annual Theatre Southwest Festival of Originals! The TSW-FOO is FREE to enter and will once again be calling for short one act (20 minute) plays in any and all genres from all over the country and the world.
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    Colorado New Play Festival

    For over 20 summers, the Colorado New Play Festival – a Colorado not for profit corporation – has gathered theatre artists in the beautiful Rocky Mountains surrounding Steamboat Springs to develop new plays for the American theatre with long term support from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Each season, five of America’s leading theatre companies are invited to convene for a week to rehearse in Steamboat Springs. The Festival concludes with a weekend of public readings held at the Chief Theater in downtown Steamboat Springs and is open to the public and industry professionals. In the past five years, a total of twenty plays have been developed at the Festival; of these, thirteen have gone on to production, and many have garnered critical success or noteworthy awards.
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    POW! Pantochino Original Works Festival, New Musicals by Emerging Playwrights

    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
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    United Solo Theatre Festival

    United Solo™ is a theatre company based in New York City and London, dedicated to the genre of one-person performance. Our goal is to present solo pieces, both local and international; discover original scripts; bring creators together; exchange perspectives; assemble performers, companies, and institutions, as well as other activities related to solo performance. We believe the single person on stage gives us the opportunity to connect and focus on the uniqueness of human being. Through the exploration of existential themes, solo artists reflect upon political, sexual, economical, religious, and social diversity. This diversity unites us all in a constellation of unique solos.
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    InFringe Fest

    #InFringe2018 exists to showcase new, unusual, and challenging work. Selections announced September 7. InFringe Fest 2018 runs November 7 – 11, 2018.
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    New American Voices Play Reading Series

    The New American Voices Playwriting Festival is now in partnership with Monologue Bank, a non-profit online organization seeking high caliber monologues from original plays.
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    NEWvember New Plays Festival

    NEWvember is a festival of rehearsed readings of new plays that takes place over one weekend in Dublin, produced by the theatre company AboutFACE. There is no fee for submissions and all plays are read blind of name or gender by our panel. The spirit of NEWvember is to provide a dynamic, interactive and comfortable place where IRISH writers can hear their plays read by professional actors, and discuss their work and creative process with the audience. CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS submitted plays should be previously unproduced (we will consider plays that have had readings before but are still in development) plays should have a cast size of 2-8 plays should have a running time of 30 to 120 minutes we will only accept one submission per writer each year we are interested in plays f...
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    New York Innovative Theatre Awards

    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.
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    Stage Left Theatre

    Stage Left Theatre inspires debate by producing and developing plays that explore political and social issues.
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    Earth Matters On Stage (EMOS) Playwrights Festival

    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. SUBMISSION SPECS: Entries must be original plays that have not received an Equity production (readings and workshops are okay) and have not been published. They should be written primarily (though not necessarily exclusively) in English and address the thematic guidelines...
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    id Theater

    id Theater is a development only theater company. We believe that in order to have great theater we have to start with great plays, and in order to have great plays we must nurture talented writers. Working chiefly in McCall, Idaho and New York City, id provides a safe place for artists (professional, emerging, amateur & student) to develop work, take risks and introduce audiences to adventurous new works that reflect, challenge and celebrate them.
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    Native Voices at the Autry

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

    Purple Crayon Players is a student-run theatre organization at Northwestern University that focuses on producing professionally written Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). PLAYground is Purple Crayon’s annual festival of new plays for young audiences. PLAYground fosters the development of each script through partnerships between professional TYA playwrights and Northwestern undergraduate directors and actors, whether it is the work’s first reading or its final workshops before publication or production. After a collaborative rehearsal process focused on the playwright’s development goals, we present these fresh works in a weekend of workshops, public staged readings, and post-show discussions
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    Capital Fringe Curated Series Commissioning Project

    In its inaugural season of the Fringe Curated Series, the Fringe Festival commissioned three new plays derived from folklore or myth from non-western cultures. In exploring these narratives, we brought different perspectives to life. Always looking to grow, develop and take risks, in our second year we are choosing a different focus to commission from. FOR THE 2019 FRINGE FESTIVAL, WE ARE SEEKING TO COMMISSION AND PRODUCE WORK THAT EXPLORES KEY ISSUES CURRENTLY FACING HUMANITY: FORGIVENESS, TRUST AND HOW TIME CAN EITHER UNEARTH OR LEAVE COVERED PROGRESS. What are the challenges we face in an ever-increasingly global and polarized world? How do we move on from conflict? Is it possible to build bridges and reconcile, can trust be grown again? When is forgiveness not possible? How does tim...
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    Acadia University MiniFest

    MiniFest is a week-long festival of one-act plays featuring limited cast sizes and scenographic demands. Every year hundreds of plays from around the world are submitted for juried evaluation. A Play Reading Committee creates a short list which is then submitted to an Executive Committee that selects four to six plays for an actor-centered staging by members of the Acadia Theatre Company.
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    Farmington Players One-Act Festival

    We are accepting original, non-musical short plays (10-30 minutes) from Michigan playwrights for the 1st Annual Farmington Players One-Act Festival. Selected plays will receive three productions during the festival on June 21-23, 2019. Selected playwrights will receive two complimentary tickets to one performance, and be featured in the playbill.
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    JETFest

    JETFest is produced by JET Theatre. JET serves as a force for Jewish continuity, a platform for new voices, and a bridge of understanding to the general community.
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    Stage Q Shorts

    StageQ’s mission is to celebrate queer diversity through quality theater written by and about LGBTQ people, building an inclusive community and affecting positive social change.
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    Athena Project 2020 Plays In Progress Series

    Athena Project was set up in 2012 by Angela Astle to close a critical gap in the creative life of the Denver community. Athena began with a series of Plays In Progress – six brand new plays by women playwrights, three local and three from elsewhere in the US. The plays were developed with directors, dramaturgs and actors, and presented as workshop performances in 2012. One play was selected, based on audience responses and feedback from the Athena Board, to be staged as a full production during the very first Athena Project Arts Festival the following March, 2013. March was selected as Athena’s Festival month because it’s also Women’s History Month, and includes International Women’s Day and International Theatre Day.
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    10-Minute Play Fest

    Est. 2013 by Studio Players. Our 10-Minute Play Festival is presented annually. We present 7 strong, entertaining plays to feature. This competition is open to any playwright. The judges are members of the Studio Players theater community: board members, directors and patrons. The top 7 scripts (as determined by the judges) will be performed by active members of the Bluegrass theater community. Each play will be a fully staged production; each performance showing all winning scripts. The 7 Selected playwrights will each receive $250 in prize money.
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    ACANSA

    A visual and performing arts festival dedicated to building a more dynamic and engaging community through the arts and enriching the cultural vitality of the region. By fostering creative collaborations among artists, patrons, businesses, and community institutions, we facilitate the creation and presentation of more compelling art that encourages public dialogue, economic innovation, exposes people to a wider array of artistic experiences, and makes our community a stronger and more vibrant place to live.
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    Ten-Minute Play Showcase

    The Ten-Minute Play Showcase is a celebration of new work written, directed and enacted by local artists. Presented by ACANSA, the festival is co-produced and directed by Hilary Trudell, founder of The Yarn and the Director of Local Programming at the Clinton School of Public Service.
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    Annual Valley Beth Shalom Short Play Festival

    8th Annual Valley Beth Shalom Short Play Festival: Plays accepted starting March 1st. Submit only one play. Previously produced plays acceptable. No more than 6 characters. No special effects.
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    The Pleasance Theatre Trust

    Pleasance is a registered charity and for over 30 years we have provided a valuable platform and launch pad for a huge collection of artists, both at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pleasance Islington. We have also supported a great many individuals in associated creative, administrative and technical roles within the arts.
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    Pleasance Reading Week

    Looking for a chance to bring your play from page to stage? Want to see new writing at its freshest? Reading Week connects playwrights and audiences, giving writers the opportunity to hear their scripts brought to life in a rehearsed reading and gain valuable feedback. Join us at Pleasance Islington for a week-long festival of new plays, with a different one every night - you could be sitting beside the next Sarah Kane or Tom Stoppard!
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    Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition

    At Austin Film Festival, our mission is to champion all writers across mediums. Our Playwriting Competition (open to full-length plays) gives playwrights a chance to explore our film and television conference. It will also allow film professionals to discover storytellers who have mastered the art and craft of stage drama. AFF has always promoted story as the most important element of film and TV. So giving playwrights their own story exposure and a chance of crossover into film and TV only advances our mission. Plays that make the Final Round will have readings during the Conference. Advancing playwrights will have access to exclusive panels, workshops, roundtables, and unique networking opportunities with professionals in theatre, film, and television.
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    Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival

    The Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival at Center for the Performing Arts Bonita Springs is searches for plays that should be staged, need to staged, and that audiences want or need to see.
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    Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival

    Dedicated to Tennessee Williams, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival presents his classic and undiscovered plays, the work of his peers, and new work inspired by Williams’ creative vision.
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    The Loom

    Presented by the Woven Theatre, The Loom is a new works annual festival where new plays are selected for public staged readings.
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    Notre Dame College Performing Arts New Play Festival

    Hosted by the Notre Dame College of Performing Arts, the New Play Festival showcases unproduced plays and musicals for young adults and children. The weekend-long festival will consist of 4-5 staged readings of previously unseen theatrical works, and will take place in the Regina Auditorium on the Notre Dame College campus. A winner will be chosen through committee/audience voting and will receive a $500 prize, as well as the opportunity to present fully-staged production during the subsequent NDC Spring Semester.
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    New American Voices (NAV)

    New American Voices (NAV), Queens Theatre's renowned new play development program, is dedicated to supporting writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of the borough of Queens, New York City and the United States. Since its inception in 2002, approximately one hundred new works have received Play Readings, Showcases and Full Productions on Queens Theatre's three stages.
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    Detroit New Works Festival

    The Detroit New Works Festival showcases playwrights, promote new plays and musicals which focus on the subjects of equality and diversity, mental health, and/or social issues, and encourage community in the theatrical process. Through the DNWF, Outvisible Theatre Company produces five staged readings of new plays, holds post-show discussions for play development, and one show will be given the opportunity be produced as a World Premiere the following season.
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    New Works Initiative

    The Friends of Bristol Valley Playhouse Foundation, Inc. (doing business as Bristol Valley Theater) is a not-for-profit corporation. It is a professional theatre in the heart of the FInger Lakes.
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    Brelby Theatre Night of Shorts

    Accepted plays will be published in a collection of shorts by the theatre and sold beginning on the show dates.
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    Underground New Play Festival

    Part of the festival's focus on development of the script. After script selection, writers receive feedback and assistance in further developing plays for production. The Underground team, with new work development consultant, Cavan Hallman, will provide feedback and resources to help make sure writers’ intentions with the piece come through loud and clear on the page. When it’s clear on the page, it’s ready to grow in the hands of a director and performers. Writers should come ready to grow their pieces.
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    2020 New American Voices Playwriting Festival

    The New American Voices Playwriting Festival has been an annual Houston theatre event since 2012. Winning Playwrights will be notified in mid-February if their script is selected for the 2020 Spring Festival. Selected playwrights must attend the readings. A stipend of $100 will be awarded to each winning playwright. Playwrights must cover their own travel expenses.
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    Riot Act New Play Festival

    Riot Act, Inc. selects several short plays by regional playwrights to be produced as part of Riot Act’s Annual Series of Shorts in June. The first-place winner will receive $100 and the Marius P. Hanford IV Award. Marius was a longtime stage combat choreographer influential in several theater communities, including Jackson and New York. The second and third finalists will be awarded $50 each.
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    New Works Festival at Redhouse

    Redhouse is pleased to announce its New Works Festival! This is an extraordinary opportunity to have your play receive a 2-week developmental workshop at the acclaimed Redhouse Arts Center in downtown Syracuse; one of the premier theatre facilities in Central New York. Led by Artistic Director, Hunter Foster, the creative team at Redhouse will choose 1 play for their developmental series; due to Covid-19, we are only accepting plays at this time. Here is your chance for your work to be cultivated in a creative setting so it can reach its ultimate potential.
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    SOOP to NUTS Short Play Festival

    SOOP to NUTS Short Play Festival is the first of what we hope will be an annual original short-play competition at our 530 Studios in Pelham, NY (28 minutes from Grand Central Station!).
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    Merry Fringemas! Rapture Theatre

    Rapture Theatre is always looking to identify gaps in the theatre community. Local playwright and founder of Rapture Theatre, Megan Ann Jacobs, noticed that despite almost every playwright having a holiday-based short (or two or ten) there are very limited local opportunities for these shows to see the light of day. That's why Rapture Theatre is proud to announce its next production "Merry Fringemas."
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    Fertile Ground Festival of New Works

    The Portland Civic Theatre Guild will produce a reading of the selected new play by a Portland metro area playwright as part of the 2020 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. The production will include a paid professional director and paid professional actors. The playwright will receive a stipend of $200.
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    Indiana Ten Minute Play Festival

    Announcing the First Annual Indiana Ten Minute Play Festival! We need your submissions! Sponsored by IndyFringe, Indiana Writers Center, and Indiana Playwrights Circle Six plays will be selected by local theatres for production at the 10-Minute Play Festival. Playwrights will be notified of selections by February 1 (or before), and MUST be available for a table read of all six plays on February 2 at IndyFringe. The Festival will take place May 1st-3rd, 2020, with Friday and Saturday evening performances and a Sunday matinee.
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    Laughing Dog Comedy Shorts

    Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill is an Albuquerque NM Laughing Dog Comedy Shorts 10-minute comedies. Submit your script with contact information in pdf format only to info@auxdog.com with LAUGHING DOG in the subject line or use the website link. Submissions are not returned.
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    Shakespeare Festival St Louis

    OUR MISSION To produce professional Shakespeare theatre, culminating in a free production in Forest Park, and to celebrate both Shakespeare’s language and the artists he has inspired. We present Shakespeare and works inspired by Shakespeare. We are in the Schools, in the Streets, and in the Park. Our work seeks to better the community, facilitate a diverse conversation, and encourage collaboration across disciplines.
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    Confluence New Play Festival

    The Confluence Regional Writers Project was created by Shakespeare Festival St. Louis in 2018. The goal is to further foster a regional culture of playwriting by providing support and inspiration to emerging playwrights in St. Louis and its radiating regions through a Playwriting Fellowship, an Emerging Playwrights Cohort, new plays commissioned and developed by the Festival, and writing workshops.
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    Fringe PVD

    The Wilbury Theatre Group produces FRINGEPVD: The Providence Fringe Festival® and our year-round staff and creative teams serve in official capacities for the Festival alongside part time Fringe-only staff, volunteers, and collaborators.
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    DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival

    DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival; a 17-day Multidisciplinary Arts Festival celebrating extraordinary stories from around the world.
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    Bumbershoot

    We are currently working with the City of Seattle and Seattle Center, to create a new model for Bumbershoot that honors both the festival’s origin and history, while ensuring the festival is sustainable for the long haul. Bumbershoot will return to Seattle Center September 4-6, 2020.
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    Funhouse

    Funhouse Anthology is a recurring play anthology inspired by The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, and Adult Swim. Funhouse is a collection of subversive and experimental original content. Our show serves as a rotating platform for diverse, emerging and established playwrights, directors, actors, and designers, often with ties to the Pacific Northwest. The creators of Funhouse want artists to take bold risks in their storytelling.
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    Green Stage

    GreenStage’s mission is to inspire our audiences to engage in live theatre as part of their recreation. We wish to instill and foster in our community an appreciation for live theater, with a strong belief that theater can be enjoyed in the same spirit as a picnic or a ballgame. We make high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays freely accessible to all residents and visitors to Seattle and King County. Our productions are free, fun, and family oriented, focusing on the text and story of the play.
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    Yellow Fish Festival

    Yellow Fish provides an organized platform for durational performance work in the form of a festival. The festival supports innovation and experimental curation of performance art that includes but is not limited to movement, sound, taste, clothing, language, environment, and time as concept and material in performance. Yellow Fish aims to bring awareness to the significance and study of time through a multitude of cultural practices and artistic mediums while facilitating community involvement in historical and contemporary thought surrounding durational performance.
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    Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association

    ​PNWCA is the producing arm of "March is Cabaret Month" (MICM) festival. The festival is committed to providing artists the opportunity to create their own show and to giving the artists the majority of the ticket sales. We can only continue to fiscally do this with your support.
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    Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival

    SOTF began in 2001 when GreenStage, Theater Schmeater, and Seattle Shakespeare’s Wooden O joined forces to bring a full weekend of live theatre to Volunteer Park in Seattle. Since then the festival has grown to include three stages and eighteen performances by ten local theater companies. All in two days in one park… AND ALL FREE!
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    1448 Projects, The

    Producers of The World's Quickest Theater Festival & other feats of impossible theater, spanning the globe.
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    Short + Sweet Festival

    Beginning as a small festival of 10 minute plays in Sydney, Australia, we have grown into a global organisation. Short+Sweet has made a huge impact on the Australian theatre scene through developing new, original work with emerging artists and providing a platform for established artists to showcase their talents.
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    Blue Ink Playwriting Award & Festival

    The nationally-renown Blue Ink Playwriting Award was created in 2010 to support new work. Since inception, we’ve named 10 Award winners, 79 finalists, and 109 semi-finalists. Over $6,000 in cash and prizes will be distributed to playwrights in 2020. Each year American Blues Theater accepts worldwide submissions of original, unpublished full-length plays. The winning play will be selected by Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and the theater’s Ensemble. The playwright receives a monetary prize of $1,250. Cash prizes are awarded to finalists and semi-finalists too. All proceeds of the administrative fee are distributed for playwrights’ cash prizes.
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    NC 10X10 Play Festival of 10-Minute Plays

    Ten short plays by North Carolina playwrights will be selected for full production in NC 10 by 10. The festival runs July 16-19 at The Cary Theatre in Cary and July 23-26 at The PSI Theatre in the Durham Arts Council building in downtown Durham. NC 10 by 10 has grown to be the most-attended short-play festival in the region, with last year’s show having over 1300 patrons.
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    Voices of the Earth Short Play Fesitival

    Voices explores our human connections to the earth and earth’s connection to us in a time when these connections feel especially pressing.
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    Playwrights' Forum Festival

    Spokane Civic Theatre's call for one-act scripts for its annual Playwrights’ Forum Festival. Selected scripts will be fully produced at the festival to be held in June.
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    Climate Change Theatre Action

    CCTA was founded by Elaine Ávila, Chantal Bilodeau, Roberta Levitow, and Caridad Svich following a model pioneered by NoPassport Theatre Alliance. It has since evolved into a collaboration between The Arctic Cycle, the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, and Theatre Without Borders. A global participatory project, CCTA uses theatre to bring communities together and encourage them to take local and global action on climate. By providing tools (a series of plays) free of charge, some guidance on how to produce events, marketing support, and a model that encourages leadership and self-determination, we make it easy for everyone to engage with an art form they may not be familiar with, and we empower them to harness their creative potential and put it in service of the greater good.
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    Fall 2020 Arts Open Call: LES African and African-American Histories

    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...
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    EMOS Playwrights Festival 2021

    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.
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    The Shed

    The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. We bring together established and emerging artists in fields ranging from hip hop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. Our home, The Bloomberg Building—designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is an unprecedented movable structure that adapts to support ambition and invention in all creative fields. By minimizing social and economic barriers to entry we’ll make a warm, welcoming space for innovation and unique artistic experiences. By offering access and insight into the creative process, we’ll forge deep bonds between our artists and our audiences. Driven by our belief that access to art is...
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    FronteraFest

    FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre. Too bad there's no actual way to expect the unexpected, because that is your only hope. FronteraFest is produced in collaboration with ScriptWorks, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works.
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    Cleveland Playwrights Festival (Playwrights Local)

    Playwrights Local is dedicated to supporting the dramatists of Northeast Ohio. As a playwrights’ development and production center, we foster diverse talents and present locally written works.
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    TEASE (The Easy Access Script Experience)

    TEASE (The Easy Access Script Experience) invites Artistic Directors from local theatre companies, as well as the public, to see your work and provide a venue for networking after the performance. The evening consists of scenes that have been directed and rehearsed by a team of artists with input from the playwright. Our goal is for artists and producers to make the kind of connections that will lead to performances in the community.
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    Pacific Playwrights Festival

    The Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) annually presents seven new plays in staged readings and full productions during a three-day period. As a part of The Lab@SCR, nine programs devoted to the development of new works and musicals for the American theatre, PPF provides a gathering place for writers and theatre professionals to connect and share ideas and interests in the context of a festival that promotes the latest and best in American playwriting.
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    The Northwest Ten Festival

    Script submissions for the Northwest Ten Festival of Ten-Minute Plays are accepted annually from September 1 through October 31, with auditions taking place in late January. All community members are welcome to audition for the NW10 Festival each year. With approximately 18-24 roles available each festival, this is a great opportunity to meet and work with lots of other local artists.
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    Final Draft New Play Festival

    The mission of New Village Arts is to create adventurous artistic experiences to awaken the human spirit.
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    Milwaukee Fringe Festival

    Following the rich tradition of Fringe Festivals, the Milwaukee Fringe Festival is a showcase of a diverse collection of artists that call Milwaukee home. From theatrical actors to painters, musicians to tap dancers, performance artists to playwrights, MKE Fringe is a joyous celebration of what makes Milwaukee’s culture vibrant and extraordinary.
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    New South Young Playwrights Contest & Festival

    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.
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    Virtual Theatre Festival

    BROADWAY THEATRE STUDIO, creators of the long-running IMBIBLE series of Off-Broadway musicals, will produce its first VIRTUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL for live-online productions. BTS has partnered with theatre media icon PLAYBILL to host the festival, which will run exclusively on Playbill.com. BETERRIFIC, industry leaders in live-streaming productions, to provide the cutting-edge technology and experience necessary to successfully translate the live theatre experience to live-online. BTS is assembling a distinguished panel of judges to choose a winning production, and there will also be an Audience Choice winner selected by festival viewers. Each winner will receive a $1,500 cash prize. PLAYBILL VTF LIVE is currently scheduled to run August 7-9, and Theatre fans looking to view the festival wi...
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    Black Writer Monologues at NWT

    New World Theatre acknowledges that there is a crisis of understanding and awareness that is deeply rooted in our history of racism, and if we are ever going to fully dismantle the institutions of systemic racism, we need to stop... and listen to those who continue to suffer simply because they are black. We can no longer afford to ignore what is happening to our fellow human beings, which is why we are creating a collection of monologues that will give voice to those who can no longer remain silent. Through the power of writing and theatre, we can do our part to amplify the stories of systemic racism and raise the level of awareness and understanding to effect meaningful change in the human heart.
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    Latinx Playwrights Circle (LPC)

    Founded by playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes, the Greater Good Commission offers $500 mini grants to Latinx playwrights to write short plays, innovative in form, that reflect the times. The commission’s second round will focus on LGBTQIA+ Latinx- identifying playwrights. The year’s commissioned plays will be presented at the second annual Greater Good Theater Festival produced by the Latinx Playwrights Circle (LPC) and Pregones Theater/PRTT. The festival will be streamed online in the fall and the plays will later live in digital archives.
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    HOT Festival

    THE NYC CELEBRATION OF QUEER CULTURE JULY 6 - AUGUST 1, 2020 HOT began at Dixon Place in 1992 as the first month-long comprehensive LGBTQ+ festival of theater, dance, music, literature and homoeroticism for the whole family. It remains the longest running festival of its kind in the world! In support of LGBTQ+ people of color, a portion of donations & ticket sales during the HOT Festival will be donated to organizations that support queer Black Indigenous People of Color including but not limited to: Ali Forney Center, The Okra Project, INCITE!, Audre Lord Project, Gays Against Guns, NY Transgender Advocacy Group, Destination Tomorrow, National Black Justice Coalition, Black Visions Collective, and Marsha P. Johnson institute. “The Best LGBTQ Theater Festival in New York!” –The Villa...
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    Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission

    Urbanite Theatre is committed to creating visceral, shared experiences by fearlessly lifting up the boldest new voices in theatre. We believe in inclusive, artist-first storytelling, daring honesty, and the powerful connectivity of an intimate space. The inaugural Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission at Urbanite Theatre is accepting applications from early to mid-career playwrights of color.
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    Young Playwright Festival

    Each fall, Pendragon Theatre encourages aspiring young playwrights to take pen to paper and fingers to keyboard for the annual youth playwriting event open to all middle and high school-age students! Last fall we asked young playwrights to submit original, 10 minute long one-act plays and musicals based on the theme "Insider/Outsider. The winning playwrights will work with a creative team including directors, designers, and actors to develop and stage the scripts. The Festival usually culminates in a full performance of the winning plays and a script-in-hand public reading of the runners-up. This year we will perform readings which will be made available on April 25 at 2 PM on our website & facebook and streamed after that.
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    Marathon of One-Act Plays

    The Ensemble Studio Theatre develops and produces original, provocative and authentic new plays. We engage and challenge our audiences in New York City and audiences across the country. A dynamic community of artists committed to the collaborative process, EST discovers and nurtures new voices and supports artists throughout their creative lives. We believe this extraordinary support yields extraordinary work.
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    Virtual Theatre Festival Live

    BROADWAY THEATRE STUDIO, creators of the long-running IMBIBLE series of Off-Broadway musicals, will produce its first VIRTUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL for live-online productions. BTS has partnered with theatre media icon PLAYBILL to host the festival, which will run exclusively on Playbill.com. BETERRIFIC, industry leaders in live-streaming productions, to provide the cutting-edge technology and experience necessary to successfully translate the live theatre experience to live-online. BTS is assembling a distinguished panel of judges to choose a winning production, and there will also be an Audience Choice winner selected by festival viewers. Each winner will receive a $1,500 cash prize. PLAYBILL VTF LIVE is currently scheduled to run August 7-9, and Theatre fans looking to view the festival wi...
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    This Round's On Us Short Play Festival

    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!
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    Native Voices Festival and Retreat

    The Autry brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future. Months prior to residencies at the Playwrights Retreat and Festival of New Plays, selected playwrights participate in dramaturgical conversations with an assigned director and dramaturg. Workshops with these creative teams and a cast of professional actors commence once the playwright arrives on-site.
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    New Works in Action

    Located in the historic U street corridor of Washington, D.C., Spooky Action Theater (SAT) is a dynamic, young theater company that has been recharging the audience's imaginative, intuitive, emotional core by linking artists & audience in a collaborative enterprise. We designed and built a versatile performance space that accommodates multiple seating and staging configurations. Movable walls and audience risers enable us to approach each production with a fresh perspective.
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    Virtual Festival of Short Plays

    Abingdon Theatre Company is dedicated to developing and producing brave, new American work by emerging and established artists.
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    Storefront Theatre Festival of 10 Minute Plays

    The Storefront Theatre is accepting submissions for our 8th annual 10-minute play festival. Like all theatres at this time, we are uncertain as to the future but we’re going to take a chance that by next March, we will be able to present the plays on stage as live concert readings. If that isn’t possible, then we will present online as a video recording or live-stream. A blind panel of judges with broad theatre experience will select 8-10 plays to be presented as concert readings and will choose a first place winner who will receive a cash award of $75.00.
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    Players Workshop 10 Minute Play Festival

    Players Workshop seeks plays for its Ninth Annual International 10-Minute Play Festival. This fully-staged festival will be in English and will take place in March of 2021 in the center of the international arts of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Each playwright whose script is selected and performed will receive a $25 USD cash honorarium and two complimentary tickets to the production. One play will be selected as the Audience Favorite and its playwright shall receive an additional $25 USD cash award. No other remuneration will be provided, and any playwright attending must do so at his or her own expense.
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    Luminaria

    Luminaria is a dynamic nonprofit arts organization dedicated to producing and promoting the arts to the city of San Antonio by managing the annual iconic Contemporary Arts Festival, the Luminaria Artist Foundation grants program, and culturally driven creative placemaking.
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    IN CHARACTER - The Monologue Plays

    The Rose Theatre Co., a DC-based professional organization, is seeking short comedic monologues for the creation of a curated digital film series titled IN CHARACTER. Selected monologues will be produced and released by The Rose for use across digital platforms, including Instagram and You Tube. Writers may make multiple submissions. This is an open-ended project. Writers will retain all rights to their words. The Rose Theatre Co. will retain all rights to the audio-video content and their production of the monologues submitted. Please note that all submissions are voluntary and unpaid.
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    EarthQuake

    Same Boat Theater is the Bay Area's first ecojustice theater.
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    Tennessee Williams Festival St Louis

    Our mission is to enrich the cultural life of St. Louis by producing an annual theater festival and other artistic and educational events that celebrate the art and influence of Tennessee Williams.
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    Lift Every Voice - Black Women Speak Monologue Festival

    In addition to its TYA programming, FTF also offers a robust programming lineup for general populations, featuring something for everyone with its diverse new programs at the Sandrell Rivers Theater, including a bi-monthly film screening series entitled Film@SRT; a bi-monthly live music series entitled Music@SRT; an art exhibition series, which aims to provide South Florida artists with greater exposure and visibility entitled Art@SRT; and a new play competition, where playwrights can have their new works performed as staged readings in front of live audiences, entitled New Year, New Works! (NYNW).
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    NC Radio Play Festival

    The Cary Playwrights’ Forum’s mission is to provide NC playwrights and aspiring playwrights opportunities to develop as dramatic writers.
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    Eight 10s in Tuscon Ten-Minute Play Festival

    Winding Road Theater Ensemble, located in Tucson, Arizona, was established in 2009 by Dramatist Guild member Toni Press-Coffman, among others. Winding Road is dedicated to performing and developing new works along with producing contemporary and classic plays. We are opening submissions for our third annual ten minute play festival.
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    Harlem Music Festival

    What originally started as a one-day tribute to one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods in the world has now become a month-long celebration enjoying its 46th year. Recognizing this year, 2020 is unlike any we have ever seen HARLEM WEEK this year will take place from August 16 - 23 and it will take place virtually. For many years people have planned their vacations around the dates HARLEM WEEK to travel to Harlem to participate in our festival. This year HARLEM WEEK goes to the world as a virtual event sharing the culture, history, resilience and strength of Harlem.
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    Columbus Black Theatre Festival

    Our mission is to bring new and exciting original plays to Central Ohio and to support, teach and encourage playwrights, actors and theatre artists of all ages to bring their creative works to life on a theatre stage.
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    Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival

    Submissions are now being accepted for the Fifth Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival, to take place in November 2020. Seeking short plays (no more than 10 pp/minutes), from playwrights from across New York City and surrounding areas.
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    Derby City Playwrights New Play Festival

    Beginning July 2014, Derby City Playwrights has been meeting monthly, organizing reading series, producing new work by local writers, and experimenting on what exactly DCP needs to be for both our local playwrights and the Louisville Community. The first year, we hosted 12 writers with the goal of driving them to complete a brand new full length script and producing that work as a staged reading within that year. In July of 2015, we began accepting submission for ideas for full length plays that would become the First Derby City Playwrights New Play Festival, a three week long celebration of Louisville grown new works.
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    PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works

    Purple Crayon Players is a student-run theatre organization at Northwestern University that focuses on producing professionally written Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). PLAYground is Purple Crayon’s annual festival of new plays for young audiences. PLAYground fosters the development of each script through partnerships between professional TYA playwrights and Northwestern undergraduate directors and actors, whether it is the work’s first reading or its final workshops before publication or production. After a collaborative rehearsal process focused on the playwright’s development goals, we present these fresh works in a weekend of workshops, public staged readings, and post-show discussions
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    Free Fringe Philly

    Free Fringe Philly was created in 2019 in part as a direct response to the capitalist pay-to-play festival model. We, like other Free Fringe Festivals, believe there is no scarcity of creative desire, audience interest, or talent. We believe that creating and enjoying art is life-sustaining and playing to be included in a festival that serves the desires of the super-chosen or super-funded is not a festival for THE people. It is a festival for *some* people. Free Fringe Philly is an act of protest. We believe our city deserves more art, not less. We protest the idea that art makers should only serve an exclusive group of funders, curators, audience members, and spaces. We challenge the notion that artists should "keep quiet" and "pay their dues" working for little or nothing in hopes of...
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    Sliver Linings

    We are currently seeking writers for our upcoming project titled, ""Silver Linings"". This project is a theatrical short film featuring a series of monologues. Each monologue should be 3-10 minutes in length, and be written from the perspective of a person facing personal demons. Pieces should be written in the first-person narrative, giving an intimate account of a particularly difficult time in their lives. The narrative must be deeply introspective, take us through an emotional journey, and end with a ""silver lining"". The silver lining will be how this person/character has learned, grew and/or overcome this circumstance.
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    LSF Science Commission

    This commission is for a playwright of color to celebrate scientists of color while exploring a current science theme. The selected playwright will be tasked with writing an original play which includes a component about scientific research currently pursued by our local Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL). Many possibilities include using supercomputers to identify a COVID-19 vaccine and treatment candidates. We will partner the selected playwright with advisory support from scientists at the LLNL and/or Sandia National Laboratory.
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    Livermore Shakespeare Festival (LSF)

    Inspired by William Shakespeare, who through the rhetoric and poetry of the English language gave voice to the deepest experience of being human, we are committed to creating community through the production of high-quality professional theater experiences. We produce and support theatrical events that celebrate the human experience. We are creating a company that is accessible and fully integrated with the Tri-Valley community and invite the participation of our Central Valley and Greater Bay Area neighbors.
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    So Queer Play Festival

    We are proud of being the longest continuously-operating professional theatre in the entire mid-Atlantic community producing works relevant to the LGBTQ+ experience. For over a quarter-century, RTP has produced hundreds of plays – including several world premieres – most of which would not have been produced anywhere else in the area. Our authentic voice is a major change agent in the region, elevating community conversations about the positive effects of diversity and inclusion. We are regarded as one of the major cultural entities in central Virginia, and have received international acclaim for our work. Our home, the Robert B. Moss Theatre, is one of the landmarks in our Scott’s Addition neighborhood.
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    Irons in the Fire

    Irons in the Fire is Fault Line Theatre's year-round reading series of new plays in development. We believe that every play and every playwright requires something a little different, and we want to give our artists the right sandbox to play freely within. So the format for both process and presentation is intentionally malleable. Each public presentation of these works in progress is the culmination of a few hours, a few weeks, or even a few months of rehearsal, depending on what each project requires. These readings are hosted in an environment that appropriately celebrate that particular new script, and are supported by a social event that brings the Downtown Theatre Community together in a fun and meaningful way. A Few Thoughts Before You Apply Applications are due Monday, September 2...
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    Theatre in my Pajamas

    This group is intended to bring together theatre folk during a time when most of us are shuttered to our homes. Every Thursday night, we'll do a new reading with people in their pajamas. The plays will be new and unproduced. We can keep theatre going, no matter what.
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    Atlanta Fringe Festival

    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.
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    International Voices Project

    The International Voices Project (IVP) champions the work of global playwrights by creating opportunities to experience new and contemporary international plays on Chicago stages. IVP debuts voices from the world's stages through commissions, translations, and production. We collaborate with consulates, cultural partners, and universities throughout the Chicagoland area and partner with national and international theatres to promote global playwrights in their USA premieres.
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    Botanicum Seedlings

    With its roots in the McCarthy Era Blacklisiting, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum has provided a home in Southern California for professional Shakespeare and the classics in its scenic, outdoor amphitheatre in rustic Topanga Canyon for over 45 years. Theatricum is also committed to finding new works and furthering new voices in theatre through Botanicum Seedlings. Opportunities through Botanicum Seedlings include Playreadings, Festivals, private GreenReads (for a fresh look at early drafts) and Dramaturgy Workshops, culminating in developmental GreenReads. Since its creation in 2002, the program has supported well over 150 new plays.
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    YiLoveJewish Festival

    Our Mission: To celebrate and promote Jewish history, life and culture and their positive, far-reaching impact on the world.
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    Criminal Queerness Festival

    The Criminal Queerness Festival (CQF) will take place at NYC Pride. CQF strives to uplift and amplify LGBTQ playwrights and artists from countries that censor or criminalize queer communities through the creation of exciting theatrical productions. Up to four plays will be selected and given performances in New York City. The plays will be performed in a festival format with directors and actors from National Queer Theater. The winning playwrights will also be awarded a stipend of $1,000 USD each.
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    University of Houston 10 Minute Play Festival

    The School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Houston offers high-energy programs and direct connections to the profession, allowing our students to develop their network while getting world-class training. We offer programs in Acting, Dance, Playwriting/Dramaturgy, Production, Stage Management and Theatre Education. Our goal is to prepare all students for success on stage, on screen, in arts education or behind the scenes.
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    Rockford New Words

    The Rockford New Play Festival is now ROCKFORD NEW WORDS! Why the change? We’re expanding to include all words written for live performance, including: Spoken Word Poetry Choreopoems Plays Zoom Scripts Raps and Spoken Lyrics Storytelling Monologues Six new works will be chosen and presented in a staged performance on Jan 21, 2021. Artists/Writers can choose to perform their own works (Live or on Zoom), or have them presented by professional performers. Artists/Writers each receive $200.
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    Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival

    The "Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival" is a competition of original short comedies. Writers from throughout the community, the state, and the country are invited to enter; previous involvement with Over Our Head Players is not a requirement. Scripts will be judged by the Snowdance Selection Committee. The Selection Committee evaluations will include the flexibility of the script to adapt to current conditions; shorter scripts may have an advantage in 2022. Writers are urged to take note of the three character maximum cast and to take advantage of the emphasis on shorter comedy scripts. Traditionally, the selected scripts have been produced together in a complete festival performance. The 2022 Snowdance® format will be adapted if necessary to create a safe, entertaining, and unique cele...
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    Voices! Call for Submissions

    Voices is a poetic performance piece and artistic campaign. We need you! The creative process will be just as crucial as the piece itself. This is an urgent call for submissions of poems and monologues written by Black Women for all women and those who love us. We are also accepting visual art submissions that we will curate throughout the campaign for performance and the solidarity-making toolkit. The performance piece will ultimately be in service of and for women to speak to the complexities of their experiences as well as an inclusive vision for change, justice, compassion, and solidarity. We seek to encourage and establish a world that nurtures radical truth-telling love. We welcome all poems and monologues that speak to our hurt, our hope, and our wisdom. Poems that cast spells and p...
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    Portfringe

    The mission of PortFringe is to support theater and performance artists, to encourage experimentation and innovation, and to provide an accessible, affordable outlet for exciting work that enriches our creative community.
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    Stage Left Theater

    The Inland Northwest's premier progressive non-profit theater, specializing in political, intellectual, and social stimulation.
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    Under Construction at The Road Theatre Company

    The Road is proud to begin its fourth year of Under Construction, a playwright’s group that develops socially and politically relevant voices and thoughts for the American stage. The goal of Under Construction is simple: to leave with a deeper knowledge of playwriting through collaborating and sharing with one’s peers, and for each participant to create a new piece that is workshop ready. Playwrights are given live readings of their plays in our state of the art theatre on Magnolia. Initial drafts will be read by fellow playwrights, but participants in this program will also have access to The Road’s ensemble of theatre artists for private & public readings, as well as support from the Artistic Team at The Road.
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    St. Louis Shakespeare Festival

    Fostering community and joy across the St. Louis region through the Shakespearean tradition of art for all.
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    New Native Theatre Call for 10-minute Plays

    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. Good Medicine: In Yvette Nolan’s book Medicine Shows, she describes the importance of medicine in Native theatre. We are inspired by Nolan’s assertion that “Medicine is about connection, about health” and that “Good medicine… makes community.” We feel that we, as Native artists, are in need of some good medicine, and it is our hope that we can use this festival to enter a time of connection, community, and ceremony. Indigenous Futurism: Indigenous peoples are often depicted as people from the past...
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    One Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)

    THE ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (#1MPF) is America’s largest and longest running grass roots theatre company, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea , and led by D’Andrea and artist/activist Caitlin Wees. #1MPF is a social barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue, consensus building and a performance of 50-100 short moments generated by each community. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres and/or social organizations sharing playwright, educational or community-specific missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion. #1MPF represents playwrights of different age, gender, race, cultures, and points of career...
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    Dragon Short Play Clinic

    Dragon’s Short Play Clinic is a part of Dragon’s Nest, where emerging artists or artists new to the Bay Area are able to hone their craft, make connections, and rely on the support of the professionals at Dragon Theatre. The Play Clinic’s overall mission: to provide a safe space for under-represented voices to share and develop their stories. We want the process to be about supporting the Playwrights development as well as creating artistic work opportunities for our diverse community of artists while inviting the community to participate with feedback.We will select 2 – 3 plays to be featured every month.
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    PlayGround Solo Performance Festival

    PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. Through the development of original short and full-length plays, PlayGround creates a microcosm of the greater theatre scene, supporting emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking, while helping them to hone their style and technique. The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its fourth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 22-February 7, 2021 via Zoom live stream, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks.
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    PGE Annual Faces of America Monologue Festival

    The PlayGround Experiment is a home for theatre artists to explore, test, and showcase new work while finding inspiration and support from the community that it creates.
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    Brighton Fringe

    Brighton Fringe is the largest open-access arts festival in England. It is an international festival that is at the same time rooted in the community. It embraces every art form and every form of artistic expression, and supports both new and established performers in trying out new work and taking risks.
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    Flash Acts Festival

    A bilingual, virtual theater festival featuring newly-commissioned short plays by twenty new plays by leading playwrights from the United States and Russia. A deep dive into tragic, humorous and poignant stories about isolation and human connection.
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    Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival

    The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival honors new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors. The festival endeavors both to recognize playwrights for their outstanding work and to provide a resource for universities across the country to identify dynamic plays with robust roles for college-aged actors for production at their institutions.
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    Winters Theatre Company 10-Minute Play Festival

    While we would like nothing more than to host this festival in front of a live audience, we realize that this will be unlikely given the current pandemic. As a result, we are planning to continue the second annual Winters Theatre Company (WTC) 10-minute play festival in an online podcast format (audio only), which will be made available in 2 acts of 4 plays each, similar in format to the live performances last year. For many of us, this is a new approach to directing, acting, and managing a theatrical performance. Be sure to review the new set of rules and requirements to ensure that this new format will work for you.
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    Great Salt Lake Fringe

    The idea for the Great Salt Lake Fringe was born when Nina and Michael Vought, professors of theatre at Westminster College, stumbled upon the New Orleans Fringe Festival and were captivated by the array of unique performances they saw there. They pitched the idea of a fringe festival in Salt Lake City to a group of students and alumni of Westminster, who ran with the Fringe spirit and, under the mentorship of the Voughts, produced the inaugural Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival in August 2015.
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    The Road Theatre Company Summer Playwrights Festival

    The Road Theatre Company’s annual Summer Playwrights Festival has been held every summer since its inception in 2010. This year marks our 12th anniversary, and SPF12 will take place from Thursday through Sunday, starting from July 15th to August 1, 2021. SPF mounts 20-40 staged readings of new plays in 12 exciting days. The festival is now the largest staged reading festival in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating. Each reading is followed by a talkback with the playwright, director, and cast. All readings will be held virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions. Although we receive hundreds of submissions for our festival, new and established playwrights are encouraged to submit. The Road Theatre Company is dedicated to producing new plays.
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    Irondale Ensemble Project On Women Theater Festival

    Irondale, Brooklyn’s leading theatrical and artistically ambitious think-tank theater ensemble, is currently seeking submissions for their fourth annual On Women Festival, March 4-28 to celebrate the lives and experiences of female-identifying artists. From mainstage, new media storytelling, and an art buffet flexible in style and genre, the festival will offer artists and audiences in-person, live and pre-recorded events, in addition to moderated panel discussions by guest curators. Aligned with Women’s History Month, the festival, created in 2018 to give the underrepresented feminine voice an artistic platform, has been committed to showcasing unique works that are reflective of the social and political implications of times throughout history. During the 2020 festival, the company...
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    Windsor Fringe

    The Windsor Fringe is the second oldest fringe in the U.K after Edinburgh. Run by volunteers, it offers an innovative and affordable programme of music, dance, comedy, drama and art with a passion for being a platform for promoting new talent.
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    National Theater Festival

    The current edition of the NTF involuntarily mirrors another line from Hamlet: “with one eye merry and the other crying”; laughing and crying masks… This ancient dual principle of theater representation is no longer just a form of coexistence of comedic and tragic, but of hope and anxiety, bloom and gloom of all kinds. Restlessness and Memory are the polarities that define the NTF 2020. Their substance is to be found in the obligatory meditations on present and future, in the Aesthetics of the Pandemic, in dialogues, conferences and exhibitions.
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    Playdate Theatre Virtual Musical Theater Songwriting Conference

    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.
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    UCLA New Play Festival

    In partnership with three east-coast theaters, our graduating playwrights are developing their thesis plays through month-long online workshops, which will culminate in made-to-measure presentations. The playwrights get to build reltionships with their theater and with their director, in preparation for joining the field.
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    CATCO New Works Festival

    CATCO (Contemporary American Theatre Company) is Columbus' largest professional theatre. Pre-Covid-19, CATCO was production twelve productions per year, six for general audiences, and six for young audiences. CATCO is an SPT Equity company that produces work with both Central Ohio and National artists. CATCO's focus is on contemporary work that delights, transforms, and inspires.
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    Central Square Theater Women & Science 10-Minute Plays

    Building on the annual Brit d'Arbeloff Women In Science Production, Underground Railway and The Nora at Central Square Theater have long envisioned a Festival bringing together scientists, theater artists and creative thinkers from around the country. Our work with Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a collaboration between Central Square Theater and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the nation’s only on-going partnership between a professional theater company and a world-class research institution. Each season, URT or The Nora produces plays that open the door between art and science and push us to expand our visions of the future, framed by real-time encounters with scientists who are changing our world. Slated for April, 2021 the Women & Science Festival (“W&S”) will take p...
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    Growing Stage New Play Reading Festival

    Each year, four new, unpublished works for young audiences are chosen by a panel of artists and playwrights and presented by professional artists in two staged readings. The playwrights talk about their work, and artists and audience have the opportunity to join the discussion. At the conclusion of the festival, one of the new plays is chosen to be mounted as a Main Stage production.
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    Tampa Bay Theatre Festival (TBTF)

    The Tampa Bay Theatre Festival (TBTF), organized by the 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company RL Stage Inc., will be back for its sixth year in 2019. The mission is to unite artists and theatre lovers within and beyond the Tampa Bay Area for an amazing weekend of education and entertainment. Attendees will experience powerful, informative workshops led by trained professionals, in addition to scene, monologue, and short play competitions, and theatrical entertainment that will leave audiences with a memorable experience.
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    New York Festival of Song

    Since its first season, the NYFOS motto has been “No song is safe from us!” Manhattan-based pianists Michael Barrett and Steven Blier presented the very first concert season of New York Festival of Song in 1988. It was a series of intimate, original ensemble song programs consisting almost exclusively of rarely-heard songs of all kinds, “from Debussy to doo-wop, lieder to Latin jazz, Josquin to just-written.” Each show was unified by a theme, constructed with a dramatic arc, and cast with superb vocal artists whose committed performances brought the songs to vivid life, with the directors as accompanists and animated narrators. This same dynamic model for seeking out unusual songs and sharing them audiences continues to shape NYFOS’s concerts today, in ways that continue to delight and su...
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    Reverb Theatre Arts Festival

    A space for artists with disabilities ages 16+ to devise and share new works of theatre on a virtual platform.
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    NEXTFEST

    The Nextfest Arts Company is made up of hundreds of young and emerging artists from a wide variety of disciplines, banding together to present Edmonton’s most unique annual multi-disciplinary arts festival: Nextfest. Founded in 1996 by Bradley Moss, Nextfest is a common ground for the next generation of creators and producers. The future is theirs! Nextfest shepherds the development of emerging artists. It is curated on the basis of providing development opportunities for emerging professional artists to hone their craft, gain experience, make contacts, and step forward as the future of professional arts. In doing so, we instil in the emerging generation an appreciation for the importance of mentorship. There are many ways in which artistic entities, products, and relationship have grown...
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    Atlanta Black Theatre Festival (ABTF)

    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, food trucks, a Black expo market and more!
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    Cincinnati Lab Theatre New Works Festival

    Cincinnati LAB Theatre is an organization for established and emerging artists in the Greater Cincinnati Area dedicated to a collaborative creative process that will present established works of drama and develop new plays through a traditional workshop model. Cincinnati LAB Theatre will provide a solid platform for artists to cultivate, strengthen and hone their artistic crafts and talents and offer quality theatre for Cincinnati audiences. Cincinnati LAB Theatre is now planning its ninth producing season and accepting submissions to fill three original play readings and two fully staged workshop productions for its 2022 New Works Festival. Cincinnati LAB Theatre will be producing these scripts over two weekends in a rotating festival format. The workshop/rehearsal process for produc...
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    Triangle Rainbow Theater Gay Play Fest

    We believe in engaging audiences with performances that make them think thoughtfully, laugh longer, and feel more. Triangle Rainbow Theatre takes you on an artistic adventure and guarantees an emotional experience with a captivating performance. Make sure to get your tickets in advance. We can’t wait to welcome you to Triangle Rainbow Theatre.
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    Women in the Arts & Media Coalition Conversations in America

    The Women in the Arts & Media Coalition combines our member organizations' abilities and strengths, focusing on issues of concern to women in the arts and media. We are committed to being the link between our member organizations as we collaborate to empower women in our industry through advocacy, mentoring, networking, and events.
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    Columbia College [IL] Call for New Musical Theatre Work

    The Theatre Department’s mission is to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive education in the practices and processes of creating theatre and live performance. Columbia offer a number of programs designed to suit your particular interests, including Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees as well as minors in Acting, Stage Combat, Theatre Directing, and Writing for Performance. The Musical Theatre Program of the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago is looking for a new musical theatre work that we will workshop, rehearse, and present either in-person or virtually (depending on vaccine distribution and mask mandates) in the Fall of 2021. We are looking for a piece (or pieces) that provide(s) a unique perspective on our contemporary moment, shine(s) a ligh...
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    Poetic Theater Productions Annual Festival

    Poetic Theater Productions seeks to define the modern genre of “poetic theater” by connecting and fostering a community of artists who are passionately creating relevant and accessible work and reinvigorating a conscious theater of language. Poetic Theater Productions offers resources and opportunities for poets, playwrights, and theater artists to create new work and see it through to production via educational workshops, developmental readings and performance. PTP seeks out and creates opportunities to connect with communities affected by the issues of topic within our productions through collaborative projects and exchanges of art and ideas.
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    Iris Theatre Outdoor Summer Festival

    Iris Theatre is an award-winning theatre company and charity based at The Actors Church, Covent Garden. Created in 2007, we provide transformational opportunities for early-career artists right in the heart of Central London. Iris Theatre’s Outdoor Summer Festival 2021, takes place right in the heart of Covent Garden between the months of June – August. The festival is a celebration of early-career artists and of their work, bringing together an incredible programme of exceptional theatre and performance. Five early-career artists/companies are awarded a £1,000 seed commission + technical, marketing & creative support and programmed for a one-week run as part of the festival in Summer. The box office will be a straightforward, transparent, 50/50 split. Alongside this, Iris Th...
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    Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

    Rooted in the landscape of the Hudson Valley, with the plays of William Shakespeare as our touchstone, HVSF engages the widest possible audience in a theatrical celebration of our shared humanity.
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    Trustus Theatre Playwrights' Festival

    Est. 1988. This festival accepts submissions nationally from playwrights seeking to develop their script for a full main stage production at Trustus Theatre.
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    Voices From a Changing Nation & Middle East

    Independent, intercultural, entertaining, and uncensored, Mosaic Theater Company is a not-for-profit organization committed to making transformational, socially-relevant art. We produce plays by authors on the front lines of conflict zones, and to building a fusion community to address some of the most pressing issues of our times.
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    Garry Marshall Theatre

    An innovator in pop culture, writer/director, Garry Marshall believed that live, shared storytelling was one of the greatest human experiences. On this principle, and with an affinity for community and summer camp-like spirit, Mr. Marshall and his family built this 130-seat, live theatre space for all in 1997. Now part of his legacy, the nonprofit space is aptly called the Garry Marshall Theatre. We are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating community. Our mission is to present innovative performances, offer educational opportunities, and champion connection and conversation through storytelling and cultural experiences. We echo and expand upon the philosophy that the human experience of sharing in live arts does spark ideas, inspire change, and remind us of the pr...
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    Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival

    An innovator in pop culture, writer/director, Garry Marshall believed that live, shared storytelling was one of the greatest human experiences. On this principle, and with an affinity for community and summer camp-like spirit, Mr. Marshall and his family built this 130-seat, live theatre space for all in 1997. Now part of his legacy, the nonprofit space is aptly called the Garry Marshall Theatre. We are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating community. Our mission is to present innovative performances, offer educational opportunities, and champion connection and conversation through storytelling and cultural experiences. We echo and expand upon the philosophy that the human experience of sharing in live arts does spark ideas, inspire change, and remind us of the pr...
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    New Ohio Theatre Ice Factory Summer Festival

    New Ohio Theatre develops and presents the boldest and most innovative work from NYC’s diverse independent theatre community, actively expanding the boundaries of what theatre is, how it’s made, and who makes it. With a 28 year history and two Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence for developing and presenting new work, we have established ourselves as a pillar of the downtown independent theatre community. We are known for our eclectic, expansive sensibilities, our artist-centric philosophy, and for creating an environment of generosity and open access. We believe the best of NYC’s diverse indie theatre community—the small, inspired, artist-driven ensembles and the daring producing companies who operate without a permanent theatrical home—are actively and aggressively expanding the bound...
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    The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

    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.
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    Women's Work Festival

    The Women's Work Festival (WWF) celebrates creators. We are an international festival of plays-in-progress. Our week long event features readings, music performances, workshops, panels, and special events promoting work by, for, and about women. Our festival is intersectional and proudly includes the work of women and other marginalized genders.
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    Neurodivergent New Play Festival (NNPF)

    Spectrum Theatre Ensemble evolves the awareness, resources, and professionals that empower our neurodiverse community in achieving equal opportunity and full participation in society. Spectrum Theatre Ensemble (STE), in partnership with The Epic Players, is seeking scripts from neurodivergent playwrights for consideration as part of the 2021 Neurodivergent New Play Festival (NNPF). As a part of the NNPF, the Neurodivergent Playwright Initiative will consist of a combination of virtual and in-person readings to be held in July and August of 2021.
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    NorCal Fringe Theater Festival

    Grass Valley’s NorCal Fringe Theater Festival is part of a network of over three dozen fringes taking place in the United States every year. The local festival joining these two networks helped attract award winning acts from all over North America. NorCal Fringe was created by Quest Theaterworks which is dedicated to “small but mighty” theater. As a 501(c)3, Quest Theaterworks presents plays and workshops designed to capture the power of live theater to open the heart. They always offer rich, engaging experiences so that you will leave the theater a little lighter than when you came in. Quest Theatreworks produces the NorCal Fringe Festival, an eclectic event taking place every year in downtown Grass Valley. It’s an opportunity to experience the next generation of cutting-edge...
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    10 Minute Play Fest NY Orange County Arts Council

    New York Orange County Arts Council founded its 10 Minute Play Festival in 2017 with twenty local submissions. Now, it has expanded to accepting hundreds of submissions each year from our very own neighborhood to across the world in New Zealand.
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    Chicago Writers Bloc

    Chicago Writers Bloc is a play development group that focuses on presenting new plays developed in monthly sessions and regular new play festivals. Led by Joanne Koch, a widely produced playwright and noted Emeritus Director of the National Louis University Master’s in Written Communication Program, the not-for-profit Writers’ Bloc has brought over 250 new plays and musicals to Chicago area audiences, supported in part by grants and by festival attendees and contributors. Many of these plays have gone on to win local, national, and international prizes with productions locally and around the country, including off Broadway, East Coast, Midwest, West coast, and publications. Our thanks go to all our participating playwrights and our supporters, who by attending our festivals contribute t...
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    Front-Row Fringe Festival(c)

    Front Row Fringe Festival has been created to help artists continue creating art during the CoVid-19 pandemic, in 2020. We believe our artists and performers deserve to have a platform from which they can continue to share their creative and innovative works. Our goal is to provide our audiences an artistic and emotional experience they won’t forget.
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    Bad Theater Fest

    To produce events & projects that people want to see and press wants to talk about. Entertain the audience. To champion & elevate the misfit, castoff, underdog and downtrodden artist. To courageously show the world that the line between “GOOD” and “BAD” is imagined.
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    Hi Desert Fringe Festival

    Bringing original, non-traditional, gritty, edgy, thought-provoking performance art to the Hi-Desert.
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    Gi60 Theatre Festival

    Gi60 Theatre Festival on Film, hosted by The Tank NYC - home for emerging artists - on their digital platform Cybertank - has been extended through March 31, 2021! Ten tiny plays on film and Zoom, linked together for a single viewing - tickets are $5.00, with all proceeds going directly to support The Tank NYC and the amazing work it has done for artists throughout the pandemic. But wait! There's more!! On the same page as your link to the plays is a Bonus Feature - a talkback with Gi60 founders and artistic directors Steve Ansell and Rose Burnett Bonczek, in conversation with The Tank's artistic director Meghan Finn.
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    Rochester Fringe Festival

    From our captivating East End Spiegeltent, venues and acts radiate out into the city in every direction. And the special way the Fringe lineup gets built each year is becoming the envy of other festivals, with its unique, bifurcated style. “Bifurcated”? Wait, before you Google that: It’s simply how we describe the dual nature of Rochester’s Fringe. Organizers present a handful of special events, but the vast majority are curated by the venues themselves from artists’ applications. That’s why the lineup is so astoundingly diverse and creative. Why you’ll see surprising new performances here for the first time. And why the choices for entertainment are vast. Our festival has come to be known as “The Rochester Model” by the more than 200 fringe festivals around the world for its annual, free...
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    Call for TGNC Musical Theatre Writers and Performers

    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.
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    Ohio Shakespeare Festival

    The Ohio Shakespeare Festival regards the actors, the script and the audience as the quintessential elements of the theatre. As a professional theatre company, we are dedicated to articulating the inherently theatrical components of Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights throughout the ages in a manner that enables the collected imaginations of the artists to meet the collective imagination of the audience in a public celebration that transforms the world in which we live.
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    GHC Ten-Minute Play Festival

    Grays Harbor College has classes and degrees relating to both music and theater. Take a few classes just to gain experience or take the entire program and earn a degree you can use to transfer to a four-year university.
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    JL Smith New Plays Festival

    Perform, direct, design and more in a blended theatre program. From your first year the opportunities are endless to perform, direct, design and more in the York College theatre program. Join a program with an individualized blend of academic and practical theatre courses.
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    Center Stage Israel

    Center Stage is Israel's premier professional English language theater. It is a unique and vibrant performance space that aims to bring English-language theater into the mainstream of Israeli culture. At Center Stage you can enjoy the latest drama, musical theater and reviews, stand up comedians, festivals, workshops, youth theater and more. Center Stage is a creative hub, an exciting cultural center for actors, theater professionals, audiences and the community. We look forward to welcoming you through our doors.
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    Artists' Exchange One Act Play Festival

    Since 2006, Artists’ Exchange has hosted the One Act Play Festival (OAPF) for the entertainment and enjoyment of the Cranston community. Short plays are submitted from local, regional, and national playwrights and then selected for performance by a panel of directors/actors. This year’s festival will feature a delightful blend of local and national playwrights.
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    Coalescence Theatre Project's Black Lives Black Words Showcase

    The Coalescence Theatre Project is a nationally recognized and award-winning theatre that exists to incite our community to thoughtful action. Our logo, an abstract representation of the genetic tree of life, reminds us that we all come from one common Ancestor. We focus on unheard stories and offer a place where the silent and the underrepresented have a voice. Coalescence Theatre Project aspires to be a home where play, discovery, and learning are celebrated, and our audience reflects the diversity of the community we serve. Our mission is to utilize theatre to understand, acknowledge, and dismantle all forms of systemic oppression as we explore identity and our place in a global community.
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    African American Theatre Festival

    The African American Theatre Festival is a celebration of the international poet Askia Touré and a poetry competition for youth, as well as plays. it’s been a trademark of the festival to mix dance, spoken word, and plays. The poetry competition is an opportunity to identify young poets and to encourage them to continue writing. These individuals once discoved and encouraged may also hold the potential to be new playwrights.
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    Aery Theatre One Act Play Festival

    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.
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    Florida Festival of New Musicals

    As a professional, year-round musical theatre largely focused on producing lesser-known and new musicals, The Winter Park Playhouse believes wholeheartedly in the importance of fostering the development of new works. Thus the Playhouse created and launched The Florida Festival Festival of New Musicals in 2017. The Florida Festival of New Musicals has been created to advance and elevate the original American art form of musical theatre by fostering the development of new musicals and the artistic growth of writers and composers. The festival will showcase six brand new, never-before-produced musical works and will bring together writers and composers from around the nation, with patrons, artists, press, producers and directors. The first act of each selected musical will be fully read and...
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    TEDx Asbury Park

    1act. 1idea is an offspring of TEDxAsburyPark, expanding the notion of ideas worth spreading to original short plays. Conceived as a laboratory to give voice to the work of playwrights around the world, the project also provides ways for the many talented actors, directors, and designers in our midst to express themselves. Plays are selected on the basis of originality, simplicity, and artistry with universal themes that prompt thought and conversation. Thus far, the project has received over 700 submissions, nine of which have been produced for Zoom to enthusiastic audience response. Three more will be selected soon for a January presentation by way of a November read-in of some of the more promising short plays. The goal is to continue to perform three plays a season, gathering c...
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    Powers New Voices Festival The Old Globe

    The eighth annual Powers New Voices Festival, four days of readings of new plays by some of the most exciting voices writing for the American theatre will be presented virtually for the first time, streaming online January 21–24, 2021 on the free virtual Hopin platform. The Festival is free to the public.
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    Brave New Works: Ditmas Park Reading Series

    Brave New World Repertory Theatre, a Brooklyn-based company, reaches under-served audiences to promote a love of theatre, with re-imagined classics and brave new works that reflect our diverse community. BNW is seeking new play submissions for Brave New Works: Ditmas Park 2022 Reading Series. This season, we are especially looking to feature LGBTQIA+ stories. We are making an active effort to ensure that we cast the largest net possible in seeking talented, new writers from the LGBTQIA+ community. Details are as follows: The submission deadline for the Brave New Works 2022 Reading Series is August 15th, 2021. Due to our small staff, only the first 100 plays submitted will be guaranteed consideration and only finalists will be contacted. Finalists will be notified of their status b...
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    National Jewish Playwriting Contest

    The Jewish Plays Project puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. The JPP’s innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity; engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting and championing of new voices; and secures mainstream production opportunities for the best new plays.
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    Femme Fatale Play Festival

    The Femme Fatale Play Festival was created for women playwrights. We are a festival to promote and support woman.
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    Glimmerglass Festival

    The Glimmerglass Festival’s summer-long celebration of the arts features a full schedule of performances, events and discussions to round out your visit, whether you’re here for the day, weekend or summer. Throughout the Festival, there are opportunities to mix and mingle with friends, artists and fellow arts enthusiasts. The Festival is truly a one-of-a-kind summer destination. Join us, and see for yourself why there’s no place quite like Glimmerglass.
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    Fringe Futures Festival

    Pleasance is a registered charity and for over 30 years we have provided a valuable platform and launch pad for a huge collection of artists, both at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pleasance Islington. We have also supported a great many individuals in associated creative, administrative and technical roles within the arts. Fringe Futures Festival is a brand new festival of LIVE work-in-progress shows from leading independent performance makers. Taking place in North and South London across May and June, Fringe Futures Festival is an innovative collaboration between the Pleasance & VAULT Creative Arts, providing an opportunity for early & mid-career artists to try out work at various stages of development in front of a live audience.
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    Know Theatre Playwrights Festival

    Founded by actors whose common goal is to provide theatrical performances of quality and substance. Through our dedication to this goal we produce plays that range from drama to comedy, from farce to fantasy, classic to contemporary and everything in between. Our hope is to present our audience with provocative, moving and above all, entertaining theatre.
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    Proteus Festival

    Zeiders American Dream Theater is a professional, non-profit theater company whose mission is to provide artistic experiences to the community in a forum that fosters and introduces new, exceptionally gifted artists, composers, and creative writers.
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    Hollywood Fringe Festival

    The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers. Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to...
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    Zoetic Stage Finstrom Festival of New Work

    Zoetic Stage accepts new, previously unproduced full-length plays from literary agents. We are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts by playwrights who are not represented (lawyers and law firms do not qualify as representation). Florida residents may submit a manuscript without representation.
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    Middlebury Acting Company New Plays Festival

    American Dreaming: 2023 New Play Festival Through an open submission process, Middlebury Acting Company is looking for three new plays for our second American Dreaming New Play Festival. This festival aims to amplify three unproduced, unpublished plays that address the question: What does the American Dream mean today? The selected plays will each receive two rehearsals, dramaturgical feedback, and a culminating public staged reading followed by a carefully moderated talkback with the audience. The goal of this festival is to assist the chosen playwrights in the development of their new plays, and to invite the Middlebury community into the new play development process. Plays of all genres and styles are welcome! Selected playwrights will receive housing for three nights and a travel st...
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    The New Black Fest

    THE NEW BLACK FEST is A THEATER FESTIVAL.​ ​ THE NEW BLACK FEST is a movement. It’s a call to action inspired by the state of Black theater in the 21st century. It is a bold step motivated by a growing need within the Black theater community for serious change and boundless opportunity.​ ​​ THE NEW BLACK FEST is a gathering of artists, thinkers, activists and audiences who are dedicated to stretching, interrogating and uplifting the Black aesthetic. ​ ​​​THE NEW BLACK FEST is a commitment to celebrate, advocate and showcase diverse and provocative work in a festival of Black theater artists from throughout the Diaspora. It is a convening of visionaries who are determined to reintroduce the way black theater is perceived, who are ready to chart out resolutions and promote action thro...
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    OC-Centric New Play Festival

    Do you live in or hail from Orange County, CA? If so, please submit a play to OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival! Our twelfth festival happens in August 2023 at Chapman University in Orange. ??? ????, ?? ??? ?????????? ?????????? ?? ??????????? ??? ????? ???? ????? ?? ?????, ????????? ???????? ???????? ?? ?????????. Of course, we also welcome non-musical works. As was the case in 2022, we are looking for longer one-act plays (30-60 minutes long) and full-length plays that are roughly 90 minutes long. Each play we produce will receive several performances during the festival.
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    Virginia Arts Festival

    The mission of the Virginia Arts Festival is to bring world-class performing arts to our citizens and visitors, impact the lives of students through outstanding educational programs, commission new works of national and international significance, and make a tangible difference in Hampton Roads through regional partnerships and cultural tourism.
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    Prototype

    PROTOTYPE: OPERA l THEATRE l NOW is a co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, two trailblazers in the creation and presentation of contemporary, multi-disciplinary opera-theatre and music-theatre works. The pioneering festival is the only one of its kind in New York City and is a model now emulated around the country – producing and presenting a wide spectrum of works, from intimate black-box experiences to larger chamber opera productions, valuing artistic, curatorial, and producorial risk-taking. PROTOTYPE is committed to surprising our audiences and confounding their expectations through content, form, and relevance. The festival gives voice to a diverse group of composers, librettists, performers and musicians across all genres, backgrounds, and cultures. In providing a recu...
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    National Playwriting Program

    The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting Program (NPP) offers three (3) programs for student-written work: ten-minute plays, one act plays, and full-length plays. See below for specific guidelines and awards for each program, but please make note of these overall guidelines for ALL manuscripts: All plays must be blind submissions, which means that the playwright’s name and any identifying information (including school information) must be removed from the manuscript in its entirety. This includes the title page, and all headers and footers throughout the text of the play. All plays will be evaluated by readers from outside Region 3. Playwrights’ names will be associated with their manuscripts through the electronic form submitted via the Submittable websit...
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    Chesley Chambers Reading Series

    The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) is New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQ+ theater company. We are dedicated to an honest and open exploration of the life experiences and cultural sensibilities of the LGBTQ+ community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive. The Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project is an ongoing, intermittent forum for playwrights to have their work presented to an invited audience. No staging. No Q and A. Just an opportunity for playwrights to be heard. The series honors Jane Chambers (1937-83) and Robert Chesley (1943-90) – arguably two of the most original and impassioned voices to contribute to our theatrical heritage.
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    365 Women A Year: a playwriting project

    About 365… This international playwriting project involves over 300 playwrights who have signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history. The project’s ambitious yet focused goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well as empower and promote female playwrights around the world. What seemed like an unattainable goal became a reality when Jess Eisenberg decided that she couldn’t do a project this size alone. She brought on her dear friend, Gina Scanlon, and together they began to write. After some small scale calls for playwrights, the numbers quickly grew and grew. The dedicated playwrights plan to continue this project every year, with a new list of 365 women in history.
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    Women Center Stage

    The Women Center Stage Festival, formerly an initiative of Culture Project, New York’s premier home for socially conscious theater, is returning to New York this spring. Women Center Stage is part multidisciplinary performance/part multicultural salon; a place for artists to build community, share their stories, and create a fresh theatrical landscape. Founded in 1996, Culture Project is the preeminent destination for artistic work that investigates the most urgent social and political issues of our time. We believe art is a powerful force that can lift the human spirit, catalyze public discourse and motivate political action with a clarity of purpose.
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    #ShePERSISTED: a festival of staged readings

    The Coalescence Theatre Project, located in Bloomington Illinois, exists as an educational outreach program to expand interest in theatre and encourage, and develop new talent. Our logo, an abstract representation of the genetic tree of life, reminds us that we all come from one common Ancestor. We focus on unheard stories and offer a place where the silent and the underrepresented have a voice. We aspire to be a home where learning is key, play and discovery are celebrated, and our audience reflects all of the people we serve. Coalescence Theatre Project is committed to teaching our audience, actors, and talent new and established plays from underrepresented communities such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC – the global majority, and women playwrights.
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    Theatre for Youth Invitational

    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.
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    Birdhouse Theatre

    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.
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    Plain Site Theatre Festival

    The Plain Site Theatre Festival, curated by Alex Rioux and run in partnership by The Black Box Theatre and Solo Chicken Productions, is proud to return once again to the St. Thomas University campus to present new 2SLGBTQIA+ centered plays with the aim of fostering queer visibility in our arts scene and on the St. Thomas University campus.
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    East Village Chronicles of New One-Act Plays

    Now in our 30th season, Obie Award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse is accepting submissions for its 17th presentation of East Village Chronicles, a festival of new one-act plays inspired by the diverse population, culture, and history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. There is an honorarium of $100 for each script accepted for production.
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    Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize

    This award represents a unique collaboration between the prestigious Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, where artists from all disciplines have been supported by residencies since 1983, and The Blank Theatre in Hollywood, which has been developing new plays and new artists since 1990. The Future of Playwriting Prize will be given annually to an early-career playwright who personifies the future of theatre — someone whose voice will shape theatre for decades to come, and who will bring new thoughts and views to the American theatrical conversation. The winner will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize and an all-expenses-paid, two-week residency at Ucross’s ranch at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. The residency includes transportation, accommodations, meals, and the opportunity to commune wit...
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    WoW's NoW: Walking on Water's New Original Works

    Walking on Water Productions (WoW) is a Tompkins County musical theatre company that empowers local theatre artists by training, collaborating with, and showcasing them through production opportunities, internships, and educational workshops that provide individual development and community connection; together, we present both new and existing works that appeal to multi-generational audiences.
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    The Fire This Time Festival

    The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. Frigid NYC and the Fire This Time Festival provide opportunities for talented early career playwrights of African and African American descent to write and produce material that reflects diverse perspectives as 21st century theater artists and showcase this work to diverse audiences.
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    Adelaide Caberet Festival

    The biggest festival of its kind, Adelaide Festival Centre's Adelaide Cabaret Festival continues to attract truly outstanding artists from around the country and the world and will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020. The festival not only highlights the big names but makes them, too.
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    Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry

    Sundog Theatre, Inc. is a performing arts organization offering contemporary, original and thought-provoking theatre productions, a touring company that travels regionally, acting classes for young people, and arts-in-education programs that supplement classroom curricula through theatre, dance, music, and visual arts to help make learning come alive.
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    First Flight Festival

    Angels Theatre Company creates engaging theatre to promote artistic growth, foster community relationships and raise social awareness. Angels Theatre Company nurtures and celebrates theatre artists while engaging our community in quality live theatre.
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    Shakespeare On the Sound

    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 school, library, adult education, and art programs as a means to reach a diverse cross-section of people of all ages and economic backgrounds.
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    AmaZing Theatre Company

    AmaZing Theatre believes that drama is a powerful medium for teaching and learning about the history and cultural nuances that are the foundation of African Americans. The Theatre's mission is to create performing arts opportunities of social significance for the Black/African American community. To ensure that our productions tell not only the Black/African American story, we partner with other ethnic groups to share and bring together a world view. With this ideology the AmaZing Theatre contributes to community theater by: supporting, educating, training and developing artists. inspiring, producing, and assisting new playwrights. fostering relationships in the community to increase diverse audience participation. producing historical and socially relevant Black/African American pla...
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    Carlow Little Theatre International Playwriting Festival

    Carlow Little Theatre Society is one of the oldest amateur drama groups in Ireland. In 1944 a group of like minded people got together to discuss forming a local drama society and thus we were born. In 1945 we produced our first play ‘The Whip Hand' and since then the society has on average, performed a One Act season and two full length plays each year. We welcome all aspiring actors and writers wishing to try out new material, as well as anyone with a desire to work with us behind the scenes (Directing, lighting, production, costuming, etc) from aged 16+. To become involved, simply follow our social media updates and then come along to one of our readings or social nights. Alternatively, please feel free to leave us a message via the contact us page.
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    Stethoscope Stage Play Festival

    Stethoscopes are instruments used to closely and carefully listen to the heart, and that is exactly what transpires here at Stethoscope Stage. The ultimate heart to heart, this one-of-a-kind national play festival is born out of the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and inspired by the recent advent of narrative medicine. We are dedicated to facilitating open and honest conversations between patients and medical care providers — both seeking truth, to be heard, and understood. Brought to life through the transformative power of live theatre, the voices of those navigating illness are amplified while the challenges and gratifications of serving in the medical field are illuminated. Hereby, Stethoscope Stage builds the essential bridge of empathy between patients and medical professionals that...
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    SETC/Hollins Ten-Minute Play Festival

    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...
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    Obsidian Theatre Festival

    Obsidian, produced in the city of Detroit, by Detroiters, is a celebration of Black stories that will highlight the prolific work of emerging Black voices, focusing on the vast array of diverse experiences of those within the African diaspora in America. MISSION STATEMENT It is the mission of the Obsidian Theatre Festival to feature the work of exciting Black voices, and illuminate the rich diversity of experiences relevant to the African diaspora in America. PURPOSE STATEMENT We will entertain, educate and provoke the thoughtful consideration of a broad theatrical audience, while normalizing the panoply of Black American culture.
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    Flint Repertory Theatre New Works Festival

    Flint Repertory Theatre is seeking new plays and musicals for the 2023 New Works Festival April 28-30, 2023. The New Works Festival is an annual weeklong event featuring staged readings and workshops of new plays and musicals. Playwrights and composers from around the country are in residence in Flint during the process, which includes post-show audience discussions. Contact Sasha Dudock (Assistant to the Producing Artistic Director) at sdudock@flintrep.org with any literary questions. Previous New Works Festival playwrights include Mando Alvarado, Gregory Bonsignore, Greg Kotis, Jenni Lamb, Gordon Leary & Julia Meinwald, Douglas Lyons & Creighton Irons, Daniel MacGregor, Alex Moggridge, Amber Palmer, Karen Saari, Nandita Shenoy, Charlie...
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    Plays and Pizza

    Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly at We need a new location Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly.
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    Boog City Arts Festival

    Now in its 30th year, Boog City is a small press and community newspaper of the same name. It has put out over 300 publications, including 35 volumes of poetry, various zines, and a newspaper, featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bernadette Mayer, and Eileen Myles among others, and theme issues on baseball, women’s writing, and Louisville, Ky. It hosts and curates two regular performance series—d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses, featuring a non-NYC small press, its writers, and a musical act; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out; and Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville. Each February and September Boog puts on...
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    The Theatre of Others Audio New Play Festival

    The Theatre of Others is seeking submissions of 20-30 minute plays for its second annual Audio New Play Festival, which will be produced in September and October 2022. This year’s prompt is “FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW.” You may interpret the prompt broadly - your play exploring whatever themes it generates for you. Plays will be released on a weekly basis via The Theatre of Others Podcast, which can be found on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and all your favorite podcast platforms. If your play is chosen, you will be responsible for your own rehearsals and production. The Theatre of Others will provide assistance with casting, dramaturgy, and/or technical design, and will help connect you with the artists you need to round out your team, be that a director, designer, or actors. You are wel...
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    B Street Theatre Festival

    On February 7, 2022, B Street Theatre will begin taking submissions for the third, annual New Comedies Festival which will take place from June 26 – July 3, 2022 at The Sofia: Home of B Street Theatre. “That's great art -- nothing is self-evident. I am made to laugh about those who cry, and cry about those who laugh.” – Bertolt Brecht In the ever-changing landscape of our country and the American theatre, B Street is soliciting submissions of comedies in all shapes and sizes for their third, annual New Comedies Festival. We encourage local, national and international artists to submit full-length comedic plays during our open submission process. We encourage pieces to include elements of romance, dark comedy, farce, satire, physical comedy, commedia dell’arte, improv, stand-up, audience...
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    DQTini Series Open Call for One-Page Plays

    Founded in 2009, by former members of the Professional Playwrights’ Unit of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, dramatic question theatre (dqt) has developed plays that have both received a wide array of national honors and been nominated for major awards including the John Gassner Award for New Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The company develops plays by Women and People of Color that deal with race, culture, and class. Concurrently, it builds a diverse audience from the Latinx and Black communities it regularly serves.
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    Celtic Calling

    CELTIC CALLING GATHERING A celebration of Celtic arts, culture and traditions. It includes music, dance, education, athleticism, and family fun. Schedule will be published as events are confirmed. Please check our facebook celtic calling page for local interest events and news.
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    W.H.A.M. Festival

    Every March, during Women’s History Month, Goddard Riverside’s Community Arts program hosts an exciting month-long arts festival celebrating female artists and perspectives. Join us this year for W.H.A.M. 2022! Now in its seventh year, the Women’s History Artist Month festival — W.H.A.M. — showcases a wide range of local independent artists and helps raise vital funding for the Performing Arts Conservatory. This year’s W.H.A.M. festival will be taking place at Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center unless otherwise noted in the Calendar below. The 7th Annual W.H.A.M. Opening Reception was held on Wednesday, March 2nd. Guests were able to get the first look at our W.H.A.M. 2022 Art Exhibit – Women’s Work: The Challenge of Making Our Mark – with work from 19 women and celebrate the start o...
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    CreateTheater New Works Festival

    Create Theater’s New Works Festival features seven productions - six new musicals and one new play, from writers across the country who have developed their work in-house through CreateTheater's resident writer company, The Expert's Theater Company (ETC). CreateTheater's ETC members are given writing groups and workshops, musical theater writing classes, producer seminars featuring NYC industry experts, producer coaching, and online reading spaces with feedback from company members and NYC industry. The ETC model online is inspired by Ellen Stewart's (La MaMa ETC) example of providing a low-cost safe space for artists to develop their work.
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    Hippodrome Theatre New Works Festival

    Open to playwrights of all ages, but must reside in Florida. Scripts must be original, unproduced and unpublished plays. Plays that have had readings or workshops are eligible. Plays must be full length; no less than 60 minutes running time and require no more than 5 actors. Writers may submit up to two plays. Please use standard script format (Writopia Script Formatting).
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    Acting Out! Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival

    The Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival showcases locally written plays with a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered theme. The Festival is produced under the auspices of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. The primary mission of the Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival is fourfold: (1) to showcase the works of local playwrights; (2) to build a racially and culturally diverse theater community with particular emphasis on attracting lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (lgbt) participants to work together with straight participants; (3) to develop racially and culturally diverse audiences with particular emphasis on attracting a lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (lgbt) audience; and (4) to offer multicultural theater productions that depict the lgbt community.
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    WTP Unexpected Play Festival

    WTP Call for Submissions for the Unexpected Play Festival produced in partnership with Theatrical Outfit. About the Unexpected Play Festival: -The festival will be in February 2023. -To submit playwrights must be local WTP members. -WTP Acting Ensemble will be given casting priority. -Three-four plays will be selected and given readings. -Each playwright selected will be partnered with a dramaturg and offered dramaturgy as part of the process. -Each piece will get two-three rehearsals and a one hour tech (sound and lights), followed by a WTP moderated feedback session. -Playwrights will be paid a reasonable rate, along with all other artists.
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    Lift Every Voice Festival

    American Stage is committed to producing powerful stories, boldly told. Formerly known as our 21st Century Voices: New Play Festival, Lift Every Voice is a staged reading festival committed to providing exposure to emerging playwrights with a focus on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ storytellers. This year programming includes an annual staged reading festival, workshops, lectures which will occur March 3-5th, 2022 in partnership with The James Museum. Submissions should be new plays that promote, celebrate or explore the experience of BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ individuals with themes that are relevant to our world today, featuring characters who inspire us. Play submissions should align with our 45 year history of productions that celebrate the most powerful stories of the moment, the most defining stor...
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    Millibo Art Theatre

    The Millibo Art Theatre (originally the Manitou Art Theatre) was founded in 2001 by Jim Jackson and Birgitta De Pree to provide new and original live performances in an intimate, accessible theatre for audiences of all ages in the Pikes Peak region. Having performed extensively internationally and throughout the U.S., Jim Jackson and Birgitta De Pree had experienced many successful theatre models in action. They recognized the powerful impact new work can have on a community as it engages audiences in relevant dialogue, challenges and supports artists in the creation of new work and invites audience participation and community participation in entirely fresh and dynamic ways. Recognized as an arts leader in the community, with numerous award-winning shows and exciting community collaborat...
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    Glass Ceiling Breakers 3

    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 the play submission is over 12 pages, it will not be read. Save File as follows in PDF only: LAST NAME_TITLE OF PLAY_GCB3 Please only submit plays that have not been produced in Westchester or Putnam C...
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    Charm City Fringe

    Charm City Fringe (CCF) produces an annual performing arts festival in Baltimore that unites people through art, builds community, provides a place for weird, and empowers artists in producing bold, fun entertainment. Charm City Fringe, Inc. is a nonprofit that develops, showcases, and celebrates new and innovative theatre and performing arts in Baltimore. We aim to connect and elevate the theater community, engage existing audiences, attract non-traditional theatergoers, and reach out to communities not commonly represented. The Charm City Fringe Festival, founded in 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland, provides a platform for artists to elevate their work and reach new audiences, while eliminating obstacles and allowing audiences to discover and explore new artists and works. The Festival is r...
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    South Carolina New Play Festival

    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 national profile. This is a destination event for theater lovers and a unique opportunity for Southeastern audiences to meet the artists and shape the future of American theater.
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    Fearless Female Voices

    Fearless Female Voices is an annual festival of short works by female identifying playwrights.
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    Black Theatre Fringe Festival of South Florida

    Stimulate the air with the first-ever Fringe of it’s kind! Featuring playwrights, directors, and actors galore of the African Diaspora. This festival seeks to give opportunity to the local arts community by main-staging new works of art by artists who otherwise may not get the chance to perform their works. Your support of the Arts will help us to bring the first-ever Black Theatre Fringe Festival to South Florida. Never-before-seen shows, hot-off-the-press scripts. Black Theatre Fringe Festival of South Florida is being presented by Fulfillment Theatre Company and Beaux Production Co. Thank you in advance for your patronage.
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    Two Good Dogs 'Dare to Dream' Play Festival

    We are proud to announce our first playwright development opportunity, Two Good Dogs 'Dare to Dream' Play Festival, 2023, fostering New York City playwrights and performance artists. In our annual festivals we promote plays that call upon voices and experiences rooted in historically marginalized communities. TGD Productions is a New York-based non-profit theater company that provides inclusive opportunities for a diverse group of artists to create, collaborate, engage, and practice their craft. WHY A FESTIVAL? After a prolonged period of online theater and distanced life, TGD mounted a highly successful production of the play Jericho in June 2022. In 2023, TGD aims to re-ignite local playwrights by sustaining their development from first ideas to a finished performance or script. Follow...
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    WTFringe Festival

    The National Women’s Theatre Festival announces the call for production proposals for the 2023 WTFringe festival. WTFringe will be part of the 8th Annual National Women’s Theatre Festival happening in person in Raleigh, NC and virtually from June 22 - July 1, 2023. Proposals for in-person productions, virtual productions, and hybrid productions will be accepted for consideration.
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    Ridgedale One Act Festival

    Welcome to Ridgedale Players, one of the oldest community theaters in the state! Let us tell you a little about our history. Our group was born during the Great Depression – October 1931 to be exact. A teacher at Lincoln High School named Minna Miller Smith was asked to form a cultural group using funds provided by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Because of widespread unemployment, morale was at a low point all over the country and this agency was formed to give people something to do. A group of 27 would-be thespians met at Mrs. Smith’s home (20 Poplar Park in Pleasant Ridge) and there our group was born. A short time later, the group was christened “Ridgedale Players” by a high school senior, who was awarded a $5 prize for suggesting the winning name. “Ridgedale” combined t...
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    Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwrighting Festival

    The Atlanta Shakespeare Company is launching a new playwriting initiative for historically marginalized artists. The "Muse Of Fire Playwriting Festival'' invites playwrights of the global majority to create a full-length play that reimagines Shakespeare’s themes and plots through the lens of BIPOC America. Script submissions will be accepted through spring 2023, and three finalists will be invited to Atlanta to see their scripts receive staged readings in summer 2023. The winning script will also receive a $5000 cash prize and a staged reading at the January 2024 Shakespeare Theatre Association Conference, hosted by the Atlanta Shakespeare Company. Three finalists will have staged readings of their scripts at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse during the weekend of June 30 - July 2, 2023...
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    ThinkTank Theatre's TYA Playwrights Festival

    ThinkTank Theatre seeks to provide a platform for forward-thinking, diverse voices for Young Adult and Family Audiences. Plays selected for our TYA Festival Showcase receive rehearsal with a professional cast and director, providing an opportunity for the playwright to collaborate with other professionals during the development process. The plays are presented semi-staged, script-in-hand for audiences, providing the playwright further opportunity to develop the work, in the presence of our Tampa Bay community. The date for the TYA Festival Showcase is currently set for August 2023. (Exact dates to be confirmed by April 2023). Plays selected for the TYA Festival Showcase are under consideration for full production in a subsequent season with ThinkTank Theatre At ThinkTank, we make it our...
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    Illuminating New Voices New Works Festival

    A Festival of New Works selected as part of a curated selection process called Illuminating New Voices. Our goal is to support and nurture new works that inspire audiences to think critically about existing social and cultural narratives. We invite artists to submit work, spanning 10-15 minutes, that creatively challenges traditional ways of story-telling. If selected, new work will be showcased in our new works festival May 19-21, 2023
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    The Tank PrideFest

    The Tank invites artists and activists of the LGBTQIA+ community to present work at our seventh annual Pride Festival in our physical space OR as part of CyberTank! This year we are interested in the forms, methods, and tools we as queer people use to heal and deal with the excruciating reality we endure every day. In a world and a country where we constantly face violence and hate, we hold our stuff pretty tight, but how? And with what tools? And what methods? This year, we invite artists of ALL disciplines, including music, dance, drag, variety, performance art, multimedia, ALL art that can be performed to think about the rituals, the actions, the stories, the moments, where we can celebrate our ability to heal, where we can understand and celebrate why we are so resilient, and where...
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    Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival at Pablo Center

    Pablo Center at the Confluence works to educate and explore William Shakespeare’s writing through the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival to be presented throughout the Summer of 2023. As an integral part of this new festival, Pablo Center is proud to introduce Improbable Fiction: A New Works series. Playwrights from across the region and country are invited to submit one-act plays in one of three categories: “Young Voices” (for writers ages 16-24), “Diverse Perspectives (for writers who identify as BIPOC), or “Shakes-pired” (for works inspired by or an homage to Shakespeare and his plays). Through a blind adjudication process, the festival will select three playwrights to showcase their talent and creative writing through the workshop and provide a stipend of $1,500 for each script selected....
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    In Death's Company

    In Death's Company engages in theatre of a darker tone, addressing difficult themes and concepts, and isn't afraid to blur preconceived lines commonly considered to be concrete. We believe that a strong, passionate community is often the most powerful tool in creating a thriving theatre. We are looking to bring about a forum for new and emerging artists in any and all creative fields: i.e., one-act festivals, open-mic nights, galleries, monologue nights, slam poetry, drag shows, etc. We will engage in art freely and openly. In Death's Company will highlight members of the theatrical community that have been overlooked and/or disenfranchised throughout history. We will give a performance platform to those with different lived experiences to honor and celebrate diversity.
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    Tampa International Fringe Festival

    The Tampa International Fringe Festival was founded in 2016, and lives in the heart of Historic Ybor City. As a member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF), the Tampa Fringe abides by specific principles — to promote inclusivity, allow for creative freedom, to give 100% of the base ticket price to artists, and more. Our five day festival encompasses everything that hasn’t found a home yet on the main stage at the performing arts center. Fringe is your best friend ranting about the rising price of gas. It’s is the big new musical. Fringe is the backpacker from the other side of the planet here to share their story. It’s the gospel soloist from the community center. Fringe is you. Fringe is also a verb in the festival circuit. It means to fully immerse yourself in the man...
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    Avant Bard Theatre Scripts in Play Festival

    Avant Bard Theatre is a professional regional company dedicated to producing the best in classics, both time-tested and contemporary. The Scripts In Play Festival is an annual celebration of new plays that exhibit a fresh take on a classic story or theme. These plays align with Avant Bard’s dedication to producing works that further our society’s conversation with dramatic literary classics — either time-tested or contemporary classics. Avant Bard is especially interested in staging plays by local playwrights that celebrate and highlight the experiences of people of color, trans and gender diverse people, immigrants, and people with disabilities. We welcome collaborations with artists who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color, or who are transgender, nonbinary, and/or queer, or who ar...
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    Musical Theatre West New Works Reading Festival

    The story of Musical Theatre West is the journey from a group of volunteers performing in a high school auditorium to one of the largest and most respected theatrical production companies in Southern California. Beginning as the Whittier Civic Light Opera in 1952, the company originally produced two shows a year for just two days each, back when shows like RIO RITA and THE RED MILL were still in vogue. During most of the 1960s and 1970s, the group remained an all-volunteer effort, producing one show a year. Back then tickets were sold at Hinshaw’s and Myers department stores and could be had for all of $1.50 (75 cents for children)! In 1977 the group moved to the brand-new La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and began to produce a full season of shows.
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    Next Act! New Play Summit

    NEXT ACT! New Play Summit, a joint venture between Capital Repertory Theatre and Proctors, is an annual showcase of new plays designed to shed light on new play development. The summit brings playwrights, directors, actors, and audience members together for a series of workshops and readings, where multiple new full-length plays are given readings. The Summit was founded on the goal to find a play that theREP wants to produce – furthering the theatre’s commitment to the development of new work. To date, theREP has selected one play to produce as a World Premiere from every single Next Act! New play Summit. The public is invited to attend and provide feedback during all events. Officially formed in the fall of 2012, the NEXT ACT! New Play Summit is made possible by a generous legacy gif...
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    Live Arts Waterworks

    Launched in 2023, WATERWORKS celebrates new theatrical voices in Charlottesville and beyond! This festival of new works puts the playwright at center stage and diversifies the stories told on the Live Arts stage. WATERWORKS is presented by The Madwoman Project.
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    New Art City Theatre Festival

    New Art City Theatre (NACT) is a professional theatre company based in Ventura, California. NACT offers a creative platform where writers of new plays and musicals find the support they need to take their work from first public reading to world premier. The mission at NACT is to forge a new path to opportunity for writers who create theatre. By giving equal access to diverse voices and inviting a broader audience to join us, NACT aspires to elevate all that is compelling about original theatre and its ability to promote unity, inspire curiosity and provide joy. NACT currently operates with two full-time staff members, Founders and Co-Producing Artistic Directors Kirby Ward and Beverly Ward, along with the counsel of an Advisory Board that includes a former Disney CTI and a fundraising...
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    Center at West Park Evolution Festival

    The EVOLUTION FESTIVAL will present original works of theater, dance, music, comedy, and interdisciplinary performance by NYC-based artists from September 5-29, 2024 at The Center at West Park in New York City. All NYC-based artists citywide are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to new works and to artist groups that are new to producing at CWP. Works should be no longer than two hours. Artists from historically underrepresented communities, including African-American, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and People of Color, LGBTQ+ folx, and people with disabilities are enthusiastically invited to apply. We are seeking a festival line-up that represents the diversity of New York City. Each artist will receive: A one-night-only performance in The Center at West Park’s Sanctuary Space...
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    International Human Rights Art Festival

    The International Human Rights Art Festival inaugurated in March 2017 at Dixon Place (NYC), to open a space for artists-activists to tell their stories, and positively influence society. Our founding principles are beauty as a fundamental creative value; sincerity and vulnerability of presentation; engagement with all people in society and celebrating diversity. These define the work we present of Black men, queer Black women, LGBTQIA presenters, Muslim women, Indian dancers, Indigenous artists, immigrant theatre makers, Palestinian comedians, street performers, organic farmers, circus presenters and all others. There is no anger, no finger pointing. Only an honest presentation of what the performer experiences in life, told through beauty and passion. We offer an ongoing and expanding ser...
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    Heart & Music at 54 Below

    Join us at 54 Below for a night of new queer tunes from New York City’s rising composers. Featuring the voices of top talent, this concert will celebrate new works and queer joy via exciting new musicals. Produced by Annie Brown, 54 Below’s Heart & Music is bound to be an unforgettable evening of discovery and connection celebrating the voices of tomorrow and the rich tapestry of LGBTQ+ narratives in musical theatre.
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    Distillery New Works Festival

    The Distillery New Works Festival is a celebration of emerging theater and an opportunity for playwrights to gain valuable feedback on new work. Each play in the festival receives a live reading by a cast of professional actors, allowing it to live and breathe off the page. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play with the playwright, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences and providing a platform for audiences to help shape new works in process.
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    Newport NewWorks Musical Theater Festival

    The mission of the Newport NewWorks Musical Theater Festival is to create a supportive, collaborative, and dynamic environment where emerging and established artists can come to play, explore, and develop their work-in-progress musicals. At every step in the process, we strive to foster an inclusive, collaborative, safe, and fun environment in which artistic exploration and experimentation is strongly encouraged.
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    Gloucester Stage Water's Rising Festival

    Water’s Rising Festival of New Climate Action Plays Gloucester Stage was built on lifting up new plays through first productions and staged readings. Since our founding, we have had an accessible play submission process for playwrights and have produced 39 world, 7 national, and 35 New England premieres with critical success. We are built on fostering new work. The theater’s home in Gloucester has more than 62 miles of shorelines, with the building itself located in FEMA’s high-risk flood zone. What makes this location a beautiful destination contains an equally foreboding future as we see sea levels rise year after year. Our stage door looks out to Smith’s Cove along Rocky Neck, so we want to celebrate this location while creating avenues for awareness and continued conversation about ou...
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    ANT Fest (Ars Nova)

    ANT Fest is our annual festival of All New Talent showcasing new work from New York's most adventurous emerging artists. Every summer, Ars Nova throws open our doors to the next wave of pioneering theater, comedy, music, and hybrid theater-makers who fill our stage with their most dynamic ideas.
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    New Voices Theatre Festival

    The New Voices Theatre Festival of The University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance is seeking stories from underrepresented communities. The New Voices Theatre Festival is accepting submissions of unpublished and unproduced full-length plays to develop during a summer residency that will culminate in a staged reading. One new work from the festival will be chosen to be mounted as a fully-produced production during the upcoming season at The University of Alabama. During the summer residency, plays may be collaboratively developed in the rehearsal space. *The playwright must own all rights to their script.
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    The Hatchery

    The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program and public facing new play festival supporting works that center music and movement.
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    Theater Masters TAKE TEN!

    Theater Masters hosts a national 10-minute playwriting competition among the students at the top MFA programs in the country. Out of 60+ submissions, 6-7 winning plays are selected by a reading panel made up of industry professionals. ​ Once selected, the MFA playwrights are given feedback to further develop their plays. They are then flown to New York City where they are able to observe the process of putting their plays into production, with a team of professional actors, directors and designers, culminating in a three night run of their work at a reputable New York City theater. During this New York production week, Theater Masters also provide the playwrights with "Wonder Week," during which we arrange meetings with the top agents, literary managers, and artistic directors in the indu...