Competitions

INK is again welcoming new short plays for stage and radio.  Selected submissions will be professionally produced and performed multiple times at the 5-day INK Festival in April 2024. Find full submission and category details on the INK website. Submissions open: Tuesday 1st August 2023.  Submission deadline: Saturday 23rd September 2023 Source: BBC Writersroom

The Santa Cruz Actor’s Theater is accepting international submissions for its annual short play contest. A panel of judges consisting of local writers, directors, actors and theater enthusiasts selects the top 16 plays, which are then assigned to directors and rehearsed for several months before premiering in front of sold-out audiences at the annual 8 …

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The Titchfield Festival Theatre is receiving script submissions for its New Playwright Competition. Your submission must be a brand new full length play that has not been previously performed. All genres are welcome. Maximum length of 2 hours. Scripts must be submitted anonymously under a pseudonym with no other identifying information on the script. All …

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Play Submissions Helper Blog has a round-up of Play Submissions, they are are largely US based but often open to international writers. Check out their list for June here. Deadlines: various throughout April 2023 Source: Play Submissions Helper Blog

The submission window for Little Fish Theatre’s (San Pedro, California, USA) 22nd Annual PICK OF THE VINE short play festival to be presented January-February 2024 is now open. Only short plays (under 15 minutes)submitted through this process will be considered. The theme for this year’s Festival is:  NEW BEGINNINGS Playwrights are invited to only submit a play …

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The Woodward/Newman Award is an exclusive honor offered by Constellation Stage & Screen (Bloomington, Indiana, USA), started through the support of Joanne Woodward, Newman’s Own Foundation, and the Newman family, celebrating Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward’s tremendous history of work on stage and screen. It presents the best unpublished play of the year with a …

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With its 2023 applications currently in reading, the Scribe Playwriting Competition (partnered with Play Submissions Helper) is currently taking submissions for its 2024 competition. They invite playwrights from around the world to submit new full length and one-act plays or musicals into the competition. The winners of the competition receive the prestigious Marsha A. Croyle …

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Kumu Kahua Theatre is running a new monthly playwriting contest in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press. Every month, Kumu Kahua’s artistic director Harry Wong III will select a writing prompt on the first day of that month. They are looking for 5-page monologues or 10-page scenes based on that prompt; the due date for submissions …

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Play Submissions Helper Blog has a round-up of Play Submissions, they are are largely US based but often open to international writers. Check out their list for April here. Deadlines: various throughout April 2023 Source: Play Submissions Helper Blog