CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Fade to Black Play Festival
INFO: Fade to Black Play Festival seeks original, not previously produced, unpublished work written by an African American playwright. Directors and Actors based in Houston, Texas are encouraged to participate. Only three (3) scripts submissions are allowed per playwright.
AWARD: One grand prize winner will be chosen by audience vote and awarded a cash prize.
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
DEADLINE: April 1, 2017
fadetoblackfest.com/
DRAMATISTS GUILD FELLOWS PROGRAM
The Dramatists Guild of America
INFO: The Dramatists Guild of America, the only organization devoted solely to the interests of artists writing for the theater, is now accepting applications for its Fellows Program. This year, they will select five playwrights for a nine-month program that includes group sessions with theater professional, one-on-one mentoring, and an opportunity to become interns or observers with dramatists involved in professional productions.
DEADLINE: April 7, 2017
I AM SOUL - PLAYWRIGHT RESIDENCY
National Black Theatre
INFO: The annual I AM SOUL - Playwright Residency program recognizes Black playwrights whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and excellence in the theatrical field. Alongside NBT’s Theatre Arts Director, the selected playwright will develop a new play during the eighteen (18) month residency. The program provides the playwright with a stipend, administrative and dramaturgical support, in-house readings, and one 29-hour workshop. This process culminates with a Workshop Production in NBT’s following season.
With I AM SOUL, NBT seeks to deepen the artistic relationship between Black theatrical institutions and Black playwrights in order to re-establish Black theatrical institutions as the foremost supporters and producers of new works created by Black playwrights.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Deadline: May 1, 2017
- Finalists Notified: June 10, 2017
- Recipient Notified: July 13, 2017
- Residency: September 1, 2017 – March 31, 2019
ReORIENT FESTIVAL OF SHORT PLAYS 2017
Golden Thread Productions
INFO: Golden Thread Productions, the country’s first theatre company focused on the Middle East, is seeking short plays for the ReOrient Festival of Short Plays 2017. The ReOrient Festival showcases the diversity of voices and aesthetics from the Middle East and its worldwide diaspora in a curated festival of short plays produced biennially in San Francisco.
ELIGIBILITY:
- Playwrights of Middle Eastern heritage writing about any topic
- Playwrights of all backgrounds writing about the Middle East
- The plays must be in English.
DEADLINE: May 1, 2017
goldenthread.org/about/opportunities/reorient-2017-submission/
THE RELENTLESS AWARD
The American Playwright Foundation
INFO: The Relentless Award, established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman and his pursuit of truth in the theater, is the largest annual cash prize in American theater awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play.
Submissions by first-time playwrights, women and playwrights are encouraged.
PRIZE:
- $45,000
- The option to have the winning play published by the Dramatists Play Service
- A week-long residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm, an artist residency program housed on a working organic farm in Brewster, New York. The author can elect to have a director, a dramaturg and actors join him or her while in residence on the farm
- The selected play will also have a national roll-out through the Ed Vassallo Relentless Reading Series, established to help bring to life and develop the winning play by presenting a series of staged readings at some of the top theaters across the United States
Three runners-up will also be named.
DEADLINE: 11:59pm EST on May 15, 2017
americanplaywritingfoundation.org/the-relentless-award.html
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EMERGING PLAYWRIGHT AWARD
Urban Stage
INFO: Urban Stage’s mission is to champion new works by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds and to make these works available to all. They select 1-3 plays annually to go on to their workshopping phase. Their workshops are meant to prepare a play for our Off-Broadway stage. From the workshops, they select 1-2 plays for full productions, complete with a playwright’s contract and compensation (separate from the award).
AWARD: $500 (coupled with press coverage) is given to playwrights who show excellence and dedication throughout this process – from development to the stage.
Submit plays to:
Urban Stages
555 Eighth Avenue, RM 1800
New York, N.Y. 10018
DEADLINE: No deadline. Year-round submissions accepted.
urbanstages.org/submissions/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Mixed Blood Theatre
INFO: Mixed Blood welcomes submissions of contemporary plays that pursue and realize the company’s mission and aesthetic. Mixed Blood uses theatre to address pluralism, usually manifest in race, culture, language, disability, gender, nationality, affectional orientation, and political worldview. Predictably unpredictable, the theatre particularly invites polyglot plays, scripts from the global stage, and work that advances the art form. We prefer e-submissions.
If you think you play might be a good fit, please send a query letter, your bio or resume, a brief synopsis, and a 10-page sample of your play to the Mixed Blood Literary Manager. literary@mixedblood.com