The Black Ship Co. is seeking submissions

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Play Submissions

We maintain an open submission policy - you are free to submit your work to us at any time. Before submitting, please take a moment to learn about us via this site, read the description below to help you decide if a play is appropriate to submit.

What are We Looking For?

Full Length Submissions

The Black Ship Co. is currently seeking plays for our 2013-2014 season. We're based in Chicago, our focus is on new works, and we're primarily looking for plays that have had fewer than 5 productions. You can learn more about us at blackshipco.org

This upcoming season will include fully produced plays, workshops, and a reading series. All plays sent to us will be considered for all three unless you specifically request otherwise.

For this season, we're seeking plays with a touch of the absurd, imaginary, or the magical. We're talking everything from tall tales & urban legends to new myths & folk heroes.

We're also going to be launching a Children's Theater Summer Series, and are seeking plays for that as well. For that, we are searching for 40-60 minute plays that stretch the imagination and contain characters whose struggles inspire adults and children alike to the better parts of humanity. Put simply, "Ad astra per aspera."

To submit your work, go to http://blackshipco.org/submissions

If you have any questions, please contact our literary manager at  andrew.coil@blackshipco.org



Black Curtain Submissions

The Black Ship Co. is currently seeking plays for our next round of the Black Curtain Project. The Black Curtain Project is an experimental merger of black box theater and web video. We stage new, short works as though they were going to be put up in a black box space, then film the for distribution free online for anyone to view. If you're curious, you can check out our completed Black Curtain projects here: http://blackshipco.org/black-curtain

For this round, we're seeking plays with a touch of the absurd, imaginary, or the magical. We're talking everything from tall tales & urban legends to new myths & folk heroes.

If you have any questions, please contact our literary manager at  andrew.coil@blackshipco.org