Deadline: August 31, 2021
Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for full-length works, $1500 for one-acts.
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Conditions for Consideration
Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.
Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language.
Submissions may be translations or adaptations of works in the public domain.
One-act submissions should target a minimum 40-minute final running time. Full-length submissions should target a minimum running time of 90 minutes.
Authors awarded a grant must be willing to participate in a brief rehearsal process culminating in a Zoom reading of their submitted work.
Submitted works cannot be currently attached to a theater or production company.
Submitted works cannot have had a prior development cycle outside of an educational program.
Submission deadline: August 31, 2021
Submission portfolio must include:
The play in standard script format, emailed as an attachment to Synecdoche Works.
A brief author biography, maximum of 200 words.
Please visit synecdocheworks.org for more information.
Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for full-length works, $1500 for one-acts.
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Conditions for Consideration
Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.
Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language.
Submissions may be translations or adaptations of works in the public domain.
One-act submissions should target a minimum 40-minute final running time. Full-length submissions should target a minimum running time of 90 minutes.
Authors awarded a grant must be willing to participate in a brief rehearsal process culminating in a Zoom reading of their submitted work.
Submitted works cannot be currently attached to a theater or production company.
Submitted works cannot have had a prior development cycle outside of an educational program.
Submission deadline: August 31, 2021
Submission portfolio must include:
The play in standard script format, emailed as an attachment to Synecdoche Works.
A brief author biography, maximum of 200 words.
Please visit synecdocheworks.org for more information.