The 24th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2023)

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Deadline: September 30, 2022

Each season, The Festival receives approximately 350 submissions. Since its inception in 1998, The Festival has received over 8,000 submissions from across the world and produced 126 world premieres by 99 different playwrights. The Festival presents between five and seven plays each season.

Guidelines:

• Only UNPRODUCED works will be accepted.
• Plays that have had staged readings are eligible.
• No adaptations or children's plays.
• Cast size maximum: 12
• Length maximum: 40 minutes (no minimum)
• Settings: Simple or suggested.
• Playwrights may make multiple submissions.
• Please do not submit works that have been previously submitted.
• All submissions should be emailed in PDF format to Jeffrey@theatrethree.com
• Scripts must be received by September 30, 2022.

Cover sheet of the play should include title, author, author's address, author's telephone number, and author's e-mail; a short synopsis is encouraged but not required. Any stage play format is acceptable. Multiple submissions should be made in the same email. In addition, a resume may be included as a separate attachment in the same email. Please do not call or stop by the theatre.

Selected plays will be presented for ten performances (dates to be determined in winter-spring 2023), at the Ronald F. Peierls Theatre, on Theatre Three's Second Stage.

Playwrights will receive a $125 stipend.

Playwrights will receive a standard Dramatists Guild-approved contract and will receive four complimentary tickets to be used at any performances. Playwrights are welcome to attend any rehearsals or performances. Playwrights will receive copies of playbills, flyers, articles, and reviews as well as a link to all publicity and production photos. THEATRE THREE is responsible for all elements of production; playwrights incur no expenses. THEATRE THREE retains no future production rights.

Final selection of plays will be in late 2022.