Deadline: July 3, 2023
Veterans Repertory Theater (VetRep) is launching a 10-minute play competition for playwrights who meet one of the following criteria:
- Current or former: US military, law enforcement, fire service, EMS, foreign service, intelligence service, DoD employee, DoD Contractor;
- Immediate family of the service member listed above (“immediate family member” means: parents, siblings, children, and spouse.)
Submissions should be emailed in PDF format to info@vetrep.org
OR via the submission portal on the VetRep website at: https://vetrep.org/submissions/.
If emailing, submission must include the veteran/immediate family member status of the playwright in the body of the email.
Plays:
- Must be a completed play, ten (10) minutes or less in length; Any genre/any subject matter; does not have to be related to veteran's service
- Must not be a musical, screenplay, children’s play, adaptation, translation, or fan fiction play
- Must be the entrant’s own original work and cannot be co-authored
- Must be typed in the English language
- Must not have been previously produced or published. (Plays that have had a workshop, reading, or non-professional production are permitted).
- Must not be under option, commissioned, or scheduled for professional production or publication at the time of submission
- Must not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party
Playwrights may submit more than one play Winners and finalists will be notified via email no later than December 31, 2023.
(Note: We will make every effort to have results back to submitters ASAP, however, in order to ensure fair treatment of each submission and to plan for any contingencies which may arise, we are providing a worst-case scenario for our timeline).
There is no participation or submission fee. There is no guarantee that winners’ or finalists’ work will be produced by VetRep.