Deadline: July 3, 2024
Veterans Repertory Theater (VetRep) is launching a full-length play competition for playwrights who meet one of the following criteria:
- current or former US military, law enforcement, fire, EMS, foreign service, or intelligence service veteran OR
- immediate family member of a current or former military, law enforcement, fire, EMS, foreign service or intelligence service veteran (“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 full-length, completed play;
- Any genre/any subject matter; does not have to be related to veteran's service
- Must not be a musical, screenplay, one-act, 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.
- 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, 2024. (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.