Deadline: January 5, 2024 11:59 PM
Theatre Southwest is NOW accepting short plays for its Annual Readers' Theatre Matinee!
This year the TSW-RTM will happen on Sunday, Jan. 21st, 2024 at 3:00 P.M. and our event
producer Brian Heaton will be accepting 5-10 minute scripts from NOW until Jan. 5th, 2024
Selected plays will be read and voted on by the audience in attendance and the Audience Favorite will receive a $100 cash prize!
- Scripts will be accepted via snail-mail and email.
- Scripts entered should be in PDF format for email. Printed entries should be in standard play format and bound in a 3-hole punch folder or with brads.
- Limit of 2 entries per playwright of original works that are unpublished, and unproduced.
- ALL scripts should be numbered with title, list of characters, brief synopsis of play and
- playwright's contact info on title page.
- No Monologues or one man/woman plays will be accepted.
- ALL genres of plays will be accepted.
- ALL plays should be able to be read within 5 to 10 minutes, no longer, no exceptions. If using
- standard play format a good gauge would be if the play's text is 4 to 11 pages long (excluding
- title page).
- Please make sure the play you are submitting is conducive to Readers' Theatre, simple stage
- directions, story mostly expressed through dialogue, not action.
Please email scripts to: heaton_it_up@hotmail.com
By 11:59 p.m. on January 5th, 2024.
Please mail scripts to:
Theatre Southwest
8944 Clarkcrest St.
Houston, TX 77063
Attn: TSW-RTM
Postmarked by: January 5th, 2024
To learn more about Theatre Southwest of Houston, Texas please click on the link below to visit their website: https://tswhouston.com/