Deadline: February 1, 2025
SUBMISSION FORM
When next summer comes around there are two things you can count on—Heartland Theatre’s long-running annual 10-minute Play Festival and people having sales to get rid of stuff. In 2025, Heartland brings these summertime staples together on stage for “The Rummage Sale”.
We’re inviting playwrights to send us short plays that answer a simple question–if one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, what happens when those people come together? Well, that’s for playwrights all over the world to figure out. The Rummage Sale—Heartland Theatre’s 10-minute Play Festival for 2025. Now we’re accepting scripts and we’re looking forward to reading yours.
PERFORMANCES: May 29, 30, 31 & June 5, 6, 7, 8 | 12, 13, 14 – 2025
When next summer comes around there are two things you can count on—Heartland Theatre’s long-running annual 10-minute Play Festival and people having sales to get rid of stuff. In 2025, Heartland brings these summertime staples together on stage for “The Rummage Sale”.
We’re inviting playwrights to send us short plays that answer a simple question–if one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, what happens when those people come together? Well, that’s for playwrights all over the world to figure out. The Rummage Sale—Heartland Theatre’s 10-minute Play Festival for 2025. Now we’re accepting scripts and we’re looking forward to reading yours.
PERFORMANCES: May 29, 30, 31 & June 5, 6, 7, 8 | 12, 13, 14 – 2025
1. Your play must fit the theme – THE RUMMAGE SALE– or it will not be considered.
2. Your play must fit our theater and its performance space.
3. We require internet submissions in MS Word or PDF.
4. When formatting your play, we ask that you follow our style sheet.
5. We are looking for NEW plays. Please do not send us anything that has previously been produced.
6. Your play must contain at least two (2) characters, but no more than four (4).
7. Heartland Theatre Company has a pool of actors ranging in age from 18 to 80. Make sure that your characters can be played by actors within that range.
8. Your play should consist mainly of dialogue, not monologues.
9. No children’s plays, musicals, or plays which were previously chosen as winners in any Heartland Theatre playwriting competition will be considered.
10. Do not put your name on the play itself, as submissions are judged blind. Make sure your title and page numbers appear on every page of the play, however.
11. Please read and consider the Judging Criteria.
12. Those plays which win and are staged will be videotaped for archival purposes.
13. No contracts beyond the guidelines mentioned here will be offered.
14. Only one entry will be accepted from each playwright.
15. Your play must be written in English.
16. Keep your play under ten minutes in length.
17. Remember that something has to happen in those ten minutes.
18. MAKE IT GOOD!