Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival seeks short plays

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Deadline: October 1, 2024

Seeking non-musical plays that have:

• A cast of characters exclusively in their teens and twenties.
• Dynamic, fully-drawn roles to challenge student actors.
• A running time of 10-25 minutes.
• Thematic values that will speak to college-aged artists and audience members.

The festival also places a value on plays that have the potential to provide performance opportunities to female-identifying actors and actors from under-represented groups.

Plays should not have had a previous production under an Actors Equity agreement. Non-union productions, workshops, and readings are fine.

The ten Official Selection short plays will receive:A staged reading at the 2025 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.

Publication in the anthology Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2025: The Short Plays, which will be distributed nationwide through online and retail outlets.