Deadline: March 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST
SUBMISSION FORM
Edmonds Driftwood Players is pleased to announce our theme and call for submissions for our 14th Annual Festival of Shorts. Our annual playwriting festival provides an opportunity for playwrights to have their works brought to life on stage, as well as gain recognition and potential awards. Some past winners have later been developed into full-length award-winning plays!
The Festival this year will be presented in five performances June 26-29, 2025, featuring eight shorts finalists that include multiple directors and casts. The theme for 2025 is “CROSSROADS: a choice or event that changed courses.” We would love to see both comedic and dramatic stories with uplifting endings.
The finalists are selected from submissions from around the globe. Our volunteer readers and judges are local Seattle-area theatre lovers and playwrights. To keep the process as fair as possible, our readers are only given blind copies of script submissions for judging.
After the closing performance, we will announce the winners for: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Judges’ Awards and Overall Audience Favorite.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SHORT:
To enter your short play in the festival, please follow the instructions below.
Edmonds Driftwood Players is pleased to announce our theme and call for submissions for our 14th Annual Festival of Shorts. Our annual playwriting festival provides an opportunity for playwrights to have their works brought to life on stage, as well as gain recognition and potential awards. Some past winners have later been developed into full-length award-winning plays!
The Festival this year will be presented in five performances June 26-29, 2025, featuring eight shorts finalists that include multiple directors and casts. The theme for 2025 is “CROSSROADS: a choice or event that changed courses.” We would love to see both comedic and dramatic stories with uplifting endings.
The finalists are selected from submissions from around the globe. Our volunteer readers and judges are local Seattle-area theatre lovers and playwrights. To keep the process as fair as possible, our readers are only given blind copies of script submissions for judging.
After the closing performance, we will announce the winners for: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Judges’ Awards and Overall Audience Favorite.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SHORT:
To enter your short play in the festival, please follow the instructions below.
- Submit an original script for a short play based on the following guidelines:Has not been previously produced (a staged reading is acceptable)
- 10-12 minutes run time (approximately 1 min./page, adjusting for longer monologues, etc.)
- Minimum of 2 characters – maximum of 5 characters
- Can be staged with minimal sets, props, and costumes but storyline can still be followed
- Limited foul language
- Be sure to incorporate the theme of “CROSSROADS” into your story. The term “crossroads” does not been to be included in the title or words of the script, but the relation to the theme must be clear to our audiences.
No identifying information about the playwright is to appear in this “blind” copy. All playwrights who fail to submit a blind copy of their script will be disqualified. The blind copy of the script preserves anonymity in our reader selections to keep the process as fair for playwrights as possible.