Deadline: March 25 2025
SUBMIT VIA GOOGLE DOCS
In this fifth season of our TYA Playwrights Festival, ThinkTank Theatre seeks to provide a platform for forward-thinking and innovative work for Young People and Family Audiences.
Plays selected for our TYA Festival Showcase receive rehearsal with a professional cast and director, providing an opportunity for the playwright to collaborate with other professionals during the development process. The plays are presented semi-staged, script-in-hand for audiences, providing the playwright further opportunity to develop the work, in the presence of our Tampa Bay community. The dates for the TYA Festival Showcase is currently set for August 21st - 24th, 2025. Plays selected for the TYA Festival Showcase are under consideration for full production in a subsequent season with ThinkTank Theatre.
Our Play Festival Audience: At ThinkTank, we make it our mission to produce inspirational, captivating, and forward-thinking professional theater for Young People and Family Audiences. ThinkTank believes young people and family audience material should reflect the world our young people currently experience and, as such, we do not shy away from mature topics, subject matter, and language. Please feel free to submit plays that might fit this genre.
Play Content: Plays should contain at least one character of a younger experience (to be played by actors aged 14-18). Plays that represent a variety of human experiences and/or characters who can be played by members of our community with special needs will be given further consideration, as these highlight the diverse community of our Tampa Bay Area.
We are not currently accepting musical submissions for the festival this season.
Selected Playwrights: Playwrights whose plays are selected for the 2025 Festival Showcase will receive up to a $500 honorarium to assist with travel to Tampa to take part in rehearsals and the staged readings.
The honorariums are generously gifted to the 2025 ThinkTank TYA Playwrights Festival by the
Gobioff Foundation, The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and ThinkTank's individual donors and sponsors.
Submission Guidelines:
In this fifth season of our TYA Playwrights Festival, ThinkTank Theatre seeks to provide a platform for forward-thinking and innovative work for Young People and Family Audiences.
Plays selected for our TYA Festival Showcase receive rehearsal with a professional cast and director, providing an opportunity for the playwright to collaborate with other professionals during the development process. The plays are presented semi-staged, script-in-hand for audiences, providing the playwright further opportunity to develop the work, in the presence of our Tampa Bay community. The dates for the TYA Festival Showcase is currently set for August 21st - 24th, 2025. Plays selected for the TYA Festival Showcase are under consideration for full production in a subsequent season with ThinkTank Theatre.
Our Play Festival Audience: At ThinkTank, we make it our mission to produce inspirational, captivating, and forward-thinking professional theater for Young People and Family Audiences. ThinkTank believes young people and family audience material should reflect the world our young people currently experience and, as such, we do not shy away from mature topics, subject matter, and language. Please feel free to submit plays that might fit this genre.
Play Content: Plays should contain at least one character of a younger experience (to be played by actors aged 14-18). Plays that represent a variety of human experiences and/or characters who can be played by members of our community with special needs will be given further consideration, as these highlight the diverse community of our Tampa Bay Area.
We are not currently accepting musical submissions for the festival this season.
Selected Playwrights: Playwrights whose plays are selected for the 2025 Festival Showcase will receive up to a $500 honorarium to assist with travel to Tampa to take part in rehearsals and the staged readings.
The honorariums are generously gifted to the 2025 ThinkTank TYA Playwrights Festival by the
Gobioff Foundation, The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and ThinkTank's individual donors and sponsors.
Submission Guidelines:
- Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 25th 2025.
- Deadline for New Dramatists, Agent and PW Center Submissions: April 16th (If submitting past March 24th, please email tyaplayfest@thinktanktya.org to submit).
- Please submit your play via this Google form to be considered for our 2025 Play Festival by Monday March 25th, 2025.
- We will not be using the tagging on NPX as in the past, it has recommended TYA works that haven't aligned with the needs of our festival. We recognize the additional step required here to submit and appreciated you taking the time to share your work with us as a potential component of our TYA PlayFest.
- For Round One, please select a scene or up to 20 pages from the play that you feel best showcases your piece. If you submit your full play, we will only read the first 20-pages.
- Please also submit a description of the full-length play.
- Plays should have had no prior Florida Professional Productions.
(If the play has had a workshop production, please include this information on your form, as well as information about the company, # of performances, and contact information, if applicable.)
- Playwrights moved into Round Two for TYA Festival Showcase will be contacted around the end of April to submit the full-length draft of their play. All Playwrights will be contacted by July 15th, regarding their submissions.
CRITERIA
Genres: adaptation, adventure, biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof, period, science fiction, tragedy, young audiences
Length: 60-90 minutes, 90 minutes to two hours
Cast Size: 1–8, if your cast has more than 8 characters, please include a doubling list
Age Appropriateness: ages 14-17, ages 18 and up
Unproduced Work Only?: Can not have been produced in Florida
Playwright Location: United States and Canada
- We will not be using the tagging on NPX as in the past, it has recommended TYA works that haven't aligned with the needs of our festival. We recognize the additional step required here to submit and appreciated you taking the time to share your work with us as a potential component of our TYA PlayFest.
- For Round One, please select a scene or up to 20 pages from the play that you feel best showcases your piece. If you submit your full play, we will only read the first 20-pages.
- Please also submit a description of the full-length play.
- Plays should have had no prior Florida Professional Productions.
(If the play has had a workshop production, please include this information on your form, as well as information about the company, # of performances, and contact information, if applicable.)
- Playwrights moved into Round Two for TYA Festival Showcase will be contacted around the end of April to submit the full-length draft of their play. All Playwrights will be contacted by July 15th, regarding their submissions.
CRITERIA
Genres: adaptation, adventure, biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof, period, science fiction, tragedy, young audiences
Length: 60-90 minutes, 90 minutes to two hours
Cast Size: 1–8, if your cast has more than 8 characters, please include a doubling list
Age Appropriateness: ages 14-17, ages 18 and up
Unproduced Work Only?: Can not have been produced in Florida
Playwright Location: United States and Canada