Deadline: April 30, 2025 at midnight
Tampa, Florida
LAB Theater Project is officially seeking bold, original new works for our 11th season—running January to December 2026.
We are on the hunt for powerful stories that spark conversation, challenge perspectives, and reflect the world around us. How do we live, feel, and respond to the times we’re in? What truths are you ready to reveal? Show us the mirror you’re holding up to society and the ways your work can inspire change and ignite cultural shifts.
Above all—captivate us with a story we won’t forget.
Are you ready to make your mark? We can’t wait to read what you’ve got.
Format: PDF only, please.
Limit: One script per playwright. Make it count!
No AI: Your words, your ideas, your voice. Let’s keep it human.
If you’ve got questions, drop us a line at submissions@labtheaterproject.com.
We are currently accepting new work. We will accept one submission per playwright for a full-length work and comedic short. Sending multiple scripts to us will result in none of them being read. We want to read what you feel is your best work that you seek for us to produce. Unproduced work only. Staged or even concert reads are acceptable in the production history. Produced, even in community theater, makes the work ineligable for submission to LAB.
LAB runs on a calendar year season, January to December.
For all submissions, please provide in the body of your email a 100 word playwright bio, a 100 word synopsis of your play, and production/development history of the work. You may submit directly to submissions@labtheaterproject.org.
For full-length work, please provide: A PDF document with the title page, scene breakdown, character breakdown and only the first 20 pages of your script. Submissions received after the deadline will be held for consideration for the following season.
For comedic short submissions to our annual LAB Laughs/Comedic Short Festival, please submit a PDF of the full play. Submissions received by August 1st will be considered for the next production of LAB Laughs, usually in the following summer. All received afterwards will be held for the next season.