Deadline: June 30, 2025
From June 1st to June 30th, 2025, IATI Theater is accepting scripts for its 2026 Cimientos Season. Submissions are only accepted through the electronic form.
Make sure to read guidelines before completing the submission form.
For more information: iatitheater.org or contact: guillermo@iatitheater.org
Cimientos is IATI Theater’s Play Development Program. We provide playwrights the opportunity to develop new, never-before produced plays through a community of cutting-edge theater artists. Through the PPP* and SRP*, Cimientos amplifies as clearly as possible the voice of the author who lays the foundations from which a dramatic work is conceived. Like IATI Theater, Cimientos is committed to supporting playwrights and works that push conventions and explore the avant-garde. We recognize, however, that what is different and ground-breaking is not always what is unconventional and, therefore, we also welcome plays that explore realism and naturalism in innovative ways.
1. The online form is the only method of submission. No submissions will be accepted via email. Once submitted, no changes can be made. Please ensure that you submit the correct file. The submission button will be active during June.
2. This program is open to authors worldwide who have original works in English or Spanish and are interested in feedback from a New York audience.
3. The playwright must commit to participating in the PPP (Pal Playwrights Panel) meetings, which will be held online. The PPP will meet for ten (10) consecutive weeks from December 2025 to February 2026.
4. The playwright must commit to participating in their post-reading talk-back, either in person or via video conference. Staged readings will take place at our theater space in the East Village in June 2026.
5. Applicant must be the original creator of the submitted work and the sole owner of its rights. By submitting their work, applicants grant IATI Theater permission to use the submitted material for the Cimientos Program.
6. The submission must be a completed, new, full-length play that has not had a previous professional production. The playwright must state on the online form if the play has undergone a workshop, staged reading or development of any kind. We welcome plays in an early stage of development.
7. Submissions must be non-published work. Published plays in any format are not acceptable.
8. Only one play may be submitted per playwright per season.
9. Scripts must be between 45–90 minutes in length.
10. The play must have five (5) actors or fewer. Plays that have more than five characters that do not provide a clear double-role explanation for staging will not be reviewed. This must be clearly expressed on the online form.
11. The author’s name(s) should not appear anywhere within the script or file. Any authorship information must not be visible in the play document or file. Cimientos reads submissions ‘blind’, in an effort to let the quality of the work speak for itself and to keep our judging process as equitable as possible.
12. All documents must be submitted in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted.
13. Submissions for the 2026 Season will only be accepted from June 1 to June 30, 2025.