2025 Fifteen Minutes of Frame Play Submission

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Deadline: July 14, 2025 at 9AM (extended from July 7)

SUBMISSION FORM

option to send via email: lucky@luckyslightinginc.com

15 Minutes of Frame 2025 is seeking 15-minute plays to enter our competition. This is a highly competitive Festival, the audience votes for the winner,  so we are looking for playwrights in the TriState area. 

Please submit your 15-minute play or scene (maximum of 5 actors) to be considered.

7 short plays will be selected to compete.

The competition takes place over 3 nights: August 21, 22, and 23 at 7 PM.

Dark comedy, drama, dance, musicals, and operas are accepted.

Submit a PDF including:

• Playwright’s name
• Email
• Mobile-phone number
• Zip code
• Title of play
• Character list
• A one-paragraph description of the scene and set
• Numbered pages

Winner wins a full two week production. Winner is announced August 23rd and moves on to develop their 15-minute short play into a full production to be presented and produced by Lucky’s Lighting Inc and 24 Bond Arts Center at the Gene Frankel Theatre. 

This is our 3rd year of 15 Minutes of Frame, a playwrights’ competition held in August at the Gene Frankel Theatre. There is a gala party to celebrate our contestants and winner. 

If there is a restriction on plays that have previously been produced and/or published - never produced. This competition is to develop a short play to be premiered. 

Winning play is fully produced by Lucky’s Lighting Inc

Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2025

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

Sundog Theatre in NYC is seeking one-act plays for “Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2025”

This is Sundog Theatre’s 24th presentation of
new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats.
This year’s theme: It’s About Time!

Plays can be comedies or dramas. However, humor is always appreciated.

-Original plays not previously produced or published, with a signed note affirming that.

-10-25 minutes in length and set on the Staten Island Ferry.

-Set in a contemporary time period. Strong priority will be given to plays with 2 characters, however, 3-character plays will be considered. No special set pieces other than benches or railings found on the Ferry, as well as limited and easily accessible props/costumes, and no unusual sound or lighting effects.

-Avoid overt and unnecessary sexual/violence situations and language since we cater to a broad audience.

-No musicals, long monologues, poetry, rants or verse

–Theme: It’s About Time!

Some ideas for the theme are: time travel; lost time you can’t get back; something dreadful looms in your future and time is racing by; you’re looking forward to a special event and time slows to a crawl; or…?

Submission Guidelines:

Please send two hard copies, bound or stapled, blind submission (removable cover page with title, author and all contact information) with page numbers and the name of the play on each page to:

Sundog Theatre, “Scenes 2025” PO Box 10183, Staten Island, NY 10301.

-Submissions should include a brief play synopsis (2-3 sentences at most), a 70-word bio, and a full resume of the writer.

–DEADLINE: Must be postmarked from now through September 15, 2025.

-We are not accepting plays electronically. Reasons: hard copies are easier to pass around/make notes on; protects your work; can’t get lost in email chains; and…easier on reading eyes. We will let you know by email that we have received it.

-NO SUBMISSION FEE

-Questions: info@sundogtheatre.org/Susan Fenley, Producer.

6 plays are chosen by a reading team; writers each receive $200 and plays are produced in five November 2025 performances in Staten Island, NY. Plays are cast in NYC, rehearsed, and performed on stage.

Playwrights of selected plays will be contacted in September and their names/play titles listed on Sundog’s website in Fall 2025.