Deadline: December 30, 2025
Submit your entry by email to arinvanjari@yahoo.com
ONEJARI Arts Crafts & Music (Plainfield NJ) is happy to announce their third ENCORE Theatre playwriting competition.
We encourage creativity and to continue the activity started by Ashok Vanjari, we are inviting talented playwriters to submit their work. We will be accepting applications in two categories:
• Ten-minute plays
• Thirty minute plays
Plays may be written on any subject in English, Hindi or Marathi.
• Winning plays will be staged during an evening of Encore Theater Festival in April 2026
Please Note - Our last competition's selected playwrights plays were staged during our 2024 & 2025 Encore Theater festival.
• Winning Ten minute and Thirty minutes plays will be produced by ONEJARI Arts Crafts & Music or by invited Theater Institutes, to be staged during an Encore Theater Festival.
Prizes will be made possible through the generosity of ONEJARI Arts Crafts & Music
• IMPORTANT - Please make sure that your name is not on any part of the play except the Cover Page as we submit our shows to a panel, blind. for selection...
If any individual or Institute wants to be a part of this project please contact: Dolly Vanjari at arinvanjari@yahoo.com
**Both categories will be awarded cash prizes! **
Submission details:
**Both categories will be awarded cash prizes! **
Submission details:
- Entries containing all content are welcome, but please note that preference will be given to those that would be appropriate for most audiences and can be staged.
- Entries must be received by the deadline to be considered.
- All entries are final, but playwrights will have the opportunity for feedback and revision if selected as winners.
- Entries will be judged by a panel of judges.
- The winners will be notified by email and announced publicly.
- Please be sure to submit with followings....
- Your Name
- Your Email
- The title of your work
- Duration of your play
- Only original work that has not been previously staged will be permitted to participate
• IMPORTANT - Please make sure that your name is not on any part of the play except the Cover Page as we submit our shows to a panel, blind. for selection...