Deadline: December 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Please email scripts to: heaton_it_up@hotmail.com
Please mail scripts to:
Theatre Southwest
3939 Hillcroft
Suite 160
Houston, TX 77057
Attn: TSW-RTM
Postmarked by: December 31, 2025
Theatre Southwest is accepting short play submissions starting November 1st, 2025 thru December 31st, 2025 for its Annual Readers' Theatre Matinee!
This year the TSW-RTM will happen on Sunday, January 18th, 2026 at 3:00 P.M. and our event producer Brian Heaton will be accepting 5-10 minute scripts till the end of 2025.
Selected plays will be read and voted on by the audience in attendance and the Audience Favorite will receive a $100 cash prize!
Guidelines for this this year's event are as follows:
Scripts will be accepted via snail-mail and email.
Scripts entered should be in PDF format for email. Printed entries should be in standard play format and bound in a 3-hole punch folder or with brads.
Limit of 1 entry per playwright of an original work that is unpublished, and unproduced.
There is NO ENTRY FEE.
ALL scripts should be numbered with title, list of characters, brief synopsis of play and playwright's contact info on title page.
No Monologues or one man/woman plays will be accepted.
ALL genres of plays will be accepted.
ALL plays should be able to be read within 5 to 10 minutes, no longer, no exceptions. If using standard play format a good gauge would be if the play's text is 4 to 11 pages long (excluding title page).
Please make sure the play you are submitting is conducive to Readers' Theatre, simple stage directions, story mostly expressed through dialogue, not action.
Approximately 8-12 plays will be selected to be given a performance level read, and the playwrights selected will be informed prior to the event.
Theatre Southwest
3939 Hillcroft
Suite 160
Houston, TX 77057
Attn: TSW-RTM
Postmarked by: December 31, 2025
Theatre Southwest is accepting short play submissions starting November 1st, 2025 thru December 31st, 2025 for its Annual Readers' Theatre Matinee!
This year the TSW-RTM will happen on Sunday, January 18th, 2026 at 3:00 P.M. and our event producer Brian Heaton will be accepting 5-10 minute scripts till the end of 2025.
Selected plays will be read and voted on by the audience in attendance and the Audience Favorite will receive a $100 cash prize!
Guidelines for this this year's event are as follows:
Scripts will be accepted via snail-mail and email.
Scripts entered should be in PDF format for email. Printed entries should be in standard play format and bound in a 3-hole punch folder or with brads.
Limit of 1 entry per playwright of an original work that is unpublished, and unproduced.
There is NO ENTRY FEE.
ALL scripts should be numbered with title, list of characters, brief synopsis of play and playwright's contact info on title page.
No Monologues or one man/woman plays will be accepted.
ALL genres of plays will be accepted.
ALL plays should be able to be read within 5 to 10 minutes, no longer, no exceptions. If using standard play format a good gauge would be if the play's text is 4 to 11 pages long (excluding title page).
Please make sure the play you are submitting is conducive to Readers' Theatre, simple stage directions, story mostly expressed through dialogue, not action.
Approximately 8-12 plays will be selected to be given a performance level read, and the playwrights selected will be informed prior to the event.