Vivid Stage seeks full-length plays, 2025

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Deadline: December 31, 2025

Submit by e-mail: info@vividstage.org
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Mail printed script to:

Laura Ekstrand, Artistic Director

VIVID STAGE
Oakes Center
120 Morris Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901

Playwrights, we'd love to read your script! Please take a look at the parameters below. Scripts will be considered for our Meet the Artist reading series in May, and for production on our mainstage.

SUBMISSIONS: We accept scripts from November 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, or until we reach our cap of 300. Please DO NOT SUBMIT plays from January through October. Responses are made annually in late spring.

Also, please DO NOT SUBMIT BLIND COPIES of your script. Make sure your name and email address are on the script itself. We use your contact info in the script to reply to your submission. If you submit a blind copy, your script will not be considered.

Many thanks for sharing your time and talents.

Full-length comedies or dramas (no musicals)

Solo shows for our Summer Solo reading series are welcome

One script per writer

Cast size of no more than 9

Contemporary topics

Focus on “the human story”

Warmth and optimism

Please check spelling, punctuation and format

Review our mission and history for further information on what we’re seeking

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Please note:

No teen or child casts

No historical or period pieces

No short plays (less than 60 minutes)

No musicals


Submission Guidelines

ellipsis… literature and art open for submissions for the 2026 issue

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Deadline: December 16, 2025 at 2AM

SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE

ellipsis… literature and art is a nationally and internationally recognized journal published by the students of Westminster University since 1965.

We accept original English language submissions in poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, drama, and art. Submit poems in one document, please. Our submission period is August 1 through December 15 for poetry, short fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction. We accept art submissions from August 1 through January 31.

Please include a 75 word contributor’s note and your address, telephone number, and email address.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome but withdraw your submission immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Note that we do not republish pieces, including work online.

We usually pay $10 per poem and page of visual art, and $3 per page of prose, plus two free copies of the issue. We cannot pay international contributors.

New issues of ellipsis… literature and art are published each April.

Drama 2025-26 submission: Please submit one English language drama piece per year, up to 8,000 Words. Use 12 point font.