Call for Submissions: Mini Plays Review – “Fleeting Connections” (September 2025 Issue)

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

Theme: Fleeting Connections
Format: 1-Minute Plays and Monologues
Length: Maximum one page (A4 size).
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-mini-plays-magazine/submit

Mini Plays Review is seeking bold, inventive, and emotionally resonant one-minute plays and monologues for our September 2025 issue themed “Fleeting Connections.” We are looking for one-minute plays and monologues that capture the brief yet powerful moments of human interaction—those sparks of connection that may be gone in an instant but leave a lasting impression.

We invite playwrights, poets, and storytellers from all backgrounds to submit original, unpublished works that explore the theme through a variety of lenses. Whether humorous, haunting, romantic, or raw, we want your most compelling short-form writing.

Suggested Subtopics Include:

A chance meeting on public transportation

An overheard conversation that changes everything

The last words between two people before parting forever

A confession whispered in the dark

An awkward but revealing moment of misunderstanding

A digital connection that never becomes real

The bond between strangers during a shared crisis

A fleeting friendship formed during travel

A missed opportunity for connection

A brief but life-altering encounter with a stranger

The emotional aftermath of a moment too short to last

An accidental reunion that ends just as quickly

A single moment of honesty in a world of pretense

Guidelines:

Submissions must be original and previously unpublished (including personal blogs and social media). Previous stage/online performance are ok and do not come under this term.

Each writer may submit up to three pieces (in a single email).

Please include a brief bio (50 words max) in third person narrative with your submission.

All submissions should fit within approximately 1 page keeping in mind they should be performable within one minute.

Both comedic and dramatic pieces are welcome.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

There is no submission or reading fee.

If selected, after the publication of anthology the authors will hold the copyright, intellectual property right and performance rights of the work.

Mini Plays Review is dedicated to showcasing concise, impactful storytelling. This call is open to emerging and established writers alike.

Don’t miss your chance to capture a moment that lasts a lifetime—in just sixty seconds.

Submit today and let your voice be heard in the space between hello and goodbye.

New Works, New Voices 2026 seeks musicals

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Deadline: July 1, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT

SUBMISSION FORM

New Works/New Voices (NWNV) is an initiative at the Syracuse University Department of Drama created to support the development of musicals by writers and composers whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon.

The Syracuse University Department of Drama is seeking submissions for its Spring 2026 New Works/New Voices (NWNV) initiative. NWNV was created to support the development of musicals by writers and composers whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon. 

NWNV is seeking completed musicals or musicals-in-progress from teams who are interested in developing their work with undergraduate BFA students. 

One musical will be selected, to receive a 3-week developmental workshop in the Spring 2026 semester, directed and music directed by SU Drama faculty and performed by SU Drama students. NWNV 2026 will take place from 4/3/26 - 4/26/26. The writing team will participate virtually in the evenings during week 1, and will be in residence in Syracuse during weeks 2 and 3 of the rehearsal process (4/12/25-4/26/26), travel and lodging provided. 

Semi-finalists will be contacted for additional materials in late summer/early fall 2025. Please submit the details of your musical work in the submission form. 

Questions? Please email Kathleen Wrinn, Artistic Director of NWNV and Assistant Professor of Musical Theater at SU Drama (kawrinn@syr.edu). Thank you for submitting to NWNV! We look forward to reading and listening to your work.

Actors Theater Workshop offers free readings in NYC

Saturday, June 28 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM

4908 Awakenings
By Marianne Ryan

This autobiographical play explores the emotional journey of a woman navigating life with a sibling suffering from schizophrenia. A moving tribute to caregivers and a call for mental health awareness, this performance invites reflection and healing.

Sunday, June 29 | 7:00 – 9:30 PM

We The People of These Fifty Acre Woods
By Andrew Michael Reid

This bold reimagining of A.A. Milne’s characters brings the Hundred Acre Wood into a metaphorical civil war. Through the lens of beloved childhood figures, this work interrogates the nature of political violence and fractured societies. With artwork by Delia Dumont, this satirical epic is both whimsical and urgent.

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Theatre Three 27th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2026)

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Deadline: September 1, 2025

Submissions should be sent to Jeffrey@theatrethree.com

Since its inception in 1998, The Festival has received over 13,000 submissions from across the world and produced over 140 world premieres by more than 100 different playwrights. The Festival presents between five and eight plays each season.

Guidelines:

Playwrights may only submit one play per Festival.

• Only unproduced works will be accepted. 
• Please do not submit works that have been submitted for previous Festivals.
• Plays that have had staged readings or on-line productions are eligible.
• No adaptations, children’s plays, or musicals.

• Cast size maximum: 12
• Length maximum: 30 minutes (no minimum)
• Settings: Simple or suggested.
• All submissions should be emailed as PDFs with the title in caps followed by the playwright’s name.
• Example: THE BASKET WEAVERS Jamie Martin
• Play’s cover sheet must include the author’s information (name, address, telephone, email).
• A short synopsis is encouraged
• Any stage play format is acceptable.

Selected plays will be presented for ten performances (dates to be determined in winter-spring 2026), at the Ronald F. Peierls Theatre, on THEATRE THREE’s Second Stage.

Playwrights will receive a $150 stipend.

Playwrights will receive a standard Dramatists Guild-approved contract and will receive four complimentary tickets to be used at any performances. Playwrights are welcome to attend any rehearsals or performances. Playwrights will receive copies of playbills, postcards, articles, and reviews, as well as a link to all publicity and production photos. THEATRE THREE is responsible for all elements of production; playwrights incur no expenses. THEATRE THREE retains no future production rights.

Playwrights of selected plays will be contacted by early December 2025.

Final selection of plays will be announced on THEATRE THREE’s website and Facebook page by December 15, 2025.

Community Players Theater - Page to Stage 2025

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Please note new deadline
Deadline: August 31, 2025

Page to Stage: An Original Staged Reading is an opportunity for playwrights to submit their work to be performed through Community Players Theatre (Bloomington IL.) To those wishing to submit their work, please make sure it follows this criteria:

• The script must be unpublished
• It is fine if the script has gone through workshops or readings
• No more than 2 locations within the script
• Cast size 2-6
• Can feature a child but the majority of the cast must be adults
• Few adjustments will be allowed once the script has been submitted
• PDF or Word Doc formatting
• No musicals
• A playwright is not limited on how many they can submit
• This process is for the benefit of audiences to hear new plays and new playwrights

Please submit all scripts to Ashleigh Rae-Lynn (playreading@communityplayers.org)

Brown Skinned Girls seeks submissions

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Deadline: September 25, 2025

Or when they reach 250 submissions

SUBMISSION FORM

Beginners, dabblers, scribblers and seasoned writers alike, from all countries, are welcome to submit their plays!

There is no entry fee for this opportunity, and given the size of the undertaking, there will be no monetary compensation offered. However, one play, picked by the audience over the two evenings will be presented with the Public’s Award and receive a modest stipend. The remaining three playwrights will be offered a free year-long subscription to www.playsubmissionshelper.com.

Playwrights must be female, of BIPOC descent, and aged 18, at least.

The play may have multiple writers, but you will have to pick a single representative for your team and use their information in correspondence with us.

Your play should have a running time of 10-15 minutes. This usually equates to a 10-15 pages long document, but reading your play out loud can give you a more accurate idea of its running time.

Your play should require no more than 4 actors and very minimal props.

Your play should be in English, although some parts may be in a foreign language. (If so, make sure a translation of such parts is offered within the body of the play).

The play should be original, unpublished and it should not have been performed in the UK as of the day of submission.

Submissions containing copyrighted material that does not belong to you cannot be accepted.

Unfortunately, we cannot yet accept musicals.

Your play should NOT BE BLIND. The first page should state the name of your play, your own name, as well as your contact information (phone number, email address). The second page should be dedicated to a breakdown of characters and scene breakdown, if needed. Please, ensure your play is properly formatted. It can follow any Writer’s Guild’s guidelines. (This page can help you figure out what format feels more natural to you: https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/resources/medium-and-format)

The document you submit should be a PDF.

We unfortunately cannot accept more than one entry from each writer.

For our records, and because we’d love to know more about you as an artist and a person, feel free to fill up this form: https://forms.gle/7qeYhdn3gVDaFo7K6 it is totally optional and has no bearing on the selection process).

Unfortunately, written feedback will only be provided to shortlisted artists.

We will close submissions on September 25th, 2025 or when we reach 250 submissions, whichever comes first. No play will be accepted after this date.

All submissions are final. No revisions to the text of the play will be accepted after it is submitted.
Deadline: September 25, 2025

Gallery Players 29th Annual Black Box New Play Festival

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Deadline: July 1, 2025

NOTE the post-marked date. Mail your submissions accordingly. 

The Gallery Players in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, is seeking plays for its 29th Annual Black Box New Play Festival to be held in January (exact dates to be determined) 2026. 

Each play selected will be given a black box production with non-equity actors. 

Playwrights must be available, if not in person, via Zoom or other virtual venue for some rehearsals and use this as an opportunity to continue work on their play. 

1). Plays must be un-produced (readings are ok); must be the play’s world premier 

2) Length of Plays: Plays should be 30 - 60 minutes. Plays must have at least 4 characters; more is even better. No monologues. No period costume pieces. You may only submit two (2) plays. 

3). Format: Pages must be numbered; A cover page with Title of the play and playwrights contact information is required, along with a page that gives plot synopsis of the play and a character breakdown 

4). Submit a copy of your playwriting resume, showing the names of plays and if produced, where produced. 

5). Playwrights cannot direct their own work 

6). Send three (3) copies of your play(s), along with your resume, to: The Gallery Players Black Box New Play Festival 199 14th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. 

We will only contact you if your play has been accepted into the Festival. If you want confirmation that your mailing was received by us, please include a self-addressed stamped return postcard. We do not accept email submissions. We do not return scripts. Any scripts not chosen for the Festival will be destroyed to protect the copyright.

DILARIA ~ discount tickets

DILARIA is a bold new Off-Broadway play running from June 13–August 3 at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square.

Written by Julia Randall and directed by Alex Keegan, DILARIA is a dark comedy about Gen Z grief, true crime obsession, and influencer culture. Starring Ella Stiller, Chiara Aurelia (Cruel Summer), and Christopher Briney (The Summer I Turned Pretty), DILARIA is one of the most anticipated Off-Broadway premieres of the summer.

Use code: ZOOMFUNERL at checkout. 

Valid for all performances.

Offer excludes premium tickets and expires July 30 at 11:59 PM ET.

Tickets + more info: www.dilariaplay.com

Offer subject to availability. Not valid on premium tickets, nor can it be combined with other offers. Standard convenience fees may apply. No refunds or exchanges.

Free career training for members of the Dramatists Guild

Calling all dramatists who write for Opera! Are you curious to know what are the best practices in Opera?

Join us for an insightful discussion on the Guild's newly released "Best Practices for Opera" guide. 

Our hosts are Jessica Lit, Dir. of Business of Affairs from the Dramatists Guild's staff, and Co-Chairs of the Guild's Opera Committee, Michael Korie and Deborah Brevoort.

Over 2 years in the making, the Best Practices guide is the first examination the opera commission process from start to finish and provides a historic first step in providing theatre writers with the knowledge to feel confident dipping their toes into the opera industry. In the second half of the event, members will have the opportunity to engage directly with Michael, Deborah and Jessica during a Q&A session.

Bring your questions and don't forget to download the Best Practices for Opera guidelines here: Best Practices for Opera | Dramatists Guild

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The Playwrights Group - sit in on a session and see

 The Weekly Workshop

Join our nationwide community of playwrights on Zoom. 

It’s a great way to stay connected and motivated.

 

Participating in a weekly workshop can give you the kick you need to see your script through from beginning to end.  You can bring in anything you’re working on — a full length script, a musical, a TV pilot, whatever. And when your script is ready — we’ll present it in a Public Reading. We also bring in Guest Speakers, like Pulitzer Prize winner Margaret Edson (Wit). 

 

 

Sit in on a session and see for yourself!

Thursdays 7 - 9:30pm EST

 

Check out our website for more details and rates. 

 

Script Consultations

 

If you don’t have time for the workshop but have a script you’d like some feedback on — just send a PDF of your script and you’ll get a critique via email and/or video conference. See website for rates.

 

Richard Caliban has worked with  individuals on their scripts from all over the world — Indonesia, China, Greece, Australia, Serbia, as well as right here in New York. A script consultation will provide you with feedback on the structural soundness of your story, the dramatic arc of your protagonist, thematic unity and much more.

 

Online One-on-One Courses

 

If you’re looking for more, check out our One on One Online Playwriting Courses:

 

•       The Art of Playwriting

•       Write a Play in 10 Weeks

•       3 Hour Short Course

 

All are with instructor Richard Caliban, and since it’s One on One, the courses can be adjusted to fit your level of experience. 

 

Please visit our website for further Info and Rates: 

 

www.theplaywrightsgroup.com

 

Contact us at 

scripts@theplaywrightsgroup.com

Apricity Magazine seeks short plays for the 2026 issue

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Deadline: January 4, 2026 1AM

SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE

Apricity accepts submissions from the performing arts, including but not limited to original music, short film, short play, and dance. Scores, scripts, and screenplays count although live versions are encouraged. Please upload or include a link (of a Youtube video, a webpage, or a Google Drive file) to your submission as well as a brief description of your piece and how you arranged your performance. The maximum time allotted for videos is 15 minutes each. Simultaneous submissions are permitted.
Before you submit, please note the following:

NOTIFICATION: You may expect notification of your acceptance or rejection within three months of submitting your piece. As our staff is composed entirely of university students, however, we do not operate from the end of May through the end of August. Any pieces submitted in April and May may not receive a response until August. 

 NON-PROFIT: We are a non-profit student organization. We intend to direct all net proceeds towards publication improvement and charitable donations focused on education.

FEES: There is no submissions fee, nor is there any payment for publishing your work (currently). However, should you be published in the print publication, you will receive a free contributor’s copy. If you are published online and would like to receive a print edition, you will receive a 60% discount.

We welcome comprehensive use of English and other languages. If your piece contains non-English languages, please include an English translation. Though we are an international magazine, our staff’s common language is English.

We also welcome works previously published elsewhere. If a piece you submit has been accepted by another publication, we will credit the other publication.

If we accept your piece before it has been accepted by another publication, we request that the other publication credits Apricity Magazine upon publication of the piece.

If a piece you submit is accepted by a publication that claims sole publishing rights, please let us know so that we may remove it from consideration. (Do note, however, that most publications allow re-prints as long as the original publisher is credited.)

Works are considered on a rolling basis. All pieces submitted will be considered for online publication. After the deadline for print publication passes, we will consider all pieces submitted before the deadline that were accepted for online publication for print publication.

Kindly keep author bios to under 50 words.

Please note that Apricity Magazine is not active during the summer (from late May to late August). Any pieces submitted during this time will not be evaluated until the fall.

We will not tolerate any form of plagiarism.

11th Annual Pyro PlayFest 2026 Call for Plays Theme: "Spark of Creation: Humanity, Invention, and Expression"

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Deadline: January 12, 2026

 SUBMISSION FORM

Paris Junior College Department of Drama's 11th Annual Pyro PlayFest is now accepting submissions!

In a season celebrating new voices, we are looking for bold, original short plays that explore the heart of creativity — the human spirit, invention, imagination, and the drive to express. Whether you tackle these ideas literally, abstractly, or metaphorically, we want to experience the spark that fuels your storytelling!

The chosen submissions will receive a full production on our 3/4 thrust stage space performed by students and community members in late April 2026, right here in Paris, Texas, on the Duane Allen Stage in the Ray E. Karrer Theater.

Please note: This is a non-paying opportunity. While we are unable to offer financial compensation at this time, selected playwrights will have the opportunity to have their work brought to life in front of a live audience by a dedicated team of emerging artists and community members.

Submission Guidelines

• Unpublished, minimally produced plays (readings okay; no full productions).
• Length: 10 minutes or less.
• Page Limit: 10 pages max (standard format, 12-pt font, with page numbers).
• Cast: No more than 6 characters.
• Technical Requirements: Keep it simple — minimal sets, basic lighting, and modest props.
• Theme Connection: Must explore creation, humanity, invention, or expression in some form.

Content Note: Please keep language and themes suitable for a general adult audience.

Important Dates:
• Submission Deadline: January 12, 2026
• Festival Dates: April 22-26, 2026

How to Submit:
Please submit your scripts (Up to three) in PDF format through this Google Form: New Works Submissions

Include a cover page with the following information:
• Play title
• Playwright's name
• Contact email
• Short synopsis (2-3 sentences)
• Character breakdown

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.

Somerset Community College Fine Arts 4th Annual Short Play Festival

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Somerset Kentucky

Email submissions to scctheatre@kctcs.edu

It may be early, but we’re already looking forward to next year’s Annual Short Play Festival, this time with a gruesome twist! Playwright submissions are now OPEN for the “4th Annual Short Play Festival:
The Show to Die For!”

Whether you’re in Louisville or Los Angeles, if you’ve got a killer short play, we want to see it.

Guidelines:

• Plays can be ANY genre and setting, does NOT have to be mystery/drama
• Script CANNOT exceed 10 pages
• At least one character must be murdered by an unknown killer 

Whether you're a seasoned scribe or a first-time playwright, if you've got a killer idea (literally), we want to see it! Submit your work and be part of this unforgettable event!

Ridgefield Theater Barn - An Evening of One Acts 2026 - seeks 10-minute plays

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Deadline: August 15, 2025
OR when they have received 250 submissions

DO NOT SEND - THEY HAVE REACHED THEIR LIMIT

Please email a blind copy of your original, unpublished one act play (PDF or Word format) to ...  with the subject line “OA 2026 Submission”. As plays are blind, please have your contact info in the body of the email.

Plays should be unpublished and roughly 8-10 minutes in length. Longer plays (no more than 15 minutes) will be considered, and micro-plays (30 seconds to 5 minutes) are also welcome. Plays selected are usually comedic in tone, light and quirky, but plays with deeper themes are also welcome, provided they are not too serious.

Each playwright may submit ONE play. No resubmissions – if you have submitted a play to us in the past, please do not resubmit. The submission window opens June 15th and will close August 15th, or once we have reached our cap of 250 submissions, whichever comes first. No submissions received before June 15th will be considered.

Playwrights of all backgrounds and gender identities are encouraged to submit.

Playwrights will be notified in late September if their play has been chosen. Playwrights will receive a $50 honorarium if their play is selected and included in our production in March of 2026.

We look forward to reading your work!

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Woodward/Newman Award 2026-27

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

Each play should be individually submitted at the following link: CONSTELLATION STAGE & SCREEN PLAY SUBMISSION.

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2026-27 Woodward/Newman Award. The award recipient will be announced by May 15, 2026. The winner will be awarded $3,000 and a full production.“Full-length” plays should have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes). 

TYA shows should have a complete running time of over 40 minutes.

Plays submitted must be unpublished at the time of submission (independently published is acceptable).

You will be asked to submit your play as an attachment and all other information (bio, history, synopsis, character breakdown) will be entered into a form. 

• Musical submissions may upload demos as an attachment or include a link to a shared folder.
• Limit of 2 play submissions per year.
• $3,000 cash prize is in lieu of royalties for the full production. Housing & transportation will also be provided.
• Any unpublished play submitted to Constellation regardless of method (e.g. online form, agent submission, direct contact) may be considered for the Woodward/Newman Award.

Please note that we are moving away from a “finalists” model in lieu of keeping all plays under consideration for extended periods (2yrs). We will only announce a winner.

If you have any questions, please email literary@seeconstellation.org.

Seventh Annual International Human Rights Art Festival

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

Submit all work to costanza@humanrightsartmovement.org

International Human Rights Art Festival
December 8th - 14th, 2025
The Tank
312 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018

Results announced to applications by September 8, 2025

Full schedule announced by October 1.

The submission window is now open for performance work in any form - every discipline!
Work may not have been produced within the last year in NYC, or be scheduled in the next six months of December 14th, 2025.

• The performances must be fully produced by you; IHRAF is a presenting platform.
• Considering performances 10-20 minutes long
• We accept just one proposal for each application.

Submit HERE


We are jurying work with the following interests, for performance blocks:

Climate Change Action
Immigration
LGBTQIA
Celebration of Women/Women in Power
Celebration of Black Men/Undiscovered Women
Shalom/Salaam
With Love from Africa
Any other social justice concerns you might have

Plus: Ten Minute Play Festival and a Ten Minute Performance Festival

All accepted performers will receive:

Performance stipends of $200

PR and marketing support

30-minute tech rehearsal

Festival TD and SM

Free photographic documentation of the performance

Free video documentation of the performance


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Please email our Festival Assistant Producer Costanza Bugiani at costanza@humanrightsartmovement.org with the following, and any questions:

A brief description of your piece, including approximate running time - we’re accepting 10-20 mins works.

A cover letter, including details regarding the piece’s discipline, issue of concern treated and a brief summary of your artistic goals

Your bios or resumes and the names of any collaborators already on board

A sample of work (scripts, pics, videos, songs, any other links or file that could help us to know more about your project)

As email subject, please type IHRAF Festival 2025, then add Association-Company-your name (i.e. IHRAF Festival 2025, Joan Doe)

Please note:

Work may not have been produced within the last year in NYC, or be scheduled in the next six months of December 14, 2025.

The performances must be fully produced by you; IHRAF is a presenting platform.

We accept one proposal for each application.

Also, let us know if you already had part of our previous festivals as a performer or in the audience!

We are encouraging New York and Tri-state area based artists. Unfortunately we cannot cover any travel/lodging expenses.

Cimientos 2026 call for submissions

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Deadline: June 30, 2025

SUBMISSION FORM

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.

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Roving Peregrine Theatre's Coming Out Day Plays Festival

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Deadline: June 30, 2025 11:59 PM

SUBMISSION FORM

Seeking plays no more than 20 minutes long (roughly 20-25 pages or less) which features and highlights joy in the Queer Community (It doesn't have to specifically be about Coming Out.)

Must be an original work (we are not accepting adaptations at this time, you can use public domain characters, but it must be in a new story) that has had no more than two (2) professional productions and has 5 characters or less.

Plays will be performed at the Coming Out Day Plays Festival of New Works in Shepherdstown West Virginia on October 11th 2025 as a staged reading (actors reading from scripts, no props or set)

Chosen Plays will be announced in late August of 2025

This is a donation of time and talent, there is no artist stipend and all proceeds from ticket sales are being donated to Trans Lifeline and/or another local LQBTQ charity. (No Proceeds or donations are going to the host theatre)

Roving Peregrine will make every effort to let you know if your play is declined at this time, and may offer feedback if requested. Depending on volume of submissions, this may take time.

More than one play may be submitted.

The Soliloquist Journal seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Summer 2025 issue

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Deadline: July 5, 2025

Following the introspective depth of Unfinished Dialogues, our second issue invites soliloquies and poems that explore duality, reflection, and the fractured self—"Echoes in the Mirror."

We seek works that grapple with:

• The masks we wear (public vs. private selves)
• Confrontations with the past (ghosts, memories, alternate versions of
• oneself)
• Bodies and distortions (dysmorphia, aging, transformation)
• Whispers of the subconscious (dreams, repressed desires, inner chaos)
• Literal and metaphorical mirrors (as truth-tellers, liars, or portals)

Send up to 5 poems (no more than 40 lines each).
Include a brief bio in third person (50–100 words).

Submissions must be original and unpublished.

Email your work to thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com
with the subject line “ Summer 2025 Submission
– [Your Name].”

Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Notification Timeline: Within 1 week of submission.

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Science Playwriting Competition for 10-minute plays

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

SUBMISSION FORM ON THE WEBPAGE

The Science Playwriting Competition brings science and theatre together for the dissemination of scientific knowledge through an intriguing lens — providing inspiration for plays that lead to exciting ways of learning about science. Rooted in artistic expression, the best science plays can be exceptional works of art that aesthetically convey scientific concepts, potentially resulting in further explorations in both disciplines. In this way, science and theatre may learn from each other, through their common goals of investigating and gaining an understanding of the significance of science and how the world works.

The competition commenced in 2012 with the assistance of an NSF grant awarded for scientific outreach projects initiated by Professor of Physics Christopher Herzog with additional support from the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. The competition draws playwrights from all over the world who submit 10-minute plays with compelling stories and innovative expression of science and theatricality.

The preferred topics in hard sciences and technology include, but are not limited to: Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Science, Space Exploration, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Anthropology and Archaeology.

-A public staged reading of the winning entries will be performed during the Spring 2025 semester at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

Guidelines:

– Plays should be approximately 10 minutes in length (usually around 10 pages).

– Winning playwrights will receive a directed, live-staged reading of their work in the spring 2025 semester.

– Plays must include a title page that includes the playwright’s name, address, phone number, and email address.

– Plays must be original unpublished work and must not be created with the assistance of any form of AI.

*Note: please submit electronic entries as a pdf file. Submitting your play implies permission to have your play performed in a staged reading in the fall semester; all submissions remain the property of the playwright.

Breakthrough Theatre Company Crazy Little Thing Called HORROR seeks short plays

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Deadline: June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Winter Park Florida

For season 17, the Breakthrough Theatre Company will produce 8 original 10 minute short plays under the title, "Crazy Little Thing Called HORROR".

1. The play must be only 10-12 minutes long. (Seriously)
2. It may be comedic or dramatic.
3. It must fit the theme "Crazy Little Thing Called Horror" (whatever that means to you)
4. I'm looking for plays with characters of all ages.
5. I will only choose 1 play per playwright, but you may submit more than one.
6. I'm not interested in plays that have previously been produced in Central Florida.

The plays will be presented in October/November 2025.
If interested, please email your script to wadehair1966@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2025.

If you have any questions, feel free to send a message to Wade Hair on Facebook or to wadehair1966@gmail.com.

Thank you, and happy haunting!

Getchell New Play Award 2025

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

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Dedicated to the discovery, development and publicizing of worthy new plays and playwrights.

NOTE: some of their online documentation might still say submissions are only open to SETC members, but that is no longer correct.

The awardee receives:

• $1,000 honorarium
• Certificate at Recognition
• Acknowledgement at the Saturday evening Gala
• Staged Play Reading at the annual SETC Convention
• Travel and hotel accommodations.
• Acknowledgement in an SETC publication

The Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest considers only plays that meet the following requirements:

1. Submitted work must be by one playwright only. No collaborations or adaptations will be considered.

Submitting a jointly written play under the name of only one author, or a play that was developed in

collaboration with other artists such as a collaboratively produced devised work, adaptation of

another writer's work, or in conjunction with librettists and/or composers will not be considered.

2. Submitted work must be either a full-length play or thematically related one acts which constitute a

full-length play when performed together. No musicals or children's plays will be considered.

3. Plays must be unproduced (no professional productions) and unpublished. Readings and workshops

are acceptable. Any play which has had more than one consecutive performance by a non-college or

university theatre which charged admission and/or had a review will not be considered.

4. Plays submitted in prior years may not be resubmitted.

Submission Guidelines

1. Only one play submission is allowed per playwright.

2. Plays must be submitted via our online application in Microsoft Word or PDF format under the

following guidelines:

• Scripts should be in a standard format, such as Dramatists Guild Modern Stage Play.
• Text should be in 12 pt type and in a standard font such as Times New Roman.
• Script must include page numbers at the bottom of each page.
• The author's name MUST NOT appear anywhere in the script.
• DO NOT include resumes, playwright biographies or a history of the play.

Winning Playwright:

1. The winner, selected by a panel of readers, will be announced in November of each year.

2. The playwright will retain all copyright to the submitted material.

3. The playwright will be expected to attend the SETC convention (Chattanooga, Tennessee March 3–7, 2026) at the expense of SETC, attend the response session, and receive the cash award at the annual banquet.

4. The winning play will be considered for publication online via the SETC website*. Promotional

information will be published in an issue of Southern Theatre magazine, including:

• Profile of the playwright/winner
• Short abstract of the play
• A powerful “snippet” from the play to gather attention and interest
• A sidebar noting that the whole play can found on the SETC website, with a link to the play.

*Posting the play online would be upon agreement with the author and would include a disclaimer about not using it for production.

Community Players Theatre seeks full-length plays

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

Bloomington IL

Playwright will be notified of acceptance by October 1st, 2025

Submit to Playreading@communityplayers.org

Enhanced Staged Reading: There will be set, costumes, and props. It is a short rehearsal process which is why we are not requiring memorization.

Restriction: Story must take place in no more than 2 locations. Cast no larger than 6. Must be in English.

Playwrights are more than welcome to submit as many scripts as they would like.

There is no restriction on if a show has been performed before. We just ask that you let us know so it can be properly advertised.

The Playwright will not be required to pay any fees.

UP Theater Company Seeks Previously Produced Plays for Second Chance Series

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

We at UP Theater Company believe that World Premieres are overrated. There. We said it. We know that all new plays that receive production runs of three weeks or less are just about ready to open by the time they close. That’s why we are putting out a call for new plays that have had a single production of three weeks or fewer. 

We will consider your script for an upcoming reading series and potential full production (ironically, of three weeks). 

You can send your Second Chance Plays to info@uptheater.org, with “Second Chance” in the subject line, and include in your message 

(1) where the play was originally produced, 

(2) the length of the run, and 

(3) the creative team. We also need you to confirm that you retain all rights to the play and that the original producing company has no claim, monetarily or otherwise, to the script. 

You should also learn a little more about us at uptheater.org. We are an awesome company that does good work, and we are great to work with (we swear). We look forward to reading your submissions.

North Park Playwright Festival 2025

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Deadline: June 30, 2025

Our goal in building the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe was to provide a small theater to produce new, untested plays. In support of this goal we have produced the North Park Playwright Festival each October. The festival provides a platform for brand new, short (ten minute), plays written by playwrights from around the world. Over the past seventeen years more than 600 new plays have been produced. We encourage new directors and actors to become involved in theater through the festival as well. Through the North Park Playwright Festival over ninety playwrights, directors, and actors each year are able to showcase their talents. We invite interested playwrights to submit work to the festival. Please follow the guidelines below.

We are looking for:

1. Short new plays (no more than 12 pages, less is fine) that are easily staged and have casts with no more than four people. Our theater is very small and we normally use a minimal set concept in this festival. We have to be able to change sets in just a few minutes as we do six to seven plays each evening of the festival. We don't have space for large casts.

2. We request new work. A play that has had workshops or one or two previous productions is OK, but we are not interested in work that has been produced in numerous other places. Our goal in building the theater was to have a place to produce brand new work and let playwrights have a chance to see their work done for the first time.

3. We seek complete plays rather than excerpts from a larger work.

4. Work will be chosen by the directors we have in the festival. It is not a "contest" and we are not really judging plays in the formal sense. The directors choose the plays we will produce, within the production budget guidelines we give them.

5. Most subject matter is OK. We don't do nudity or off color humor.

6. We ask that all submissions be sent to us via snail mail at the theater. Address is: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, 2031 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92104, Attn Summer Golden, Artistic Director. We have too much trouble with differing email, word processing, and computer platform issues to take them via email. Additionally, our selection process requires the directors read the plays submitted and the cost of printing all the plays we receive each year is prohibitive. Please insure submissions have a title page with complete contact information (including email), a character summary, and are in proper script form. There is no charge to enter. No need to go to the post office. You can just staple your play together, put in a business size envelope and drop in the mail. You can print on both sides if you want to save postage.

7. Submissions must be postmarked by June 30, 2025. Please do not send plays by any method that requires a signature from us. We are not often at the theater when delivery occurs. We will email notice of receipt to all playwrights submitting plays.

8. Send only one script. Multiple submissions do not increase chances of production.

General information:

We are trying to support new work and involve actors, playwrights, and directors of all experience levels. We have had a wide variety of artists involved from very experienced to first time directors and actors, to an 8 year old playwright (very short, well received play). We feel having a wide range of experience involved helps the new people learn from the more experienced.

We really appreciate your interest in our theater.

Jeff Bushnell and Summer Golden
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe
2031 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92104
www.northparkvaudeville.com

Submissions for SPF BOO! 2025

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Deadline: July 25, 2025

Things that go bump in the night? Ghost, goblins, and monsters? Nightmares of showing up to work naked? What puts the SCARE in you? We are seeking plays that have an element – or a heaping cup – of fear. Scare us or force us to laugh till we die with horror plays and musicals, including a great spoof. Plays must be BOO–themed, which means scary, eerie, or horrifying in some way. 

Plays must have a running time of 15 minutes or less (which roughly translates to 15 pages) to qualify for the weekly contest. Each week a winner – selected by audience vote – receives the honor of “Best of the Week” and $100 prize.

The shows are produced entirely by the playwright and their team, are non union, and are presented at the Steve & Marie Sgouros Black Box Theatre – located on the 3rd floor of the historic Players Theatre in the heart of Greenwich Village – NYC. There is one-time $50 tech fee for any play that is chosen and decides to participate. There is NO submission fee.

Please DO NOT submit plays that are for LUV or NYC. They will be rejected automatically–remember, this is for SPF BOO so we are looking for things that send a chill or thrill up your spine!

Please also check out this page for details that will improve your play’s chance on getting selected. You can also find our handbook click here: SPF TIPS

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.