Deadline: June 30, 2026 midnight Central Time
Only the first 100 plays entered are guaranteed to be considered.
Please email your submission to: diezminutosfestival@gmail.com. Any inquiries should be sent to the same address.
The San Miguel de Allende Diez Minutos Festival is very happy to be back after a 4-year hiatus.
The San Miguel de Allende Diez Minutos Festival is very happy to be back after a 4-year hiatus.
The plays will be fully staged and performed in the Santa Ana theatre in the centro historico of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in January of 2027.
There is no fee for submitting. The audiences will vote on their favorite play. The winner will be given $50 USD as a prize, the second favorite $30 USD and the third, $20 USD.
Each playwright whose script is selected and performed will receive two complimentary tickets to the production.
Submission Guidelines
Players Workshop may delete, without reading, any submission that does not comply with these rules.
Submission Guidelines
Players Workshop may delete, without reading, any submission that does not comply with these rules.
Only one play may be submitted per entrant. Send us your best!
Only the first 100 plays entered are guaranteed to be considered.
The theme of this year’s festival is: SMALL SPACES.
There must be no nudity, and suitability for performance before a general adult audience will be a factor in selection. No musicals or children’s plays, please.
The play must be submitted by email, as an attached PDF file, with a separate PDF listing playwright information. No Word files or other formats will be accepted.
We’re asking for blind submissions again this year; your name must not appear on the script. The second PDF shall include all contact information for the playwright, including name, address, telephone number and email address on a separate title page.
The script must be in standard play format, with a title page, a character listing, the setting, props, and any technical requirements or other production considerations.
The two PDF files should be titled "Submission [Name Of Play]” and "Title Page [Name Of Play].”
The play must be in English and no longer than 10 pages in standard format, with a calculated running time of no less than eight minutes and no more than twelve minutes.
Submission period opens on June 1, 2026. Entries must be received prior to midnight U.S. Central Standard Time, June 30, 2026. No late submissions will be accepted because of transmission problems.
The play must be unpublished but may have had previous productions. If the play has had previous productions, a production history must be included with the submission of the title page. The submitting playwright must own all rights to the play.
Selection of plays will be at the absolute discretion of the judges. Selection of a play does not guarantee production. Producers may decline to produce a selected play because of casting, directing or any other consideration.
Notification is expected to be made no later than October 1, 2026. Only playwrights whose plays have been selected for performance during the festival will receive notification of acceptance. Playwrights whose plays were received in the first 100 submitted will receive first-round notification. Producers reserve the right to consider additional plays not received in the first 100.
Plays are restricted to 4 or fewer characters. Small casts are preferable, as the stage size is modest, with minimal set, props, sound cues, and costuming.
Our talent pool is composed mostly of actors aged 40 and older. This will be a factor in selection.
Entering playwrights grant the producers of Diez Minutos permission to perform the play a maximum of twelve times during the Diez Minutos festival, and to make as many copies of the script as are necessary for production. All other rights remain with the playwright.
Thanks, in advance, for helping us to make Diez Minutos 2026 a great success. We look forward to reading your entry.
Players Workshop
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Only the first 100 plays entered are guaranteed to be considered.
The theme of this year’s festival is: SMALL SPACES.
There must be no nudity, and suitability for performance before a general adult audience will be a factor in selection. No musicals or children’s plays, please.
The play must be submitted by email, as an attached PDF file, with a separate PDF listing playwright information. No Word files or other formats will be accepted.
We’re asking for blind submissions again this year; your name must not appear on the script. The second PDF shall include all contact information for the playwright, including name, address, telephone number and email address on a separate title page.
The script must be in standard play format, with a title page, a character listing, the setting, props, and any technical requirements or other production considerations.
The two PDF files should be titled "Submission [Name Of Play]” and "Title Page [Name Of Play].”
The play must be in English and no longer than 10 pages in standard format, with a calculated running time of no less than eight minutes and no more than twelve minutes.
Submission period opens on June 1, 2026. Entries must be received prior to midnight U.S. Central Standard Time, June 30, 2026. No late submissions will be accepted because of transmission problems.
The play must be unpublished but may have had previous productions. If the play has had previous productions, a production history must be included with the submission of the title page. The submitting playwright must own all rights to the play.
Selection of plays will be at the absolute discretion of the judges. Selection of a play does not guarantee production. Producers may decline to produce a selected play because of casting, directing or any other consideration.
Notification is expected to be made no later than October 1, 2026. Only playwrights whose plays have been selected for performance during the festival will receive notification of acceptance. Playwrights whose plays were received in the first 100 submitted will receive first-round notification. Producers reserve the right to consider additional plays not received in the first 100.
Plays are restricted to 4 or fewer characters. Small casts are preferable, as the stage size is modest, with minimal set, props, sound cues, and costuming.
Our talent pool is composed mostly of actors aged 40 and older. This will be a factor in selection.
Entering playwrights grant the producers of Diez Minutos permission to perform the play a maximum of twelve times during the Diez Minutos festival, and to make as many copies of the script as are necessary for production. All other rights remain with the playwright.
Thanks, in advance, for helping us to make Diez Minutos 2026 a great success. We look forward to reading your entry.
Players Workshop
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico