NYCPlaywrights statement on honoring deadlines

During the more than ten years that NYCPlaywrights has been running this NYCPlaywrights blog as a call board, there have been very few incidents of theater companies closing their submissions window before their stated deadline.

But for whatever reason, during this past summer, several theater organizations have failed to honor their stated deadlines, sometimes closing their submission windows more than a month in advance. NYCPlaywrights knows this because we've been contacted by several playwrights who have complained about the practice.

NYCPlaywrights regrets that any playwrights have had a submission window closed on them prematurely. Unfortunately, NYCPlaywrights is not in a position to prevent the practice. Since most theater companies do honor their deadlines, we assume any given theater company will honor the deadline given, when we first post their call for submission, and we don't have the resources to regularly check up looking for signs of bad faith.

But we do have recommendations.

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