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• Arts: Writers Resources: Contests  (138)

• Abroad Writers' Conference Spring Playwrights Contest - Winner will be a guest of honor at our Writers Conference in France, where your play will be performed by professional actors.
• Arts Live Theatre - Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
• Aside Productions One Act Play contest - Up to three scripts will be selected for a staged reading. Open to high school and college students in North Houston, Texas.
• Backdoor Theatre New Play Project - Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
• Creative Mechanics: Stage This! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find - International playwriting and publishing competition, culminating with readings of the play finalists in New York City, an anthology containing the best plays, and one grand prize.
• Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest - Top three winners are awarded cash prizes and winning plays are produced and recorded live at The Neo-Futurists Theater in Chicago and then aired on the Drinking and Writing Brewery Radio Show.
• E-Merging Writers Ten-Minute PlaywritingCompetition - Winning plays will be performed in a night of staged readings in New York City and published in "Stage This! Ten Minute Plays."
• Havemeyer Playwright Competition - Contest for plays up to 15 minutes in length, sponsored by The Acting Company of Greenwich.
• Helford Prize - $10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
• Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma - National playwriting contest detailed under "Theatre Around Town" button.
• Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory - Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest spotlights new and emerging playwrights whose work represents or addresses the cultural diversity of America or diversity issues.
• Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival - Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
• Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest - Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes.
• Lyric Theatre LA -- stageWRITE Playwrighting Competition - Aims to provide an opportunity for new playwrights to gain exposure in Los Angeles (scroll to bottom of page for info).
• McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition - Annual playwriting competition, full length and one act plays accepted in January and February. Monetary prizes. Winner of full length category selected by audience vote after a reading. Progress of submitted scripts can be tracked online.
• The 10-Minute International Play Competition - Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles.
• Moxie Films - Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.
• Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest - Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.
• Riverside Cultural Consortium - Invites submissions for 10 minute Play Festival
• ShowOff! - The Camino Real Playhouse hosts this annual ten-minute playwriting festival. Playwrights world-wide submit their works and seven winners are given full production and three honorable mention winners are given staged readings during the nine performances in October. Deadline is June 15th.
• Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival - Community theatre group in Cornwall, NY. Short plays by new writers preferred.
• TADA! Youth Theater - TADA!’s Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest encourages playwrights to create work for underserved theatrical demographic: teens
• Tennessee Williams Literary Festival One Act Play contest - $1000 prize and staged reading followed by production. You may need to scroll this page to find the information.
• Theatre BC - Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest.
• TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition - Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
• VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.
• Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests - Including playwriting competitions.