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Below are some useful links about Contests on Playwriting - Writers Resources - Arts - :
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VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - http://www.vsarts.org/x244.xml
Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability. |
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Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest - http://www.lct.cc/PlayWriteContest.htm
Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes. |
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Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests - http://www.writing-world.com/contests/index.shtml
Including playwriting competitions. |
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McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition - http://www.mctmidland.org/mclaren.php
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. |
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Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival - http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm
Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work. |
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Lyric Theatre LA -- stageWRITE Playwrighting Competition - http://www.lyrictheatrela.com/programs.php
Aims to provide an opportunity for new playwrights to gain exposure in Los Angeles (scroll to bottom of page for info). |
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Moxie Films - http://www.moxie-films.com
Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest. |
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Havemeyer Playwright Competition - http://www.tacog.org/playwrightcompetition.html
Contest for plays up to 15 minutes in length, sponsored by The Acting Company of Greenwich. |
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Helford Prize - http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html
$10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents. |
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TADA! Youth Theater - http://www.tadatheater.com/scriptsmarketing/ContestsAndSubmissions.asp
TADA!’s Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest encourages playwrights to create work for underserved theatrical demographic: teens |
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Theatre BC - http://www.theatrebc.org/playcomp/
Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest. |
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Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest - http://www.drinkingandwriting.com
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. |
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The 10-Minute International Play Competition - http://www.fireroseproductions.com/Pages/10min2007-1.html
Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles. |
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Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory - http://www.hbtl.org/dvpc.html
Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest spotlights new and emerging playwrights whose work represents or addresses the cultural diversity of America or diversity issues. |
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ShowOff! - http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org/ShowOffs.html
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. |
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Arts Live Theatre - http://artslivetheatre.com
Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered. |
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Abroad Writers' Conference Spring Playwrights Contest - http://abroad-crwf.com/playwrightscontest.html
Winner will be a guest of honor at our Writers Conference in France, where your play will be performed by professional actors. |
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TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition - http://trapdoorensemble.org/12410.html
Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program. |
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Creative Mechanics: Stage This! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find - http://emerging.freewebspace.com/CreativeMechanics/stage_this/index.html
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. |
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Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest - http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.html
Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged. |
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Backdoor Theatre New Play Project - http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm
Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works. |
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Highwire Theatre's Testing the LineNew Playwright Competition - http://www.highwiretheatre.org/TESTING%20THE%20LINE.html
Finalists receive a workshop and staged reading with professional actors and directors. Winner receives $300 and a full-mounted production as part of Highwire’s season. |
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New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest - http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/animals456/myhomepage/business.html?mtbrand=AOL_US
Seeks scripts that entertain and uplift, bringing new awareness and insights related to social, cultural, racial, religious, and ethnic issues. |
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E-Merging Writers Ten-Minute PlaywritingCompetition - http://www.fnproductions.org/emerging.htm
Winning plays will be performed in a night of staged readings in New York City and published in "Stage This! Ten Minute Plays." |
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Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma - http://www.
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National playwriting contest detailed under "Theatre Around Town" button. |
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Riverside Cultural Consortium - http://www.inlandarts.com/?app=classifiedDetail&id=536
Invites submissions for 10 minute Play Festival |
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