Contests (Subscribe)
Links
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.
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
http://asideproductions.org/Submission%20Rules.html
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
http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm
Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
Castillo theatre Playwriting contest
http://www.castillo.org/contest.html
The Mario Fratti & Fred Newman Political Play Writing Contest is now accepting submissions.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Helford Prize
http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html
$10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma
http://www.geocities.com/alb74114/theatres/heller/hellerpage/heller.html
National playwriting contest detailed under "Theatre Around Town" button.
Highwire Theatre's Testing the LineNew Playwright Competition
http://www.highwiretheatre.org/TESTING_THE_LINE.html
Finalists receive a workshop and staged reading with professional actors and directors. Winner receives $300 and a full-mounted production as part of Highwires season.
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
http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm
Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
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.

