Contests

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.
http://abroad-crwf.com/playwrightscontest.html

Arts Live Theatre
Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
http://artslivetheatre.com

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.
http://asideproductions.org/Submission%20Rules.html

Backdoor Theatre New Play Project
Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm

Castillo theatre Playwriting contest
The Mario Fratti & Fred Newman Political Play Writing Contest is now accepting submissions.
http://www.castillo.org/contest.html

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.
http://emerging.freewebspace.com/CreativeMechanics/stage_this/index.html

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.
http://www.drinkingandwriting.com

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."
http://www.fnproductions.org/emerging.htm

Havemeyer Playwright Competition
Contest for plays up to 15 minutes in length, sponsored by The Acting Company of Greenwich.
http://www.tacog.org/playwrightcompetition.html

Helford Prize
$10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html

Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma
National playwriting contest detailed under "Theatre Around Town" button.
http://www.geocities.com/alb74114/theatres/heller/hellerpage/heller.html

Highwire Theatre's Testing the LineNew Playwright Competition
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.
http://www.highwiretheatre.org/TESTING_THE_LINE.html

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.
http://www.hbtl.org/dvpc.html

Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival
Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm

Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest
Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes.
http://www.lct.cc/PlayWriteContest.htm

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).
http://www.lyrictheatrela.com/programs.php

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.
http://www.mctmidland.org/mclaren.php

Midwest High School Playwriting Competition
Open to all Midwest USA high school students. Winners receive a reading with Crossroads Repertory Theatre and a scholarship to study theater at ISU.
http://www1.indstate.edu/theater/mhspc.html

The 10-Minute International Play Competition
Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles.
http://www.fireroseproductions.com/Pages/10min2007-1.html

Moxie Films
Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.
http://www.moxie-films.com

Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest
Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.
http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.html

Riverside Cultural Consortium
Invites submissions for 10 minute Play Festival
http://www.inlandarts.com/?app=classifiedDetail&id=536

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.
http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org/ShowOffs.html

Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival
Community theatre group in Cornwall, NY. Short plays by new writers preferred.
http://stormyweatherplayers.org/chads.html

TADA! Youth Theater
TADA!’s Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest encourages playwrights to create work for underserved theatrical demographic: teens
http://www.tadatheater.com/scriptsmarketing/ContestsAndSubmissions.asp

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.
http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/index.php?topic=contests

Theatre BC
Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest.
http://www.theatrebc.org/playcomp/

TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition
Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
http://trapdoorensemble.org/12410.html

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.
http://www.vsarts.org/x244.xml

Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests
Including playwriting competitions.
http://www.writing-world.com/contests/index.shtml