Open Directory - Arts: Writers Resources: Playwriting
See also: - Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community. - An international playwright competition; with submission guidelines, application form and news. - Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts. - Large collection of Australian scripts available for purchase. Read extracts, rate the scripts, and search by cast size, age, audience age and categories. - Award-winning professional theatre, founded in 1981 to promote new plays. Home to the Boston University Graduate Playwriting Program, and producers of the Boston Theater Marathon. - Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays. - Meeting place on the web for scriptwriters of all kinds. - A non-profit literary arts organization in Philadelphia, PA offering playwrighting and fiction competitions yearly, as well as residencies, workshops, and educational outreach programs. - To support women playwrights around the world. - Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Guidelines for authors and playwrights. - Online publishers of mainly English pantomimes, but also plays and musicals. Includes submission guidelines and a tutorial on how to write pantomimes. - Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected." - To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films. - Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion. - NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome. - Over 500 stage plays. Free catalogues, free evaluation copies. New members & submissions welcome. - Creative writing organisation in the South East of UK for writers, and agencies. Includes playwrights network, directory of writers and competitions, workshop and education programmes, and members area. - Offers plays online for production. Specializes in plays that require little or no technical support. Annual playwrighting Contest. Free perusal copies available via email upon request. - Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University. - PDC is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists, and audience members dedicated to the creation and nurture of new works for live performance. - A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing. - Philadelphia Young Playwrights is an intensive arts- education program that pairs a professional teaching artist with a classroom teacher. The two work together as an artistic team, guiding and supporting students in the process of writing a play. - Annual competition for one-act plays that have never been produced. 12 plays are selected for main stage production and 6 for staged readings. Submission fee. - New play development program serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Focus is on the collaborative process between emerging local playwrights and professional actors. - Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights. - Membership organization offering support services for Canadian Atlantic playwrights. PARC services include development, showcasing and promotion of work by regional playwrights. Membership is open to playwrights, theater companies, students and theatre lovers in the four Atlantic provinces of Canada. - West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. - Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Searchable online catalogue. - Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting. - A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf. - Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources. - Articles (archived) to assist playwrights. - Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site. - Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights. - Annotated bibliography of recommended texts. [PDF] - Held each April in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Six plays are chosen; playwrights receive monetary compensation, accommodations, and travel stipend to Colorado. - Plays available for production. Free evaluation copy on request. - The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK. - Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors. - Hands on programs in Los Angeles for beginning and advanced stage and screen writers - A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays. - Offers support for playwrights and screenwriters, including private consultations for dramatic writers anywhere in the world and an ongoing quarterly workshop program for dramatic writers in the San Francisco Bay Area. - Multiple award winning NYC theatre company focuses on developing and staging new works and plays. Accepting submissions year-round. - Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest. - A free resource site for young playwrights and those who teach them. Also, information about Young Playwrights 101, a complete playwriting curriculum in an e-book.
