contests

AACT New Play Fest Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025	Actors Theatre of Louisville New Voices Young Playwrights Festival Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024
Alabama Shakespeare Festival – Southern Writers’ Project Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025
Alfred Hodder Fellowship Princeton University Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024	American Antiquarian Society Fellowships Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
American Songwriting Awards Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025	Anna Zornio Memorial Children’s Theatre Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Production Grant Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Artist Trust Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Arts & Letters Prize in Drama Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025	ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
Ashland New Plays Festival Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024	Aurora Theatre Company: Global Age Project Submission Deadline: August 15, 2024
Babes With Blades – Joining Sword and Pen Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025	Baltimore Playrights Festival Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025
Barter Theatre’s Appalachain Festival of Plays and Playwrights Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025	Bite-Sized Broadway Submission Deadline: March 3, 2025
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024	Boomerang Theatre Company Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024
Boston Theater Marathon Submission Deadline: November 29, 2024	California Young Playwrights Contest Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025
Center for Contemporary Opera Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Centre Stage New Play Festival Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025
Charles M. Getchell Award, SETC Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024	Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025
Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025	Children’s Theatre Foundation Aurand Harris Fellowship Submission Deadline: August 2, 2024
Chris Austin Songwriting Contest Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025	Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Cintas Fellowship Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025	City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024
Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024	Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival Submission Deadline: Ongoing
College of Charleston (CofC) Todd McNerney National Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025	Colorado New Play Summit Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Connecticut Office of the Arts Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Creative Capital Grants Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Cultural Conversations Submission Deadline: Ongoing	David C. Horn Prize Submission Deadline: August 15, 2024
David Henry Hwang Writers Institute Submission Deadline: Ongoing	David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Dayton Playhouse FutureFest Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025	Delaware Division of the Arts Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025	Edinburgh Fringe Festival Submission Deadline: August 28, 2024
Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024	Eurovision Song Contest Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Fieldwork Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Firehouse Center for the Arts Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Florida Studio Theatre Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Foundation Center Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Francesca Primus Prize Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024	Fred Ebb Award Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Fresh Fruit Festival Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025	Fulbright Programs and Awards Submission Deadline: Ongoing
FUSION Theatre Company Submission Deadline: Ongoing	FusionFest Submission Deadline: Ongoing
George Bennett Fellowship Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024	George R. Kernodle Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024
Goshen College Peace Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024	Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024
Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025	Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024
Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships Submission Deadline: September 13, 2024	Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency (formerly the Robert Chesley Award) Submission Deadline: January 18, 2025
Horse Trade Theater Group Submission Deadline: Ongoing	HRC’s Annual Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Inspirato Festival Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025	Iowa Arts Council Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Irish Repertory Theatre Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025	Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024	Jewish Ensemble Theatre Festival of New Plays Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024	John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
John Lennon Songwriting Contest Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Submission Deadline: October 7, 2024	Kitchen Dog Theatre (KDT) New Works Festival Submission Deadline: November 9, 2024
Kumu Kahua Theatre/UHM Department of Theatre & Dance Playwriting Contest Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024	Last Frontier Theatre Conference Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024
Latino Playwriting Award (KCACTF) Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Award Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024
Little Festival of the Unexpected Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025	Live & In Color Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024
Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival Submission Deadline: July 18, 2025	Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Massachusetts Cultural Council Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024	Meet the Composer Programs Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Mid-Atlantic Song Contest Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024	Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Mind the Gap BritBits Short Play Festival Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Mississippi Theatre Association Playwriting Competition Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024
Mountain Stage New Song Contest Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025	National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
National Black Theatre Festival Submission Deadline: August 2, 2024	National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs/Humanities Projects in Media Submission Deadline: August 14, 2024
National Latino Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025	National Showcase of New Plays Submission Deadline: Ongoing
National Student Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024	Native Arts Program Visiting Artist Appointments Submission Deadline: Ongoing
New Musical Initiative Submission Deadline: December 9, 2024	New Professional Theatre Writers Festival Submission Deadline: Ongoing
New Song Music Contest Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025	New Works of Merit Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
New York Theatre Workshop Playwriting Fellowship Submission Deadline: Ongoing	NJ Young Playwrights Festival and Contest Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025
North Carolina New Play Project (NCNPP) Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024	North Vision Song Contest Submission Deadline: Ongoing
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024	Old Opera House Theatre Company New Voice Play Festival Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Page 73 Productions Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024	Paramount Song Contest Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Pataphysics Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025	Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward Drama Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024
PEN Center USA Literary Awards Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024	Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA) Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Phoenix Festival of New American Theatre Submission Deadline: July 25, 2025	Pipeline Awards for New Musical Theatre Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
Play by Play Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Playfest – Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024
Playground Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025	Playwrights Foundation Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Playwrights Gallery Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Playwrights’ Center Grant Programs; ; Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024
Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Playwriting Residency Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024	Playwrights’ Center McKnight Advancement Grants Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024
Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Staged Readings Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Premiere Stages Play Festival Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Primary Stages Playwriting Workshops Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Princess Grace Foundation USA Playwriting Fellowship Submission Deadline: March 14, 2025
Princeton Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Submission Deadline: September 20, 2024	Pulse Ensemble Theatre’s Playwrights’ Lab Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Summer Residencies Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024	Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024	Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
Samuel French Inc, Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival Submission Deadline: December 24, 2024	San Francisco Fringe Festival (SFFF) Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025
Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Play Contests Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025	Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024
Search for New Musicals (New Musicals Inc.) Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024	Sewanee Writers’ Conference Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024
Short Play Festival at Milwaukee Rep Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025
SongDoor International Songwriting Competition Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024	Songwriters Hall of Fame Competition Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Sound Bites- TNNY (Theatre Now New York) Submission Deadline: Ongoing	South Dakota Arts Council Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Stanley Drama Award Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024	Summerfield G. Roberts Award Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025
Sundance Theatre Lab – Women Write Now Submission Deadline: October 4, 2024	Surdna Foundation Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Submission Deadline:	Ten-Minute Play Festival Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Competition Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024	The David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Great American Song Contest Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024	The KCACTF Musical Theater Award Submission Deadline:
The KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024	The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre Submission Deadline: July 11, 2025
The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024	The Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize Submission Deadline: Ongoing
The Miranda Family ‘Voces Latinx’ National Playwriting Competition Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024	The National Student Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
The New Harmony Project Submission Deadline: Ongoing	The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Competition Submission Deadline: October 31, 2024	The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Scripteasers Submission Deadline: Ongoing	The Ten Minute Musicals Project Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024
Theatre Bay Area Grant Programs – Ca$h Workshops Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024	Theatre Conspiracy Submission Deadline: December 6, 2024
Theatre in the Raw Play Writing Contest Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024	Theatre Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024
Theatre Three One-Act Play Festival Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024	U.S. Bancorp Foundation Submission Deadline: Ongoing
U.S. Dept. of State Fulbright U.S. Student Program at the Institute of International Education Submission Deadline: October 26, 2024	Ungar German Translation Award Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024
University of Central Missouri National Playwriting Competition Submission Deadline: August 21, 2024	Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award Submission Deadline: Ongoing
USA Songwriting Competition Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025	Vermont Arts Council Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Vermont Playwrights Award Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025	VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program Submission Deadline: January 10, 2025
Weathervane Playhouse 8×10 TheatreFest Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024	Weston Playhouse New Musical Award Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Wichita Sate University New Play competition Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024	WildClaw Theatre Deathscribe Festival Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Will McLean Song Contest Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025	William Penn Foundation Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Williamstown Theatre Festival Submission Deadline: Ongoing	Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Program Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Women’s Project Playwrights Lab Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024	Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025

AACT New Play Fest
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025

Actors Theatre of Louisville New Voices Young Playwrights Festival
Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024

Alabama Shakespeare Festival – Southern Writers’ Project
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025

Alfred Hodder Fellowship Princeton University
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

American Songwriting Awards
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025

Anna Zornio Memorial Children’s Theatre Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025

Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Production Grant
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Artist Trust
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Arts & Letters Prize in Drama
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024

Ashland New Plays Festival
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024

Aurora Theatre Company: Global Age Project
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2024

Babes With Blades – Joining Sword and Pen
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Baltimore Playrights Festival
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025

Barter Theatre’s Appalachain Festival of Plays and Playwrights
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Bite-Sized Broadway
Submission Deadline: March 3, 2025

BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024

Boomerang Theatre Company
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

Boston Theater Marathon
Submission Deadline: November 29, 2024

California Young Playwrights Contest
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025

Center for Contemporary Opera
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Centre Stage New Play Festival
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025

Charles M. Getchell Award, SETC
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025

Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Children’s Theatre Foundation Aurand Harris Fellowship
Submission Deadline: August 2, 2024

Chris Austin Songwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Cintas Fellowship
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

College of Charleston (CofC) Todd McNerney National Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025

Colorado New Play Summit
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Connecticut Office of the Arts
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Creative Capital Grants
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Cultural Conversations
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

David C. Horn Prize
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2024

David Henry Hwang Writers Institute
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Dayton Playhouse FutureFest
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025

Delaware Division of the Arts
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Submission Deadline: August 28, 2024

Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference
Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024

Eurovision Song Contest
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Fieldwork
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Firehouse Center for the Arts
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Florida Studio Theatre
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Foundation Center
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Francesca Primus Prize
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

Fred Ebb Award
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025

Fresh Fruit Festival
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025

Fulbright Programs and Awards
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

FUSION Theatre Company
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

FusionFest
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

George Bennett Fellowship
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

George R. Kernodle Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024

Goshen College Peace Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024

Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024

Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships
Submission Deadline: September 13, 2024

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency (formerly the Robert Chesley Award)
Submission Deadline: January 18, 2025

Horse Trade Theater Group
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

HRC’s Annual Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Inspirato Festival
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025

Iowa Arts Council
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Irish Repertory Theatre
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024

Jane Chambers Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025

Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

Jewish Ensemble Theatre Festival of New Plays
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024

John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024

John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025

John Lennon Songwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024

Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation
Submission Deadline: October 7, 2024

Kitchen Dog Theatre (KDT) New Works Festival
Submission Deadline: November 9, 2024

Kumu Kahua Theatre/UHM Department of Theatre & Dance Playwriting Contest
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024

Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

Latino Playwriting Award (KCACTF)
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Award
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024

Little Festival of the Unexpected
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

Live & In Color
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024

Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival
Submission Deadline: July 18, 2025

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024

Meet the Composer Programs
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Mid-Atlantic Song Contest
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024

Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

Mind the Gap BritBits Short Play Festival
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Mississippi Theatre Association Playwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024

Mountain Stage New Song Contest
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025

National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT)
Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024

National Black Theatre Festival
Submission Deadline: August 2, 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs/Humanities Projects in Media
Submission Deadline: August 14, 2024

National Latino Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025

National Showcase of New Plays
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

National Student Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Native Arts Program Visiting Artist Appointments
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

New Musical Initiative
Submission Deadline: December 9, 2024

New Professional Theatre Writers Festival
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

New Song Music Contest
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025

New Works of Merit
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

New York Theatre Workshop Playwriting Fellowship
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

NJ Young Playwrights Festival and Contest
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025

North Carolina New Play Project (NCNPP)
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

North Vision Song Contest
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024

Old Opera House Theatre Company New Voice Play Festival
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025

Page 73 Productions
Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024

Paramount Song Contest
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Pataphysics
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025

Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward Drama
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024

PEN Center USA Literary Awards
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024

Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA)
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Phoenix Festival of New American Theatre
Submission Deadline: July 25, 2025

Pipeline Awards for New Musical Theatre
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Play by Play
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Playfest – Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024

Playground
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025

Playwrights Foundation
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Playwrights Gallery
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Playwrights’ Center Grant Programs; ; Jerome Playwright-in-Residence Fellowships
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024

Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Playwriting Residency
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024

Playwrights’ Center McKnight Advancement Grants
Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Staged Readings
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Premiere Stages Play Festival
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

Primary Stages Playwriting Workshops
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Princess Grace Foundation USA Playwriting Fellowship
Submission Deadline: March 14, 2025

Princeton Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts
Submission Deadline: September 20, 2024

Pulse Ensemble Theatre’s Playwrights’ Lab
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Summer Residencies
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Samuel French Inc, Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Submission Deadline: December 24, 2024

San Francisco Fringe Festival (SFFF)
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025

Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Play Contests
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024

Search for New Musicals (New Musicals Inc.)
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024

Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024

Short Play Festival at Milwaukee Rep
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

SongDoor International Songwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

Songwriters Hall of Fame Competition
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Sound Bites- TNNY (Theatre Now New York)
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

South Dakota Arts Council
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Stanley Drama Award
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024

Summerfield G. Roberts Award
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025

Sundance Theatre Lab – Women Write Now
Submission Deadline: October 4, 2024

Surdna Foundation
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Submission Deadline:

Ten-Minute Play Festival
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Competition
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

The David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

The Great American Song Contest
Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

The KCACTF Musical Theater Award
Submission Deadline:

The KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024

The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre
Submission Deadline: July 11, 2025

The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024

The Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

The Miranda Family ‘Voces Latinx’ National Playwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

The National Student Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

The New Harmony Project
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

The Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Competition
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2024

The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

The Scripteasers
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

The Ten Minute Musicals Project
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024

Theatre Bay Area Grant Programs – Ca$h Workshops
Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024

Theatre Conspiracy
Submission Deadline: December 6, 2024

Theatre in the Raw Play Writing Contest
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

Theatre Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024

Theatre Three One-Act Play Festival
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024

U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

U.S. Dept. of State Fulbright U.S. Student Program at the Institute of International Education
Submission Deadline: October 26, 2024

Ungar German Translation Award
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024

University of Central Missouri National Playwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2024

Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

USA Songwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025

Vermont Arts Council
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Vermont Playwrights Award
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025

VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2025

Weathervane Playhouse 8×10 TheatreFest
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024

Weston Playhouse New Musical Award
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Wichita Sate University New Play competition
Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

WildClaw Theatre Deathscribe Festival
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Will McLean Song Contest
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025

William Penn Foundation
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Williamstown Theatre Festival
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Program
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Women’s Project Playwrights Lab
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024

Writer’s Digest Writing Competition
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025