Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights Contest Name: Deadline: (for ongoing submissions, enter 1/1/3000) Contact Website: Accept Musicals?: Unknown Yes No Accept Plays?: Unknown Yes No Accept Young Audiences?: Unknown Yes No Accept Edgy Material?: Unknown Yes No Accept Radio/Film/TV Scripts?: Unknown Yes No Categories Award Cash Conference Fellowship Festival Production Reading Residency Song Contest Workshop Length Full-length Full-length One-act One-act Short -- Parent -- Contest Tags Description: Visual Text For over three decades, the Clauder Competition has been New England’s most prestigious playwriting award. Created in 1981 by Jeb Brooks, who continues to underwrite the program, the Clauder Competition celebrates the distinctive voices of our region’s playwrights and brings their work to the attention of the greater theatrical community. The Clauder Competition generates over 200 submissions each cycle. Each play receives at least two evaluations and all writers are sent a letter including an individualized response from readers. Plays by the three Clauder winners are included in the Little Festival of the Unexpected (see below). The Grand Prize winner will go on to receive a production and cash prize. The goal of the Clauder Competition for New England playwrights is to provide exposure, encouragement, and critical feedback to promising playwrights who typically receive little more than a return postcard for material they send to theaters and producers. <strong>Clauder Grand Prize</strong>: a $3,000 cash award, and a workshop production followed by a full production the following season. <strong>Two Gold Prizes</strong>: $1,500 cash awards each. <strong>Additional prizes will also be awarded to the best play from each of the six New England states.</strong> No updates as of October 2023. Using past info to predict new submission date. Contact Name - FIRST: LAST: Contact Title: Contact Email: Contact Phone: Contact Address1: Contact Address2: Contact City: Contact State: Contact Zip: Contact Country: Comments from NMI Staff: Visual Text <em><strong>Due to current commitments with playwrights the 2021 Little Festival of the Unexpected will not open for submissions this summer. Playwrights may submit in 2023.</strong></em> Submissions for LFU are <strong>accepted every other year (2023, 2025, etc) July 1st through September 30th </strong>for consideration the following May. Only scripts and samples of <strong>full-length plays</strong> are considered for the Festival.
