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	VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - http://www.vsarts.org/x244.xml Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.
	Theatre BC - http://www.theatrebc.org/playcomp/ Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest.
	Castillo theatre Playwriting contest - http://www.castillo.org/contest.html The Mario Fratti & Fred Newman Political Play Writing Contest is now accepting submissions.
	Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests - http://www.writing-world.com/contests/index.shtml Including playwriting competitions.
	Moxie Films - http://www.moxie-films.com Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.

	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.
	Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest - http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.html Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.
	Tennessee Williams Literary Festival One Act Play contest - http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/index.php?topic=contests $1000 prize and staged reading followed by production. You may need to scroll this page to find the information.
	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.
	Lyric Theatre LA -- stageWRITE Playwrighting Competition - http://www.lyrictheatrela.com/programs.php Aims to provide an opportunity for new playwrights to gain exposure in Los Angeles (scroll to bottom of page for info).

	Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival - http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
	Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival - http://stormyweatherplayers.org/chads.html Community theatre group in Cornwall, NY. Short plays by new writers preferred.
	TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition - http://trapdoorensemble.org/12410.html Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
	Arts Live Theatre - http://artslivetheatre.com Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
	Helford Prize - http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html $10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.

	The 10-Minute International Play Competition - http://www.fireroseproductions.com/Pages/10min2007-1.html Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles.
	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.
	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.
	Backdoor Theatre New Play Project - http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
	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 Highwire’s season.

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

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