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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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