Playwriting
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- AustralianPlays.org
- Large collection of Australian scripts available for purchase. Read extracts, rate the scripts, and search by cast size, age, audience age and categories.
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- Boston Playwrights' Theatre
- 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.
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- Limelight Scripts
- Online publishers of mainly English pantomimes, but also plays and musicals. Includes submission guidelines and a tutorial on how to write pantomimes.
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- New Writing South
- 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.
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- Notechtheatre.com
- 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.
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- Ohio University MFA Playwriting
- Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.
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- PDC: The Philadelphia Dramatists Center
- PDC is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists, and audience members dedicated to the creation and nurture of new works for live performance.
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- Philadelphia Young Playwrights
- 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.
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- Pittsburgh New Works Festival
- 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.
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- Playground
- New play development program serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Focus is on the collaborative process between emerging local playwrights and professional actors.
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- Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre
- 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.
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- Playwrights Foundation
- West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
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- Playwrights Guild of Canada
- Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Searchable online catalogue.
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- Playwrights' Center
- Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
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- Resources for Teaching Playwriting Compiled by Adam Russell
- Annotated bibliography of recommended texts. [PDF]
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