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Deadline Alert: Submit Your Full-Length Play to the O’Neill by THIS THURSDAY 9/10/26 (Fee Required) (opens the original)
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Submit: Premiere Stages Play Festival, Deadline: 9/1/26 - 11/1/26 (opens the original)
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Premiere Stages Play FestivalSubmissions now openPremiere Stages is committed to supporting emerging and regional playwrights by developing and producing new plays. Since 2005, the Premiere Play Festival has offered playwrights the opportunity to develop their work in an encouraging, focused environment through discussions, rehearsals, readings, workshops, and Equity productions.How To Playwright is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts
Submit: Premiere Stages Play Festival, Deadline: 11/1/26 (opens the original)
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Premiere Stages Play FestivalSubmissions now openPremiere Stages is committed to supporting emerging and regional playwrights by developing and producing new plays. Since 2005, the Premiere Play Festival has offered playwrights the opportunity to develop their work in an encouraging, focused environment through discussions, rehearsals, readings, workshops, and Equity productions.Through the Premiere Play Festival, Premiere Stages has developed many plays that have gone on to have successful prod
Submit: IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab: Deadline July 31 (opens the original)
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WHAT IS THE LAB?The IAMA EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS LAB is an artistic home for early-career and emerging Los Angeles-based playwrights. Over the course of this one-year residency, the writers will meet on a monthly basis, to share and develop a new full-length play in a peer-guided format. Members of the Lab will also be given dramaturgical support from the Artistic and Literary staff at IAMA, as well as a ticket to each of IAMA's mainstage productions. The Lab will culminate in readings of each memb
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