Arts Live Theatre - 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 - Up to three scripts will be selected for a staged reading. Open to high school and college students in North Houston, Texas.
Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest - 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.
Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory - Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest spotlights new and emerging playwrights whose work represents or addresses the cultural diversity of America or diversity issues.
McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition - Annual playwriting competition, full length and one act plays accepted in January and February. Monetary prizes. Winner of full length category selected by audience vote after a reading. Progress of submitted scripts can be tracked online.
Midwest High School Playwriting Competition - Open to all Midwest USA high school students. Winners receive a reading with Crossroads Repertory Theatre and a scholarship to study theater at ISU.
ShowOff! - 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.
VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.