2023 Annual Playwriting Festival
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Philadelphia Young Playwrights is currently accepting play submissions from students in grades K-12 for the 2023 Annual Playwriting Festival! To submit your play, please follow the instructions below.
To learn more about the opportunities available to students who win first, second, or third place in the festival, click here. |
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HERE’S WHAT TO DO:
Still have questions? E-mail them to: submissions@phillyyoungplaywrights.org.
DEADLINE: May 19, 2023
- The choice of subject is up to you.
- You may submit more than one play (submission instructions below).
- Scripts must be in Standard American format. Scroll down to download the Style Sheet.
- Scripts submitted to previous Young Playwrights’ Festivals are not eligible without significant revision.
- Scripts must be entirely written by one or more people who are under the age of 19 or in grades K-12 at the time of submission.
- We accept submissions from Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, or Delaware, or from any student who has participated in one of our classes in the 2022-2023 school year.
- Monologues and screenplays are not eligible, nor are adaptations of other authors’ works. To submit a monologue to our monologue festival, please click here.
Still have questions? E-mail them to: submissions@phillyyoungplaywrights.org.
DEADLINE: May 19, 2023
To submit ELECTRONICALLY (preferred):
- FIRST, save your play as a Microsoft Word Document (saved as .doc) or with the name of the document as School, Grade, Play Title, Author Last Name. (Adobe PDF Documents .PDF are also acceptable)
- OR provide a Google Doc link to your play.
- You can get this link by:
- You can get this link by: 1) Clicking the "share" button on their google.doc, 2) clicking "get shareable link" on the top right, and then 3) copy and paste that link into the submission form.
- You can get this link by:
- THEN fill out an Electronic Submission form by clicking HERE.
- Once you have uploaded your play, you will receive a confirmation email. Please review your submission info to make sure you have entered everything correctly!
If you have to submit via HARD COPY:
IMPORTANT: Plays with incomplete cover sheets will NOT be considered for production opportunities, as we are unable to contact students directly.
• Scripts must be postmarked no later than May 19, 2023.
SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO:
Literary Committee, Philadelphia Young Playwrights
1219 Vine Street
Floor 2
Philadelphia, PA 19107
- Scripts must be typed in an easily legible font, page numbered and stapled with just one staple on the upper left side.
- Submit 1 copy of your play with cover sheet attached. Keep the original at home, because scripts will not be returned. Note: We strongly encourage you to save an electronic copy of your script.
- Please download the official cover sheet and fill out completely. Note: An official cover sheet is required for hard copy submission.
IMPORTANT: Plays with incomplete cover sheets will NOT be considered for production opportunities, as we are unable to contact students directly.
• Scripts must be postmarked no later than May 19, 2023.
SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO:
Literary Committee, Philadelphia Young Playwrights
1219 Vine Street
Floor 2
Philadelphia, PA 19107
SCRIPTS NOT MEETING THESE CRITERIA WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR SUBMISSION.
PLEASE NOTE: By submitting your play to the Playwriting Festival, you are giving Philadelphia Young Playwrights, a nonprofit organization, permission to produce your play, or use your play, now or in the future, for other purposes such as play readings and in published anthologies of winning plays, without money being paid to you.
Style Sheet
2023 Submission Cover Sheet
PLEASE NOTE: By submitting your play to the Playwriting Festival, you are giving Philadelphia Young Playwrights, a nonprofit organization, permission to produce your play, or use your play, now or in the future, for other purposes such as play readings and in published anthologies of winning plays, without money being paid to you.
Style Sheet
2023 Submission Cover Sheet
