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Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
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Produces three annual festivals in support of playwrights and the development of new plays for the American stage.
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Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
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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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Tips for playwrights.
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Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
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A gathering of North Carolina playwrights, meeting once a month to discuss works-in-progress and aid one another in getting produced or published.
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A non-profit literary arts organization in Philadelphia, PA offering playwrighting and fiction competitions yearly, as well as residencies, workshops, and educational outreach programs.
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Dedicated to the support of women playwrights around the world.
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Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.
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Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
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Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Guidelines for authors and playwrights.
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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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Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
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To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.
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Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
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NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.
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Creative writing organisation for writers, and agencies. Includes playwrights network, directory of writers and competitions, workshop and education programmes, and members area.
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Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.
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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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A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
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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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Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
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Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
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West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
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Located in Toronto, Ontario.
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Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
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A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.
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Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
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Articles (archived) to assist playwrights.
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Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
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Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
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The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
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Dedicated exclusively to the creation, development, and production of new theatre works.
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Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.
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The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
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A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.
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Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
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An overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Offers support for playwrights and screenwriters, including private consultations for dramatic writers anywhere in the world and an ongoing quarterly workshop program for dramatic writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Multiple award winning NYC theatre company focuses on developing and staging new works and plays. Accepting submissions year-round.
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A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
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Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.
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A free resource site for young playwrights and those who teach them. Also, information about Young Playwrights 101, a complete playwriting curriculum in an e-book.
