HubHip: Arts: Writers Resources: Playwriting (77)

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Playwriting

Playmarket (Site) - Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco (Site) - A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.
Playwrighting Resources (Site) - Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
Limelight Scripts (Site) - Online publishers of mainly English pantomimes, but also plays and musicals. Includes submission guidelines and a tutorial on how to write pantomimes.
The Playwrights Forum (Site) - The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
Project Writers Unite (Site) - Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
La Ronde (Site) - Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
The Brick Playhouse (Site) - Dedicated exclusively to the creation, development, and production of new theatre works.
Moondance International Film Festival (Site) - To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.
New Writing South (Site) - 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.
Wrightofplay (Site) - A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
NYCPlaywrights (Site) - NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.
Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops (Site) - 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.
Philadelphia Young Playwrights (Site) - 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.
Performing and Writing Musical Theatre (Site) - A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
Young Playwrights 101 (Site) - 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.
ProPlay (Site) - Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
Swan Playwrights (Site) - The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
Australian Script Centre (Site) - Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
Working Man’s Clothes Productions (Site) - Multiple award winning NYC theatre company focuses on developing and staging new works and plays. Accepting submissions year-round.
International Centre for Women Playwrights (Site) - To support women playwrights around the world.
Dramatic Exchange (Site) - Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
Playwrights' Center (Site) - Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
Toscan's Online Playwriting Seminar (Site) - An overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (Site) - Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer (Site) - Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
Jassin Office - Publishing and Theatre Law (Site) - Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.
Playwrights Foundation (Site) - West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
The Playwright's Noticeboard (Site) - Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre - Professional Theatre and Graduate Playwriting Program (Site) - 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.
Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting (Site) - Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
Playwriting 101 (Site) - A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.
Write Angle Productions (Site) - Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.
Ohio University MFA Playwriting (Site) - Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.
NY Play Development Lab (Site) - Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
Playwriting at Suite101.com (Site) - Articles (archived) to assist playwrights.
Charles Deemer: Playwriting Basics (Site) - Tips for playwrights.
Hidden River Arts (Site) - A non-profit literary arts organization in Philadelphia, PA offering playwrighting and fiction competitions yearly, as well as residencies, workshops, and educational outreach programs.
Lazy Bee Scripts (Site) - Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Guidelines for authors and playwrights.
Greensboro Playwrights' Forum (Site) - A gathering of North Carolina playwrights, meeting once a month to discuss works-in-progress and aid one another in getting produced or published.
Playwrights Guild of Canada (Site) - Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Searchable online catalogue.
PDC: The Philadelphia Dramatists Center (Site) - PDC is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists, and audience members dedicated to the creation and nurture of new works for live performance.
The Playwrights' Co-Operative (Site) - Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
ArtWork Enterprises Playwrights Festivals (Site) - Produces three annual festivals in support of playwrights and the development of new plays for the American stage.