Playwrights Foundation: Submit to Bay Area Playwrights Festival '09!
Submit to Bay Area Playwrights Festival '09!
Playwrights: Submit your full-length un-produced play today!
Priority deadline: October 31
Final deadline: November 15
How To Submit
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is open to all playwrights writing in English and living in North America, including students enrolled in a BFA or MFA playwriting program. In a strictly juried selection process five to six plays are chosen to appear at the festival.
Playwrights chosen for the festival are given two weeks of rehearsal (with a professional dramaturg, director, and actors) and two rehearsed readings separated by five to six days for rewrites during the two-week festival in July and August at a San Francisco theater. The last three festivals were held at the Magic Theatre.
A pre-festival weekend retreat in July brings together artistic teams consisting of playwrights, directors, dramaturgs. Brainstorming and feedback from other festival participants occur during the retreat. It is mandatory for playwrights to be in residence for the entire retreat and festival period.
Local and national producers are invited to the festival to see the staged readings and meet the playwrights.
Special attention is given to Bay Area writers, emerging writers, and writers of color.
Financial arrangement: stipend, travel, housing.
Application procedure: please mail your play with resume and cover letter. In your cover letter please briefly describe your developmental goals for the play. Be sure to include your current e-mail address, as all further festival communication will be conducted electronically. Enrolled BFA and MFA students may also submit a letter of recommendation.
Application Fee: There is a $20 submission fee, put toward the costs associated with the selection process. Please submit your fee in the form of check or money order made out to PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION. Previous festival participants and honorable mentions are exempt from the submission fee. If the submission fee poses a severe financial hardship, please call the office to discuss at 415/626-0453 x110.
Guidelines: send one unproduced original full-length play. Only one submission per playwright, please. Plays that have previously received a workshop or university production are considered unproduced. Plays that have previously received professional production do not qualify.
Format: Plays can be on either single or double sided paper, and should be secured only with a removable binder clip. Do not bind or staple.
Please note: Only snail mail submissions are accepted. Electronic submissions are not allowed at this time, but finalists will be required to send the a copy of the script electronically. Scripts will not be returned. Please do not send notification postcards, as we will alert you electronically after December 1, 2008 that we have received your submission.
Deadline: Postmarked by October 31 (priority deadline) November 15 (absolute deadline), 2008. If more than 500 scripts are received by October 31, absolute deadline will not be honored. Five hundred will be a cut-off number for plays received between October 31 and November 15. It is in your best interest to send your submissions early.
Mailing Address: Please send submissions to
BAPF 32
Playwrights Foundation
131 ~ 10th St, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Award notification: May 2009
Dates: Pre-festival weekend retreat mid to late July, Festival last week of July - first week of August.
Questions (by email only, please): literary (at) playwrightsfoundation (dot) org
Priority deadline: October 31
Final deadline: November 15
How To Submit
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is open to all playwrights writing in English and living in North America, including students enrolled in a BFA or MFA playwriting program. In a strictly juried selection process five to six plays are chosen to appear at the festival.
Playwrights chosen for the festival are given two weeks of rehearsal (with a professional dramaturg, director, and actors) and two rehearsed readings separated by five to six days for rewrites during the two-week festival in July and August at a San Francisco theater. The last three festivals were held at the Magic Theatre.
A pre-festival weekend retreat in July brings together artistic teams consisting of playwrights, directors, dramaturgs. Brainstorming and feedback from other festival participants occur during the retreat. It is mandatory for playwrights to be in residence for the entire retreat and festival period.
Local and national producers are invited to the festival to see the staged readings and meet the playwrights.
Special attention is given to Bay Area writers, emerging writers, and writers of color.
Financial arrangement: stipend, travel, housing.
Application procedure: please mail your play with resume and cover letter. In your cover letter please briefly describe your developmental goals for the play. Be sure to include your current e-mail address, as all further festival communication will be conducted electronically. Enrolled BFA and MFA students may also submit a letter of recommendation.
Application Fee: There is a $20 submission fee, put toward the costs associated with the selection process. Please submit your fee in the form of check or money order made out to PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION. Previous festival participants and honorable mentions are exempt from the submission fee. If the submission fee poses a severe financial hardship, please call the office to discuss at 415/626-0453 x110.
Guidelines: send one unproduced original full-length play. Only one submission per playwright, please. Plays that have previously received a workshop or university production are considered unproduced. Plays that have previously received professional production do not qualify.
Format: Plays can be on either single or double sided paper, and should be secured only with a removable binder clip. Do not bind or staple.
Please note: Only snail mail submissions are accepted. Electronic submissions are not allowed at this time, but finalists will be required to send the a copy of the script electronically. Scripts will not be returned. Please do not send notification postcards, as we will alert you electronically after December 1, 2008 that we have received your submission.
Deadline: Postmarked by October 31 (priority deadline) November 15 (absolute deadline), 2008. If more than 500 scripts are received by October 31, absolute deadline will not be honored. Five hundred will be a cut-off number for plays received between October 31 and November 15. It is in your best interest to send your submissions early.
Mailing Address: Please send submissions to
BAPF 32
Playwrights Foundation
131 ~ 10th St, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Award notification: May 2009
Dates: Pre-festival weekend retreat mid to late July, Festival last week of July - first week of August.
Questions (by email only, please): literary (at) playwrightsfoundation (dot) org