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	VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - http://www.vsarts.org/x244.xml Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.
	Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest - http://www.lct.cc/PlayWriteContest.htm Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes.
	Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests - http://www.writing-world.com/contests/index.shtml Including playwriting competitions.
	McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition - http://www.mctmidland.org/mclaren.php 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.
	Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival - http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.

	Lyric Theatre LA -- stageWRITE Playwrighting Competition - http://www.lyrictheatrela.com/programs.php Aims to provide an opportunity for new playwrights to gain exposure in Los Angeles (scroll to bottom of page for info).
	Moxie Films - http://www.moxie-films.com Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.
	Havemeyer Playwright Competition - http://www.tacog.org/playwrightcompetition.html Contest for plays up to 15 minutes in length, sponsored by The Acting Company of Greenwich.
	Helford Prize - http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html $10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
	TADA! Youth Theater - http://www.tadatheater.com/scriptsmarketing/ContestsAndSubmissions.asp TADA!’s Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest encourages playwrights to create work for underserved theatrical demographic: teens

	Theatre BC - http://www.theatrebc.org/playcomp/ Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest.
	Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest - http://www.drinkingandwriting.com 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.
	The 10-Minute International Play Competition - http://www.fireroseproductions.com/Pages/10min2007-1.html Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles.
	Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory - http://www.hbtl.org/dvpc.html Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest spotlights new and emerging playwrights whose work represents or addresses the cultural diversity of America or diversity issues.
	ShowOff! - http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org/ShowOffs.html 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.

	Arts Live Theatre - http://artslivetheatre.com Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
	Abroad Writers' Conference Spring Playwrights Contest - http://abroad-crwf.com/playwrightscontest.html Winner will be a guest of honor at our Writers Conference in France, where your play will be performed by professional actors.
	TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition - http://trapdoorensemble.org/12410.html Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
	Creative Mechanics: Stage This! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find - http://emerging.freewebspace.com/CreativeMechanics/stage_this/index.html International playwriting and publishing competition, culminating with readings of the play finalists in New York City, an anthology containing the best plays, and one grand prize.
	Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest - http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.html Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.

	Backdoor Theatre New Play Project - http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
	Highwire Theatre's Testing the LineNew Playwright Competition - http://www.highwiretheatre.org/TESTING%20THE%20LINE.html Finalists receive a workshop and staged reading with professional actors and directors. Winner receives $300 and a full-mounted production as part of Highwire’s season.
	New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest - http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/animals456/myhomepage/business.html?mtbrand=AOL_US Seeks scripts that entertain and uplift, bringing new awareness and insights related to social, cultural, racial, religious, and ethnic issues.
	E-Merging Writers Ten-Minute PlaywritingCompetition - http://www.fnproductions.org/emerging.htm Winning plays will be performed in a night of staged readings in New York City and published in "Stage This! Ten Minute Plays."
	Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma - http://www.geocities.com/alb74114/theatres/heller/hellerpage/heller.html National playwriting contest detailed under "Theatre Around Town" button.

Riverside Cultural Consortium - http://www.inlandarts.com/?app=classifiedDetail&id=536
Invites submissions for 10 minute Play Festival

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