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Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights - http://www.laplaywrights.org/
Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.

ArtWork Enterprises Playwrights Festivals - http://www.ashlandnewplays.org/index.html
Produces three annual festivals in support of playwrights and the development of new plays for the American stage.

Australian Script Centre - http://www.ozscript.org
Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre - Professional Theatre and Graduate Playwriting Program - http://www.bu.edu/bpt/
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.

Charles Deemer: Playwriting Basics - http://www.geocities.com/cdeemer/Play.htm
Tips for playwrights.

Dramatic Exchange - http://www.dramex.org/
Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.

Greensboro Playwrights' Forum - http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/Departments/Parks/programs/cityarts/drama/GPF.htm
A gathering of North Carolina playwrights, meeting once a month to discuss works-in-progress and aid one another in getting produced or published.

Hidden River Arts - http://www.hiddenriverarts.org
A non-profit literary arts organization in Philadelphia, PA offering playwrighting and fiction competitions yearly, as well as residencies, workshops, and educational outreach programs.

International Centre for Women Playwrights - http://www.internationalwomenplaywrights.org/
To support women playwrights around the world.

Jassin Office - Publishing and Theatre Law - http://copylaw.com/aboutus.html
Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.

La Ronde - http://www.pipeline.com/~jude/AboutLaRonde.htm
Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.

Lazy Bee Scripts - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/
Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Guidelines for authors and playwrights.

Limelight Scripts - http://www.limelightscripts.co.uk
Online publishers of mainly English pantomimes, but also plays and musicals. Includes submission guidelines and a tutorial on how to write pantomimes.

Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting - http://my.en.com/~herone/Practical_Playwriting.html
Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."

Moondance International Film Festival - http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com/
To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.

New Writing South - http://www.newwritingsouth.com/
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.

NY Play Development Lab - http://nyplaydevelopment.home.pipeline.com/
Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.

NYCPlaywrights - http://www.nycplaywrights.org
NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.

Ohio University MFA Playwriting - http://ohioplaywriting.org
Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.

PDC: The Philadelphia Dramatists Center - http://www.pdc1.org
PDC is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists, and audience members dedicated to the creation and nurture of new works for live performance.

Performing and Writing Musical Theatre - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/musical_theatre
A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights - http://www.phillyyoungplaywrights.org/
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.

Playmarket - http://www.playmarket.org.nz/about_home.php
Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.

Playwrighting Resources - http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/playwright.htm
Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.

Playwrights Foundation - http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org
West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Playwrights Guild of Canada - http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/
Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Searchable online catalogue.

Playwrights' Center - http://www.pwcenter.org/
Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.

Playwriting 101 - http://www.playwriting101.com/
A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.

Playwriting at Suite101.com - http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/playwriting
Articles (archived) to assist playwrights.

Playwriting Links and Resources for E-Merging Playwrights and other Writers (home of Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Playwright) - http://www.playwritingopportunities.com/Playwriting_Theatre_Resources.htm
Playwriting contests and competitions listed by deadline date and other handy tools to help playwrights get their work out into the theatre world.

Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer - http://www.playwritingopportunities.com
Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.

Project Writers Unite - http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/projectwritersunite/
Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.

ProPlay - http://www.singlelane.com/proplay
Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.

Resources for Teaching Playwriting Compiled by Adam Russell - http://kcac.kennesaw.edu/honorsclass/pdf_files/deer_bib.pdf
Annotated bibliography of recommended texts.

Swan Playwrights - http://www.swanplaywrights.co.uk/
The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.

The Brick Playhouse - http://thebrickplayhouse.org/mission.htm
Dedicated exclusively to the creation, development, and production of new theatre works.

The Dramatists Guild of America - http://www.dramatistsguild.org/
Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.

The Original Workshops - http://www.originalworksonline.com/workshops/
Hands on programs in Los Angeles for beginning and advanced stage and screen writers

The Playwright's Noticeboard - http://www.stageplays.com/markets.htm
Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.

The Playwrights Forum - http://users.erols.com/pforum/welcome.htm
The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.

The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco - http://playwrightscentersf.org/
A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.

The Playwrights' Co-Operative - http://plays4theatre.site-street.net/
Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.

Toscan's Online Playwriting Seminar - http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/
An overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops - http://www.willdunne.com
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.

Working Man’s Clothes Productions - http://www.workingmansclothes.com
Multiple award winning NYC theatre company focuses on developing and staging new works and plays. Accepting submissions year-round.

Wrightofplay - http://wrightofplay.com
A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.

Write Angle Productions - http://www.writeangle.org/
Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.

Young Playwrights 101 - http://youngplaywrights101.com
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.

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