Deadline: August 16, 2010 The purpose of this biennial workshop is to encourage writers to create artistic theatrical scripts for young audiences. It provides a forum through which each playwright receives constructive criticism and the support of a development team consisting of a professional director and dramaturg. Plays will be cast from professional, experienced, age-appropriate actors from Central Indiana. Plays should be intended for young audiences third grade through high school (no play is expected to appeal to all ages simultaneously). Playwrights must suggest the appropriate age category on the official entry form.

Deadline: August 15, 2010 Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre are seeking submissions for a major new playwriting competition, The Yale Drama Series. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The winning play will be selected by series judge David Hare. There is no application form or entry fee.

Deadline: August 1, 2010 (requires entry fee) The Global Age Project (GAP) is Aurora Theatre Company's annual new play festival addressing life in the 21st century and beyond. The festival provides a development opportunity for plays that directly respond to our complicated present and our possible future. Plays need not be about Science and/or Technology. Submissions will culminate in a four-week festival of staged readings in the spring of 2011. Four scripts will be selected with the potential of a full production the following season. Remuneration: $1,000, reading, travel and housing for playwrights outside the Bay Area, possible production.

Deadline: August 1, 2010 Little Fish Theatre is accepting scripts for our annual Pick of the Vine production, presented in January/February. Preferred plays will require a minimal set, 9 or fewer actors, and run no longer than 20 minutes. Email submissions to melanie-at-littlefishtheatre.org.

Deadline: July 31, 2010 Theatre ASAP, the annual 24-hour play festival sponsored by SATCO, seeks playwrights and directors for the 2010 festival. Theatre ASAP will begin on September 10, 2010 with a 6:30pm reception at STAGE Theatre in Bulverde, during which playwrights will choose phrases and props to incorporate into new 10-minute play scripts. At 8:00pm, the playwrights will be released to complete scripts by 6:00am on September 11. At 8:00am in the new Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College, directors will be paired with scripts and actors and begin rehearsals. At 8:00pm on September 11, the new plays will be performed in the state-of-the-art 400 seat proscenium theatre in the Palmetto.