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Submit: National Playwrights Conference, App Window: 9/2-9/18, 2025
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How to Write the 10-Minute Play
Feb 8, 2025
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My Top 10 Playwriting Hacks
Apr 25, 2025
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52 Vocabulary Words for Playwrights
Sep 6, 2022
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The Yale Drama Series Competition - Deadline August 15, 2025
Jun 7, 2025
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Articles on Playwriting
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Art and the Apocalypse (Again)
Moving through Dangerous Times with Heart and Hope
Oct 28, 2025
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Jacqueline Goldfinger
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Choosing To Write The World You See
Playwriting as self-care, rebellion, and truth-telling.
Sep 8, 2025
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Michelle Tyrene Johnson
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If These Goats Could Talk
The Scene That Changed Everything
Jun 26, 2025
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Audrey Cefaly
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Not Just Dialogue
The Secret Sound Structure of Great Plays
Jun 18, 2025
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Audrey Cefaly
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Your Plot Is Not the Point
Why Silence Moves the Play
Jun 12, 2025
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Audrey Cefaly
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Playwriting the Pressure: How Atmosphere Shapes Dramatic Action
On barometric shifts, emotional weather, and the truth between the lines
Jun 5, 2025
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Audrey Cefaly
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How to Layer Grief Without Sentimentality
a note for playwrights who hate cheap tears
May 27, 2025
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The First Page is a Lie
Writing the Emotional Roadmap of Your Play
May 22, 2025
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Writing From the Middle of the Wreckage
on memoir, dissociation, and dresses that cut
May 12, 2025
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Walking With Tennessee Williams
The Craft of Holding On: Confessions of a Southern Intimist
May 6, 2025
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Audrey Cefaly
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My Top 10 Playwriting Hacks
Or how to get things done, like actually done.
Apr 25, 2025
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What Makes a Stage Play Theatrical?
The real secret to leveling up your playwriting game.
Apr 18, 2025
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Submission Opps
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Submit: The Relentless Award, Deadline: 1/1/26
Submissions are officially open for the 2026 Relentless Award! The author(s) of the winning full-length play will be awarded $50,000.
Dec 5, 2025
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Submit: Florida Rep Play Lab, Deadline: 12/5/25
Each year, Florida Repertory Theatre hosts the PlayLab Festival of New Works, a dynamic celebration of storytelling and theatrical innovation.
Nov 30, 2025
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Submit: EST/Sloan New Play Commissions, Deadline: 11/5/25
New Play Commissions will be awarded to individuals, groups and creative teams for full-length plays and musicals.
Oct 23, 2025
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Submit: Ojai Playwrights Conference & New Works Festival, Deadline 9/26/25
OPC’S APPLICATION WINDOW FOR 2026 WILL BE OPEN FROM
Sep 19, 2025
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Submit: William Inge New Play Lab, Deadline 10/31/25 | Max: 150 Submissions
Note: the receipt of applications will be limited to the first 150 to apply.
Sep 3, 2025
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Submit: National Playwrights Conference, App Window: 9/2-9/18, 2025
2026 NPC Submission Window is September 2 -18, 2025!
Sep 1, 2025
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Submit: Blue Ink Award for Playwriting, Deadline 8/31/25
2026 Blue Ink Award for Playwriting - Call for Submissions
Aug 1, 2025
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Submit: Seven Devils 2025 New Play Foundry, Deadline: 8/31/25
Submission Window for the 2025 Conference is now open: August 1 to August 31, 2025.
Aug 1, 2025
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Podcast Interviews
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Craft Discussion With Playwright Audrey Cefaly and Actor/Dramaturg Carolyn Messina
All topics playwriting with Dennis Hensley
Mar 20, 2025
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Craft Discussion With Playwright Audrey Cefaly
All topics playwriting with Producer/Actor/Director James Elden of Playwright's Spotlight
Mar 4, 2025
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Podcast (Audio): | Audrey Cefaly Discusses Playwriting with Jaime Alejandro
A craft discussion with Arts Calling producer Jaime Alejandro and playwright Audrey Cefaly to discuss craft and her play THE LAST WIDE OPEN on stage now…
Aug 2, 2024
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Death is a New Way to Love - Audrey Cefaly Craft Discussion with Emily Sutton-Smith (Podcast - Audio)
Audrey Cefaly in conversation with Williamston Theatre co-founder Emily Sutton-Smith
Jan 17, 2024
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Podcast (Audio): Audrey Cefaly Craft Discussion: BEHIND THE BUZZ
Audrey Cefaly in conversation with Joe Kucan and Ann-Marie Pereth of A Public Fit Theatre Company
Jun 15, 2023
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Podcast (Audio): Audrey Cefaly & Carolyn Messina | Find your dramaturg, two-hander plays, and ache stories: ARTS CALLING
Arts Calling producer Jaime Alejandro sits down with Audrey Cefaly and Carolyn Messina to discuss playwriting and dramaturgy
Jan 7, 2023
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Podcast (Video): Audrey Cefaly Talks Playwriting and Dramaturgy with Carolyn Messina and Johannah Edwards
Jan 7, 2023
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Purchase Plays by Audrey Cefaly
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TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (8-30 ACTORS)
LARGE CAST PLAY
Jan 7, 2023
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Audrey Cefaly
THE LAST WIDE OPEN (1M1F)
A LOVE SONG IN 3 MOVEMENTS (A PLAY WITH MUSIC)
Jan 7, 2023
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Audrey Cefaly
SHORT PLAY COLLECTION: LOVE IS A BLUE TICK HOUND
Love Is A Blue Tick Hound is a collection of four one-acts (written by Audrey Cefaly) , three of which have received New York premieres, and all of…
Jan 7, 2023
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ALABASTER (4F) SOUTHERN DRAMA (WITH GOATS)
Winner of the The David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize and the NNPN Goldman Prize
Jan 7, 2023
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MAYTAG VIRGIN (1M1F) SOUTHERN DRAMA
A classic love story by southern regionalist Audrey Cefaly.
Jan 7, 2023
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THE GULF (2F) LGBTQ DRAMA (WINNER OF THE LAMMY)
Lammy Award-Winning Southern Drama.
Jan 7, 2023
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Audrey Cefaly
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