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Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts
Wisconsin playwrights and theater companies running script competitions are welcome to send information to be included on this page to webmaster@madstage.com.
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Calls for Submissions
Call for submission: Forward Theater
On August 1st, 2020, Forward Theater will begin accepting submissions for our Within These Walls: Stories of Home Monologue Festival. We’re asking you, what is ‘home?’ For some it is a place, or people, or simply memories made over time. For some it is a city, or a state, or a nation. But ‘home’ defines us all in one way or another.
Many of us have spent a lot of time in our homes these past few months, but we encourage you to think past the purely topical. Let your imagination run free! Your script could take the form of comedy or tragedy, spoken word or poetry, mystery or farce, autobiography or pure fiction.
For more guidelines, deadlines, and details on how to submit, please visit forwardtheater.com/learn/submissions. Happy Writing!
Over Our Head Players Soliciting Playwriting Contest Scripts
Over Our Head Players is is accepting original, unpublished 10-minute or shorter comedies for the “2020 Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival” through November 1, 2019, at SNOWDANCE, Sixth Street Theatre, 318 Sixth Street, Racine, Wisconsin, 53403.
Selected scripts will be produced together. Audiences vote over the run January 31 – March 1, 2020. Prizes will be awarded after the final performance: $500 “Best in Snow”, $200 2nd and $100 3rd place.
Complete rules are at www.overourheadplayers.org. Direct questions to the box office, 262-632-6802 or snowdance318@gmail.com. Scripts will not be returned; playwrights are not expected to participate in the production process.
Call For Submissions: New Full-Length Plays
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre workshops two new plays annually through the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series. To that end, we accept new scripts for consideration on a rolling basis.
ELIGIBILITY: Priority for consideration lies with Wisconsin artists. Playwrights should only submit work if they are current Wisconsin residents, have a link to Wisconsin in their own history, and/or consider Wisconsin-specific subject matter in their play.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send a query letter and the first ten pages of your script. Electronic or paper submissions are accepted. Email Marcella Kearns or send hard copy to the following address: Marcella Kearns, Lead Educator/Literary Manager, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202. See email address and additional information at www.chamber-theatre.com/performance/play-reading.aspx.
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Wisconsin-based Playwrights
Mike Birkley
Ludmilla Bollow
- Email: bollow@earthlink.net
- Web site: home.earthlink.net/~bollow
Steven Brown
- Email: stevenmbrown@hotmail.com
- And on the Eighth Day: Bryan v. Darrow
- I also produce (and write) live, original (and broadcast) radio dramas and comedies for the WGTD Radio Theater, in Kenosha-Racine.
Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn
- Email: capellar@chorus.net
- Web site: www.walmartopia.com
- Authors of Walmartopia
Bob Curry
- Email: curryclan@aol.com
- Current president of Playwrights Ink
Danielle Dresden
- Email: info@tapitnewworks.org
- Web site: TAPIT/new works
George Farah
Jeffrey James Ircink
- Email: jeffbumbershoot43@gmail.com
- Web site: belairjeffircink.wordpress.com
Holly Walter Kerby
- Email: hkerby@matcmadison.edu
- Web site: www.matcmadison.edu/faculty/hkerby
Gary Kriesel
Jessica Lanius
Anthony Lamarr
- Email: anthonylamarr@gmail.com
- Ballots - an 80s Rock 'n Roll MUSICAL parody of the 2000 presidential elections.
Michael Lucchesi
- Email: lucckyschran@yahoo.com
- The Two Rivers - a 90 minute, two act play with five characters, Aaron 50-ish, Kyle 25-ish, A.J. 23-ish, Lilith 50-ish and Eden 18-ish. This is the Young family, and they could be any race or nationality. The play, which takes place in a living room of a fixer-upper vacation home, deals with Kyle returning home (AWOL from the Marines) to deal with what he views as “unfinished business." Challenging themes are dealt with including incest, cutting, alcoholism, and homelessness.
Deb Meyer
- Longstanding member of Playwrights Ink in Madison, as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild and NPX.
- Email: djmeyer8350@gmail.com
- Curses! A Fractured Fairies’ Tale
Available @ http://bigdogplays.com/playdisplay.asp?playid=599 - The Whole Shebang
Available @ https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1317336/whole-shebang
Stephen F. Murray
- Web site: www.stephenfmurray.zohosites.com
Rick Ponzio
- Email: rponzio@wi.rr.com
Playwrights Ink
Playwrights Ink is a non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts.
- Web site: www.madison.com/communities/ink
Mary K. Ryan
Wisconsin theatre director and playwright based in Milwaukee.
- Web site: marykryan.weebly.com
- Email: mary_k_ryan@hotmail.com
Script Resource Sites
Script publishers.
- Beat by Beat Press - A new publishing company providing community theaters with new, high-quality musicals for young performers.
- Broadway Play Publishing - BPP specializes in full-length, contemporary, American plays. BPP also publishes dramatic adaptations of classic plays and literature, and a few period pieces.
- Children's Theatre Plays.com - Stageplays for children, young audiences and families. Theatre producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget.
- Classic Acts - A collection of plays for children 10-14. The plays are adaptations of classical literature or best lived children's stories, such as Midsummer Night's Dream, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote and more. Creative, fun and a great way to interest children in classic theatre and literature. Low prices. No fees. Downloadable!
- Classics On Stage! - A collection of professionally proven, audience tested children's theatre plays by double Shubert Fellowship award winning playwright, Michele L Vacca. Inspired by the classics of world literature, the scripts are excellent for university, school, professional and community productions.
- Dramatists Play Service, Inc. - Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights.
- Eldridge Plays & Musicals - offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds.
- HaveScripts.com - Online publishing company with an emphasis on middle school and high school plays for both the stage and the classroom. We have some competition one-acts and many books and scripts ideal for readers theater in the classroom.
- Heuer Publishing - One of the oldest publishers serving the education and community theater markets.
- Insight for Playwrights - a monthly marketing newsletter that provides dramatic writers with up-to-date submission information.
- Musicline Publications - Has available musicals, pantomimes and Christmas shows for all ages.
- New Theatre Publications - a script publishing company that is owned and managed by writers.
- Original Works - Original Works Publishing is a Los Angeles based play publisher dedicated entirely to bold and original work. Our goal is to bring the new breed of theatre to the forefront.
- Samuel French, Inc. - Samuel French's Catalogue lists not only plays but monologues, audition material, classroom guides, classic works and the latest plays from the professional theater.
- Stageplays.com - Virtually every play and musical currently published in the English language.
- TheaterWords - offers royalty free plays and scenes for students and educators. There are also several pieces for all-women casts.
- Venice Mootney Scripts - scripts, rights and background for previous Venice Mootney productions.
- YouthPLAYS - a publisher of hundreds of plays and musicals for young actors and audiences, with material suitable for teen and preteen performers, as well as community theatres, colleges and professional theatres for young audiences.
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