Deadline: 15th August 2023 | Are you an aspiring playwright who wants to showcase your talent and win a prestigious award? If so, you should apply for the Yale Drama Series Playwriting Competition 2024. This is an annual contest that invites emerging writers to submit their original, unpublished, and unproduced full-length plays in English.

The winner of the competition will receive:

  • The David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000
  • Publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press
  • A staged reading at Lincoln Center Theater
  • A reading at the Yale Repertory Theatre

The competition is open to writers from any country and any background, as long as they have not had a professional production of their work. The plays will be judged by a panel of distinguished playwrights, directors, and critics, led by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel.

There is no entry fee.

  1. This contest is restricted to plays written in the English language. Worldwide submissions are accepted.
  2. Submissions must be original, unpublished full-length plays, with a minimum of 65 pages. Plays with less than 65 pages will not be considered. Translations, musicals, and children’s plays are not accepted.
  3. The Yale Drama Series is intended to support emerging playwrights. Playwrights may win the competition only once.
  4. Playwrights may submit only one manuscript per year.  Only manuscripts authored by one playwright are eligible.
  5. Plays that have been professionally produced or published are not eligible. Plays that have had a workshop, reading, or non-professional production or that have been published as an actor’s edition will be considered.
  6. Plays may not be under option, commissioned, or scheduled for professional production or publication at the time of submission.
  7. Plays must be typed/word-processed and page-numbered.
  8. The Yale Drama Series reserves the right to reject any manuscript for any reason.
  9. The Yale Drama Series reserves the right of the judge to not choose a winner for any given year of the competition and reserves the right to determine the ineligibility of a winner, in keeping with the spirit of the competition, and based upon the accomplishments of the author.

View past winners here

Find out more and apply at the official link below:

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Apply before 15th August, 2023