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Call for Submissions - New Play Readings 2025
Thank you to everyone who participated in our inaugural play reading series in March-April 2024. Our program was such a success that we are doing it again next year! September 15: Submissions for plays will open October 31: Submissions for plays will close mid-December: Selections will be announced The selected plays will be performed at 7:00 p.m. on February 6, February 27, and March 6, 2025, at the Morristown and Morris Township Library. Full submission information is below! |
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Are you a talented playwright, looking for opportunities to have your work seen and heard by the public?
Well, look no further! Pioneer Productions Company, a local NJ-based theater company, in partnership with the Morristown and Morris Township Library, is opening submissions for the 2025 New Play Reading Series!
If your play is selected, it will be performed by Pioneer Productions Company actors at a live reading at the Morristown and Morris Township Library on one of three Thursday evening dates: February 6, February 27, or March 6, 2025. These events will be free and open to the public and will include a discussion with the audience.
What we are looking for:
Deadline for submitting your play: October 31, 2024
Submission parameters:
*We are hoping all of the selected playwrights will attend the reading of their work at the Library. If you are outside of New Jersey but willing to travel for the event, include that information in your submission email!
If your play is selected, it will be performed by Pioneer Productions Company actors at a live reading at the Morristown and Morris Township Library on one of three Thursday evening dates: February 6, February 27, or March 6, 2025. These events will be free and open to the public and will include a discussion with the audience.
What we are looking for:
- Short, one-act plays that are approximately 10 to 30 minutes in length. Only original, unpublished, and unproduced plays are eligible for submission.
- Anyone in New Jersey or willing to travel to New Jersey!* Young, not so young, middle-aged. Experienced writers, new writers, ghostwriters - It doesn’t matter to us!
- All submissions will be taken seriously and valued equally.
- Please send your submission to: pioneernewplays@gmail.com
- Please title the submission email YOUR NAME - Pioneer New Play Reading Series. If you are a current high school (18+) or college student, please also include Student Submission in the subject line of the email.
Deadline for submitting your play: October 31, 2024
Submission parameters:
- Submissions are limited to two per playwright
- Play must be typed with pages numbered.
- Please include a brief synopsis of the play
- Please include a cast break-down
- Please include a cover page with the Title of the play, the author’s name, and contact information, including email and cell phone number.
- Only the first 100 submissions will be accepted.
*We are hoping all of the selected playwrights will attend the reading of their work at the Library. If you are outside of New Jersey but willing to travel for the event, include that information in your submission email!
Funding for this series has been made possible in part by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
