Playwrights First
Playwrights First - Best New Play Award
Playwrights First is an organization which recognizes, rewards and advances playwrights of unusual promise.
Our group is made up of actors, directors, producers, a new playwright, teachers, authors, a theater owner, journalists, lawyers and business men and women. We are the judges in a playwriting contest we have held since 1993. We believe that drama is essentially a literary form that is fully realized in performance.
We offer a $1,000 grant for the winning play,
and when feasible, a professional reading before a New York audience.
We look for:
- Imagination and originality in both style and subject or point of view
- Characters that intrigue and move us
- A compelling action which reveals the human condition
- Theatricalism inherent in the above
If you know of Playwrights with the talent we seek,
we hope you will encourage them to send their work to us.
We are not a part of the National Arts Club. Please do not contact them about Playwrights First.
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE HOW TO SUBMIT PAGE, ESPECIALLY THE NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR ALL FILES YOU SEND US!!!
Playwrights First is an organization which recognizes, rewards and advances playwrights of unusual promise.
Our group is made up of actors, directors, producers, a new playwright, teachers, authors, a theater owner, journalists, lawyers and business men and women. We are the judges in a playwriting contest we have held since 1993. We believe that drama is essentially a literary form that is fully realized in performance.
We offer a $1,000 grant for the winning play,
and when feasible, a professional reading before a New York audience.
We look for:
- Imagination and originality in both style and subject or point of view
- Characters that intrigue and move us
- A compelling action which reveals the human condition
- Theatricalism inherent in the above
If you know of Playwrights with the talent we seek,
we hope you will encourage them to send their work to us.
We are not a part of the National Arts Club. Please do not contact them about Playwrights First.
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE HOW TO SUBMIT PAGE, ESPECIALLY THE NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR ALL FILES YOU SEND US!!!
