Seeking original, unpublished stage plays.  The jury includes THREE Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights!

ScreenCraft is dedicated to discovering and promoting writing talent, and our 2019 play competition is searching for emerging playwrights. Hollywood has a long history of adapting plays and embracing playwriting talent, and we’re seeking to celebrate the craft of writing for the theater.

While a very wide variety of plays will be considered eligible for this program, we recommend that writers submit a play that is at least 20 pages long. Play formats differ, so there’s no specific format or structure required, however, we do request that you submit your play as a PDF file format. The winner will receive a travel stipend and collaborate with ScreenCraft to distribute their play to ScreenCraft’s audience of award-winning writers, entertainment industry professionals and theater lovers.

Win $1,000! Plus, the jury for the Stage Play contest is fantastic and excited to read the top plays:

Nilo Cruz, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, Nilo became the first Latino so honored. The work also garnered the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. A year later it received its Broadway premiere with Jimmy Smits in the lead role. Cruz is an alumnus of New Dramatists and has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa and at Yale University.

Donald Margulies, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends. Margulies adapted the memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky, as a feature film screenplay, The End of the Tour. The film was directed by James Ponsoldt and stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky.

Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director of New York City’s LAByrinth Theater Company.[1] His plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guirgis also had a small role as an actor in Charlie Kaufman’s film Synecdoche, New York.

Arya Naganeh

Arya is a junior agent at Creative Artists Agency. CAA’s clients include many of Hollywood’s top talent, including Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Alec Baldwin, Sandra Bullock, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Farrell, Will Smith, Marion Cotillard, Viola Davis and many more.