ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition
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THE JUDGES
Get in front of theater professionals and award-winning playwrights
Jeffrey Whitty
Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Academy-Award Nominated Screenwriter
Jeffrey Whiity is the author of Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q. Other musicals include BRING IT ON, score by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Amanda Green, Armistead Maupin’s TALES OF THE CITY with music by Scissor Sisters, and more. His screenplay adaptation of CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, co-written with Nicole Holofcener, garnered Writers Guild of America and Independent Spirit Awards, and BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.
Donald Margulies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright
Playwright Donald Margulies won the Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends, and was a finalist for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. His plays have been produced worldwide, including Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still and Obie Award-winning The Model Apartment. Awards include the Sidney Kingsley Award for Achievement in the Theatre, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and more. His screenplay THE END OF THE TOUR premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Elena Araoz
Director of Theater, Opera, and Virtual Performance, Professor
Elena Araoz Directs Theater, Opera, and Virtual Performance, recent theater works include Original Sound (Cherry Lane Theatre), Mud and Conduct of Life (Boundless Theatre Company), Prospect (Boundless Theatre Company) and more. Opera: La traviata (New York City Opera), Falstaff (Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House), and more. She is a faculty member at Princeton University.
Olivier Sultan
Theatre Agent, CAA
Olivier Sultan is a Theater Agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) representing writers, directors, composers and designers including Academy Award winners Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton and Alex Dinelaris, Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks and Martyna Majok, Tony winners Stephen Daldry, Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, Bill T. Jones, and more.
Tim J. Lord
Playwright with Disability Focus
The recipient of the inaugural Apothetae-Lark Fellowship, 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and 2019 Reg E. Cathey Writer-in-Residence at the Orchard Project, Tim J. Lord is a playwright and member of the disability community. His work has been performed at The Public Theater, The Lark, The Kennedy Center, Circle Rep, The Cutout Theatre, The Vagrancy, The Working Theater and more.
THE PRIZES
On top of all top scripts being read by this incredible jury, the winners will receive prizes and industry outreach. Dozens of ScreenCraft winners have signed with managers, sold their scripts, option projects, been staffed, or been hired for open writing assignments. Check out some of the success stories here.
Grand Prize Winner
The grand prize winner will be welcomed to the ScreenCraft Development Program and receive personal introductions and phone calls with one or more industry professionals who are looking for talented emerging writers.
The winning project info and log lines will be circulated and recommended to our network of managers, agents, producers and development executives.
ScreenCraft has a proven track record for getting writers signed with managers, agents, and staffed in writing rooms.
Personal Introduction to top literary managers
Accepted into the ScreenCraft Writer Development Program
$1,000 Cash
Complimentary Badge for the 2022 ScreenCraft Virtual Summit
Lifetime subscription to Arc Studio Pro
Runner-Up
$500 cash award
Accepted into ScreenCraft Development Program
50% off 2022 ScreenCraft Virtual Summit
Lifetime subscription to Arc Studio Pro
Writer Success
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Rules
At the program's request, Coverfly will automatically remove your title page for you if you include one when submitting to this program.
- Submissions are accepted via electronic submission only, between May 31, 2021 and August 31, 2021.
- Entry fee for each screenplay is $49.50 until the early deadline on June 30, 2021, then $69.50 until the regular deadline on July 31, 2021, then $79.50 until the final deadline on August 31, 2021.
- Any play script submission longer than 120 pages will incur a $1 per page overage fee for each page over 120. The maximum page limit is 150 pages.
- Optional feedback from a professional reader may be requested at the time of entry. Requests for feedback after an entry is submitted will not be accepted.
- There is no limit to the number of projects you may submit.
- Entries must be received on or before the deadline dates by 11:59PM Pacific Time, and submission fee payment must be made in full at time of the submission. All entry fees are non-refundable.
- All submitted material must be original, and all rights must be wholly owned by the writer(s).
- Material must be submitted by the writer. Material written by writing teams must be submitted by one of the writers, with consent of the other(s). All writers must be credited on the title page.
- If a writing team is chosen as a winner, prizes will be given to the person who submits the project. Each team is responsible for dividing or sharing the prize money.
- Substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of the entered material will be allowed for a limited time with a $5 reentry fee through Coverfly. Please proofread your play carefully before submitting.
- It is recommended that original material be registered with the WGA or The Library of Congress before submitting to any competition, however we do not require registration.
- Contact info may be included on the cover page of the play, however it is not required.
- ScreenCraft claims no ownership nor option on your work. All ownership and rights to the play submitted to this contest remains with the original rights holders.