Contests
Backdoor Theatre New Play Project, Creative Mechanics: Stage This! The Best 10-Minute, Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radi, Heller Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest, Moxie Films, Playwriting Competition, Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Co, ShowOff!, Speaking Ring Theatre
Online Courses, Workshops, and Consultants
Coffeehouse For Writers - Drama Workshop, E-script, the internet's scriptwriting worksh, Playwrites and Actors Lab & Studio, Scripts Success Online, Write a 10-minute play.
Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
Australian Script Centre
Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
Dinger's Playwriting Forum
A forum to discuss all aspects of playwriting.
Dramatic Exchange
Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
Greensboro Playwrights' Forum
A gathering of North Carolina playwrights, meeting once a month to discuss each other's work-in-progress and aid each other in getting produced or published.
International Centre for Women Playwrights
To support women playwrights around the world.
Jassin Office - Publishing and Theatre Law
Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.
La Ronde
Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
Lazy Bee Scripts
Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Site includes guidelines for authors and playwrights.
Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting
Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
Moondance International Film Festival
To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.
Northwest Playwrights Guild
Forum for the exchange of information and ideas about playwriting for playwrights living in the Northwest.
NY Play Development Lab
Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
NYCPlaywrights
NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.
Performing and Writing Musical Theatre
A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
Performingwrites.com
Library of online play synopses and scripts.
Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philadelphia Young Playwrights is an intensive arts- education program that pairs a professional teaching artist with a classroom teacher. The two work together as an artistic team, guiding and supporting students in the process of writing a play.
Pier Playwrights - From Page to Stage
For playwrights run by playwrights. Membership is open to writers in dramatic all forms, resident in the South East of England.
Playmarket
Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
Playwrighting Resources
Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
Playwrights at Suite101.com
Playwriting is one of the toughest fields to break into. The information in this topic, however, will help playwrights get better results and productions.
Playwrights Foundation
West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Playwrights Guild of Canada
Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Site includes searchable online catalogue.
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
Playwriting at Suite101.com
To assist playwrights throughout the life cycle of creating a stage play, from initial ideas to formatting to getting plays read by producers and publishers.
Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer
Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
Project Writers Unite
Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
ProPlay
Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
Resources for Teaching Playwriting Compiled by Ada
Annotated bibliography of recommended texts.
ScriptSeeker.com
Makes synopses of plays (and screenplays) available online, for a fee. Site includes "Script Tips," with advice for dramatic writers.
Sheriffs Performance Writers' Group
Based at the Riverhouse Barn in Elmbridge, Surrey, U.K, the Sheriffs Performance Writers' Group aims to develop and write professional theatre for the stage and screen.
Swan Playwrights
The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
The Dramatists Guild of America
Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.
The Playwright's Noticeboard
Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.
The Playwrights Forum
The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco
A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.
The Playwrights' Co-Operative
Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
TheatreUSA.com Playwriting Links
Education, organizations, support, and assistance for playwrights.
Toscan's Online Playwriting Seminar
Comprehensive overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University
Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops
Offers support for playwrights and screenwriters, including private consultations for dramatic writers anywhere in the world and an ongoing quarterly workshop program for dramatic writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wrightofplay
A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
Write Angle Productions
Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.