Young Playwrights' Competition submission deadline is March 1!

Young Playwrights’ Competition

At Wayside Theatre

The deadline for submitting your play to the Young Playwrights’ Competition is March 1.  If you’re high school aged (between 14 and 19 years old) and still studying at the secondary level, you can (and should!) enter the Young Playwrights’ Competition.  Home schoolers are welcome to enter!

To enter:

Step 1) Write a play!  

         This should be in play format, not like a novel or short story (there is a style guide

         in the submission guidelines, which you can find at 

         http://www.waysidetheatre.org/downloadables/YPC_2013_Guidelines.pdf).

Step 2) Make sure your play meets these requirements:

It must be original—you have to be the author, and can’t have adapted it from another source

It must be a play, not a musical

It must be one act long

It must have no more than eight characters (it may have fewer than eight characters)

Step 3) Make a title page for your play that includes:

Your name, date of birth, what grade you’re in if you go to school (and what year of schooling you’re in if don’t go to school).  Your title page should also include your school name and address (if you go to school), your teacher’s name, your home address and your home phone number and cell phone number.

Step 4) Make an informational page for your play that tells us:

The names of all the characters in the play

A description of all the characters in the play

The sex and/or gender of all the characters in the play

A short synopsis of the play (what happens in the play)

Step 5) Double-check that your play is in the right format!

You should include page numbers.  (Please don’t put your name on the pages of your play, just on the title page)

Make sure you only type on one side of the page

Your font should be 12 point font

Step 6) Check your play against the style guidelines on the Wayside Theatre website (http://www.waysidetheatre.org/downloadables/YPC_2013_Guidelines.pdf)

Step 7) Mail three copies of your play to:

Young Playwrights’ Competition

c/o Wayside Theatre

PO Box 260

Middletown, VA 22645

If you have questions or need more information, call Wayside Theatre at 540-869-1782 and ask for Molly.