This script competition is open to all Yale College students. Directions follow.
Please submit your one-act and/or full-length script(s) in progress for consideration for the 2018 Yale Playwrights Festival, to be held February 16-17 in a series of public readings in the Off-Broadway Theater.
We are looking for unpublished, previously unproduced works in progress. Your script can be any length. But it should be far enough along to benefit from the mentorship of working writers in and out of Yale and then from a rehearsed reading in front of an audience.
On average, four to six festival scripts are selected by a panel of Yale faculty readers from those submitted. The author of each script is then assigned two mentors, one inside Yale, one outside Yale, professional writers who work with the student writer in the six to eight weeks before the festival.
(Please don’t submit a play that is finished and ready for production. Instead, take advantage of Yale’s unique support for student playwrights –theaters! funds! amigos!– and produce it.)
You may submit more than one script. A hard copy is required. Be sure that the pages are stapled together and your name is on the title page. The type size of the dialogue should be at least 10 points, preferably 12. Leave your script(s) with May Brantley in the Theater Studies office, 220 York, Room 102.