Midwest High School Playwriting Competition
- Open to all Midwest USA high school students. Winners receive a reading with Crossroads Repertory Theatre and a scholarship to study theater at ISU.
- http://www.indstate.edu/theater/mhspc/Guidelines.htm

Highwire Theatre's Testing the LineNew Playwright Competition
- Finalists receive a workshop and staged reading with professional actors and directors. Winner receives $300 and a full-mounted production as part of Highwire’s season.
- http://www.highwiretheatre.org/TESTING%20THE%20LINE.html

Riverside Cultural Consortium
- Invites submissions for 10 minute Play Festival
- http://www.inlandarts.com/?app=classifiedDetail&id=536

Lyric Theatre LA -- stageWRITE Playwrighting Competition
- Aims to provide an opportunity for new playwrights to gain exposure in Los Angeles (scroll to bottom of page for info).
- http://www.lyrictheatrela.com/programs.php

E-Merging Writers Ten-Minute PlaywritingCompetition
- Winning plays will be performed in a night of staged readings in New York City and published in "Stage This! Ten Minute Plays."
- http://www.fnproductions.org/emerging.htm

The 10-Minute International Play Competition
- Conducted by Fire Rose Productions, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles.
- http://www.fireroseproductions.com/Pages/10min2007-1.html

Helford Prize
- $10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
- http://arts.ju.edu/cfa/helford/prize.html

McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition
- Annual playwriting competition, full length and one act plays accepted in January and February. Monetary prizes. Winner of full length category selected by audience vote after a reading. Progress of submitted scripts can be tracked online.
- http://www.mctmidland.org/mclaren.php

Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory
- Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest spotlights new and emerging playwrights whose work represents or addresses the cultural diversity of America or diversity issues.
- http://www.hbtl.org/dvpc.html

ShowOff!
- The Camino Real Playhouse hosts this annual ten-minute playwriting festival. Playwrights world-wide submit their works and seven winners are given full production and three honorable mention winners are given staged readings during the nine performances
- http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org/ShowOffs.html

Havemeyer Playwright Competition
- Contest for plays up to 15 minutes in length, sponsored by The Acting Company of Greenwich.
- http://www.tacog.org/playwrightcompetition.html

Arts Live Theatre
- Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
- http://artslivetheatre.com

Ten Minute Plays Wanted
- The BareStage Theatre seeks twelve original short plays for its "Six 10s @ Eights" original plays festival.
- http://homepage.mac.com/barestage/page40/page40.html

Abroad Writers' Conference Spring Playwrights Contest
- Winner will be a guest of honor at our Writers Conference in France, where your play will be performed by professional actors.
- http://abroad-crwf.com/playwrightscontest.html

TADA! Youth Theater
- TADA!’s Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest encourages playwrights to create work for underserved theatrical demographic: teens
- http://www.tadatheater.com/scriptsmarketing/ContestsAndSubmissions.asp

Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival
- Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
- http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com/script_submissions.htm

TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition
- Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
- http://trapdoorensemble.org/12410.html

Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest
- Top three winners are awarded cash prizes and winning plays are produced and recorded live at The Neo-Futurists Theater in Chicago and then aired on the Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show.
- http://www.drinkingandwriting.com

VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award
- Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.
- http://www.vsarts.org/x244.xml

Writing-World.com: Directory of Writing Contests
- Including playwriting competitions.
- http://www.writing-world.com/contests/index.shtml

Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest
- Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.
- http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.html

Moxie Films
- Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.
- http://www.moxie-films.com

Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest
- Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes.
- http://www.lct.cc/PlayWriteContest.htm

Theatre BC
- Juried New Play contest for Canadian professional and non-professional playwrights. Annual contest.
- http://www.theatrebc.org/playcomp/

Backdoor Theatre New Play Project
- Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
- http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm