Types of material: Full-length plays or long one-acts (60 minutes or longer).
No plays shorter than one hour will be accepted.

Frequency: Annual

Remuneration:
1^st place: $500 and a future developmental workshop.

Finalists (5-7 plays) receive a public staged reading in NYC with a professional director and cast.

Guidelines: Full length or long one-act plays (60min and up) only. No musicals or screen plays. Unpublished original work only. Adaptations allowed only if underlying rights are free and available. Not produced professionally in NY, NJ or CT. Readings and workshops allowed if no press invited. Please read our Mission Statement to get an idea of what we’re looking for.

Fillable Word Entry Form

PDF Entry Form

If you have trouble downloading either of the Entry Form files above, please e-mail kimberly@reverieproductions.org to request a copy be e-mailed to you.

Deadline: Postmarked by 15 January 2012

Finalist Notification: May  2012

Finalist Readings: June, 2012

Submission - The following are REQUIRED with each submission:

• 1 typed and bound copy of script. Binding must be 3-hole punched OR clipped only, not Velo-Bound, not strip bound and not spiral bound. We MUST be able to remove the pages to make copies.
• We use a blind submission process.  Please provide two different cover pages:  A removable top page, which includes the authors name and address along with the title, and the second cover page with only the title of the play.  Please remember to remove your name from other places in the script as well.
• completed entry form (see links above) --- PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY
• $20 admin fee per script. (NOTE: we are applying for grant money that would make it possible for us to eliminate these admin fees for all applicants for the 2013 contest).
• Check or Money order made payable to Reverie Productions.

Optional for submission:

• SASP if you want confirmation
• SASE for scripts (if you want them returned). Please make sure the envelope is big enough for the script and has enough postage.

There is no limit on number of submissions, but admin fee applies to each script  Please send one check or money order to cover all entries.

NO ADMIN FEE for writers who have had previous Reverie readings or productions, including previous contest finalists. Previous semi-finalists, however, still must send an admin fee.

Please do NOT send:
- resumes
- clippings
- reviews
- press materials, etc.
They are not used in the adjudication of your work and will only be discarded.

Reverie Productions

Next Generation Playwriting Contest

12 Hall Street, #25

Brooklyn, NY 11205
Attn: Kimberly Wadsworth, Literary Manager

Details:

• Seeking Full length plays (60 minutes or longer)
• Seeking dramas, comedies, histories and satires that raise questions and challenge the audience.
• We seek plays that deal with socio-political issues in a highly theatrical context.
• Generally, we are not interested in musicals, adaptations, ‘kitchen sink’ dramas or blatant propaganda. 
• We strongly encourage diversity in both writers and subject matter.  
• Finalists will be considered for further workshops and an ongoing relationship with Reverie.

Selection Process:

First Round - each script is read by two volunteer readers - typically a mix of writers, directors, actors, producers and other theatre professionals (contact Kimberly@reverieproductions.org to volunteer to be a contest reader), who rank the plays to help us cull down to 25-30 semi-finalists.

Semifinalists - Semifinalists are announced in April 2012, and will be read by a panel of four including Literary Manager Kimberly Wadsworth and Artistic Director Colin D. Young.

Finalists - Public reading with professional actors and directors of the 5-7 finalists presented in June 2012.

Winners announced in July, 2012.