- Dramatic Exchange - http://www.dramex.org/
Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
- Playwrighting Resources - http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/playwright.htm
Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
- The Playwrights Forum - http://users.erols.com/pforum/welcome.htm
The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
- Greensboro Playwrights' Forum - http://www.ci.greensboro.nc.us/leisure/drama/gpforum.htm
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.
- La Ronde - http://www.pipeline.com/%7Ejude/AboutLaRonde.htm
Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
- Moondance International Film Festival - http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com/
To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.
- The Dramatists Guild of America - http://www.dramaguild.com/
Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.
- Wrightofplay - http://wrightofplay.com
A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
- Playwriting at Suite101.com - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/playwriting
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.
- Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops - http://www.willdunne.com
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.
- Playwrights at Suite101.com - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/playwrights
Playwriting is one of the toughest fields to break into. The information in this topic, however, will help playwrights get better results and productions.
- Performing and Writing Musical Theatre - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/musical_theatre
A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
- Performingwrites.com - http://www.performingwrites.com/index.htm
Library of online play synopses and scripts.
- Swan Playwrights - http://www.swanplaywrights.org.uk
The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
- ProPlay - http://www.singlelane.com/proplay
Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
- Sheriffs Performance Writers' Group - http://www.writersgroup.co.uk/
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.
- Australian Script Centre - http://www.ozscript.org
Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
- Playwrights' Center - http://www.pwcenter.org/
Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
- Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights - http://www.laplaywrights.org/
Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
- ScriptSeeker.com - http://www.scriptseeker.com/
Makes synopses of plays (and screenplays) available online, for a fee. Site includes "Script Tips," with advice for dramatic writers.
- Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting - http://my.en.com/~herone/Practical_Playwriting.html
Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
- Write Angle Productions - http://www.writeangle.org/
Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.
- NY Play Development Lab - http://nyplaydevelopment.home.pipeline.com/
Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
- Lazy Bee Scripts - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/
Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Site includes guidelines for authors and playwrights.
- Pier Playwrights - From Page to Stage - http://www.pierplaywrights.co.uk
For playwrights run by playwrights. Membership is open to writers in dramatic all forms, resident in the South East of England.
- Playwrights Guild of Canada - http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/
Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Site includes searchable online catalogue.
- The Playwrights' Co-Operative - http://plays4theatre.site-street.net/
Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
- NYCPlaywrights - http://www.nycplaywrights.org
NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.
- Project Writers Unite - http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/projectwritersunite/
Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
- Playwrights Foundation - http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org
West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
- Philadelphia Young Playwrights - http://www.phillyyoungplaywrights.org/
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.
- Playmarket - http://www.playmarket.org.nz/about_home.php
Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
- Playwriting 101 - http://www.playwriting101.com/
A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.
- Theater Schmeater - http://www.schmeatre.org
Incorporates new plays into each season in a search to find the great plays of our own time.
- Young Playwrights 101 - http://youngplaywrights101.com
A free resource site for young playwrights and those who teach them. Also, information about Young Playwrights 101, a complete playwriting curriculum in an e-book.
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