WRITE A PLAY! NYC, the New York City Playwriting Competition, is open to all NYC students. Plays are judged in three categories: elementary, middle, and high school. All entrants receive a Certificate of Achievement, a written evaluation of the play, and an invitation to the annual Awards Ceremony.

Send your scripts, postmarked on or before March 1, 2013 to:

Young Playwrights Inc. NYC
Post Office Box 5134
New York NY 10185

GUIDELINES

1. •Plays must be submitted by students, not teachers.
   

2. •There are no restrictions on length, style, or subject, but collaborations of more than three writers will NOT be accepted.
   

3. •Screenplays and musicals are not eligible, nor are adaptations.
   

4. •Scripts should be typed and stapled, and pages must be numbered.
   

5. •Scripts must have a cover page with: title of play, playwright’s name, home address (with apartment # and zip code), phone number, school, grade, and date of birth.
   

6. •Click here for a title page template we encourage you to use.
   

1. •Submit a copy of your play and keep the original.
   

2. •Scripts will not be returned.
   

So you’ve written a play and decided to submit it to Young Playwrights Inc. But what happens once you affix appropriate postage and drop your precious package into the mail? Your play has quite a journey ahead of it at Young Playwrights Inc.:

When your play arrives, it is logged into our system and given a unique number to identify it. You should get confirmation that we have received your play after this step.

Then your play becomes part of a packet that is given to a reader who works for Young Playwrights Inc. Readers are professional theater artists who have been trained in reading and creating evaluations of your work. Some are dramaturgs, others are actors, directors, or designers, but all have highly evolved play-analysis skills and something to say about your writing.

After your play has been read and evaluated, it is returned to our office with the reader’s recommendation for our literary department: either the play needs no further consideration, or it should be read again. The reader also sends us the one-page evaluation that you will receive just for entering the competition, regardless of your placement.

The top 20 to 25 percent of plays go on to be read by the Selection Committee. Your play is discussed at periodic meetings and committee members advocate for the plays they feel best exemplify superior craft. They must keep discussing and fighting for your play until they choose no more than 3 plays to be winners in each division. They will also decide which of the finalists will be awarded Honorable Mentions.

Winners will be announced and evaluations will be distributed at the awards ceremony on June 13, 2012. Everyone who enters the Write A Play! New York City competition will receive an invitation to the ceremony. If you are not able to attend the ceremony, your evaluation will be mailed the next day. Not everyone can be a winner, but everyone can be a playwright!

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC Elementary Division Winners

FIGHTING THE IRISH by Benjamin Oestericher

ADOPTING by Kimberly Rogers

HUGO by Gertie-Pearl Zwick-Schachter

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC Elementary Division Honorable Mention

AMELIA by Julia Malpass & Lexie Ryan

WHO STOLE MY PIE RECIPES by Grace Thier

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC Elementary Division Finalists

TWO GEEKS AND A MONSTER by Andres Balbuena & Alec Farber

THE PRINCESSES OF NEW JERSEY Zoe Cole & Arianna Liriano

A VERY VERY BAD DECISION by Kiera Doherty

THE GRAMMYS by Natalie Feliciano & Ayleen Zenon

WISHING ON A PIG by Alexandra Frank

6 LITTLE BRATS by Sylvie Koenigsberg

KEEPING IT REAL by Anna Ribeiro

DISASTER MOVIE by Finlay Sklar

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC Middle School Division Winners

LUCK by Jeremy Goldstein

REVELATIONS by Sophie de Tournemire

COLD TURKEY by Hannah Young

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC Middle School Division Finalists

THE BACK UP PLAN by Dan R. Allen

A FAMILY (DYS)FUNCTION by Jack Becker

SOLDIER, DOCTOR, LOVER, LAB RAT by Maxwell Burrough

IN by Isaac Longobardi

EDGAR AND I by Sophie Nardi-Bart

THE YEAR OF 1954 by Matthew Ortega

PAPA, I LOVE YOU by Annabel Young

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC High School Division Winners

SLEEPOVER by Max Friedlich

MAZEL TOV! by Elizabeth Weingold

OENONE by Zachary Vail Elkind

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC High School Division Honorable Mention

DRINKING WITH BABY by Anna O'Connell

TOGETHER THEY WERE FROZEN by Charlotte Rauner

2012 Young Playwrights Inc. Write A Play! NYC High School Division Finalists

PERFECT by Theresa Byrne

THE DOORMAN MUSES by Kalia Firester

SPARE CHANGE by Jeremy Golant & Jonathan D. Ortiz

BANANAS, TWINKIES, AND CHINESE-AMERICANS by Priscilla W. Guo

LONELY AND INSECURE by Rachel Kaly

CAL by Gaby Mayer

THREE-EIGHTHS OF A KISS by Samantha Mozes

OTHER BETTER PEOPLE by Mack Muldofsky

LIFE HAPPENS by Henry Q. P. Spiro

I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD WITHOUT YOU by Layla Treuhaft-Ali