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Dramatic Exchange
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Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
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Playwrighting Resources
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Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
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The Playwrights Forum
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The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
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Greensboro Playwrights' Forum
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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.
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La Ronde
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Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
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The Dramatists Guild of America
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Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.
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Wrightofplay
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A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
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Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops
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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.
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Performing and Writing Musical Theatre
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A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
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Performingwrites.com
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Library of online play synopses and scripts.
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ProPlay
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Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
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Sheriffs Performance Writers' Group
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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.
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Australian Script Centre
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Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
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International Centre for Women Playwrights
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To support women playwrights around the world.
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TheatreUSA.com Playwriting Links
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Education, organizations, support, and assistance for playwrights.
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Playwrights' Center
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Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
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Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
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Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
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Jassin Office - Publishing and Theatre Law
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Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.
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Resources for Teaching Playwriting Compiled by Adam Russell
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Annotated bibliography of recommended texts.
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The Playwright's Noticeboard
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Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.
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Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting
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Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
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Write Angle Productions
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Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.
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NY Play Development Lab
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Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
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Charles Deemer: Playwriting Basics
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Tips for playwrights.
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Lazy Bee Scripts
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Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Site includes guidelines for authors and playwrights.
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Pier Playwrights - From Page to Stage
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For playwrights run by playwrights. Membership is open to writers in dramatic all forms, resident in the South East of England.
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The Playwrights' Co-Operative
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Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
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The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco
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A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.
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Toscan's Online Playwriting Seminar
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Comprehensive overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University
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Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer
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Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
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Project Writers Unite
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Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
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Playwrights Foundation
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West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
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Philadelphia Young Playwrights
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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.
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Boston Playwrights' Theatre - Professional Theatre and Graduate Playwriting Program
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Award-winning professional theatre, founded in 1981 to promote new plays. Home to the Boston University Graduate Playwriting Program, and producers of the Boston Theater Marathon.
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Playmarket
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Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
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Playwriting 101
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A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.
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Young Playwrights 101
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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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Ohio University MFA Playwriting
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Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.
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The Brick Playhouse
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Dedicated exclusively to the creation, development, and production of new theatre works.
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Boston Theatre Works Unbound
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Equity theatre accepting scripts for its annual Unbound playwrighting festival. Details and submission guidelines available on website.
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Playwriting at Suite101.com
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Articles to assist playwrights.
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Swan Playwrights
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The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
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ProPlay
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Professionally produced stage plays available for immediate reading online.
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International Centre for Women Playwrights
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Dedicated to the support of women playwrights around the world.
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