Submit Your Play 2024

The 10th

November 9th & 10th at Civic Theatre, Tallaght

We are now pleased to invite submissions of new plays for the 2024 NEWvember Dublin festival:

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This year we will be reading a selection of 3 curated new plays, plus an evening of new 10-minute plays written for the festival. We will be selecting 5 playwrights from blind submissions to write a 10-minute play for two actors (randomly selected from our talent pool). If you would like to be considered for one of the playwright slots, please submit below.

CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS

  • 10 pages of a play (if you submit more pages only the first 10 will be read)
  • plays should have a cast size of 2-8
  • we will only accept one submission per writer each year
  • we are interested in plays from playwrights based in Ireland
  • we ask that the writers attend the reading of their play towards its further development and to be present for a post-reading Q&A with the audience
  • there is no fee for submissions
  • while we are open to all styles and subjects, we do have a preference for narrative and character-driven stories. Plays will be selected based on their originality, range, production potential, narrative quality and emotional resonance
  • PROCESS OF SUBMISSION:
    You will be asked to include:

  • your play excerpt as a PDF (without the writer’s name, email or other identifying marks on any page throughout the script – to aid our blind reading process). The script should include a character list. Please ensure the file name of your play matches the name of the play e.g. theweir.pdf
  • Within the form, you will be asked to include your name, play title and contact details (location, email and phone), which will be kept in a database unseen by the reading panel.

    SUBMISSION DATES:

  • The window for submissions opens Friday August 2 2024.
  • The closing date for submissions is Friday August 16 2024 (12 midnight GMT).

Please note that these criteria will be applied strictly and any submissions made after the closing date or not following the submission guidelines will not be considered. In addition, our festival’s reading panel will not be able to provide feedback on specific plays or on the status of your application.

The writers of the plays that have been shortlisted will be contacted in September and will have a month to write a 10-minute play with guidance from our dramaturg.

The invited playwrights will be announced in October.

CASTING: Please note – plays will be read by an ensemble of actors, each performing roles in multiple plays in the festival. While we will endeavor to provide the best match of cast for each play that is read, in terms of characters’ listed ages/ethnicities, we also need to form an ensemble to best cover the entire range of the festival’s program. We appreciate our playwrights’ understanding of our ensemble-based casting.

NEWvember 2024 Submission Form

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SUBMIT WRITING SAMPLE (WITHOUT AUTHOR'S INFO)

Upload your writing sample as a PDF with a Title Page showing ONLY THE NAME OF PLAY. Be sure to REMOVE the Author's Name, Email, Phone Number or any other identifying marks from the entire manuscript. The filename of your PDF should match the title of your submitted play/excerpt.

Please Note: THIS IS IMPORTANT as it makes possible our blind reading process. Any submission that does not conform to these requirements cannot be considered.
Also, if your submission is longer than 10 pages only the first 10 pages will be read.



PDF only, max file size 1 MB
Acceptance of Terms & Conditions

Please note that the criteria will be applied strictly and any submissions made after the closing date or not following the submission guidelines will not be considered. In addition, our festival's reading panel will not be able to provide feedback on specific plays or on the status of your application.