July 2025
NEW DRAMATISTS ADMINISTERED OPPORTUNITIES
Bernard B. Jacobs Educational Internship Program
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Website: https://www.newdramatists.org
New Dramatists offers students currently enrolled in an academic program the opportunity to learn the ropes of managing a non-profit playwright-service organization by assisting with responsive artist-led development, programming, and providing creative support to our resident company of playwrights.
New Dramatists' 7-Year Residency
Deadline: August 4, 2025 @ 11:59pm ET
Website: https://www.newdramatists.org
Any U.S.-based playwright may apply for New Dramatists' 7-Year Residency, as long as they meet the submission requirements —a bio/resume and two full-length "blind" scripts. We recommend that applicants apply early in the window, gather all materials, and submit the application in one session.
JOB POSITIONS
Playwrights Center Director of Fellowships and Community Engagement
Deadline: July 25, 2025 at 11:59pm CT
Website: https://www.pwcenter.org
Senior artistic leadership position that will be a key participant in fellowship support, artistic strategy, and programming. The Director will be the Primary Artistic Liaison and Advisor to Jerome Fellows, Many Voices Fellows, and the McKnight Playwrights.
GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
PEN America's U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
Deadline: July 15, 2025 and October 1, 2025
Website: https://pen.org/writers-aid/
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. Applicants must be professional writers based in the United States.
Dramatist Guild Foundation National Fellows Program
Deadline: July 21, 2025 (or until 250 completed submissions per discipline)
Website: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/programs/fellowships/
The DGF National Fellows program is a nine-month virtual intensive for dramatists who want to develop their existing work and advance their careers. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters at all stages of their careers.
WRITING RESIDENCIES
Key West Studios First Look Reading Series
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Website: https://www.tskw.org
New play not fully produced elsewhere. Small cast (2-4 ideally) preferred. Director, writer & cast expected to be in Key West for about a week for rehearsals and two readings. Airfare, housing in Key West and $500 honorarium provided for playwright, director and non-Equity actors.
Longhaven Artists Residency
Deadline: July 15, 2025 at midnight Eastern Time
Website: https://www.longhaven.org
Located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
UCROSS Residency Program
Deadline: July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM MT
Website: https://www.ucross.org
Ucross invites visual artists, writers, choreographers, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists to apply for our artist residency program. Located on a 20,000-acre ranch in the Wyoming High Plains. Artists-in-residence receive a private studio, comfortable living accommodations, chef-prepared meals, a stipend, and full staff support.
The Kyoto Retreat
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Website: Contact via curator Dexter Wimberly
Fee: $95
The Kyoto Retreat offers artists, curators, and writers an opportunity to spend four weeks in Kyoto, Japan, for research, exploration, and inspiration. If selected, you will receive a roundtrip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 USD to supplement meals and local transportation.
2026 Grand Canyon Artist in Residence
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Website: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/management/air.htm
The Artist in Residence program at Grand Canyon National Park offers artists of any discipline the opportunity to work at one of the world's most beautiful sites. We seek inspiring and resourceful artists who engage contemporary, interactive, immersive, and/or socially engaged methods.
Crosstown Arts Residency Open Call
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Website: https://www.crosstownarts.org
Crosstown Arts offers multidisciplinary residencies in Memphis, TN, to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators working in any creative discipline including visual arts, music, film, and writing in all genres. All residencies include a private studio workspace at no cost to participants.
FESTIVALS/COMPETITIONS/LABS/THEATER PROGRAMS
Yale Drama Series
Deadline: August 15, 2025 at midnight EST
Website: https://yalepress.yale.edu/yale-drama-series
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2026 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The winner will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at the Schwarzman Center at Yale University.
2025 Echo New Play Competition
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Website: https://www.echotheatercompany.com
Submission Fee: $40
Submissions must be original, unpublished and unproduced, non-musical stage plays (60-150 pages). First Place: $1000 honorarium and playwright traveled and housed for rehearsed public reading. Second Place: $500 honorarium and a rehearsed online reading. Third Place: $250 honorarium.
ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES
Yaddo
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Website: https://www.yaddo.org
Residencies for professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio.
Bemis Center
Deadline: August 4, 2025
Website: https://www.bemiscenter.org
Located in Omaha's Old Market arts district. Selected artists-in-residence enjoy private live/work studios with kitchen and bathroom, a $1,250 USD monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend. Artists have 24-hour access to extensive installation and production spaces.
Florida Studio Theatre
Deadline: Rolling
Website: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org
Currently looking for submissions of full-length plays, musicals, and musical revues to be considered for possible inclusion in future Mainstage, Cabaret, and Stage III Series. Especially interested in plays that present diverse perspectives on current social and political themes.
Dramatists Guild Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling (2025 applications open)
Website: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/programs/dgf-grants/
Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500 for non-emergency and essential daily life expenses. Crisis Relief Grants support writers in times of need due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. Most often used for necessary life expenses like groceries, utility bills and medical expenses.
