annual New Writing Script Submission Window is now open for 2024-2025.
ABOUT DRUID’S NEW WRITING SCRIPT SUBMISSION WINDOW
- Playwrights who submit a script during the submission window will have their work read. Scripts received outside of this time will not be considered. Scripts sent via email, post or other means will not be accepted.
- The company accepts plays in the English language. For the purposes of clarity: Druid accepts translations of original plays into English which meet our criteria.
- For the open submission process, a reading panel assists the Artistic Director in assessing your play and ensures that a range of perspectives are brought to bear on each submission.
- While Druid gives consideration to all plays submitted within the allotted period, we are not in a position to give a detailed a response to each submission.
- The open submission process takes place alongside commissions, workshops, mentoring, public readings and other playwright development initiatives as part of ¶Ω°ω³άΎ±»ε’s commitment to bring new work into production.
- The aim of the New Writing process in Druid is to find new writers and voices that can be nourished rather than a finished polished piece of work. Druid looks forward to collaborating, guiding and nurturing writers, building a relationship with those voices who will grace our stages for years to come.
GUIDELINES
- Submit only one script per submission window. Once submitted a new draft cannot be resubmitted.
- Submit original work only.
- Scripts can only be accepted from playwrights based on the island of Ireland.
- Submit only those plays that have not had a full professional or amateur production. In this light, plays emerging from student productions or from a reading/workshop will be accepted.
- Writers whose work has previously been produced by amateur theatre companies are asked to submit only those plays that are not currently intended for a future production.
- Druid is not in a position to accept historical/biographical plays. For example, the company is more likely to produce a contemporary, more traditionally-structured play that has a connection to Ireland than an experimental opera about a historical figure with no connection to Ireland.
- Druid is not in a position to accept radio scripts, TV scripts or screenplays. Submitted plays must be written for the stage.
- Druid is not in a position to accept musicals or plays for children.
- Plays should be fully completed and have a running time of at least 40 minutes.
- Please ensure that you are familiar with ¶Ω°ω³άΎ±»ε’s work before submitting your script. You are expected to submit your script to Druid only if you believe it would be of interest to the company.
DEADLINE: Friday 31 January 2025
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