web siteBeginning in 2011, we are redirecting the focus of the Contest toward the primary production opportunity for ten-minute plays at Actors Theatre: The Apprentice/Intern Tens. An annual event that takes place in January, the A/I Tens consist of a bill of 8-10 world premiere ten-minute plays, fully produced in Actors’ Victor Jory Theatre and performed by our Apprentice Company of young actors.
Submission Guidelines:
- Characters in submitted plays should be in the age range 18-28.
- Submissions will be limited to the first 500 scripts we receive each year.
- In order to level the playing field, scripts will only be accepted during a focused submission window of September 1-November 1. Scripts sent outside this window will no longer be accepted. Please do not send your script before September 1!
- If your play is received after we’ve hit the 500-script mark, you will be notified.
- Entries will be acknowledged by postcard in December. Playwrights will be notified of their finalist or non-finalist status the following summer.
- Each playwright may submit only one script—send us your best!
- We are unable to accept electronic submissions.
- No scripts will be returned.
- Each script must be no more than ten pages long. (We start counting pages after the title page and character list, if applicable.)
- Previously submitted plays, plays that have received an Equity production, musicals, children’s shows, and any unsolicited longer one-act or full-length plays are not accepted and will not be returned nor receive a response. Plays that have received Equity waiver showcase productions are eligible.
- Each manuscript must be typed and individually bound or stapled.
- Title page must include the playwright’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address.
- The volume of scripts submitted hampers our ability to comment individually on each work, so we do not offer criticism.
- All ten-minute plays will be considered for the Heideman Award ($1000)* and production in the Apprentice/Intern Tens, an annual event in the winter.
- Playwrights must be citizens or permanent residents of the USA.