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Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts

Wisconsin playwrights and theater companies running script competitions are welcome to send information to be included on this page to webmaster@madstage.com.

This site is provided as a free service. We'd very much appreciate a link to our site from yours and mention in your programs and mailings! If you find it useful and would like to help make it even an even more effective tool for promoting theater, dance and comedy in Wisconsin, contributions will be applied toward development and maintenance expenses and publicity for the site.

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Hurricane Season Playwriting Competition

The Eclectic Company Theatre is proud to present its Ninth Annual HURRICANE SEASON, a new works festival and playwriting competition. HURRICANE SEASON will blow through Los Angeles July 13th through August 5th, 2012, bringing nine new short plays, never before seen in California, to the stage!

The plays will be selected by the members of the Eclectic Company Theatre's reading committee, with monetary prizes given to the top three best-written plays as selected by an independent jury. Deadline is March 18, 2012. For details, visit our web site.


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Wisconsin-based Playwrights

Mike Birkley

Ludmilla Bollow

Steven Brown

Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn

Bob Curry

Danielle Dresden

George Farah

Jeffrey James Ircink

Holly Walter Kerby

Gary Kriesel

Jessica Lanius

Anthony Lamarr

Rick Ponzio

Playwrights Ink

Playwrights Ink is a non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts.

Script Resource Sites

Script publishers.

  • Beat by Beat Press - A new publishing company providing community theaters with new, high-quality musicals for young performers.
  • Broadway Play Publishing - BPP specializes in full-length, contemporary, American plays. BPP also publishes dramatic adaptations of classic plays and literature, and a few period pieces.
  • Children's Theatre Plays.com - Stageplays for children, young audiences and families. Theatre producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget.
  • Classic Acts - A collection of plays for children 10-14. The plays are adaptations of classical literature or best lived children's stories, such as Midsummer Night's Dream, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote and more. Creative, fun and a great way to interest children in classic theatre and literature. Low prices. No fees. Downloadable!
  • Classics On Stage! - A collection of professionally proven, audience tested children's theatre plays by double Shubert Fellowship award winning playwright, Michele L Vacca. Inspired by the classics of world literature, the scripts are excellent for university, school, professional and community productions.
  • The Dramatic Exchange
  • Dramatists Play Service, Inc. - Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights.
  • Eldridge Plays & Musicals - offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds.
  • HaveScripts.com - Online publishing company with an emphasis on middle school and high school plays for both the stage and the classroom. We have some competition one-acts and many books and scripts ideal for readers theater in the classroom.
  • Heuer Publishing - One of the oldest publishers serving the education and community theater markets.
  • Insight for Playwrights - a monthly marketing newsletter that provides dramatic writers with up-to-date submission information.
  • Musicline Publications - Has available musicals, pantomimes and Christmas shows for all ages.
  • New Theatre Publications - a script publishing company that is owned and managed by writers.
  • Original Works - Original Works Publishing is a Los Angeles based play publisher dedicated entirely to bold and original work. Our goal is to bring the new breed of theatre to the forefront.
  • Plays For Stage - entertaining, family-friendly play scripts for schools, community theaters, melodrama houses, churches, and other groups to perform for reasonable prices.
  • Samuel French, Inc. - Samuel French's Catalogue lists not only plays but monologues, audition material, classroom guides, classic works and the latest plays from the professional theater.
  • Stageplays.com - Virtually every play and musical currently published in the English language.
  • StoryFoundry.com - The StoryFoundry is a place for playwrights to list their works and start a community. Companies looking for new works to perform will find a large collection of plays of all lengths, with contact information for the playwrights. All services are free.
  • TheaterWords - offers royalty free plays and scenes for students and educators. There are also several pieces for all-women casts.
  • Venice Mootney Scripts - scripts, rights and background for previous Venice Mootney productions.

 

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How you can help support MadStage! Radio theater page Submit show information to MadStage Information about performance venues Wisconsin playwrights and scripts page Theater humor page Win Free Tickets! Thanks to all those who've contributed to MadStage in the past year! About MadStage Theater and dance classes, workshops, teachers and schools Performance links Performance-related job and volunteer opportunities, plus internship listings Dance Groups featured on MadStage Theater groups featured on MadStage Performance Calendar Home