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Playwriting

Resource Sites and Centers

  • The Playwriting Seminars - according to the site's self-description, this is "a professional manual of the playwright's craft, with an inevitable excursion into film"
  • Plays for Today - extracts and details of contemporary published stage plays and screenplays by awarding-winning playwright; includes links to various screenplay- and drama-oriented sites
  • Screenwriters/Playwrights Page - a playwriting and screenwriting page that is no longer on the web, but available for download

Publications

Scripts

  • Playmarket - database of New Zealand plays & playwrights, with scripts and performing arts information
  • The Dramatic Exchange - dedicated to archiving and distributing scripts.A place for playwrights to "publish" and distribute their plays, for producers to find new plays, and for anyone who is interested in drama to browse

Unions and Organizations

Contacts and Communities

  • Playwrights on the Web
  • Playwrights Cafe - San Francisco Bay Area play writing group. Site includes writing exercises, playwriting discussion forums, information about meetings, links, and Play of the Month
  • Playwrights' Directory - directory of playwrights' centers in Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Minneapolis

Theatre Companies

  • The New Jersey Repertory Company - nonprofit professional theater presenting infrequently performed classical and modern plays, with a special commitment to works of minority playwrights
  • Roundabout Theatre Company - produces classic and new dramas by established playwrights
  • Stage 3 Theatre Company - non-profit company producing a season of six plays by contemporary and emerging playwrights
  • Victory Gardens Theater - not-for-profit professional developmental theater dedicated to playwrights and their works
  • Wings Theatre - Off-off Broadway theatre producing year-round season comprised exclusively of new plays and musicals by American playwrights and composers