NEW WORKS AND ONE ACTS

Submission Deadline: February 28th, 2025

Auditions:  May 12, 2025 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Show Dates: July 25th, 26th, 27th 2025

 

Writers must submit their one-act plays (with a running time of 20 minutes or less)

Entries will be judged on plot, character development, dialogue, and overall quality.

 

Please send manuscripts and enclose your $20 reading fee

(checks made payable to StageWorks Theatre Group, INC.) to:

 

StageWorks Theatre Group, INC.

237 Hamburg Turnpike

Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442

Attention: One Act Jamboree

 

​Alternatively, you may submit your play via our website here. Click "Submit Your Play" (above) to send your manuscript via Google Form. Then, click "Pay Reading Fee" button above to pay your reading fee (online payment convenience fees apply). Manuscripts will NOT be considered until the reading fee has been submitted.

 

Between 6 and 10 winners will receive the prize of a staged production of his or her play at the StageWorks One Act Jamboree, which will be held during the Summer of 2025 at StageWorks Studio 237.

 

The production will have auditioned actors, directors chosen by committee, producers, stage managers, ushers, ticket takers, and tech crew.

 

2025 Annual One Act Jamboree Terms and Conditions

 

Writers are encouraged to submit their one-act plays (with a running time of 20 minutes or less) by Friday, February 28th, 2025. Entries will be judged on plot, character development, dialogue and overall quality by a committee of three to five. Directors will be chosen by the committee.

 

Plays will be judged on the following criteria:

• Plot

• Character Development

• Dialogue

• Overall writing quality​

 

Submissions deadline: February 28th, 2025

 

Playwrights are limited to three (3) submissions.

 

How to Submit:

Please read and follow our submission guidelines. Submissions that are incomplete or do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified. To enter your play, you must submit the following:

 

(1) Three (3) hard copies of your play (or Google Form submission in advance for electronic submissions/Paypal payment).

 

• Plays should run 20 minutes or less and be written in the proper playwriting format (when in the proper format, running time is approximately one minute per page)

• A list of characters with a brief physical description of each should also be included.

• Plays should contain 12 or fewer actors.

• One person plays are accepted.

• No musicals, unless you are providing accompaniment.

• Plays should have simple staging and technical needs.

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(2) A cover letter with the following information:

• The name of your play

• Your name full address, full contact information (including your e-mail and phone number)

• A brief synopsis of your play (for publicity purposes if your play is selected)

• A brief biography

• If submitting your play digitally, please attach cover letter in one PDF with your play submission.

 

(3) A check in the amount of $20 (US dollars) for each play submitted, made payable to:

StageWorks Theatre Group, INC. *Fee waived for members of Dramatist Guild (must include a form of certification of active membership with submission, which can be a letter, copy of card, receipt of payment to DG, etc.)

Please write "One-Act Jamboree" in the check's memo line.

 

The submission package must be sent to:

StageWorks Theatre Group, INC

237 Hamburg Turnpike

Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442

Attn: One-Act Jamboree

 

Additional Information:

• Paper submissions must be postmarked on or before February 28th, 2025

• Plays will NOT be returned and will be recycled.

• The entry fee is non-refundable.

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Playwrights of plays selected for production are invited to auditions and will have input regarding casting and production presentation. However, the Executive Director may choose to exercise her authority regarding questionable content and/or presentation of the show with consideration and protection of the reputation of the company in its entirety.

 

Prizes: At the conclusion of the jamboree, one winner will receive a $250 cash prize based on audience vote.