• There is no submission fee for the New Play Festival.
• Submission deadline for the 2010 NPF is Feb. 1, 2010. Scripts received after that date will be considered for the following year. Four finalists will be selected on July 1, 2010 and their names will be posted to this page at that time.
• Must be a full-length play without a prior full production.
  
• Send brief synopsis together with a bound complete manuscript. Please include a contact phone number and e-mail address on the play's title page page.
  
• The play must be at least one hour and thirty minutes in length, and no longer than two hours.
  
• Dramas, comedies and farces are all welcome. No musicals or plays for young people, please.
  
• Cast size limited to 6.
• Playwrights are encouraged to become familiar with our thrust space and submit plays that are suited to our physical space. A 360 degree view of the theatre is available here.
• Providing playwrights with the highest quality actors is a priority. Plays that can be effectively cast within our market will be considered favorably.
• Playwrights who are questioning whether or not their play is a good match for Centre Stage are strongly encouraged to contact Brian Haimbach at haimbach@hotmail.com before submitting.
  
• All plays that are not selected for the festival will be recycled. Please do not include any type of return postage. Please check our website July 1 for announcement of current year's finalists.
• All serious submissions are read by at least two readers. Please be advised that the following are not considered serious submissions:
  • Screenplays or teleplays submitted as theatrical plays
  • Obvious first drafts 
  • Plays with typos and spelling errors
  • Plays that are not formatted according to industry standards
• Plays with excessive profanity or violence will receive limited consideration.

Notification: We appreciate you offering our theatre the opportunity to consider your work. Our New Works Coordinator screens submissions for eligibility and for content as they are received. The final selections will be made in July 1 and the finalists' names will be posted to this page at that time.

Send manuscripts to:

Centre Stage - South Carolina
c/o New Play Festival
PO Box 8451
Greenville, SC 29604-8451