Play Submissions and Script Development Opportunities
Alumnae Theatre Company is located in Toronto, Canada, and has been staging adventurous theatre for over 100 years.
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Call for scripts!
FireWorks is seeking production-ready, full-length scripts by women playwrights for this year’s festival, April 28 to May 16, 2027.
Submission criteria:
- Unproduced, full-length scripts, or scripts that have undergone a substantial rewrite since their initial production
- Scripts that are production-ready
- Playwrights must be prepared to work with an assigned dramaturge throughout the process, leading to performance
- Playwrights will participate in the choosing of directors but cannot direct their own plays.
Preference will be given to scripts containing challenging roles for women of all ages and backgrounds.
TO APPLY:
Send your script as a PDF to: fireworks@alumnaetheatre.com
Note in the subject heading: SCRIPT SUBMISSION 2027
Deadline: October 15, 2026
To find out more:
Alumnae Theatre's
New Play Development Group
All Active, Lifetime and Senior Supporting Members of the Alumnae Theatre are invited to join the New Play Development (NPD) group.
We’re a group of women playwrights and dramaturges, at all levels of experience, who meet once a month from September through June to read and share our work, give feedback to each other, and discuss script and playwriting issues.
Partnering with directors, dramaturges, and actors, NPD organizes three annual showcases of new Canadian works:
Next Stage Reading Series
The Next Stage Reading Series is a series of dramaturged and directed script readings of new plays by NPD members, free and open to the public, a ‘next stage’ in the development of works-in-progress. Directed and performed by members, with informed feedback from the audience, these readings are usually held in our theatre lobby, on the first Monday of the month, from 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm.
Next Stage schedule for 2026/2027:
- October 5: I’ll Take Wills & Estates for $200, Please by Jill Edmondson
- November 2: Attenborough’s Frog by Sheri Astorino
- December 7: The Ones You’re With by Mary Barnes Amoroso
- February 1: TBD
- March 1: Our Lives Inseparable by Sanita Fejzić
- May 3: Remembering Ruth by Anne Martin
- June 7: Goodness Gracious by Susan Rogers
Write Now!
A weekend-long playwriting challenge that culminates a week later in a presentation of rehearsed readings of all the entries. Our next Write Now! challenge will take place in January 2027. Keep an eye out for the call for playwrights, directors, actors to sign up later this year.
Submitting to Festivals
Many NPD members submit plays to Alumnae’s FireWorks, which features two to three full production works (April-May 2027) and to the New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre’s juried three-week festival of new short plays (next to be held in 2027/2028 season).
How to Join the New Play Development (NPD) Group
The NPD group comprises Active Members of the Alumnae Theatre Company. If you are not yet a member of the Alumnae, please join. For more information on participating and the meeting dates/times contact us at npd.alumnae@gmail.com
Mainstage Shows
At this time, ATC is accepting only published plays for consideration for the Mainstage season.
The Mainstage season programming process occurs between June and October each year, with the upcoming season usually announced early the following year. We are currently in the process of programming the 2027/2028 season.
To Submit a Script for Mainstage Consideration:
Please contact our Programming Chair at:
