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- Toscan's Online Playwriting Seminar - Comprehensive overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University
- Playwriting 101 - A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.
- McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition - Annual playwriting competition, full length and one act plays accepted in January and February. Monetary prizes. Winner of full length category selected by audience vote after a reading. Progress of submitted scripts can be tracked online.
- Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer - Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
- Ohio University MFA Playwriting - Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.
- Linda Eisenstein: Practical Playwriting - Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
- Boston Playwrights' Theatre - Professional Theatre and Graduate Playwriting Program - Award-winning professional theatre, founded in 1981 to promote new plays. Home to the Boston University Graduate Playwriting Program, and producers of the Boston Theater Marathon.
- Playwriting at Suite101.com - Articles (archived) to assist playwrights.
- Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest - HBTL's Diverse Voices highlights new and emerging playwrights representing the diverse, multi-cultural fabric of America.
- Daughters of Erin - Irish Theatre Project - The "Near and Far" 10-15 minute comedy playwriting contest runs from January-September.
Wikipedia Articles
- Michael MacLennan - Michael Lewis MacLennan (June 5, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and producer of television shows. He is a two-time finalist for Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice.
- Glen Berger - Glen Berger’s plays include: Underneath the Lintel (Over 450 performances Off-Broadway, Ovation Award (Los Angeles), Sterling Award (Edmonton), and Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Garland Award for Best Playwriting, and one of Time Out New York’s Ten Best Plays of 2001, productions in over 65 cities in 8 countries), THE WOODEN BREEKS (nominated for Best Writing by the L.A.
- Little Theatre Movement - In 1912 George Pierce Baker offered Harvard's first playwriting course (numbered 47 in the course cataloged) His students went on to found Theatre '47 in Dallas Texas. Theatre '47 concentrated on the works of playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw and others.
- The New School for Drama - The New School for Drama is a graduate program for the theater arts established in 2005, and is a division of The New School. It grants Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Acting, Directing and Playwriting.
- Banky Yeung - Banky Yeung Ping-kei (; Born March 20, 1975 in Hong Kong) is a theatre playwright, director and actor in Hong Kong. Graduated from Faculty of Playwriting in Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Yeung is the Artistic Director of Hong Kong theatre company FM Theatre Power.