Playwriting Websites

Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Searchable online catalogue.

Membership organization offering support services for Canadian Atlantic playwrights. PARC services include development, showcasing and promotion of work by regional playwrights. Membership is open to playwrights, theater companies, students and theatre lovers in the four Atlantic provinces of Canada.

Offers support for playwrights and screenwriters, including private consultations for dramatic writers anywhere in the world and an ongoing quarterly workshop program for dramatic writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.

Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest. Denver, Colorado.

A nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.

Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.

West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

An intensive arts- education program that pairs a professional teaching artist with a classroom teacher. The two work together as an artistic team, guiding and supporting students in the process of writing a play.

A playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf.

A free resource site for young playwrights and those who teach them. Also, information about Young Playwrights 101, a complete playwriting curriculum in an e-book. Site from Jonathan Dorf.

Information about the Master of Fine Arts Degree Program in Playwriting at Ohio University.

PDC is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists, and audience members dedicated to the creation and nurture of new works for live performance.

A nonprofit organization that encourages playwrights through public readings. Also offers discussions and workshops. Ashland, OR.

Annotated bibliography of recommended texts.

To support women playwrights around the world.

Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.

Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.

WTP is all-inclusive, welcoming the novice and the pro. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, with programming that suits all levels of playwright accomplishment.

Important and practical insights into the art and craft of writing for stage. Site by John Summons.