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1,001 Plays connects playwrights and audiences from worlds apart.
Sponsored by George Mason University’s School of Theater, 1,001 Plays invites university students from around the world to submit their original, 10-minute plays, short scenes, or monologues on this year’s theme.
1,001 Plays will select plays, scenes, and/or monologues to assign to our Global Partners. Our Global Partners agree to facilitate either a workshop for monologues and scenes or a single presentation of staged readings and a talkback for 10-minute plays during this academic year. Staged readings and talkbacks will be available via video-chat to bring playwrights, theater artists, and audiences into crosscultural conversation. A recorded rehearsal of scene and monologue workshops will be posted to the 1,001 Plays digital library.
Student Playwrights
Once your academic institution or theater training program registers as a Global Partner, you may email us a Student Playwright Form.
Playwrights must be 18 or older and enrolled in a Global Partner program. Submissions must be:
- 10 minutes or less (plays)
- 5 minutes or less (scenes)
- 2 minutes or less (monologues)
- in English
- in PDF format
- Inspired by this year’s theme.
If you plan to submit a play, scene, or monologue, email us a completed Student Playwright Form.
For this year’s theme and deadlines, visit our website. If you have questions, feel free to email us.