The SE Texas Festival of New Plays is a one of a kind event in southeast Texas, seeking new and original plays to be performed live at the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing Arts, home of the Southeast Texas Stages! Creating some of the most multi-cultural diverse programming in Southeast Texas, the organization is the only nonprofit community based performance organization providing year round programming and educational services in the area.

Four (4) 10-Minute Plays will be selected and receive a week's rehearsal with local actors and a director culminating in an Enhanced Staged Reading performance on August 9th 2024! There will also be a CASH PRIZE for each playwright!

Past winners have gone on to stage performances across the country, including “Tracy Jones” in The Williamston Theatre in Michigan, which won the 2018 SE Texas New Plays Festival award! You don't want to miss this opportunity to get your work in front of an audience!

We are accepting submissions for the festival from February 15th - May 10th 2024.

Awards & Prizes

Four (4) 10-Minute Plays will be selected and receive a week's rehearsal with local actors and a director culminating in an Enhanced Staged Reading performance on August 9th 2024!

Enhanced Staged Readings feature minimal blocking, some stage effects and actors will carry scripts.

There will also be a CASH PRIZE for each playwright!

Rules & Terms

1. Plays must be in English
2. Plays must be a 10-Minute Play (no more than 20 pages, no less than 10).
3. Plays should only include characters 16 years of age or older
4. Musicals will not be accepted
5. The play must be a previously unpublished and un-produced new work (meaning, not performed in front of an audience), written by those who are 18 years or older, including co-authored material.
6. Authors (or co-authors) must not have professional literary/talent representation.
7. Plays are subject to copyright laws and submissions that break those laws will not be submitted (so save your Bridgerton musical’s for TikTok)

We ask that the content be PG-13 and not be excessively violent or very sexual in nature.

Entry into the contest is $8 per entry and contestants may submit multiple entries in this contest. If you would like feedback, the price will be $16. The feedback will be sent after the festival takes place, regardless if your selection is picked or not, via email.