All Actors:
Please note that Bay Street works with members of Actors Equity. Casting is handled only through our agent in NYC.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to return unsolicited emails and phone calls. We wish you all the best.
Playwrights:
Please note: For the Title Wave Annual New Works Festival, open submissions are currently not being accepted. For all other purposes, all submissions are accepted through agents only. This is for Bay Street’s protection as well as the playwright's. Unsolicited scripts will not be returned. Thank you for your interest and we wish you all the best.
We will be accepting new full-length plays for our Festival to take place in May 2024, exact dates TBD.
Bay Street is looking for plays that represent a broad array of voices, viewpoints, cultures, and styles. Writers of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to submit. We are looking for pieces that have had re-writes and development already, perhaps now in their third or fourth draft, and are at a stage where the addition of in-person creatives can be used to their full value.
We offer an opportunity to work with directors and actors on your play, in-person. Selected plays will be provided with dramaturgical notes from our artistic leadership, rehearsal time in NYC, and a public presentation in Sag Harbor, NY, with an audience feedback session, over the course of several days.
We are not able to offer transportation to or housing in NYC at this time, though we will transport participants from NYC to Sag Harbor for the day of presentations.
A full-length play is a single work that constitutes a stand-alone evening of theatre. We are not currently looking for musicals or plays for young audiences. We are also looking for plays that can be performed with no more than six actors.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN ON October 1, 2023.
Submissions will remain open through October 31, 2023 or when we reach 300 submissions, whichever comes first.
Questions may be directed to the Literary Manager, Hope Villanueva, at LitManager@BayStreet.org.
We are resolved to explicitly and publicly affirm our identity as an anti-racist theater and cultural arts center.
We are resolved that our anti-racism commitment be reflected in the life and culture of the arts, our actions, programs, and educational outreach as we continue to learn about racism.
We acknowledge that racism can be unconscious or unintentional, and that growing awareness of our personal biases is a life-long process. As an organization committed to anti-racism, we vow to purposefully identify, discuss, and challenge issues of race and color, and the impacts they have on our theater, its governance, and its people. We commit to challenging ourselves to understand and correct any inequities that may occur, and thereby gain a better understanding of ourselves during this purposeful process.
We resolve to develop and implement strategies that dismantle racism within all aspects of our organization, the performing arts, education, and our community. We firmly believe in the fruits of that commitment: A Bay Street Theatre where all people and perspectives are safe, valued, and heard.
Bay Street Theater (BST) is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We embrace these pillars of excellence as crucial to building communities where everyone feels a healthy sense of belonging. Bay Street is committed to honoring, nurturing, and advancing such a community through the performing arts. Bay Street will promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and equal opportunity in all aspects of its programming, services, and organization. Inclusion means a commitment to making all members of the community feel welcome and comfortable at Bay Street Theater, as well as creating an environment where everyone’s ideas and viewpoints are heard and valued.
Bay Street believes that its core values are strengthened when all members have a voice and are encouraged to contribute. Diversity, equity and inclusion are an active process that requires continuous commitment to promote healthy people, healthy communities and the overall success of present and future generations.
Our values are realized through or by:
American Music Festival Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Bridgehampton Childcare Center Divaria Productions East End Special Players East Hampton Historical Society Eastville Community Historical Society Goat on a Boat Guild Hall Hamptons Arts Network Hamptons Doc Fest |
HamptonsFilm: Home of the Hamptons International Film Festival Heartbeat Opera LongHouse Reserve Madoo Conservancy NYC Children's theater Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island Over 60 Schools across Long Island Parrish Art Museum Perlman Music Program Philippe Cheng Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center Sag Harbor Ambulance Corps |
Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center & Museum South Fork Bakery Southampton African American Museum Southampton Arts Center Southampton Cultural Center Southampton History Museum The Church The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton The Watermill Center Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center |