Title Wave @ Bay Street: The New Works Festival

Submissions Now Open!!!

Bay Street Theatre will be accepting new full-length plays for our Festival to take place in May or June 2025, exact dates TBD. Links will open below when live.

We are looking for writers of all backgrounds and plays that represent a broad array of voices, viewpoints, cultures, and styles. We are interested in pieces that have already undergone significant edits and re-writes, are perhaps now in their third or fourth draft, and are at a stage where the addition of a director and actors can be maximized.

Plays should meet the following REQUIREMENTS:
- A stand-alone evening of theatre
- Between 75 and 120 pages in length, unless…
- One person shows may be a minimum of 40 pages
- Can be performed with 5 actors or less (Doubling allowed only when intrinsic to the style of the piece)
- Each writer may submit only one play each year

There are many kinds of plays out there, but we are NOT looking for:
- Musicals
- Plays for children or young audiences
- Early or unpolished drafts
- Plays that have been submitted to us previously, unless significant changes have been made
- Plays that have been professionally produced (readings, workshops, or educational productions still qualify)

Selected plays will be provided with dramaturgical notes from our artistic leadership, rehearsal time in NYC with a director and actors, and a public presentation in Sag Harbor, NY, with an audience feedback session, over the course of several days. There is also a small stipend for the playwright’s participation.
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.

Cycle B – Open Submissions (NOW OPEN)
- Opens at Noon Eastern Time on October 1.
- Fill out an online registration form and follow instructions to submit the full script.
- Submissions will remain open until we reach 300 submissions.

Questions may be directed to the Literary Manager, Hope Villanueva, at LitManager@BayStreet.org.

To see selections from past years click here