THE GREENBERG SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
will accept submissions from INDIANA RESIDENTS,
for the 2024 PLAYWRIGHT COMPETITION,
beginning April 13, 2024. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025.
Winning scripts will be performed in the month of April 2026, after being cast, workshopped, edited, and rehearsed during the
’25-’26 ALLEY THEATRE SEASON.
Named for Educator, Actress & Encourager, CLARICE GREENBERG, the annual GREENBERG SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL is sponsored and hosted by THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY of INDIANA.
SUMMARY: THE FESTIVAL solicits one-act plays, suitable for simple, black box, in-the-round, performances by THE ALLEY THEATRE, in the JAKE HOOVER STUDIO THEATRE. Winning plays will be announced April 12, 2025, work-shopped and rehearsed during the summer/fall/winter of 2025/2026, and performed in APRIL 2026.
AGE-GROUP CATEGORIES: A winner will be chosen from each category:
1) Middle School/6th – 8th Grade,
2) High School/9th-12th Grade,
3) College Age/18-26 years,
4) Post-College Age Adult 27 +
AWARDS & PERFORMANCES: Each of the 4 winners will receive a cash prize of $500. THE ALLEY THEATRE will cast the shows, work-shop and rehearse them and present each play on a single performance night.
SUBMISSIONS: Playwrights must reside in the state of Indiana.
Submitted plays, in all categories, must be no more than 15-minutes in length, contain no more than 7 characters, appropriate for audiences of all ages, and perform-able without the need for anything more than simple furniture and set appropriate for in-the-round performances.
Playwrights may submit more than one play.
Playwrights may submit scripts which have also been submitted to other contests. Playwrights who have won a GREENBERG AWARD before are welcome to submit again, any year.
A jury of theatre professionals will peruse all scripts, which will be numbered and anonymous, and choose 1 winner in each of the 4 age groups.
Scripts must be submitted by MARCH 15, 2025
DIGITAL FILES ONLY, PLEASE
(WORD or PDF attachments, please) – a SEPARATE digital cover sheet must accompany “blind” scripts (with Name, Address, Email Address, Phone Number, Age, Grade in School if Applicable), PLEASE remove all identification from the script itself – submitted to:
thealleytheatremail@gmail.com
Rights to the plays are retained by the playwrights.
INQUIRIES: Any questions about this competition may be answered by inquiring at the above-mentioned email address.
2024
Aly Atkinson & T. Rooks – “AS IT HAPPENED ONCE AGAIN”
Novalee Simms – “ECHO”
Jamie Forrester – “A NIGHT IN THE PARK”
Tyler Marx – “WAITING FOR GARY”
2023
Jameris Wells, Whitlee Leslie, & Chesney Gibbs – “THE ELEVATOR”
Lydia Williams – “DEATH BE WITH YOU”
Sarah Espinoza Repp – “SCRAPS”
Ron Burch – “GARYTHE BOLD”
2022
Lydia Williams – “THE WORK OF HATRE, DISLOYLA, AND DESPAIDRO”
Emma Walls – “YOU ARE THE BEAST”
Jackson Janowicz – “HEAVEN”
Matthew Foster – “LET’S GO OUT FOR DINNER”
HONORABLE MENTION – Jeff Barranco • Larry Adams
2020
Ian Willoughby – “WELCOME TO HELL”
Robby James – “THE PAST OF OUR FUTURE”
Bailey Hunt – “OBSERVATIONS”
Larry Adams – “THE DOUGHNUT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
2019
Elaine Bowman – “THE FAIRY TALE”
Vance, Jaimie Gause – “THE 5 STAGES OF GAY”
Lauren Schaffter – “GASLIT”
Sean Smith – “TO MEET BENEATH THE WILLOW’S LEAVES”
2018
Aubrey Jeffries – “MEAN TO GOOD”
Lauren Schaffter – “SCARS”
Juli Lee – “DON’T DO IT”
Larry Adams – “THE DEALER SMILES”
2018
Angela Eden – “STANDBY”
Dr. Jay Wile – “AMAZING GRACE”
Halle Evans – “THE OUIJA BOARD”
Erynn Erwin – “RUN”