Eastbound Theatre

Call for Short Play Scripts

East/West PlayFest 2025

The Milford Arts Council’s Eastbound Theatre has announced a “Call for Short Play Scripts” for the East/West PlayFest, a festival of short plays to be produced in July 2025.

Six finalists will receive a production of their play, with two outdoor performances at the Milford Historical Society.  The program will be repeated the following weekend at Westport Community Theatre, hence the “East/West PlayFest” name. 

The festival is produced by Eastbound Theatre, a division of the Milford Arts Council.

Guidelines

  • Submit your play(s) on or before April 18, 2025.
  • Due to last year’s response, we will only be considering the first 250 plays received.
  • There is no submission fee.
  • Playwrights will maintain all rights to their material. 
  • Please do not submit more than two plays
  • Submissions must be unpublished short plays of approximately 10-15 pages in length.

 

Email Submissions Address
ebtmac@gmail.com
Attachments can be doc, rtf or pdf files. 

 

Hard Copy Submissions Address

East/West PlayFest
Milford Arts Council
40 Railroad Avenue South
Milford, CT  06460

 

Please Note

  • Finalists will be notified via email unless playwright requests otherwise.
  • Two performances will be held at the Milford Historical Society on July 12-13.
    In the event of bad weather, the performances will move inside the MAC, home of the Milford Arts Council.
  • Additional performances will be held the following weekend at Westport Community Theatre on July 18-19.

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Milford Arts Council/Eastbound Theatre – https://milfordarts.org/

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Westport Community Theatre – https://westportcommunitytheatre.com/

 

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