THE CAP FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 2025 FESTIVAL HAS BEEN REACHED!
Thank you to everyone who is contributing to make our 2nd Hudson Valley Theatre Festival a success!
HUDSON VALLEY THEATRE FESTIVAL: MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The Hudson Valley Theatre Festival (HVTF) is to celebrate and support new theatrical works by providing opportunity and accessibility to established and emerging local, national, and international playwrights. HVTF will also promote tourism to the Hudson Valley area by attracting visitors for this annual event and supporting local businesses in the process. Under The New Deal Creative Arts Center, HVTF is an inclusive program that welcomes playwrights, theater artists, volunteers, audience members, and affiliates of all ages, races, genders, sexualities, abilities and backgrounds.
HUDSON VALLEY THEATRE FESTIVAL:
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions for new plays will be accepted beginning August 1, 2024 with the following guidelines:
- This festival is open to local, national, and international playwrights.
- A 2025 Hudson Valley Theatre Festival application must be completed in full online (the cap for our submissions for 2025 has been reached).
- Only unpublished plays will be accepted – we are not accepting any musicals at this time.
- We are looking for full length plays. Running time of the piece should not exceed 2 hours.
- Only one play submission per playwright.
- There are no cast size restrictions for this festival.
- The play must be written in English.
- The submitted work should be intended as a stage play (not a radio play or a play meant for a virtual platform)
- We ardently support diversity and inclusion.
- All plays will be under jury review by a hand-selected and diverse reading panel made up of theatre professionals.
- There is no fee to submit your play to the Hudson Valley Theatre Festival.
- Scripts must be PDF format. (Dramatists Guild Formatting Guidelines)
- Play’s cover sheet should include author’s information (name, address, telephone, email).
- Inquiries can be sent to [email protected]
- Selected plays will receive a reading of their work during the 2025 Hudson Valley Theatre Festival slated for May 2-4, 2025.
- There is a cap of 100 submissions. A total of twelve (12) plays will be selected for the reading festival.
QUESTIONS CAN BE DIRECTED TO [email protected]