Baker's Plays maintains an open submission policy. We accept full-length plays, one act plays, theatre texts, musicals, and collections of scenes and monologues. Our market consists of high school, university, children's, family and regional theaters, as well as religious institutions.

For Religious Submissions

Christian plays currently comprise the bulk of our religious collection. These plays can dramatize or creatively embellish upon a Biblical story, or also be about modern Christian life. Plays for children and young adults are in high demand. We encourage submissions of plays specific to and/or embracing all other faiths and belief systems.

For All Submissions

We generally prefer plays which have been "production tested". Plays which have had a staged reading, workshop reading or full production will usually undergo revisions during the rehearsal process. If your play has not yet been produced, your time and energy may be better first spent pursuing a production rather than publication.

Manuscripts must be typed in the standard play format. If you need more information about that method of formatting, a good guide is provided in Professional Playscript Format Guidelines & Sample by Mollie Ann Meserve, which available for purchase on our website. Playwrights should include a script history and reviews, if applicable. When submitting a musical, include the score or a compact disc of all the songs which are in the script. Our reading evaluation period averages six to eight months.

We are now encouraging submissions via email at publications@bakersplays.com. If submitting via email, please make sure that your script is in MS Word, .txt or .pdf format. You will receive an email notification of receipt.

If submitting via regular mail, the manuscript must be securely bound. Include an S.A.S.E. if you wish your manuscript returned. A postcard will be sent as notification of our receipt.

Mailed submissions should be addressed:

Baker's Plays
Attn: Associate Editor
45 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10010

Contests & Festivals

Baker's Plays
High School Playwriting Competition

Open to any High School Student.

Plays may be about any subject and of any length, so long as the play can be reasonably produced by high school students on a high school stage.

Guidelines

• Submissions must be accompanied by the signature of a sponsoring high school drama or English teacher, attesting to the student author's qualifications.
• Teachers may not submit a student's work.  
• It is recommended that the play receive a production or a public reading prior to the submission.
• Multiple submissions and co-authored scripts are welcome.
• The manuscript must be firmly bound and typed. 
• Plays that do not come with an S.A.S.E. will not be returned.
• Send copies only; not originals.  
• A postcard will be sent as notification of our receipt of your manuscript. 
• All plays must be postmarked by January 30, 2007. Plays postmarked after this date will not be considered.
• Playwrights will be notified of awards during the month of May, 2007.

* * * * AWARDS * * * *

First Place: $500.00
and the play will be published by Baker's Plays with a royalty earning contract.

Second Place: $250.00 and an Honorable Mention.
Third Place: $100.00 and an Honorable Mention.

All submissions should be addressed:

Baker's Plays
Attn: High School Playwriting Contest
45 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10010

Boston Theater Marathon

A ten-hour marathon of 50 new ten-minute plays by local authors, each one produced by a different New England professional theatre company, all performed in one place in one amazing day. For more information regarding this festival, Click Here!

Samuel French Annual
Off-Off Broadway
Original Short Play Festival

The Off-Off Broadway festival started in 1975 and is Manhattan's oldest continuous short play festival. Over 360 theatre companies and schools have participated in the Festival's first thirty-one years, including companies from coast to coast as well as abroad from Canada and England. For more information regarding this festival and/or an application, please click here.

Samuel French (Canada), Ltd.
Canadian Playwrights Contest

Writers from across Canada are invited to submit their best full-length stage plays that are original and have never been published. The winning play will receive publication and representation from Samuel French. For more information regarding this festival and/or an application, please click here.