Submissions

Thank you so much in your interest is submitting your work to Fresh Ink! Sadly, submissions are closed for our 2026/2027 season. We do NOT accept scripts outside of our submissions period. However, they do reopen at the beginning of each year around January/February. If you are curious about our process and the requirements, please read the information below and visit our FAQ page for more details and information. Please feel free to also reach out to submissions@freshinktheatre.org with any questions.

Fresh Ink is always revamping our submission process and season opportunities with the aim at being action oriented in our equity and diversity goals. We seek to better reflect the playwright and artist community we are looking to serve and cultivate! We are also inviting ourselves, as an all volunteer organization, to slow down to give ourselves the space to grow financially and strategically.

Application & Deadlines

Playwrights interested in any of our season opportunities must submit an application along with their play to be considered.

Application Guidelines: Please read these carefully

• You must be at least 18 years of age. 

• Please view our mission statement before submitting your application.

• Applicants must be a current, full-time resident of MA/The Greater Boston Area OR have local housing and if selected, should remain so for the duration of the Fresh Ink season for which you are submitting. Fresh Ink does not provide housing or travel stipends outside of the residency award. All workshops and readings will take place in Boston. 

• Your play must be full length or at least 50 pages to be considered. 

• Your play must be able to be workshopped and performed with 4 actors or fewer. You may double characters, but please do not exceed 4 actors.

• We are not accepting musicals or short plays at this time.

• Please do not submit a script that has previously been submitted to Fresh Ink unless significant changes have been made since the last submission (please explain those changes in your application)

• Your play must not have had a professional production. Previous readings, workshops, and academic productions are allowed.

• You may submit an original or adapted work, provided the rights to any material not in the public domain have been granted in writing and a copy of the release is emailed along with the script.

• A writer may submit only one play each year.

• No incomplete submissions will be accepted.

• Formating 

• Please make sure your script has page numbers.

• Please title your script PDF (“Save As”) in the following format: TITLE OF PLAY – Last Name, First Name

• Submissions will open around the beginning of the year and typically close when we have received a particular number of scripts or by a set date.

  
  ***All scripts must follow the guidelines above to be accepted and considered for a development process.***
  
  If you have any questions, please feel free to email Jolie Frazer at jfrazer@freshinktheatre.org and/or Erin Davis at edavis@freshinktheatre.org
  

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