2024 Submissions

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.

Applications for the 2024/2025 season are now CLOSED! Thank you so much to all who applied!

You can learn more about our development and selection process at our FAQ page and reach out to submissions@freshinktheatre.org with any questions.

Click HERE to see all the opportunity breakdowns (also listed below) and application questions ahead of time (this helps you to prepare with ample time!)

Wondering who will read your play? Click here to see our Reading Comittee!

Fresh Ink Production Residency 

This residency is awarded to any QTPOC (Queer and/or Trans Person of Color) playwright who is a current, full-time resident looking to develop their play with Fresh Ink for a season, culminating in a world premiere production! 

This residency includes:

• $600 Playwright award

• One on one meetings with a dramaturg

• One internal workshop and reading

• One workshop

• One public staged reading

• A world premiere production

New Play Development Residency (In partnership with CHUANG Stage)

This residency is awarded to any AAPI (Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander) playwright who is a current, full-time resident of MA, CT, RI, NH, VT, or ME looking to develop their play with Fresh Ink and CHUANG Stage for 6 months. CHUANG Stage is Boston’s Asian American theatre company cultivating joyful and radical pan-Asian stories; this residency is curated in collaboration with CHUANG Stage to strengthen AAPI voices, communities, and futures.

This residency includes:

• $300 playwright award 

• One-on-one meetings with dramaturgs from Fresh Ink and CHUANG Stage 

• AAPI community engagement and research funding of up to $500

• One internal workshop 

• One workshop and public staged reading 

SPECIAL NOTE: This 6-month residency will take place during the 2024-2025 season. However, there is a potential for contract renewal the following season, with a possibility for the ‘24/’25 Development Residency playwright being selected for a ‘25/’26 CHUANG Stage & Fresh Ink Co-Production Residency.

Ink Spot Residency 

Fresh Ink seeks TWO Ink Spot Residency playwrights. This residency is awarded to any playwright who is a current, full-time resident of MA, CT, RI, NH, VT, or ME looking to develop their play with Fresh Ink for 1-2 months. 

This residency includes: 

• $150 playwright award 

• One-on-one meetings with a Fresh Ink dramaturg 

• A one week workshop and public staged reading

Ink-ubation Residency

This residency is awarded to any playwright who is a current, full-time resident of MA, CT, RI, NH, VT, or ME to receive 12 months of dramaturgical support.

This residency includes:

• $150 playwright award 

• 12 months of personalized dramaturgical support from a professional dramaturg
  
  SPECIAL NOTE: We aim for all submissions read by Fresh Ink to be self-evaluated by the playwright to be ready for workshop. Therefore, we do not accept submissions specifically for the Incubation Residency. However, all playwrights who submit for the Production, Development, and Ink Spot residencies will be considered for the Incubation Residency.

2024 Application & Deadlines

Playwrights interested in one or more of the 2024/2025 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. 

• Applicants must be a current, full-time resident of MA, CT, RI, NH, VT, or ME, and if selected, should remain so for the duration of the Fresh Ink season for which you are submitting.

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

• Your play must be able to be workshopped and performed with 6 actors or fewer. 

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

• 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, providing 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.

• 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 are open starting from Jan 15th, 2024 and close when we have received 80 scripts.

  
  ***All scripts must follow the guidelines above to be accepted and considered for a development process.***

You can read additional information about our selection process and timeline on our FAQ page. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Tatiana Isabel at tgil@freshinktheatre.org and/or Hannah Levinson at hlevinson@freshinktheatre.org.

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