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There will be 3 rounds of reading and whilst we are unable to give exact dates for each round we are happy to offer the following as a rough guide.
Round 1 – June – Oct 2024
Round 2 – Oct 2024 – Jan 2025
Round 3 – Jan – March 2025
If this process is delayed all writers will be notified by email.
Writers will also be notified at each stage of the proceedings and we will publish long-listed and shortlisted play titles.
If you have any questions, please email literary@theatre503.com.
We are delighted to announce the finalists of the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award 2024/25:
Annice, A Slave
Dead Skin
DOG DOG DOG
Donbas
Final Boarding Call
Allah In The Walls
Annice, A Slave
Bad Things
Big Time Toppers
Breaking Horses
burn for You
Corpselight
Czech Yourself
Dead Skin
Deserted
Different
Do You Believe In A Parallel Universe? (I Do!)
DOG DOG DOG
Donbas
Final Boarding Call
Fortress
Homo(sapien)
Horsegirl & Cowdaddy
Hungry Dog
Lucky/Bird
Midnight Showing
No More Bonfires Until October
Nucleus
Postcolonial Affairs, A Scandal, And A Bird
Schizogenesis
Slowly And Then All At Once
The Lolita Boy
The Public Servant
The Singling
the stranger
A Comet Hangs Over Iowa
A Deprivation Just & Wise (to punish her for telling lies)
A Horror Story
A Mermaid Walk
A MOON RISING BRIGHT IS THE BEAUTY OF MY LOVE
A Perfect Map of Everything
Abort: The Mission
Absolution
Aftershocks
Age
Ajax
Allah In The Walls
Always on my mind
An Institution
Annice, A Slave
Apple Bottom
Archie Baby
Aromatherapy
At Once Before And After
At The End Of The Day She’s Still Your Mother
Bad Things
Big Shoes (A Love Story)
Big Time Toppers
Birdie and Cait and the Book of Life
Bloody Manj
bloody noses
Book Of Kings
Both Barrels
Boys Beware
Brad Pitt’s My Bitch
Breaking Horses
Brother, Brother, Brothers
burn for You
Bury Me
BUST
Bwoy Dem
By The Grace
Camping
Can’t Stop the WROK!
Centre Of The Universe (a memoir play)
Chill
Chronic Honesty
CLASS
Clementine
Clocks Are Like Angels
Clown Clown Baby
Cohesion
Corpselight
CRISIS GOALIE
Cutting Edge
Czech Yourself
Dark Ride
Dead Skin
DEEP SALMON
Democracy
Deserted
DIABLO
Different
Dinner for One
Do You Believe In A Parallel Universe? (I Do!)
DOG DOG DOG
Donbas
Doomers
Dreamhouse
Dregs
drifting
Dwelling
Ember
Escalator Wit
Everything Still
F*ck The Seaside
Faster
Fighting for the Everglades (Jill’s Journey)
Final Boarding Call
Five Women Falling Out of Love
Fortress
FRAGILE STATE
Fury
Getting Closer
Good
Half-Life
Half-Truths and Hleów-Feðer
Happy Endings
Homo(sapien)
Horsegirl & Cowdaddy
HOTHEAD
How to Kill your Darlings
Hungry Dog
I broke my phone
I Could Never
I’m Not Henry
ICONS
Idyll
In Her Bones
In Memoriam
In Sisters We Trust, or My Fucked Up American Girl Doll Play
In the Mouth of the Beast
It Takes Three
Jack in a Box
John
Johnny Eyes
Judith Imeinu
KEVIN
Kilter
Kohinoorgasm
ladladlad
Last
Laughter Medicine
Leila Roils the Seas
Lightning Round
Lightstreams
Little Biographies
Little India
Log Boy
Lost Girl
Love is the Atoms
Love Story
Lucky/Bird
Macaroni and Dead Things
Manifestations
Marilyn
McNamara’s Band
Meat Eaters
Memoriam
MEN WITHOUT KNEES
Midnight Showing
Monsters
Mother’s Day
My Father was Shot in the Back of the Head
N.I.G.G.A.: For Black Boys and the Black Folk Who’ve Loved Them
Naag Nool
near
New Moon
NH/VT
Nine Kinds of Despair
No More Bonfires Until October
Not for Children
Nucleus
OCEAN PLANET
On the Evolutionary Function of Shame
Only Good Dogs Go to the Moon
Our Heroes Are Dead
Our House
PANDORA
Parasites
PARKLAWN
Parvati & Padma
Peephole
Peking Apples
Perihelion
Pluck
Postcolonial Affairs, A Scandal, And A Bird
Pre-Ops
Rippling
rogue comet(s) remnants of a decommissioned star
Romans
Routine
Rx Machina
SABBATH
Sanctuary
Saraswati
Schizogenesis
Seeds
SELFIE WITH SAPPHO
Selfies with Kafka
Sex & Violence
Shadows
SHUNK
SIN BIN
Sink
SKATING ON THIN ICE
Skin Hunger
Slowly And Then All At Once
Softboy
Soil & Seks
Somebody In Bumf*ck, Montana Loves Me
Soup For Mother
Spells for Going Forth by Daylight
Spiderwebs
Stubbornness & Bone
SUGA
SUGAR
Sunrise at Katavi Park
Swing
Swiped
Take Care
Teamboys
Testing
that face should form another
That Joint on Highway 2
The Beast Without
The Beat of the Bronzewing
the billionaire inside your head
The Bouncy
The Charade
The City of Glass
The Creature
The Dance of The Green Man
The Dark I Swim.
the dilemma of the portuguese dressmaker
The Early Years
The Flow
The Girl Who Wanted To Fly
The Grey Dogs, Yowling
The Last Woman of Sailean
The Lolita Boy
The Psychonauts
The Public Servant
The Punchline
The Shitheads
The Shrowdinger
The Singling
The Space Around and Between
the stranger
The sum of the in-between
The Symmetry of a Butterfly
The Thing with Feathers
The Understudy
The Waterfall
The Words of Ants
There to Here
Things Have Come To That
This is Not a Gun Play
tiny violent acts
Trap Day
Turbulence
Two sides of blue
UN(IN)SURE
Unconscious Uncouplings
Van Man
Veal
Vitriol
Waitin’ for Gato
Waiting for Baby
we eat crisps (in the dark)
Wendy and Min
WET CEMENT
What If He Asks?
What You Don’t See
WINNERS
Woman Much Missed
Writing Exorcise
YER OWN KIND
Youth in Asia
Zeus 4
(verb) a play on words
& They All Melt into the Carpet
10-foot tube worm
70 Square Feet
855-FOR-TRUTH
2023: A Woman Walks Into A Bank by Roxy Cook
2020: Moreno by Pravin Wilkins
2018: Out of Sorts by Danusia Samal
2016: In Event of Moone Disaster by Andrew Thompson
2014: And Then Come The Nightjars by Bea Roberts & Valhalla by Paul Murphy (Joint Winners)
The Theatre503 International Playwriting Award is made possible by the generous support of Philip and Chris Carne and Samuel French Ltd., a Concord Theatricals Company.