Submit your Work
Br!NK New Play Festival
May 17 & 18 2025
Baumgartner Center for Dance
Next Submission window for Br!NK 2026: June 1 - July 31 2025
Next Submission window for Br!NK Br!efs 2026:
Round 1: Fall 2025
Round 2: Winter 2025
We want to hear from you!
Do you live in one of these States?
Are you an experienced or aspiring woman playwright from the Midwest looking to develop your play? We want to hear from you! Submit your full length script for the week-long BRINK Playwright Residency.
How to
Submit Your Work
To be eligible to submit to BRINK:
- Must identify as a woman.
- Must currently reside in the Midwest. (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- Submissions must be made through Submittable between June 1, 2025 and July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM.
- Applicants must be available for the workshop period and BRINK New Play Festival (May 2026 - dates TBD). Specific dates to be announced.
Only one submission per playwright, per year to the Residency.
Feedback is offered to the finalists and winners of the Residency program.
Submissions not meeting the requested criteria or any full unsolicited scripts will not be reviewed.
The BRINK resident playwrights spend a week with a director, cast, and dramaturg workshopping their play. The plays are then presented as staged-readings for the public at the BRINK New Play Festival.
Submissions for 2025 Br!NK will be accepted June 1 - July 31, 2025 until 11:59 PM, CST. Submissions are made through Submittable.
Please submit the following documents through Submittable:
- Questionnaire (In Submittable)
- PDF UPLOAD: A one-page Cover Letter addressing what you would like to work on in the development series.
- PDF UPLOAD: A one-page Playwriting Resume.
- PDF UPLOAD: The Full Script including:
- A title page that contains the PLAY TITLE, PLAYWRIGHT'S NAME, MAILING ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, & EMAIL ADDRESS.
- A second page that contains the CAST OF CHARACTERS (including any doubling), TIME, & PLACE, followed by the SCRIPT.
PLEASE NOTE: The playwright’s name should only appear on the cover page and NOWHERE else in the document.
Submit To
2026 Br!NK Residency
Submissions accepted
June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Submit To
Br!NK Br!EFS
Round 1 Submission window: Fall 2025
Round 1 Theme: TBA
Round 2 Submission window: Winter 2025
Round 2 Theme: TBA