Submit your Work

Submit Your Work

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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.

Map of the U.S. States covered by Br!NK, Renaissance Theaterworks' New Play Development Festival for women playwrights from the Midwest

How to
Submit Your Work

Eligibility

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.

Submission Guidelines

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.

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Submit To
2025 Br!NK Residency

Submissions accepted

June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025

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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