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	Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts Wisconsin playwrights and theater companies running script competitions are welcome to send information to be included on this page to webmaster@madstage.com. This site is provided as a free service. We'd very much appreciate a link to our site from yours and mention in your programs and mailings! If you find it useful and would like to help make it even an even more effective tool for promoting theater, dance and comedy in Wisconsin, contributions will be applied toward development and maintenance expenses and publicity for the site. Calls for Submissions Wisconsin-based Playwrights Script Resource Sites Calls for Submissions Call for submissions: Forward Theater Company's Wisconsin Wrights New Play Festival Forward Theater's 2025-2026 season will feature our Wisconsin Wrights New Play Festival. Our official call for submissions of new, unproduced plays by Wisconsin-based writers will go live at the beginning of August and run through October 1, 2025. Keep an eye on the Submissions page of our website for information and guidelines: forwardtheater.com/submissions Wisconsin Wrights is an investment in new works that awards Wisconsin playwrights the rare opportunity to develop their plays in a professional public arena. Up to three full-length plays will be chosen to receive a week-long workshop and rehearsal process with professional directors and actors. Workshops will culminate in a three-day public reading series, giving writers early audiences and audiences the chance to hear and reflect on plays in process. This coming season's slate of readings will run in May 2026.
	Advertising Sponsors Wisconsin-based Playwrights Mike Birkley Email: m_b_music@yahoo.com Arsenic Annie The Marlow Chronicles Ludmilla Bollow Email: bollow@earthlink.net Web site: home.earthlink.net/~bollow Steven Brown Email: stevenmbrown@hotmail.com And on the Eighth Day: Bryan v. Darrow I also produce (and write) live, original (and broadcast) radio dramas and comedies for the WGTD Radio Theater, in Kenosha-Racine. Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn Email: capellar@chorus.net Web site: www.walmartopia.com Authors of Walmartopia Bob Curry Email: curryclan@aol.com Current president of Playwrights Ink Danielle Dresden Email: info@tapitnewworks.org Web site: TAPIT/new works George Farah georgefarah@sbcglobal.net Daniel Fouliard danieljonfouliard@gmail.com Wrote a play about Moo Cownty Wiscowsin — The Mun & Muv Tour.  Wondering if any theater companies are actively reviewing scripts?  It’s 90 minute cowmedy! Jeffrey James Ircink Email: jeffbumbershoot43@gmail.com Web site: belairjeffircink.wordpress.com Holly Walter Kerby Email: hkerby@matcmadison.edu Web site: www.matcmadison.edu/faculty/hkerby Gary Kriesel treeman77@ameritech.net Jessica Lanius Email: jblanius@earthlink.net Shakespeare's Women Anthony Lamarr Email: anthonylamarr@gmail.com Ballots - an 80s Rock 'n Roll MUSICAL parody of the 2000 presidential elections. Michael Lucchesi Email: lucckyschran@yahoo.com The Two Rivers - a 90 minute, two act play with five characters, Aaron 50-ish, Kyle 25-ish, A.J. 23-ish, Lilith 50-ish and Eden 18-ish. This is the Young family, and they could be any race or nationality. The play, which takes place in a living room of a fixer-upper vacation home, deals with Kyle returning home (AWOL from the Marines) to deal with what he views as “unfinished business." Challenging themes are dealt with including incest, cutting, alcoholism, and homelessness. Deb Meyer Longstanding member of Playwrights Ink in Madison, as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild and NPX. Email: djmeyer8350@gmail.com Curses! A Fractured Fairies’ Tale Available @ http://bigdogplays.com/playdisplay.asp?playid=599 The Whole Shebang Available @ https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1317336/whole-shebang Stephen F. Murray Web site: www.stephenfmurray.zohosites.com Rick Ponzio Email: rponzio@wi.rr.com Playwrights Ink Playwrights Ink is a non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts. Web site: www.madison.com/communities/ink Mary K. Ryan Wisconsin theatre director and playwright based in Milwaukee. Web site: marykryan.weebly.com Email: mary_k_ryan@hotmail.com Script Resource Sites Script publishers. Beat by Beat Press - A new publishing company providing community theaters with new, high-quality musicals for young performers. Broadway Play Publishing - BPP specializes in full-length, contemporary, American plays. BPP also publishes dramatic adaptations of classic plays and literature, and a few period pieces. Children's Theatre Plays.com - Stageplays for children, young audiences and families. Theatre producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget. Classic Acts - A collection of plays for children 10-14. The plays are adaptations of classical literature or best lived children's stories, such as Midsummer Night's Dream, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote and more. Creative, fun and a great way to interest children in classic theatre and literature. Low prices. No fees. Downloadable! Classics On Stage! - A collection of professionally proven, audience tested children's theatre plays by double Shubert Fellowship award winning playwright, Michele L Vacca. Inspired by the classics of world literature, the scripts are excellent for university, school, professional and community productions. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. - Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights. Eldridge Plays & Musicals - offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds. HaveScripts.com - Online publishing company with an emphasis on middle school and high school plays for both the stage and the classroom. We have some competition one-acts and many books and scripts ideal for readers theater in the classroom. Heuer Publishing - One of the oldest publishers serving the education and community theater markets. Insight for Playwrights - a monthly marketing newsletter that provides dramatic writers with up-to-date submission information. Musicline Publications - Has available musicals, pantomimes and Christmas shows for all ages. New Theatre Publications - a script publishing company that is owned and managed by writers. Original Works - Original Works Publishing is a Los Angeles based play publisher dedicated entirely to bold and original work. Our goal is to bring the new breed of theatre to the forefront. Samuel French, Inc. - Samuel French's Catalogue lists not only plays but monologues, audition material, classroom guides, classic works and the latest plays from the professional theater. Stageplays.com - Virtually every play and musical currently published in the English language. TheaterWords - offers royalty free plays and scenes for students and educators. There are also several pieces for all-women casts. Venice Mootney Scripts - scripts, rights and background for previous Venice Mootney productions. YouthPLAYS - a publisher of hundreds of plays and musicals for young actors and audiences, with material suitable for teen and preteen performers, as well as community theatres, colleges and professional theatres for young audiences.   About MadStage.com Send information, comments, comp tickets, and corrections to webmaster@madstage.com. This site is provided as a free service. If you'd like to help spread the word, please link to our site from yours and mention it in your programs and mailings! If you find it useful and would like to help make it even better, contributions will be applied toward expenses and publicity for the site. All material copyright 1997-2025 Toad Hall Productions. Logo designed and created by Maciek Smuga-Otto. All information is subject to change. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in these pages, MadStage.com assumes no responsibility for any inaccurate information including times, places and prices. 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