CALL FOR ONE-ACT PLAYS: Submit Your Script for a Playwriting Masterclass with Mark Harvey Levine

Cary Players is accepting submissions of one-act plays for consideration for a playwriting masterclass led by award-winning author Mark Harvey Levine.  The deadline for submissions is Monday, January 19.  

Up to seven scripts will be selected to be read by local actors and discussed in the workshop on Saturday, February 21, at 10:00 AM.  We are seeking scripts that would be a good fit for a community theatre production with limited technical or set demands.  (Focus on storytelling and character development rather than special effects or elaborate staging needs.)

This is an opportunity to have a new or evolving work evaluated, or to revisit something that you have written previously.

Submission Criteria

• Length of 10 minutes or less

• Standard Play Format

• Do not include your name on any pages of the script.

• No Musicals

• No Screenplays

• No excerpts from full-length scripts

Please submit your play via email to info@caryplayers.org by 11:59 PM on Monday, January 19, 2026.

Mark Harvey Levine has had over 1,800 productions of his plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest and from Lima to London. His plays have won over 45 awards and been produced in more than ten languages. Full evenings of his plays, such as “Didn’t See That Coming” and “A Very Special Holiday Special” have been shown around the world, including a tour of Brazil that lasted several years. Cary Players presented “An Evening of Possibilities,” a collection of Mark’s work in 2014.

His work has been published in over two dozen anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Applause, Routledge and Vintage. He currently lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches playwriting at the Indiana Writer's Center.