Script Submissions to Yale Rep

Yale Repertory Theatre accepts submissions of full-length plays, musicals, translations, and adaptations. All submissions are considered for productions at Yale Rep and for development opportunities with the Yale Center for New Theatre. 

Playwrights must submit their work either through established agents or by first sending a letter of inquiry, accompanied by a brief synopsis, cast breakdown, a ten-page dialogue sample, and a résumé. The Literary Office will review these materials and contact playwrights regarding Yale Rep's interest in reading a full manuscript. Yale Rep will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Submissions are accepted year-round. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if materials are to be returned. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be reviewed.

Materials may be sent to:

Literary Office
Yale Repertory Theatre
P.O. Box 208244
New Haven, CT 06520

Yale Rep also accepts electronic submissions. You may send files (as either .doc, .docx, or .pdf) to literary.office@yale.edu.

 

The Yale Drama Series

Since 2007, Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre have been partners in a venture to support emerging playwrights. They jointly sponsor The Yale Drama Series, a major new playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition will be awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by generous support from the David Charles Horn Foundation.

Please note that scripts and synopses submitted to Yale Rep are not considered for The Yale Drama Series Prize for Emerging Playwrights. Interested playwrights should submit their work directly to Yale University Press, following the guidelines posted at http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/drama.asp. All questions about The Yale Drama Series should be directed to yaledramaseries@yale.edu.

 

Yale Institute for Music Theatre

Established in 2009, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre (YIMT) is a program of the Yale School of Drama (James Bundy, Dean) that endeavors to bridge the gap between training and the professional world for emerging composers, playwrights, lyricists, and librettists. Under the leadership of Mark Brokaw (Artistic Director) the Institute seeks distinctive and original music theatre works by emerging composers and writers to be developed in an intensive lab setting. During a two-week summer residency in New Haven, the Institute matches the authors of the selected works with collaborators, including professional directors and music directors, as well as a company of actors and singers that includes professionals from NYC and current Yale students. The residency culminates with open rehearsal readings of each project, presented as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

Please note that the Yale Institute for Music Theatre has an independent submission process.  Scripts submitted to Yale Rep’s Literary Office are not considered for YIMT. The YIMT submission guidelines are posted at http://drama.yale.edu/YIMT.