THE ANNUAL PARITY COMMISSION
Beyond our annual productions, in concert with our mission to see more cis women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists employed in the theatre, we award two commissions per year to cis women and TGNC playwrights who have demonstrated a singular talent for storytelling. The selected playwrights will receive $2,500 each.
Parity Productions reads submissions blind, selecting work that is in harmony with our artistic mission. Playwrights will receive regular feedback on their commissioned work within 30 days of their submission of a first and second draft. They will also receive one “closed door” reading (attended by cast, Parity Productions Artistic Director, and literary department) and at least one public reading and/or developmental production of the commissioned work. An option for Parity Productions to produce the work is included in The Commission agreement.
How do I submit my work to Parity Productions?
Parity Productions is not currently accepting scripts. Thank you to everyone who submitted! We will announce our next submission period in an e-blast and on social media. Join our mailing list to stay up to date.
When submissions reopen, you can SUBMIT HERE.
Please reach out to us at team@parityproductions.org with any questions.
Parity Productions reads submissions blind, selecting work that is in harmony with our artistic mission. Playwrights will receive regular feedback on their commissioned work within 30 days of their submission of a first and second draft. They will also receive one “closed door” reading (attended by cast, Parity Productions Artistic Director, and literary department) and at least one public reading and/or developmental production of the commissioned work. An option for Parity Productions to produce the work is included in The Commission agreement.
How do I submit my work to Parity Productions?
Parity Productions is not currently accepting scripts. Thank you to everyone who submitted! We will announce our next submission period in an e-blast and on social media. Join our mailing list to stay up to date.
When submissions reopen, you can SUBMIT HERE.
Please reach out to us at team@parityproductions.org with any questions.
Liz Kerin is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has a background in screenwriting as well as live theatre. Last year, her full-length play Stop-Motion was selected for the Botanicum Seedlings development workshop at Theatricum Botanicum and was also shortlisted as a semi-finalist at Premiere Stages. Read more
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Azure D. Osborne-Lee is a current member of Trans Lab, which is supported by The Public Theater and WP Theater. Azure's work has been produced and/or developed by Trans Lab, The Tank, The Syndicate, The Flea Theater, BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BAM, JACK, Rising Circle Theater Collective, The Fire This Time Festival, Horse Trade Theater Group. Read more
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Mêlisa Annis As a playwright, her plays have been developed at The Lark and Dorset Theater Festival at the Theresa Rebeck Writers Colony, The New School, Primary Stages' ESPA*Drills, The National Arts Club NYC, The Playground Experiment, and RAL. Mêlisa was a finalist for the High Tide New Playwriting Prize (2015), the Lark's Playwrights Week (2015) and she was the recipient of the Fordham Summer Fellowship while studying for her MFA in playwriting at Fordham/Primary Stages.
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Else C. Went is a co-founder of The Renovationists and current member of Trans Theatre Lab. Else's work has been produced and developed by Trans Lab @ The Public and WP, Parity Productions, The Tank, The Brick, The Flea, Barn Arts Collective, and regionally. Recipient of 2017 Parity Productions' commission for women and transgender playwrights. Finalist for The Public's Emerging Writers Group, Ingram Works New Play Lab @ Nashville Rep, Scratchpad Series @ Playwright's Realm; semi-finalist for the Ars Nova Play Group. Else's full length plays include Old Names for Wildflowers, Courage! To the Field!, Three Seconds, Saving Throw, Boxcar, The Great American Folksong, and The Tarantists. Short works include Mongrel (pub. Dionysian #3) and Fireflies. BA Sarah Lawrence College.
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