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• - A rest-stop for aspiring playwrights. Tips, tricks, and techniques. Articles, activism, and a few links.
  
• - The Playwrights Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area.
  
• - To promote and encourage women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers, and women who make independent films.
  
• - Free listing of playwriting opportunities: retreats, workshops, contests, ongoing submissions, links and resources.
  
• - Offers support for playwrights and screenwriters, including private consultations for dramatic writers anywhere in the world and an ongoing quarterly workshop program for dramatic writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
• - Notices of playwriting opportunities, updated regularly.
  
• - Online publisher of pantomimes and plays. Site includes guidelines for authors and playwrights.
  
• - Comprehensive overview of the craft of playwriting, from Virginia Commonwealth University
  
• - West Coast Center for new play development - resources for playwrights and annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
  
• - Devoted to supporting work of member playwrights and developing new scripts for production. Includes ongoing Ten Minute Play contest.
  
• - To assist playwrights throughout the life cycle of creating a stage play, from initial ideas to formatting to getting plays read by producers and publishers.
  
• - Support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.
  
• - Collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays and now holds hundreds of scripts.
  
• - Philadelphia Young Playwrights is an intensive arts- education program that pairs a professional teaching artist with a classroom teacher. The two work together as an artistic team, guiding and supporting students in the process of writing a play.
  
• - Makes synopses of plays (and screenplays) available online, for a fee. Site includes "Script Tips," with advice for dramatic writers.
  
• - Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays. Full or partial scripts may be read free-of-charge at the site.
  
• - NYCPlaywrights is a nonprofit organization for writers. Meets Wednesdays in NYC for play readings as an aid to development. New writers welcome.
  
• - Serves and supports member playwrights in the creation of new stage works. Offers script labs, readings, and promotion.
  
• - A gathering of North Carolina playwrights, meeting once a month to discuss each other's work-in-progress and aid each other in getting produced or published.
  
• - Directory of links, from Artslynx International Theatre Resources.
  
• - Tips for playwrights.
  
• - Education, organizations, support, and assistance for playwrights.
  
• - Excerpts from advice book for playwrights, including "17 Surefire Ways to Get Your Scripts Rejected."
  
• - A resource for professional and aspiring performers/ composers/ writers. Tips and tricks on the craft of writing and composing.
  
• - A forum to discuss all aspects of playwriting.
  
• - Playwriting is one of the toughest fields to break into. The information in this topic, however, will help playwrights get better results and productions.
  
• - To support women playwrights around the world.
  
• - Promoting and publishing the works of new and established playrights. Full online or paper catalogue of acting scripts.
  
• - A service for playwrights, showing the schedule of staged readings of new plays.
  
• - Playwright's webring; presenting the work of an individual playwright or groups of playwrights.
  
• - The theatre writers' group at Worcester Swan Theatre, UK.
  
• - Minneapolis-based, The Playwrights' Center fuels the theater by providing services to support playwrights and playwriting.
  
• - Advice for writers and theatre workers on copyright, trademark, libel and contract law. Includes free "Helpful Articles" section.
  
• - Professional association of American playwrights. The Guild protects the rights of dramatists in relation to producers and more recently Directors.
  
• - Library of online play synopses and scripts.
  
• - Based at the Riverhouse Barn in Elmbridge, Surrey, U.K, the Sheriffs Performance Writers' Group aims to develop and write professional theatre for the stage and screen.
  
• - Annotated bibliography of recommended texts.
  
• - Forum for the exchange of information and ideas about playwriting for playwrights living in the Northwest.
  
• - Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays.
  
• - For playwrights run by playwrights. Membership is open to writers in dramatic all forms, resident in the South East of England.
  
• - Agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights.
  
• - Bay Area writers club. Welcomes writers from all creative writing mediums, including playwrights.
  
• - Service organization for Canadian playwrights (formerly the Playwrights Union of Canada). Site includes searchable online catalogue.