Hebden Bridge Little Theatre Festival of New Playwriting - 2025

Hebden Bridge Little Theatre festival of new playwriting 2025

The Little Theatre is pleased to announce the launch of a new one act play festival.

Playwrights based in Yorkshire and Lancashire are invited to submit original one act plays with the six winning scripts to be performed at the Festival in August 2025.

Basic rules

Only one script per author will be accepted and each script must be new work that has not been previously published or performed.

Each play must be no longer than twenty minutes long with a cast of maximum three actors and with simple staging requirements (i.e. basic set, lighting, props).

The plays will be judged by a panel of independent judges and performed for three nights over the first week of August 2025.

The plays remain copyright of their authors.

Submission guidelines

So that each script may be judged anonymously, the author’s name should appear on a cover page and not on the script. The cover page must include the following information: play title, word count, name, address, telephone number and email address. Pages must be numbered.

Please double space your piece.

One entry should be emailed to: janetgriffiths55@sky.com

Two entries should be sent to: Janet Griffiths, Hebden Bridge Little Theatre, Holme Street, HX7 8EE

The deadline for submissions is 31st March 2025

Selection Process

Hebden Bridge Little Theatre will appoint the judges who will be chosen for their experience of writing and directing. The judges will read and score each play and the ones going forward to the festival will be the ones with the highest score.

The plays short-listed will be announced at the beginning of June 2025. The results will appear on the Little Theatre website, on our Facebook page and the winning writers will be notified personally.

Production

The Little Theatre will produce the plays to our normal high standard, and the writers will have a chance to have some input into the process.