Marie Mullen and David Pearce in the Druid production of The Cripple of Inishman by Martin McDonagh
From January 2010
Please note that Druid is henceforth only accepting plays in the English language from Irish, UK and other European or Europe-based writers. (For the purposes of clarity, Druid is accepting translations of original plays into English that meet our criteria.) This is in response to funding stringencies in the present economic climate.
Please refer to the guidelines for submitting a script for more information. Should you have any further queries after reading the guidelines, please email literary@druid.ie and allow 72 hours for a response.
Druid and New Writing
Druid is a writers’ theatre with a track record for premiering new plays of international stature. All the work premiers in Galway, Ireland, and tours to venues throughout Ireland and to many of the world’s great stages. Druid has introduced to the theatre writers who have gone on to gain outstanding reputations among Irish and international audiences, including Martin McDonagh, Owen McCafferty, Vincent Woods, Abbie Spallen, Gerald Murphy, Christian O’Reilly and Lucy Caldwell and continues this commitment through our most recent Druid Debut series. Druid has also premiered new plays from writers entering into a highly acclaimed mid-career phase, among whom are Enda Walsh, Marina Carr and Stuart Carolan. Druid has achieved some of its greatest successes when working with Tom Murphy, among the most influential living Irish playwrights.
Druid is committed to producing those plays that are vital and challenging for the contemporary theatre. The open submissions process is very much bound into the heart of that commitment. For the open submissions process, a reading panel assists the Artistic Director and the Literary Manager in assessing submissions and ensures that a range of perspectives are brought to bear on each play. While Druid gives consideration to all plays submitted, we are not in a position to give a detailed a response to each play. The open submissions process takes it place alongside commissions, workshops, mentoring, public readings and other playwright development initiatives in Druid’s tireless endeavours to bring new work to the contemporary stage.
See our Guidelines for submitting a script
Guidelines for submitting plays
Druid accepts plays it receives in the English language from Irish, UK and other European or Europe-based writers regardless of the writer’s level of experience.
Please refer to the guidelines below and should you have any further queries, please email literary[at]druid[dot]ie. Full contact details for the Literary Department can be found at the bottom of this page.
Please note the following guidelines
· Submit your script by mail only. We will not accept emailed or faxed scripts except by prior arrangement.
· Submit one script only at a time.
· Submit original work only.
· Submit only those plays that have not had a full professional or amateur production. In this light, plays emerging from student productions or from a reading/workshop will be accepted.
· Writers whose work has previously been produced by amateur theatre companies are asked to submit only those plays that are not intended for production by an amateur company.
· Druid is not in a position to accept radio scripts, TV scripts or screenplays.
· Druid is not in a position to accept one-act plays, musicals and plays for children except by prior arrangement.
· Scripts must be submitted as a finished draft and will be assessed on that understanding. Synopses or treatments are accepted only if submitted with the accompanying completed play.
Typescripts
· Scripts should be typed on one side of A4 sheets with pages numbered.
· Your name and contact details should appear once only, on the title page. This ensures anonymity for the reader.
· A cover letter should accompany your play giving your contact details, an email address if available, a brief description of the play and a brief overview of your writing to date.
· Assessed plays can be returned if you supply with your submission a stamped-addressed envelope that meets full cost of the return postage. Scripts from outside Ireland require International Postal Coupons to meet full cost of postage if they are to be returned.
Submitting scripts
Writers submitting their work to Druid are asked to send it by post to: Literary Manager, Druid, Flood Street, Galway, Ireland.
Enquiries
For further enquiries, please email us at info[at]druid[dot]ie and address your enquiries for the attention of the Literary Manager.