Creative Greensboro is now accepting submissions for the 2026 New Play Project. Submissions are open to any North Carolina resident or student playwright. The New Play Project has been presented for more than 32 years with support from the Mark Gilbert estate – annually awarding a $500 cash prize to a selected playwright along with a workshop production of the selected play. Creative Greensboro, the City of Greensboro office for arts and culture, continues to offer this opportunity to advance innovation and support the playwriting community. Submission Guidelines can be found online.

Past Productions Include

• One Third by Larry Bliss
• Nice White Parents 2016 by Tamara Kissane
• Wolves of Ravensbruk by Sally Kinka
• Bags of Skin by Pete Turner
• Starbright by Sean David Robinson
• Boxes and Baggage by Amy da Luz
• Night Music  by David Brendan Hopes
• Ghost Notes by Gabrielle Sinclair
• Osanbi Deal by Marilynn Barner Anselmi
• Appalachian Geisha by Kim Stinson
• Illuminations by Larry Robinson
• Crier Tuck by Nathan Adam Sullivan
• Five Til Now by Tommy Trull
• Twelve Treatises on Memory by John Crutchfield
• Echoes of Mercy by Tommy Trull
• Alice Neel by Ann Marie Oliva
• Dogfall by Scott Lahaie
• A Mouthfulla Sacco & Vanzetti by Michael A. Smith
• Falling in Like by Jerry Sipp
• Saint Patrick's Well by David Brendan Hopes
• A Path of Bees by Craig Alexander Lyon
• The Monster Tales by Mary Jett Parsley
• The Americanization of Grams by John Ellis
• Reunion by Michael Bohen
• Monday by Cheryl Criswell
• The Girl of My Dreams and a Life for Herself by Carole Jackson
• Spanish Church by Bret Murphy
• Making Art by Karen Dresser
• Jacob's Ladder by John Fennell
• Shadow of Eldorado by Steve Willis