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LAB Laughs Submission info & Requirements

🎭 Calling All Playwrights! LAB Laughs Wants YOU! 🎭

LAB Theater Project’s annual comedic short play festival, LAB Laughs, is ready to bring the house down in Summer 2025, and we need your hilarious, original scripts! Get ready for a full-blown laugh fest with 12 performances over three weekends—and the spotlight is waiting just for you!

Submission Window:
December 1st – 31st, 2024

What We’re Looking For:

  • Cast: 3 to 5 characters (keep it snappy and manageable!)
  • Setting: Single, minimal set (because less is more!)
  • Length: 15 pages max (12 pt Times New Roman, double spaced—short, sweet, and of course, funny!)
  • Originality: Your work must be original, unproduced (readings are fine!), and unpublished. Fresh voices only!
  • Monologues? We LOVE monologues! Bring it on!

Submission Details:

  • Format: PDF only, please.
  • Limit: One script per playwright. Make it count!
  • No AI: Your words, your ideas, your voice. Let’s keep it human.

If you’ve got questions, drop us a line at submissions@labtheaterproject.com. We can’t wait to laugh with you!

General Submission info & Requirements

We are currently accepting new work. We will accept one submission per playwright for a full-length work and comedic short. Sending multiple scripts to us will result in none of them being read. We want to read what you feel is your best work that you seek for us to produce.

  • Unproduced work only. Staged or even concert reads are acceptable in the production history. Produced, even in community theater, makes the work ineligable for submission to LAB.
  • LAB runs on a calendar year season, January to December.

What to submit

For all submissions, please provide in the body of your email a 100 word playwright bio, a 100 word synopsis of your play, and production/development history of the work. You may submit directly to submissions@labtheaterproject.org.

  • ​For full-length work, please provide: A PDF document with the title page, scene breakdown, character breakdown and only the first 20 pages of your script. Submissions received by April 1st will be considered for the next season. Those recieved afterwards will be held for consideration for the following season.
  • For comedic short submissions to our annual LAB Laughs/Comedic Short Festival, please submit a PDF of the full play. Submissions received by August 1st will be considered for the next production of LAB Laughs, usually in the following summer. All received afterwards will be held for the next season.