PLAY SUBMISSION PROCESS
The open submission window for the 2024 Conference & New Works Festival was held December 10 - 20, 2023. Please watch our social media and website for future opportunities.
If you have any other questions regarding OPC play submissions, please email our literary staff at [email protected].
OUR COMMITMENT
For 26 years, we have been committed to developing daring new plays for the American theatre.
Since our inaugural year in 1998, Ojai Playwrights Conference has grown steadily in the number of artists served and the diversity of its artists and programming—all with an unwavering commitment to developing socially, politically, and culturally challenging new plays for the American theatre.
To date, OPC has supported more than 200 playwrights in the development of 200 new works, with more to come. Many of the plays developed with OPC have enjoyed full productions on stages in Los Angeles, New York, London, and beyond, including Pulitzer finalists and Tony Award winners.
"Thanks to Ojai, I found my playwright's grit, joy and sense of community again at a time when I was running precious low on all three. I love the Ojai experience, Robert Egan and all the wonderful people he has gathered around him to make Ojai the Garden of Eden for playwrights."
– Terrence McNally, playwright
And Away We Go (OPC 2012), Unusual Acts of Devotion (OPC 2008)
"The beauty of Ojai is how it remains an institution I can return to time after time and know it will retain its excellent level of artistic collaboration and grounded sense of community. I am thrilled to be a part of the Ojai family and have no desire to lay my hat anywhere else when it comes to play development."
– Danai Gurira, PLAYWRIGHT
In the Continuum, written with Nikkole Salter (OPC 2014), Eclipsed (OPC 2009)
