To further interest in community theatre, encourage playwriting as an aspect of community theatre and promote Michigan playwrights and also the production of new plays by community theatres, CTAM holds an annual Playwriting Contest. An independent panel of judges, who will determine the winning entries, adjudicates all submissions. No musicals or children’s plays are eligible for this contest.

This contest is open to any playwright who lives in Michigan.

The deadline for the play writing contest is

MAY 15, 2011

Entries should be sent to:

CTAM Playwriting Contest
c/o Vince Weiler
4026 Lester
Oscoda, MI 48750
ph 231-354-7291

Contact Vince Weiler if you need additional information not found at this website.

     FOR A COMPLETE SET OF RULES

     ABOUT PAST WINNERS AND THEIR PLAYS


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First Place Winner 2010
DOWNWARD DOG (two-act comedy, 2M, 2W) by Wendy Hedstrom
Carrie Ann is a high-strung pastry chef who's frustrated with her marriage to Jim, a low-key guy who prefers naps and jokes to almost anything else. She tries taking yoga to relieve her tension, but winds up craving excitement in the form of an adrenaline junkie explorer who bursts into her class one day. Can she bungee-jump her way to happiness? Or should she settle for a life of Corpse Pose and cupcakes? Questions about love, happiness, and inner peace criss-cross, flip-flop, and run headlong into each other in this lively romantic comedy.

This play, "Downward Dog," is available to all CTAM member theatre groups,
royalty free until the end of September, 2011!

Second Place Winner 2010
223 Brush Street by Michele Taylor
20 year old Charlotte Fonteyn arrives at a handsome, brick mansion looking for a job in 1906 Detroit. Charlotte is charmed by Emily Woodward, but her pleasure turns to horror when she realizes this is a bordello and Emily is the madam and the work is of a prostitute. She meets Travis Jefferson, a handsome, dashing newspaper editor and soon falls in love with him. A regular client introduces John Randall to Brush Street, but he is brutal and violent and still Elizabeth falls for him. Emily discovers John beats Elizabeth but Elizabeth begs her not to bar John from Brush Street.