Rain City Projects

Hey, Local PNW Playwrights! Submissions are currently OPEN for the Union Art Center's New Works Northwest Festival! Check out the details below!

Union Arts Center is currently accepting submissions of new full-length plays from Pacific Northwest Playwrights for next season's New Works Northwest Festival (NW2), to be held April 6-11, 2027 in UAC’s Bullitt Cabaret.

Each Festival script will receive a professional team for 12 hours rehearsal, 1 performance, and 1 talk-back with the playwright. Festival playwrights receive $500.

This is a showcase opportunity - we encourage you to send scripts that have been through a development process and are ready for an audience. Scripts that have been previously submitted to NW2 may be submitted again if they have undergone significant changes or rewrites. For NW2, a “new” play is a play written in the last 6-8 years that is unpublished, unencumbered, and has not received anything beyond developmental productions in the Seattle region. A PNW playwright is a playwright who makes the PNW their primary residence and considers it home.

Submissions close June 1 or by the 200th submission, whichever comes first. To submit, visit https://airtable.com/appBl8cG0lwS9Ppa0/shrGblcyUYJnVbIZA

Save the date! Rain City Projects will be hosting a Writers' (Re)Treat at the New Works Northwest Festival at Union Arts Center on Sunday, January 25!

Grab your tickets to see the readings at the NW2 festival, then swing by the Buster's Room that Sunday at 11:30 a.m. to see what new ideas and brilliant stories are percolating in YOUR mind! We'll bring the snacks!

https://www.unionartscenter.org/new-works-northwest-2025/

Many thanks to the Union Arts Center and Shana Bestock for their tireless work finding new ways to support local PNW playwrights, including the creation of this NEW Little Free Library. Theatre lovers are welcome to take copies and leave copies of plays.

And as a community partner, Rain City Projects will be keeping it stocked with free copies of The Manifesto Series (featuring PNW playwrights) and other works.

The next time you are at the Union Arts Center, grab a play! If you are a PNW playwright, you are welcome to stock the library with two copies of any of your published works. (To protect playwrights, plays must be published in book form and registered with the copyright office.)

Take a play! Leave a play! The Little Free Theatre Library will be available before all shows. Check it out the next time you're at the Union Arts Center!

RCP Playwrights and Directors!

We're so excited to announce our upcoming artistic speed date event... but with a twist! Space is limited and we will send confirmation to participants on November 2. Throw your name into the hat today!

raincityprojects.org/pdroundup