Downtown Urban Arts Festival

✨ SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR OUR 23rd SEASON ✨

Deadline: November 4, 2024

Please submit to [email protected]. For more info about DUAF, visit: duafnyc.com (link in bio)

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Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) is seeking theatrical works (plays, musicals, and solo performances) for its 23rd annual season to be held in June 2025 in the Theatre District in New York City.

DUAF supports diverse, new, and emerging voices from America’s burgeoning multicultural landscape. Over 200 playwrights have participated in DUAF and some have gone on to greater success on Broadway and have claimed top prizes such as the Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards and nominations.

Submission Categories:

Short-length play (under 45 minutes)
Full-length play (up to 70 minutes)

Eligible Projects:

Plays do not exceed 70 minutes
Plays should be new or existing work with minimal exposure
Plays should not have any other production in New York City during the 30-day period before and after the 2025 festival

Playwright’s Supports: No submission or participation fees

$800 (short) and $1,200 (full) playwright stipends
Actor and director stipends
Casting support
Technical design and operation
Reimbursed rehearsal space rentals
Actor’s Equity Showcase Code application administration
$1,000 awards for best full, short and audience

Submission Checklist:

Playwright’s bio with contact info including name, address, phone # and email
Photo of playwright
Synopsis of theatrical work
Complete script of theatrical work
Estimated running time of work
Actor/director/crew bios, if available
Description of stage set (if any) and production needs (i.e. sound and lighting)
Please submit all attachments as .pdf. Photos must be in either .jpg or .jpeg.

Congratulations to our 1st place winners: Self Tape, Record, and A Diseased Feeling/Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018!
Check out the Broadway World link in our bio for the full list of winners.
Thank you all again for a wonderful season. We can’t wait for the next one!

And to close our 22nd Season, TONIGHT: One Week from Paradise!

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TONIGHT: Self Tape

Tickets available at duafnyc.com for tonight’s show and tomorrow’s season closer!

TONIGHT: Jessie’s Blue followed by Salt Flats!
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TONIGHT: Extrajudicial followed by On/Off!
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1 MORE WEEK LEFT
As we close out our 22nd Season, join us for these excellent performances!
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TONIGHT: Shake the Disease

TONIGHT & TOMORROW: Savion Glover performs at Joe’s Pub!
Tickets available at duafnyc.com and joespub.com

TONIGHT: Sweet Lorraine
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WE'RE NOT DONE YET. Get your tickets at duafnyc.com!!

1/2 OFF w/Code halfDUAF A.B. Lugo Adam Esquenazi Douglas Adam Seidel Afrika Brown Aileen Cho Aileen Reyes Alan “Rock” Wilk Alano Baez Alba Sanchez Alethea Harnish Alexander Perez Alisa Zhulina Allison Whittenberg Alyssa Krompier Amira Mustapha Ana Pepine Andre’ Jermaine Ford Andrina Smith Angela Kariotis Anghus Houv...

TONIGHT: Langston Used followed by Record! Don't Miss It
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DUAF had a wonderful first week of our 22nd Season!! There's still time to catch 2 weeks worth of performances so don't miss out! Get your tickets at duafnyc.com

Downtown Urban Arts Festival Reveals 2024 Finalists The Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) announces the finalists for its 22nd season in Manhattan's Theatre District. Tony and Grammy nominee Reg E. Gaines returns as Artistic Director, selecting 24 finalists from over 300 submissions worldwide.

Congratulations to our FINALISTS for the 2024 Downtown Urban Arts Festival!

3 GRACES by Alexandra Neil
A DISEASED FEELING by Ten Smith
BUT I AM (PERO YO SOY) by Michelle de la Rosa
COLLECTIVE EMPATHY FORMATION FROM 1968 AND 2018 by Calley N. Anderson
ELLIE, MOM AND ME by Alberto Vazquez
FINAL STRAW by Alan Stolzer
JESSIE’S BLUE by Brandice Peltier
LANGSTON USED by Alano P. Baez
MOONIE by Stefani Kuo
MRS. EMMETT TILL by Sheila Duane
ONE WEEK FROM PARADISE by Cris Eli Blak
ON/OFF by Elizabeth Shannon
PEOPLE DON’T SHOOT UP SCHOOLS IN 1930 by Annie Brown
RECORD by Eduardo Pavez Goye & Rodrigo Muñoz-Medina
RESILIENCE by Mia Smith
SALT FLATS by Juan Ramirez, Jr.
SEARCHING FOR ABUELOS by Gretchen Suárez-Peña
SELF TAPE by Daniel Duren
SHAKE THE DISEASE by Leif Larson
SWEET LORRAINE by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj & Adam Mace
THREADS ON FIRE by Anamaría Willars

DUAF receives over 350 submissions for its 2024 season from talented playwrights from all over the world. Finalists will be announced mid-December.

DUAF is seeking theatrical works (plays, musicals, and solo performances) for its 22nd anuual season to be held in June 2024 in the Theatre District in New York City.

DUAF supports diverse, new, and emerging voices from America’s burgeoning multicultural landscape. Over 200 playwrights have participated in DUAF and some have gone on to greater success on Broadway and have claimed top prizes such as the Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards and nominations.

Submission Categories:

· Short-length play (under 45 minutes)
· Full-length play (not exceeding 70 minutes)

Eligible Projects:

· Plays do not exceed 70 minutes
· Plays should be new or existing work with minimal exposure
Plays should not have any other production in New York City during the 30-day period before and after the 2024 festival

Playwright’s Supports: No submission or participation fees

· $750 (short) and $1,000 (full) playwright stipends
· Actor and director stipends
· Casting support
· Technical design and operation
· Reimbursed rehearsal space rentals
· Actor’s Equity Showcase Code application administration
· $1,000 awards for best full, short and audience

Submission Checklist:

· Playwright's bio with contact info including name, address, phone # and email
· Photo of playwright
· Synopsis of theatrical work
· Complete script of theatrical work
· Estimated running time of work
· Actor/director/crew bios, if available
· Description of stage set (if any) and production needs (i.e. sound and lighting)
Please submit all attachments as .pdf. Photos must be in either .jpg or .jpeg.

The submission deadline is Friday, November 10, 2023. Please submit to [email protected]. For more info about DUAF, visit: duafnyc.com.

DUAF opens 2024 submissions period. See NYC Playwrights for more info.

DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL (DUAF) IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING PLAY SUBMISSIONS Website Deadline: November 10, 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) is seeking theatrical works (plays, musicals, and solo performances)...

Congratulations to our 2023 playwrights! It was an amazing season.

Cris Eli Blak, Emma Denson, and More Among Downtown Urban Arts Festival 2023 Winners The festival officially kicked off at Joe's Pub on May 5th and began performances on Wednesday, June 7th when two-time Tony Award winner Savion Glover and Tony Award and Grammy Award Nominee Reg E. Gaines came together for a conversation about theater and their Tony Winning Bring in da Noise Bring i...

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Congratulations to our honored plays and playwrights for our 2023 season!

Best Play – The Former Kings of Clutch City by Cris Eli Blak
2nd Place – The Bad in Each Other by Alexander Perez
3rd Place – Willie Gets Naked! by Willie the Genius

Best Short – Otis and Anna by Emma Denson
2nd Place – Overdose by Sarah Congress
3rd Place – The Dandiest Duo by Marcus Harmon

Audience Award – (Tie) Remembering Morgan by Annie Brown and Chiquita by James Bosley

Congratulations to our talented playwrights for an epic week of theater. A special congratulations to WIllie the Genius on their sold-out show!

Week two kicked off with a sold-out performance of The Dandiest Duo and By the Light of the Ghetto Moon. Congratulations to all our week two playwrights!

DUAF joins Dramatists Guild!