March Madness is coming! KWLT’s ultimate theatrical competition pits rival production teams against each other, each putting their own unique spin on the same short script in back-to-back performances.
And that script? Could be yours.
The March Madness organizing committee is now accepting submissions for scripts for March Madness 2025. The selected script will be used as the basis for this year’s competition; the playwright will receive an honorarium and be invited to give a talkback about their play as part of the performance on March 15, 2025.
What we’re looking for
A good March Madness script is:
- Open to interpretation. We want a script that has the latitude to support many different visions. In particular, the setting in time and space should be left as open as possible.
- Short. The ideal March Madness script should run about ten minutes.
- Small-cast. March Madness scripts work best with 3–4 characters, all of whom are ideally gender-neutral.
Some examples
To see what March Madness in action looks like, you can watch the 2022 and 2023 editions of the competition on our website. You can also look at copies of the scripts from 2022, 2023, and 2024.
The fiddly details
Scripts submitted in PDF format are preferred, but plain text and Microsoft Word formats (doc/docx) are acceptable. Send your submissions to march.madness@kwlt.org; submissions received by February 1, 2025 will receive full consideration.
Note that, per KWLT’s policy on generative AI, scripts submitted for March Madness must be human-written and not the product of ChatGPT or other GAI software.
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