Marathon of One-Act Plays
EST’s flagship festival of new one-act plays, the Marathon has played annually at EST for over 30 years. Past playwrights have included David Auburn*, Leslie Ayvazian*, Horton Foote*, Tina Howe*, Shirley Lauro*, Romulus Linney*, David Mamet*, Cassandra Medley*, Jacquelyn Reingold*, José Rivera*, and John Patrick Shanley*, among many others.
Submissions for the 2012 Marathon of One-Act plays are due by October 1, 2011. Scripts can be submitted via e-mail to literary@ensemblestudiotheatre.org as a word or pdf document, with the writer’s name and contact info redacted from the script. Non-member playwrights may submit a single script, no longer than 40 pages, which has not been reviewed in New York.