Horizon’s Mission
Horizon Theatre Company’s mission is to connect people, inspire hope, and promote positive change through the stories of our times. We work towards achieving our mission by creating a welcoming home for a diverse community of audiences and artists to connect with each other, their communities, and the world. We create new diverse plays with developing artists, while also developing new audiences to experience those plays.
Our New Play Development Mission
We have been dedicated to producing new plays from, for, and about the contemporary South since 1999. When we develop new work, we focus on new plays by writers who live or have roots in the South and who are creating stories that are relevant to our community today. Currently, we are most interested in plays by women and Black playwrights.
NOTE: When you send us your play, you’re inviting us to get to know you. It’s rare that we produce a play from an online submission, but we meet new artists this way, and it can be the starting point of a collaboration.
Submission Policy
We accept the following types of submissions:
- Agent submissions that meet our mission
- Previously professionally produced plays that meet our mission
- For plays with no previous professional productions, the play must meet our mission for new play development
- We do not accept submissions of unproduced plays by individual writers that do not meet our mission for new play development
If your plays meet one of the criteria listed above, please submit the following to horizontheatreliterary@gmail.com (scripts are accepted electronically only):
- Name, cover letter addressing how your play fits with our mission, brief bio and/or resume
- One-page synopsis including brief description of the play, character breakdown and setting
- 10-page dialogue sample from the script
If we are interested in further exploration of the play, we will request a full script (please do not send a full script with your initial inquiry).
Please submit your work to us only if it meets our mission statements. You will receive an electronic acknowledgment of receipt of your materials. After that, we will be in touch ONLY if we are interested in reading the entire script.
We wish that we could read and comment on every script that is submitted to us, and we want to recognize your commitment to your artistry and furthering new work for the stage.