Clubbed Thumb Submission Guidelines

Clubbed Thumb will consider for production plays that fall within the following guidelines:

  • Unproduced in New York City
  • Running time: between 1 hr. and 1:30 hr.
  • Intermissionless
  • Must have a reasonable representation of women, both in quantity and quality of roles
  • At least 3 characters - we prefer medium sized ensemble casts
  • Director of the piece will be chosen by mutual consent of playwright and Clubbed Thumb
  • Clubbed Thumb is committed to play development, and therefore produces only plays that are actively being worked on with the expectation that the rehearsal process will prove beneficial to the playwright's writing process.
  • Clubbed Thumb produces plays that are funny, strange, and provocative. Please check out our history area to get a feeling for our sensibility and a selected chronology.

If you would like to submit a play, please send it to:

Clubbed Thumb
c/o Maria Striar
141 East Third St. #11H
New York, NY 10009

Please do not bind scripts; pages should be loose or clipped with a binder clip.

Scripts will not be returned. Sorry, electronic submissions are not accepted.

If you send us a play between now and June, you probably won't get a response from us before July. Thanks for your patience.

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Mailing Address:
312 East 23rd Street #4B
New York, NY 10010-4700

Information: 212-802-8007
Fax: 212-533-9286

Development Address:
141 East 3rd Street #11H
New York, NY 10009

info[at]clubbedthumb.org

Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops, and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays. Since its founding in 1996, the company has earned four Obies and presented plays in every form of development, including over 60 full productions. Clubbed Thumb is an incubator for artists and their work, staging plays to critical acclaim while supporting an ever-growing creative community. The company's core producers are Arne Jokela, Associate Diana Konopka, and Co-Directors Meg MacCary and Maria Striar.