New York Theater Festival

New York Theater Festival (NYTF) is a New York City-based playwright and musical theater festival and competition, founded in 2012 and operating primarily out of the Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea (441 W. 26th St.) with a secondary venue at Teatro LATEA on the Lower East Side (107 Suffolk St.). The festival runs two annual seasons — a Spring/Summer Festival and a Fall/Winter Festival — and accepts full-length plays, one-acts, shorts, solos, and musicals from NYC-area playwrights. Over 15 years and 25+ seasons, NYTF has hosted more than 1,600 plays and 400 musicals, awarding over $200,000 in cash prizes ($16,000 awarded annually), with $3,500 for Best Play or Musical per season. NYTF also operates an affiliated International Theater Competition (internationaltheatercompetition.com) for script-only submissions.