The Playwright's Desk tracks your plays from call for submissions to final curtain — deadlines, fees, materials, blind requirements, outcomes, and everything in between. Start with a free trial.
Tracking 40+ submissions in a spreadsheet means constantly formatting, hunting for deadlines, and losing context.
Missing a deadline you forgot about is a gut punch. Missed opportunities don't come back.
Did you already send that play to this festival? What version? Was it a blind submission?
You find a great call for submissions, mean to apply, and three months later realize the deadline passed.
The Playwright's Desk was designed by a working playwright who has submitted to hundreds of opportunities across four decades. It does exactly what you actually need.
Paste any call for submissions and the app extracts the deadline, fee, blindness requirements, residency, materials — automatically. No more copying and typing.
See your deadlines, opening dates, and submission dates laid out on a monthly calendar. Know at a glance what's coming up and when to act.
Set prep alarms and send alarms per submission. Get notified when it's time to start assembling materials and when it's time to actually submit.
Switch to By Play view to see every venue a specific script has been sent to — submissions, dates, and outcomes grouped by title.
At-a-glance stats: acceptance rate, submissions by status, monthly activity chart, upcoming deadlines, and most-submitted plays.
Every submission stores 30+ fields: fee, residency, blind status, prior production rules, materials required, cast limits, outcome, attachments, and more.
Flag any submission for follow-up without changing its status. Filter to see all flagged entries at once and never let a pending response go cold.
Export to CSV, TSV, plain text, or a styled HTML report. Select specific submissions for targeted exports. JSON backup and restore built in.
Filter by days out, status, date range, blind requirement, and more. Bulk-update status on matching entries — mark 50 old submissions No Response in one click.
The Playwright's Desk fits naturally into how you already work.
Copy the full text of any submission opportunity listing.
Click ⚡ Analyze. Fields fill automatically — deadline, fee, materials, blind rules, and more.
Set prep and send alarms. Watch your calendar. Know exactly what needs action and when.
Log the result — staged reading, decline, fellowship, publication — and build your submission history.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. Cancel anytime.
"I got tired of losing track of where my plays had been — and where they still needed to go."
The Playwright's Desk was built by William A. Smith, a playwright with over 40 years of theatre experience. After submitting to hundreds of festivals, contests, and reading series across his career, he built the tool he always wished existed — and now shares it with fellow writers navigating the same terrain.