Submit your Play to the AMMO-nymous Plays: WeHo 2026

AMMO is accepting submissions for our brand-new community reading series, AMMO-nymous Plays: WeHo. This interactive West Hollywood event invites audiences to mingle with community and experience a spontaneous night of theatre as AMMO company members cold-read a never-before-heard play by a local playwright from an underrepresented community (queer, female, disabled, or person of color.) The catch? No one knows what play will be read until it's pulled from a hat in front of the audience, keeping the night playful, unpredictable, and alive.

The goal is to create space for underrepresented playwrights to hear their work out loud, surrounded by a supportive community, and to offer Los Angeles audiences a front-row seat to the raw magic of new play development. It’s part theatre, part salon, part shared ritual.

With AMMO-nymous Plays: WeHo, we hope to nurture a local culture of creativity, spontaneity, and nourishment. We believe great art happens not only in theatres but wherever people come together with open minds and open hearts. 

Six plays will be selected to be thrown inside the hat for possible readings at three separate community evenings at local West Hollywood Bars starting in May. Each playwright in the hat will receive an honorarium of $100, and will be considered for future AMMO programing.

We’re looking for unproduced plays with two to five characters by writers who identify as either queer, female, disabled, or a person of color from the greater Los Angeles area. If you have a play that fits this criteria and can be cast from AMMO’s company of actors , and want to join our community, please send it our way. 

Eligibility / Criteria for Submission

  • Playwrights must self-identify as queer, female, disabled, or a person of color

  • Playwrights must live within the greater Los Angeles region

  • Plays should be no shorter than sixty minutes, but no longer than 90

  • Plays should have 2 to 5 characters

  • Plays should be castable from AMMO’s company of actors

  • Plays should be new and and remain unproduced in Los Angeles through Sept 2026

  • Musicals, pilots, and solo-shows will not be accepted at this time

  • We can only accept one play per playwright at this time

  • Special consideration will be given to plays with casting that is non-specific to type

  • Special consideration will be given to plays with queer themes

    ***Deadline to submit: Feb 11th at 11:59pm Pacific***

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