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ACT currently has the following available positions:
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Volunteer Ushering
ACT invites you to be an essential part of our performances and patron experience. Ushering is a wonderful opportunity to share your gift of time and talent assisting the Front of House team, while helping to preserve ACT’s important place within Seattle’s thriving arts community. We encourage you to join us and be a part of the ACT family. For information on ushering at ACT, please contact volunteer@acttheatre.org.
Artist Submissions
New Works Northwest 2025-6 Announcement/Call for Submissions
ACT Contemporary Theatre is currently accepting submissions of new full-length plays from Pacific Northwest Playwrights for the 2025 New Works Northwest Festival, held January 2026 at ACT in the Bullitt Cabaret.
Each Festival script will receive 12 hours rehearsal, 1 performance, and 1 talk-back with the playwright. The script should be ready to be showcased. We want these plays to be produceable. We want them to be serious contenders in our season. We want audiences to see plays that go on to future productions. Cast size is a major determinant in project budgets: we recommend submitting plays with 6 or fewer actors.
For New Works Northwest, a “new” play is a play written in the last 6-8 years that is unpublished, unencumbered, and has not received anything beyond developmental productions in the Seattle region. A PNW playwright is a playwright who makes the PNW their primary residence and considers it home.
Submissions close March 15 or by the 200th submission, whichever comes first.
To submit: https://airtable.com/appisHg1JsbSMdo7N/pagjlZnhRpgFip7jw/form
About New Works Northwest (NW2): ACT Contemporary Theatre’s New Works Northwest Festival seeks to build a thriving community of artists, students, practitioners, and audiences united by a love of contemporary theater, curiosity about its scope and capacity, and hunger to engage in making it. As a regional flagship, ACT is committed to expanding its theatrical heritage with and through local artists and craftspeople, bringing Pacific Northwest playwrights into this vibrant and vital conversation.
Through NW2, ACT cultivates artistic excellence, as well as a deeper appreciation for achievement in playwriting craft. The PNW is home to world-class artists who deserve our support, commitment, and amplification; ACT’s commitment to them through NW2 can be transformational for artists and audiences alike. By inviting, responding to, and nurturing our playwright community; developing strategic partnerships to leverage energies and resources; cultivating an audience of directors/producers with an eye towards sending the plays up and out into a larger conversation; and raising the ceiling on what is locally possible, NW2 heralds Seattle as a city in which artists can thrive in a robust artistic marketplace.
Through powerful and personal engagement, New Works Northwest articulates pride in homegrown theatre that demands national attention: It fosters inquisitive audiences invested in risk-taking, cements its identity as a hotbed for relevant theatre, invests its cultural currency in strengthening our local community, and forges the kinds of authentic connections theatre needs to survive.