Based on Playwright Paula Vogel’s exercise, NOMADS began offering playwriting prompts in which we give a theme, condition or inspiration to be included in a short play. Below is an archive of all the prompts we've ever offered. Check out our Facebook for the most up-to-date prompts!
November 8 - 15, 2020 You've buried something in your garden, but now it's spring and the grown is unfreezing...
Include the ingredients:
A letter
A non-human character
A character that is so human it hurts
Bonus: a camel
October 25 - November 1, 2020 Write about a conspiracy.
Include the ingredients:
one of your characters must be able to fly
a skeleton that so thing but holds so much weight
the "candy corn vs candy pumpkins" debate
October 11 - 18, 2020 Write a play that takes place post-Halloween night at a fast food/chain restaurant.
Include the ingredients:
the concept of pi
a secret
September 27 - October 4, 2020 Write a play about a zoom blind date, basing the conversation off of the last three photos on your camera roll
Bonus points for including the following ingredients:
too many gourds
getting lost
an angry rant about a cruciferious vegetable
a line for "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"