The Playwright's Desk
Your entire submission life,
in one place.
Track every play, every submission, every contact — and let smart tools draft your cover letter. Built by a playwright, for playwrights.
How it works — tap any step
Discover opportunities Build your submission Write cover letter Submit and track Production royalties, licensing
Discovering opportunities
Paste any call for submissions and TPD extracts every detail — venue, deadline, fee, requirements, contact. A curated Datafeed is coming that pushes new opportunities directly to you.
Building a submission
Select your play, pull in the opportunity details — TPD pre-fills everything it already knows. No retyping data you've already entered.
Cover letters, drafted for you
The Correspondence panel uses your real data — your play, your bio, the venue's call — to draft a cover letter in your voice. You edit it. The hard part is handled, not the writing.
Submitting and tracking
Log every submission. TPD tracks the full arc — pending, accepted, declined — with deadline alerts and a complete searchable history.
Production, royalties, and licensing
Link productions to submissions. Log cast, director, venue, dates. Track royalty payments and licensing deals — all connected back to the original play.
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The full picture
Your work, end to end
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Build your catalog
Every play you've written lives in your catalog — title, format, synopses, production history, alternate titles. Add as many synopses as you need: 50-word, full-length, program note. Mark one primary. It feeds the entire system.
Play catalog
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Find where to submit
Research calls yourself and paste them in — TPD reads them and fills in the details automatically. Or import from Play Submission Helper, or wait for the Datafeed — a curated stream of opportunities coming directly into your database, organized and ready to act on.
Opportunity database
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Generate your cover letter
Select the opportunity and the play. TPD drafts a cover letter using your actual synopsis, your bio, and the venue's specific requirements. Edit until it's yours. Takes minutes, not an hour.
Smart drafting
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Submit and stay organized
Log every submission with date, method, deadline, and status. TPD tracks the full arc — pending, accepted, declined — with deadline alerts and a clear history of everything you've sent and every outcome you've received.
Submissions ledger
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Know your contacts
Every literary manager, artistic director, and dramaturg you've worked with lives in your Contacts module — linked to the submissions and opportunities they're connected to, with your full relationship history intact.
Contacts
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Track what happens next
Productions, royalty payments, licensing deals — all logged and linked back to the original play and submission. Your whole career, in one place, searchable, exportable, and entirely yours. Your data stays on your device.
Productions & royalties
Why it's different
Built for this. Only this.
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Your data stays on your device — never on our servers
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Interconnected modules — submissions, plays, contacts, correspondence, production, royalties, licensing, and more
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Built by a playwright, not a software company solving a problem they don't have
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