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Our New Play Reading Series
- Playreading Series in development for 2025
- Plays will be read in front of a live audience
- Accepting Submissions of 5-8 Minute Plays, One Act Plays, and Full Length Plays
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Candlelight Storytelling
STORIES ON STAGE Learn more about Candlelight Storytelling here.
The Dreidel Diaries
For our Candlelight Storytelling Tashlich Event
True stories of losing what you love and finding your way back.
Share with us a story of losing something or someone important to you. Was it a treasured heirloom, a valued friendship or even your way — physically, spiritually, and/or emotionally? What happened? How did you find your way back to the thing or person you lost and how did this experience change you? It could be funny, heartbreaking or anything in-between!
Deadline to Submit: September 25, 2024
Mental Health
For our upcoming Mental Health Retreat
The mind is a complicated place. Stories of mental health struggles and the ways we grow from them.
The mind is a complicated place. Did you ever get to a point where self-doubt or burnout was holding you back and you realized you needed to make a change? Were you (or a loved one) ever pulled deep into the depths of depression, anxiety, or some other mental health crisis? How did you transform or heal yourself, and what did you learn in the process? Share with us a humorous, painful and/or surprising story about your mental well being and the journey it took you on.
Deadline to Submit: October 1, 2024
Lost & Found
For our Candlelight Storytelling Tashlich Event
True stories of losing what you love and finding your way back.
Share with us a story of losing something or someone important to you. Was it a treasured heirloom, a valued friendship or even your way — physically, spiritually, and/or emotionally? What happened? How did you find your way back to the thing or person you lost and how did this experience change you? It could be funny, heartbreaking or anything in-between!
Submissions are now closed.
Salon Theatre Themes for 2025
STORIES ON STAGE View 2026 Themes Here
January Salon
Traveler’s Prayer
Comical, heart-warming & shocking true tales of traveling the world as a Jew.
Remember when you were away from home and how your Jewishness played out as a challenge or a gift on your journey? Send us your true stories about traveling. Did you encounter a hilarious surprise or an inspiring moment that opened your soul? Did your Jewish identity play a part in bringing you in or shutting you out? Revisit your visit to your destination and tell us what happened AND what you learned.
Deadline to Submit: October 1, 2024
March Salon
Two Faiths, One Love
Interfaith families reveal the humorous challenges and unlikely situations that lead to often surprising outcomes in a blended home.
What happens inside homes located at the crossroads of religions? How does it work or not? Is yours a mix of religions or even just different approaches to Judaism? Share with us your true stories that resulted in everyone laughing together or pushing the family to its breaking point.
Deadline to Submit: October 1, 2024
May Salon
For the Love of Animals
Dramatic and funny true Jewish stories about brief encounters or long relationships with animals, domestic or wild, and how they change us.
We want your animal stories! Are house-pets, farm animals, wild creatures, pests causing you a headache — whether funny or heart-wrenching, what’s a moment with an animal or animals that changed you and how? Is there something Jewish about your experience or even about the animal? Don’t hold back! Tell all!
Deadline to Submit: October 1, 2024
July Salon
This World Couldn’t See Me
Jews with disabilities reveal in these true stories their fearless humor, deepest struggles, and unstoppable joy.
Are you part of the Jewish Disability community? Share with us a story that reveals the reality of your experience — whether finding unexpected humor in a situation, discovering inner strength to overcome life’s obstacles, or the moment that other people missed. And did your Jewish identity play a part in how things unfolded? What are your greatest lessons? Deepest longings? Proudest moment?
Deadline to Submit: January 1, 2025
Candlelight Storytelling
We have some special storytelling events coming up that are slightly different from our Salon style theatre performances. Click here to find out more info!
Deadline to Submit: November 1, 2024
Salon Theatre Themes for 2026 ⇒
Too Old For This *#+% !
Getting older isn’t easy, but the alternative is worse. Share with us your funny, painful, or joyous stories about aging.
Share a story about a hilarious moment when you realized “I’m getting too old for this”? Or a difficult confrontation with mortality? What is the Jewish wit and wisdom you discovered in the process? Submit your stories that show what aging is really all about.
Deadline to Submit: August 1, 2025
Do The Right Thing
Stories about mitzvahs and mishaps, from the outrageous to the sublime, as we chase or run from doing right especially when doing wrong sometimes feels so good.
Have you faced a difficult moral choice? Have ridiculous and funny things happened in your quest to do good? Are your still haunted by a moment when you failed to live up to your Jewish values? Share with us your true stories that shed a light on an ethical dilemma and how your Judaism saved you or let you down.
Deadline to Submit: August 1, 2025
Chutzpah & Salsa: A New Generation
The long-awaited sequel to our smash hit show!
Enjoy these fresh, authentic stories from Latin Jews living in the USA that will leave everyone delighted.
Are you a Latin Jew with a story to tell? Take us into funny situations of cultural experiences or the hard struggles of holding your identity. Over a decade ago, our groundbreaking theatre show Chutzpah & Salsa shared with the world inspiring Latin Jewish stories. Now it’s time for a new collection — and yours could be one of them. Submit a story to us!
Deadline to Submit: August 1, 2025
Naughty Nights
Secret Jewish stories that descend into the naughtier side of life.
Do you have a spicy story about the forbidden? A cautionary tale that left you breathless? Or a bitter lesson learned from having done wrong? Share your naughty, secret tales for this racy new theatre show!
Deadline to Submit: August 1, 2025
StoryNosh Themes for 2025
STORIES ON FILM
Ok, so she didn’t wear a veil, dance for a king, or save the entire Jewish people; but to you, your heroine, is that and more. She defied odds, she stood up, she was there despite her obstacles and challenges. Tell us about her and how she impacted your life, for better or worse. Your story can evoke laughter, tears, or be a loving tribute or lasting memory.
Deadline to Submit:
Jan. 1, 2025
They say miracles are all around us, that we just need to open our eyes to them. Some people believe. Others do not. Share a hysterical or poignant story about a “miracle” you experienced and how you reacted to it, whether accepting it or not. And if this miracle was around Hanukkah, even better!
Deadline to Submit:
Jan. 1, 2025
Nature is at the heart of Jewish tradition and values. From the humorous to the heartbreaking, we can’t wait to read your stories of daring environmental activism, ironic attempts at gardening, or spiritual connection with nature. Let’s celebrate Tu’bshvat with your story of the importance of caring about the environment.
Deadline to Submit:
Jan. 1, 2025
Hearts, chocolates, flowers, and more. Do you have a Jewish love story? Whether your valentine is your child, a romantic interest, or a relative or friend, reveal to us your most heartwarming, intimate, trying, or amusing tale of how you or your valentine demonstrated how much you cherish one another or, alternatively, how, despite high hopes, you were neglected or forgotten.
Deadline to Submit:
Jan. 1, 2025
Not all food is created equal. Some does not satisfy the requirements of Jewish law. Others don’t nourish our souls or fill our bellies. Some food we crave. Some we hate. Tell us your outrageous, moving, or even tragic story about how Jewish food has played a role in your life.
Deadline to Submit:
Jun. 1, 2025
The bond between friends holds a special kind of magic. Do you have a friendship story that makes you belly laugh or shed buckets of tears? Did a friendship challenge you to grow, support you in a time of need, or simply change you forever? Share with us your most powerful, heartbreaking or magical friendship story!
Deadline to Submit:
Jun. 1, 2025
