The playwriting editor that starts from the stage

The editor is in active development and approaching early access. You can book a demo today. We will contact you when early access opens for your use case.

We have not set public pricing yet -- there is no price on this page, and nothing to pay for. Scripts contributed to the Free School Plays library stay free for any school to perform, with no royalty and no per-performance fee. Pricing for the editor, and for School Box Office ticketing, will be shared during early access. Book a demo and we will walk through what fits your program.

Most existing editors are screenplay engines with a stage-play template added later, so stage support behaves like an afterthought. Playscript is built from the stage format outward: the page geometry, compound act-scene-page numbering, Musical mode, and school forms are first-class, not options bolted to a screenplay core. Those editors serve screenwriters well. Playscript serves stage playwrights and drama educators.

Fountain Theatre Extension: a published open superset of the Fountain plain-text format. Every valid Fountain document parses through FTX unchanged. FTX adds the tokens stage plays need that Fountain leaves undefined: act and scene markers, the dramatis personae block, song cues, overlap markers, and voice-only flags. Playscript is the reference authority and publishes the spec openly.

Yes. Playscript imports .fdx (the screenplay-exchange XML that professional tools write) and .fountain plain-text files, and reads its own FTX format. Import is element-typed, not a flat text paste: character cues, dialogue, scene headings, and stage directions arrive as the correct element type, so the format engine can renumber and reformat them the first time you open the file. If your source uses a screenplay layout, you can switch it to any stage-play format variant after import.

Multi-act scripts use a page number that includes the act and, optionally, the scene: I-1 (Act I, page 1), II-4-85 (Act II, Scene 4, page 85). This is the professional standard for full-length stage plays. No other editor generates it automatically; Playscript derives it from the document structure.

The submission, licensing, and ticketing pipeline is designed and built in the codebase, but it is not yet publicly available. It will open alongside the editor in early access. The terms are defined: non-exclusive, author retains copyright, the split is published in plain English before you submit.

Scripts submitted to Free School Plays carry a license that lets any school read, rehearse, print, and perform the work with no royalty, no per-performance fee, and no query letter. Attribution is required — author name and 'Free School Plays' on any program. That is the complete obligation. The author retains copyright and may also submit the same work to a traditional licensing house; the license is non-exclusive.

Student writing stays inside the platform. Grammar checking runs on a LanguageTool instance hosted in-network, so a student's draft is not sent to a third-party cloud grammar service. There is no behavioral tracking and no third-party analytics on the writing surface. Because student playwrights are minors, every path that would share or submit a script is built to be guardian-consent-gated and fail-closed -- and those sharing and submission paths are in active development, not yet publicly enabled. Translation, when it arrives, will run through that same in-network corridor rather than an external AI service.

Playwrights writing for the stage — from debut one-acts to full-length musicals. Drama educators who write original work for their students. Student playwrights in high school and higher education programs. And anyone who wants to submit an original play to the Free School Plays library.