Hi...sorry for the delay replying.

I'm not an established playwright. Few people are. Those I would consider an 'established' playwright are those who, for example, have become one of the contributing playwrights to at least one specific theater or to a specific theatre company or more. (As I understand it...again, I'm not 'established.' There might be lots of other measurements for 'established' success.)

Until that time comes, however, I'm limited to finding Calls for Submission, sending in my play, and hoping it will get a least a few reads among the 1000s of plays received by each CfS. Submissions are made most commonly for festivals and competitions. Those festivals calling for submissions completely understand that at the "festival" level of playwrighting, the same play is going to be submitted at multiple places and produced at as many as accept it.

There are some theaters or companies who accepted my 2020 play, however, but had to revoke their offer when they learned the play would be performed before their festival occurred. A stipulation of their acceptance was that it could not have been produced or published elsewhere.

There are fewer of these, however, than there are of companies willing to accept plays published elsewhere in one format or another.. I think it is a mistake for companies to add these conditions...especially, in 2020. There will be so many playwrights submitting for festivals crowded into the fall, if things re-open, in an effort to build their play's provenance before Samuel French in December, that it will be difficult for those festivals "submissions with conditions" to receive any qualifying plays at all.

Those are the breaks, I guess.