Erb Publishing is now open. We are a play publishing and licensing house built for schools, community theaters, and independent producers looking for scripts that are ready to go up on stage.
A licensing house handles two things for a playwright and a producing group: it publishes the script, and it grants the legal right to perform it. When a school or community theater licenses a play through us, they get a clean, production-ready script and the performance rights to stage it, without having to track down the playwright directly or guess at the terms.
Erb Publishing was founded by Tom Erb, an actor, director, producer, and playwright with decades of work in the theater. You can read more about that background at tommyerb.com. Erb Publishing itself is a separate, dedicated home for the licensing and publishing side of that work, and for the plays themselves.
What is in the catalog
The catalog covers full-length plays, one-act plays, ten-minute plays, and monologues, across comedy, drama, mystery, history, and family-friendly work. Every title is written with a real classroom, black box, or community hall in mind, not an abstract Broadway stage.
Submissions are open
Erb Publishing is not only publishing Tom Erb’s own plays. We are open to submissions from other playwrights writing for the same audience: schools, community theaters, and independent producers who need material that is ready to cast and stage.
Browse the catalog, read the submission guidelines if you are a playwright, or reach out about licensing a title for your next production.