# Dramatic Publishing > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-08. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/dramatic-publishing - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/dramatic-publishing.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/dramatic-publishing/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://dramaticpublishing.com - **Slug:** dramatic-publishing - **Categories:** media-entertainment ## Overview - **Tagline:** Dramatic Publishing is a theatrical publisher and licensing company offering plays, musicals, scripts, and theatrical books for educational, community, professional, and youth theatre. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Description:** Founded in Chicago in 1885, Dramatic Publishing develops and serves theatre authors, artists, educators, and producing organizations. Its catalog includes musicals, full-length and one-act plays, theatrical books, digital scripts, and manuscripts, with licensing and performance royalties for productions. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Identity - **Mission:** To develop and serve authors, artists, and educators in theatre while providing plays that challenge audiences, actors, producers, students, and educators to examine important and controversial topics. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Website:** https://dramaticpublishing.com Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Voice & tone:** Theatre-focused, supportive, personalized, and educational. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Founded:** 1885 Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Headquarters:** Chicago, Illinois Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** Helps theatre organizations, educators, and performers find, purchase, license, and produce plays and musicals suited to their audiences, cast sizes, skill levels, and performance settings. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Core capabilities:** - Publishing plays, musicals, and theatrical books - Licensing theatrical works and performance rights - Selling print and digital scripts - Providing manuscript-form titles with photocopy permissions upon licensing - Offering theatrical production resources, excerpts, posters, and guidance - Curating works for educational, youth, community, and professional theatre Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Products / SKUs:** - One-act plays - Full-length plays - Musicals - Musicals with accompaniment CDs - Collections - Scenes and monologues - Livestream titles - Digital scripts Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Pricing:** Pricing varies by title and format. Scraped pages show print and digital script prices, plus minimum performance royalty rates; rights applications are available for licensed productions. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Theatre and theatrical publishing Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Customer base:** Authors, artists, educators, schools, youth theatre organizations, community theatres, professional theatres, colleges, and other producing groups. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Ideal customer profile:** Educational, youth, community, college, touring, and professional theatre organizations seeking scripts and performance rights for plays or musicals. Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Use cases:** - Selecting plays and musicals by genre, theme, audience, cast size, and performing group - Producing school, youth, college, community, professional, and touring theatre - Licensing scripts for public performances - Using scripts for reading, auditions, classroom study, and performance - Finding digital scripts, print scripts, manuscripts, scenes, monologues, and theatrical books - Accessing production materials and educational guidance Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Customer outcomes:** - Access to a broad catalog of classic and contemporary plays and musicals - Works matched to different audiences, cast sizes, and skill levels - Licensed rights to perform theatrical works - Production options for educational, community, youth, and professional settings - Personalized service and support for customers and authors - Opportunities for audiences and students to engage with challenging social and cultural topics Source: Brand's website (https://dramaticpublishing.com) · 2026-11-08 Page last updated 2026-11-08. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. 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