Career Services and Member Benefits

A basic license, it grants the rights for a producer to produce a production without granting the subsidiary rights or future options.

Form of an option agreement used for an author to obtain the basic right to adapt a work as a musical from an existing work in which a second author holds copyright.

Form of an option agreement used for an author to obtain the basic right to adapt a work as a play from an existing work in which a second author holds copyright.

An international guest membership program for all members of The Dramatists Guild,

To help you navigate new uses of your work, we offer you a model Livestream Addendum agreement to revise your prior agreements to include such “digital rights".

This is intended to be a model contract that will enable you to grant a non-profit producer the exclusive right to present live streamed productions.

Dramatists Guild members save 20% on the leading songwriting, lyric writing, and creative writing software. Whether you’re writing a song, poem, script, novel, or blog, MasterWriter will unlock all that the English language has to offer and will help you to express yourself in a unique and meaningful way.

Be sure everyone in the industry can see you are a member of the Guild. Every member at every level is displayed in our searchable Member Directory on our website. The listing will include your name, location, and creative roles.

No contract is one size fits all. Download a model contract today. Because the Guild tracks national and worldwide trends, we are able to provide certain model contracts that reflect up-to-date industry standards.