09 June 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →08 June 17 · Opportunities
Congleton Players have announced their 2017/18 one-act playwriting competition. They are looking for a range of one-act plays to be performed for their one-act play festival. Congelton will prepare a shortlist out of all submitted plays, and all short-listed plays will be perform
Read with a free account →06 June 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
TYPT is Talawa’s flagship programme for emerging theatre makers. Every summer a team of emerging artists aged 18-25 works with established artists to create a brand new show. At TYPT artists develop their practice, test ideas and produce a brand new piece of theatre in just 4 wee
Read with a free account →06 June 17 · Events
Hijabi Monologues Drop In Session 13 June 2017 from 10am-7pm Bush Theatre 7 Uxbridge Road, London W12 8LJ If you are a Muslim woman thinking about submitting to the Hijabi Monologues, the Bush Theatre will be running a drop-in session to provide support or answer any questions. Y
Read this article →05 June 17 · Opportunities
As part of G64 Theatre for Young People’s Truth or Dare Festival, they are running a playwriting competition. There are two age categories: Age 4-11 Age 12-18 The winning plays will be performed by G64 actors at Putney Arts Theatre in December as part of the festival. What to sub
Read with a free account →05 June 17 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is an annual, international competition for emerging playwrights. The winner is awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the winning play by Yale University Press and a staged reading at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. Winners
Read with a free account →05 June 17 · Events
Meet the Playwrights Monday 12th June, 8-10pm St Alban’s Centre, 18 Brooke Street, London EC1N 7RD. A panel event with the playwrights Bryony Lavery, Ali Taylor and Charlene James. The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has brought together a panel of outstanding playwrights,
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All Change Please: Achieving Gender Equality Friday 9 June, 1pm – 2pm The Actors Centre, Tristan Bates Theatre 1A Tower St, Covent Garden, WC2H 9NP Join Lucy Kerbel, director of Tonic Theatre, for an empowering and inspiring discussion about achieving gender equality in theatre –
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The Bread & Roses Theatre offers one Emerging Theatre Company a one-week-run as part of their Summer Season 2017. This includes two technical rehearsal days and five performance nights free of charge, for which the company will also receive 90% of the box office takings. Technica
Read with a free account →02 June 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →01 June 17 · Opportunities
Pint-Sized is looking for submissions for new shows at The Bunker Theatre, London in October and November 2017. Each Pint-Sized showcases 5 pieces of new writing from the best in emerging talent, wrapped up with a live band playing tailor-made tracks written about the pieces invo
Read with a free account →31 May 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
The Hampstead Theatre is launching Inspire: The Next Playwright Programme, an opportunity for playwrights to develop their craft under the mentorship of award-winning playwright Roy Williams. Eligibility: No experience is necessary. Anyone aged between 18 and 25 inclusive on 1 Se
Read with a free account →31 May 17 · Opportunities / Pick of the Week
Each week we look through our pile of writing opportunities to pick out one we think is particularly worth your time. It could be an innovative brief, great prize money, a high-profile company, or just plain fun. This week’s pick: Full Circle Theatre launch new online radio playw
Read with a free account →27 May 17 · Opportunities
After a successful launch in February 2017, Red Dragonfly Productions in association with Grist to the Mill are running Taking Flight Festival 2018 and are looking for new and emerging writers from British East Asian, South Asian and South East Asian communities who are intereste
Read with a free account →26 May 17 · Opportunities
Calling all budding film makers! As part of the Lancaster Words festival in July they are holding a short-film competition which invites entrants to make a 5-minute film responding to Paul Muldoon’s short poem ‘The Weepies’* Entry to the competition is FREE and there will be a sh
Read with a free account →26 May 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →24 May 17 · Education / Opportunities
Applications are now open for a brand new playwriting course in central Oxford, taught by Olivier Award-winning playwright and director John Retallack. It is a new professional course that covers every aspect of writing a play and, over 30 weekly 2-hour sessions and 3 day-long wo
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Opportunities
The Bread & Roses Theatre offers one Emerging Theatre Company a one-week-run as part of their Summer Season 2017. This includes two technical rehearsal days and five performance nights free of charge, for which the company will also receive 90% of the box office takings. Technica
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in June 2017. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but you can click through to peruse th
Read with a free account →22 May 17 · Uncategorized
Aurora Metro is running a competition to giveaway 3 copies of ‘Classic Plays by Women’. All you need to do to be in with a chance, is answer the question: Which seventeenth century woman playwright also worked as a spy? Send your answers to: cheryl@aurorametro.com Deadline: 21 Ju
Read this article →19 May 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →18 May 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
For performers, theatre makers, playwrights and composers – at any level of experience – with an interest in building a tool kit for devising theatre and finding their voice in a collaborative process Presented by The Scenic Route with: Tangled Feet (Award-winning, inspirational
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
Miscellany Theatre Productions are seeking love stories for their next project My Irish Love Song, which will premiere in 2018. Stories can be any length and submitted until August 2017. Stories can take any form, including poetry, prose, dialogue or monologue, but the story shou
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
Fancy seeing your play produced professionally on the London stage? A competition has been launched to find a new playwright among the Irish community in the UK. Last year the London based Green Curtain Theatre Company held its inaugural festival of new Irish plays in venues acro
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