22 April 21 · Opportunities
We’re very excited to announce that submissions are now open for the first ever digital edition of Voices From Home, our platform for emerging writers from the South East of England! Following previous sold out editions at the Arcola and Theatre503, Volume 5 will be a special aud
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Deadline: 25 April 2021 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
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At Paines Plough they are committed to discovering, championing and working with writers at every stage of their career. They are now launching a new Open Submissions programme to ensure they connect with more writers beyond our existing networks and who they might not meet throu
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Gemma Arrowsmith, writer on Tracey Ullman’s Show, Spitting Image and script editor of Newsjack is running ‘The Crash Course’; a short FREE online sketch comedy writing course aimed at improving diversity in writers’ rooms. The Crash Course consists of four 90 minute workshops cov
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The Painkiller Project is a playwriting project that runs every other month from Bitter Pill Theatre with a £200 prize for each winning play. The winning play will be produced and released on The Painkiller Podcast. They hope that the repetitive nature of the competition helps t
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WRITERS CALL OUT – We are incredibly excited to announce an opportunity to have your work performed for the Factory Theatre Workshop’s Summer Festival of New Writing. We are looking for extracts (up to 10 pages in length) that you think will give us an impression of the kind of w
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Applications are now open for SHOOK Arts comeback @ Belgrave Music Hall on Sunday 30th May! They are looking for the best upcoming creatives from the north. Everyone is welcome >> stand-up comedians, clowns, bands, drag, dance, sketches, musical theatre and everything in-between.
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Sometimes a piece of writing demands a different approach to the well known technique of a typewriter and a desk, be it for a single scene to capture a sense of realism, or for an entire play that requires frequent collaboration to help it come to life. Led by our intern Selwin H
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The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation is inviting applications for funding. When submitting an application please ensure you detail how funding you are seeking can be used under the constraints of the current HM Govt Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for the sector. Funding is availab
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Over the past three quarters of a century, the Vogue Talent Contest has helped to launch the careers of journalists, authors, poets and playwrights. Now, it’s back and bigger than ever with exciting new competition categories. This year, British Vogue is seeking out the best emer
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DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITH A TALENT FOR WRITING? HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WRITING A PLAY YOURSELF? CURRENTLY LIVING OR WORKING IN NINE ELMS, WANDSWORTH? IF THE ANSWER’S YES, THEN READ ON… Right To Write is a unique opportunity for adults of any age who live or work in Nine Elms
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Immediate Theatre is currently recruiting for a Playwright for our Summer Holiday project: Exposure. The successful candidate will be tasked with creating a 40-minute original drama for performance by a youth theatre cast of between 20/25 young people. The ideal candidate will ha
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High-Rise Avenue have extended the deadline of their call-out for a Dramaturg to support the development of a new play, HAIR POLICE. The play is being written by Kalungi Ssebandeke and Sandra Thompson-Quartey and developed through a research and development project supported by A
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Framework Festival is Scotland’s first emerging theatre-makers festival. The festival is designed to give early-career artists the support they need to take the next step in their journey. From the 3rd to the 7th of May, the festival will be running online, with a line-up of FREE
Read with a free account →16 April 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →15 April 21 · 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: The Queens of Cups: Submissions open for May’s Ne
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To submit your poem, monologue, spoken-word piece, song, or piece of solo choreography (or anything that one person can do) to May’s New Moon Monologue on the theme of “Growing Together”, we are asking writers to donate £3.33. The fee is £33 and every monologue will receive feedb
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Sky Writes is on the look-out for people who are at the very beginning of their journey in writing for television. You may already have a brilliant idea for a new series or have started working on a script, or you may have no previous writing experience. The programme will suppor
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Back for a third year, Like The Prose is a writing opportunity from The Literal Challenge – a small social enterprise that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and newbies through creative challenges. Over the last few years, we’ve run 14 different challenges,
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FRINGE FUTURES FESTIVAL Applications are now OPEN for Fringe Futures Festival, a brand new festival of LIVE work-in-progress shows from leading independent performance makers. Taking place in North and South London across May and June, FFF21 is an innovative collaboration between
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BOLD Playwrights apply! BOLD is dedicated to transforming empty buildings into creative performing arts spaces & BOLD Elephant – a space to create, is our first. As well as creating our own work, we want to champion & support the work of playwrights. We believe there are too few
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The successful candidate will work creatively with inpatients and outpatients at the centre in Nottingham. The work will enhance the environment at the centre and raise awareness of Cystic Fibrosis Fee: £2,000 Location: Wolfson Cystic Fibrosis Centre, St Francis Way, Nottingham,
Read with a free account →10 April 21 · Opportunities
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is an open invitation to all writers who identify as female in the UK and Ireland to create vivid, exciting, and brave new work for the stage. The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work fr
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This call out is a development opportunity aimed at artists, companies and makers of live performance to support your work for a period of four months during this transitional period. Each selected artist will receive: Support from Sheffield Theatres and Cast Mentoring from eithe
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