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14 October 13 · Opportunities
Following the success of last year’s One Festival, The Space is delighted to once more open its doors to new acting, writing and directing talent. The One Festival is a showcase of monologues featuring work from a wide range of theatre professionals. With an exciting blend of wor
Read with a free account →11 October 13 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Submissons are now open for the 8th Theatre Breaks Festival from Tiny Dog Productions – Deadline 11 October 2013 International Student Playwritin
Read with a free account →11 October 13 · Opportunities
Tower Theatre Company are accepting submissions for their new play competition. The winning writer will have a full scale production of their play at a London Fringe venue in November 2013. There is an entry fee of £10 for this competition (£5 for Tower members or friends of the
Read with a free account →10 October 13 · Education / Writing Workshops
Papercut Theatre will be running their ‘Professional Development for Emerging Writers’ workshop on 2nd November 2013 (10.30am – 6pm) in London. This day long workshop will look at: At what stage should you send your plays to literary departments What should your objectives be whe
Read this article →09 October 13 · Writing Workshops
Pentabus Theatre are running a playwriting workshop led by Elizabeth Freestone on Saturday 19th October 10.3oam – 4.30pm. The workshop will look at developing your play, analysing structure and exploring conflict and how it affects your characters.There will also be a chance to r
Read this article →08 October 13 · Opportunities
Theatre Renegade’s Courting Drama programme promotes the work of four emerging directors and writers by creating new collaborations and presenting the subsequent work in the Bush Theatre’s Attic space once every four months. This time, they are looking for a new writer to have th
Read with a free account →08 October 13 · Education / Opportunities
The Arcola Theatre along with London Metropolitan University are looking for three writers for their ‘Voices from the Future’ scheme. The chosen writers will attend a week of playwriting workshops led by a professional playwright culminating in developing a piece of new writing f
Read with a free account →04 October 13 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Call for submissions: Camden People’s Theatre Festival of Feminism – Deadline: 7 October 2013 Little Pieces of Gold seeking short plays – Deadlin
Read with a free account →04 October 13 · Opportunities
The Paul Darby Prize is now open for submissions with the aim of encouraging new stage plays and emerging writers. The winner will receive a prize of £1000, together with a staging of their play at the Questors Theatre in Ealing which is renowned for its’ association with new wri
Read with a free account →01 October 13 · News
The Soho Theatre has announced the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2013, which goes to Vicky Jones for her play ‘The One’. At the same event (which also recognised VBA runner-ups), the Soho revealed the next intake of the Soho Six, which gives six artists the opportunity to de
Read this article →01 October 13 · Opportunities
The Lace Market Theatre Programme Advisory Group (PAG) is currently seeking submissions of new plays to feature as part of the 2014/15 season. They are open to submissions of all styles of play but the successful production must be of a scale that can be performed in the theatre’
Read with a free account →30 September 13 · Opportunities
Performance date: 10 – 13 November, 7:30pm – 10:30pm Venue: The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, NW5 3HS Theatre Breaks is comprised of a 4 night run, which Theatre Companies/directors/writers/producers can use as a free platform to showcase new or developing work. Be it a new short play
Read with a free account →27 September 13 · Inspiration / Writing Advice
If you’re in need of a little writing inspiration or guidance, the Dramatists Guild of America has a wonderful collection of talks available from a range of exciting theatremakers, including Lanford Wilson, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, Paula Vogel, and a host of ot
Read this article →26 September 13 · Opportunities
The Castillo Theatre (NYC) sponsors the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest and reading series annually. In its seventh year, the political play contest is intended to encourage the writing of scripts for the stage that engage the political/social/cultural questions a
Read with a free account →25 September 13 · Opportunities
The Certainty of Chance Theatre Company in association with the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation are delighted to present the Ronald Duncan Prize 2013. The Ronald Duncan playwriting competition is for new and up and coming writers. For the last two years the competition has been
Read with a free account →24 September 13 · Opportunities
As part of ‘Calm Down, Dear’, Camden People’s Theatre now seeks to commission three new work-in-progress performances from emerging artists in the field of innovative theatre, inspired by the themes of our festival and in response to the phrase ‘everyday sexism’. What they are lo
Read with a free account →20 September 13 · News
As reported in The Stage, a new 50-seat pub theatre will be opening next month above the Spread Eagle Pub in Croydon. Old Joint Stock Theatre Company, which specialises in new writing and has previously built a following in its Birmingham base, will provide programming. More deta
Read this article →20 September 13 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). The Scenic Route seeking submissions from musical theatre writers – Deadline: 20 September 2013 Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair: Spoken Word Wo
Read with a free account →19 September 13 · Opportunities
Almost Random Theatre is running a Retreats Playwriting Competition, seeking one outstanding 20 minute play to be put on in Oxford in January 2014. The play must be no more than 10 minutes long and require no more than three actors. The theme of the competition is ‘Retreats’. How
Read with a free account →19 September 13 · Opportunities
Almost Random Theatre is running a Wellbeing Playwriting Competition, seeking one outstanding 20 minute play to be put on in Oxford in January 2014. The play must be no more than 20 minutes long and require no more than three actors. The theme of the competition is ‘Wellbeing’. H
Read with a free account →18 September 13 · Opportunities
Following the appointment of an Associate Director, the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, is now in a position to be able to accept script submissions again. In order to avoid a backlog of unread material they will only receive scripts during certain periods of the year. The f
Read with a free account →17 September 13 · Opportunities
Perfect Pitch has announced a new £12,000 award for musical theatre writing, in association with Royal & Derngate Northampton. Selected writers will be asked to ‘pitch’ ten minutes of a brand new musical to a panel of experienced judges including Olivier award winning actors Mich
Read with a free account →16 September 13 · Education / Writing Workshops
Date: Saturday 28th September 2013, 10am – 6pm Venue: Bush Theatre (Attic), W12 see here> This 1 day masterclass will introduce different ways to approach writing and editing collaboratively. As many writers increasingly work across theatre, opera, film and TV, they encounter mul
Read this article →11 September 13 · Opportunities
The Resident Theatre Company (RTC) at Fullerton College, California, is seeking submissions of original full-length plays and original full length musical theatre works of any genre for it’s annual Playwright’s Festival to be held during January 2014 in the Fullerton College Bron
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