04 March 21 · Opportunities
Awarded for the best playwriting response theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2021 – Untamed: On Wilderness and Civilization. The prize will be £3,000 plus a rehearsed reading at the Fellowship’s annual Symposium to which the winner will be invited to attend. Runners up will be invite
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Are you passionate about children’s media, screenwriting and YouTube? Read about this opportunity to join a global entertainment company… Moonbug Entertainment is a global entertainment company that creates and distributes inspiring and engaging stories to expand kids’ worlds and
Read with a free account →04 March 21 · Opportunities
Call-out to commission a writer/dramaturg for Theatre of Wandering, a new theatre performance coming to Coventry as part of the UK City of Culture programme. A Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 and Entelechy Arts co-production, in association with OiBokkeShi In a new production co
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Barriers To Bridges Artist Residency with West Midlands Police Coventry City of Culture Trust and West Midlands Police are seeking an artist who can understand the lived experience of children and young people in the city, to work with officers and young people in Coventry as par
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New writing opportunity for a Digital Project by ThickSkin, commissioned by Lawrence Batley Theatre. ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre are delighted to announce a paid commission to an early career writer, based in West Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to collaborate with Th
Read with a free account →02 March 21 · Opportunities / Original Content
It’s back, and it’s better than ever! Our brand-new Play Club program is our online book club with a twist! This time, we’ll be featuring new writing from 3 incredible writers selected from our 2020 submission window. Every other month we’ll be sending out a play for you to read
Read with a free account →01 March 21 · Opportunities
The 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, a prominent Quaker congregation in Manhattan, New York City, is seeking scripts based on people or events from Quaker history. We’re planning a non-union production in 2022 in our beautiful meetinghouse, a landmark buil
Read with a free account →26 February 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →25 February 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: London Playwrights’ Workshop: Member Submissions
Read with a free account →25 February 21 · Opportunities
A free playwriting group for new writers aged 16-25 in the North of England. No previous experience required! Northern Broadsides are passionate about two things: stories and the North. Ever since their first production of Richard III in 1992, they have believed in the power of N
Read with a free account →25 February 21 · Opportunities
The Arch 468 Hope Prize is a new £10,000 writing commission. Hope is the fuel that drives every innovation, every attempt to advance the sum of human knowledge, every revolution and every leap of faith. Arch 468 are working to ensure that hope is not allowed to fade from public d
Read with a free account →25 February 21 · Opportunities
Join James McDermott, experienced LGBTQ+ playwright, poet and creative writing teacher, for a workshop series (6 sessions) aimed at helping you generate dramatic stories and structure play scripts. Suitable for emerging playwrights or writers who want to try out this format. Cour
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Cosmopolitan is continuing to accept submissions to our international short film festival dedicated to short films from around the world. Cosmopolitan by name and nature, we encourage diversity and multi-cultural short films. We aim to reflect the international filmmaking communi
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Designed as a ‘sequel’ to the introduction to musical theatre (find out more here), but also working as a stand alone, this two hour course breaks down starting to write a musical. Aimed at book writers/lyricists, but also useful for composers, we will look at dramatic structure
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
A 2 hour overview of musical theatre style and structure and how to get started! This 2 hour workshop with Emily Garside is aimed at anyone looking to make a start in musical theatre. The workshop will take a look at the history and structure of the musical as a guide to writing
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Want to write for Audio? No idea where to start? Look no further! This brand new 4-week long course run by our Literary Projects Manager George Bailey will give you the tools, techniques and knowledge to craft your own audio work. Through each session, participants will get invol
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Is structuring a play really as daunting as it’s made out to be? Is the five act structure the enemy of the free-thinking playwright? Should we map out the structure of a play before writing it? All too often, we see structure as a challenge which stands in our way but what if we
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Paid Opportunity for Yorkshire-based Playwright / Poet / Spoken Word Artist FEE £3,100 in instalments DEADLINE 9:00am on Wednesday 10 March 2021 Between June and August 2021, Cast and Public Acts will tour an interactive pop-up theatre adventure from a mobile van. The Fabulous, R
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Are you a TV scriptwriter? Do you have comedy experience? Would you like to mentor an emerging artist? Open Theatre are looking for a freelance script advisor to support our emerging artist Rob Bate with his new situation comedy – Ronnie and Johnny! We’re looking for an experienc
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Ad Infinitum is inviting applications from theatre makers, writers and storytellers, to collaborate on our latest project, working with older adults experiencing loneliness. This is part of Ad Infinitum’s activities during lockdown and a wider project exploring elderly care in th
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Rame Projects is an artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from Arts Council England; Cultivator; The Box, Plymouth; and Plymouth College of Art, we are able to offer an art writing opportunity to respond to our 2021 programme. Wh
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Outside Edge Theatre Company, which is the UK’s only theatre company and participatory arts charity focused on addiction, is recruiting our next Chair of the Board of Trustees. For the past 21 years we have created theatre productions about issues related to addiction and offered
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Reflex Theatre are bringing their globally successful Short Form Scratch Night format to the Norwich Fringe Festival and they are accepting new submissions! They are inviting writers to send in only the First page, Last page and a brief Synopsis of their script, after which the R
Read with a free account →22 February 21 · Opportunities
We’re really excited to announce our new submissions window where we we’ll be inviting our members to send us their plays. Whether it’s the the play you worked on for WrAP2021 or something you’ve been developing for a while – we want to read it! We’ll be reading and providing fee
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