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31 January 17 · Opportunities
The Significant Other Festival is an annual festival of 10, 10 minute plays created in just 10 days. The festival runs in London and Manchester. This year the 6th Significant Other Festival is at The Vaults Theatre in London with performances from 14-18 March 2017. Applications a
Read with a free account →31 January 17 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 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 perus
Read with a free account →27 January 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to help support LPB this? Check out our new series ‘Gifts & Gear’ and do your Amazon shopping via our links! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are groupe
Read with a free account →27 January 17 · Opportunities
The Bruntwood Prize – the biggest playwriting competition in the UK, both in terms of number of submissions and prize money – has been launched, so time to get your scripts ready before the June deadline. The biennial Bruntwood Prize is organised by The Royal Exchange Theatre in
Read with a free account →27 January 17 · Events / Opportunities
Brave New World is open for submissions for five minute pieces for a new writing night on the theme of Legacy on Friday 31 March at Slam in King’s Cross. Theme: Brave New World says after a year of high-profile deaths in 2016 Legacy will explore the aftermath. In their own words:
Read with a free account →27 January 17 · Writing Workshops
Playwriting The Art of Redrafting with Jemma Kennedy and Tanya Ronder Saturday 4 February and Sunday 5 February, 10.30am-4.30pm John Lyon Education Studio, National Theatre Studio, 83 -101 The Cut, London, SE1 8LL. About the course: This two-day course with playwrights Tanya Rond
Read this article →25 January 17 · Education / Opportunities
Yellow Earth is launching a two-year Professional Writers Programme for writers of East Asian descent led by Caroline Jester. Four early career writers will be selected to take part with the aim of developing at least one play for the company to produce. If you are a writer of dr
Read with a free account →25 January 17 · Opportunities
Instinct Theatre has announced Scratch the Surface a new writing initiative allowing London’s emerging new writers, directors and actors to collaborate on new play extracts, most of which are in development to be produced as full length productions in 2017. They are accepting sub
Read with a free account →24 January 17 · Education / Writing Workshops
Playwriting: one day workshop Saturday 11 February 2017 (10am-4pm) … One day workshop with Jennifer Farmer at Bishopsgate Institute Read More »
Read this article →20 January 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →19 January 17 · Events
The Spark Factory will be curating seven artists at Brighton Fringe 2017 to explore risky and daring ideas for one night only . They are looking to find the boldest, strangest and most thought-provoking theatre ideas out there to take part. Spark Factory says: “If you have a perf
Read this article →18 January 17 · Opportunities
The Old Vic Lab is offering up to two weeks of free rehearsal space for emerging artists and companies between February and May 2017 at The Old Vic Workrooms in Bermondsey. The Old Vic says during the last year it has given 1,000 artists 3,000 hours of free rehearsal space. It wa
Read with a free account →18 January 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: 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize Description: Pap
Read with a free account →18 January 17 · Opportunities
The Hastings Fringe Festival 2017 is holding its first call out for this year’s event. It is looking for two minute tasters of work – new writing to showcase, a story to tell, poetry to slam, an original act you want to perform, or music to share? Now in its third year, Hastings
Read with a free account →18 January 17 · Events
In Conversation with Suzie de Rohan Willner (University Women in the Arts: Event 4) 2 February 2017 at 7pm … University Women in the Arts: In conversation with TOAST’s Suzie de Rohan Willner (Free event) Read More »
Read this article →17 January 17 · Opportunities
Harts Theatre Company in partnership with Lyric Hammersmith is looking for emerging young writers aged 10-25 for the Young Harts Writing Festival (YHWF) 2017. This is an inter-borough new writing festival, which aims to merge the gap between emerging young artists and professiona
Read with a free account →17 January 17 · Writing Workshops
Verbatim technique workshop. Saturday 4 March (10-6) and Sunday 5 March 2017(11-4). Bread & Roses Theatre, … Verbatim workshop with Paul Kalburgi (£50) Read More »
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Ten week writing course 30 January 2017 from 10 am-1pm Omnibus Writer’s Workshop, Clapham Common About the course: The Omnibus Writer’s Workshop is running a ten week course hosted by its literary department, on Monday evenings from 30 January. The group, at Clapham Common, is fo
Read this article →17 January 17 · Opportunities
St John’s Church, Waterloo, is calling for entries to a new monologue competition for its summer Waterloo Festival in June 2017. Entries to the festival are sought from people who live, work or study in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. The theme is Bridge the Gap ins
Read with a free account →13 January 17 · Events / Writing Workshops
The Writer & Director Relationship Saturday, 13 May 2017 from 10 am-1pm Gate Theatre About the workshop: Join the writer and director of new play Assata Taught Me, Kalungi Ssebandeke and Lynette Linton, to explore their creative partnership and how they collaborated and made this
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Sheer Height Theatre, which aims to increase the number of well-rounded, challenging female roles on stage and screen, is open for script submissions for Women Redressed: Act I and Act II. Woman Redressed Act I will take place at Park 200 Theatre on 12-13 March 2017. Act II wil b
Read with a free account →13 January 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →12 January 17 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 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 peruse th
Read with a free account →12 January 17 · Opportunities
Spiral is looking for short plays or musicals of any theme and genre to host at The Bread and Roses theatre, Clapham, from 12-14 March 2017. What to submit: Pieces should include two to four characters, be no longer than 15 minutes in running time and have minimal set, sound and
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