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17 March 20 · Opportunities / Uncategorized
Full Disclosure Theatre are now accepting submissions for a special PRIDE edition of XPOSED, which will be staged at Southwark Playhouse on Sunday 14th June. The new writing night of short plays has enjoyed sold out audiences and continues to reveal the naked and entertaining tru
Read with a free account →12 March 20 · Opportunities
As a way to get to know new and undiscovered voices, Playmakers Repertory Company invite blind submissions during the months of March and April. Please reach out to them at playmakersliterary@gmail.com if you have a new work you’d like them to consider. Deadline: 30th April 2020
Read with a free account →04 March 20 · Opportunities
Applecart Arts, a creative hub in east London, are searching for writers aged between 10-16 years who are passionate about their community. They are looking for original short stories, plays, poems, songs, works of art, and self produced video content which explore a subject matt
Read with a free account →04 March 20 · Opportunities
Ready to Go Plays first scratch night for ‘older’ writers will take place on 14 and 15 April at Theatre503 in Battersea, London. Submissions are now open for UK-based writers aged 35+. Send your 10-minute play to readytogoplays@gmail.com with your contact details. This is a paid
Read with a free account →04 March 20 · Opportunities
Swings and Roundabouts are looking for playwrights, directors and actors to apply to their third showcase of new writing. Stuck With You is a night of new theatre at Southwark Playhouse on 3rd May 2020 in aid of the charity Shelter. They are looking for submissions of 15 minute p
Read with a free account →24 February 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2020. 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 the w
Read with a free account →24 February 20 · Opportunities
What is it? The original Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London will take place 15-21 June 2020 at the Cockpit in London. In addition to its main programme of curated full length productions, the festival is seeking submissions of short plays with science fiction elements. Wh
Read with a free account →20 February 20 · Opportunities
The Phil Fox Award for Playwriting, which is named after OETC’s founder, invites playwrights with any level of experience from across the UK to submit full-length scripts about issues related to addiction. The competition winner will receive a £6,000 commission from OETC to conti
Read with a free account →18 February 20 · Opportunities
The 2nd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition, hosted by Langham Court Theatre in Victoria, Canada, is open to playwrights worldwide. Cash prizes of $9000 for the winner and four $525 prizes for the runners up. The winning play will be workshopped in Victoria
Read with a free account →17 February 20 · Opportunities
The ETPEP Award 2020 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP). The Award’s purpose is to find and nurture a playwright wh
Read with a free account →17 February 20 · Opportunities
Scribe Playwriting Competition are inviting playwrights from around the world to submit new full length and one-act plays or musicals into the competition. The winners of the competition will receive a live reading in front of an audience and the prestigious Marsha Ann Croyle Awa
Read with a free account →17 February 20 · Opportunities
Roundhouse associates Global Voices Theatre are accepting submissions for Global Youth Voices, an event featuring a unique selection of international plays never before performed in the UK. The event, produced, curated, directed and performed by artists under 25 showcases 5 excer
Read with a free account →30 January 20 · Opportunities
What is it? Script to Stage are hosting a Table Read on Sunday February 23rd at 2.30pm at Comicrazy, 45 Old Sneddon St, Paisley PA3 2AN. Whether you are a seasoned playwright or dipping your toe into the wonderful world of play creation for the first time, this is a chance to hea
Read with a free account →30 January 20 · Opportunities
What is it? The Billy Roche International Short Play Award, as part of the Wexford Literary & Arts Festival, is now accepting submissions of short plays. First place – €300, second place – €200, third place – €100. The four shortlisted plays of 2020 will be read by Enniscorthy Dr
Read with a free account →29 January 20 · Opportunities
What is it? ScriptSpace is an opportunity for playwrights to hear their work out loud and get instant feedback from the audience, actors and artistic team at the Space Theatre in London. Each play which is submitted is read by their team of readers and provided with a written fee
Read with a free account →09 January 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2020. 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 the
Read with a free account →07 January 20 · Opportunities
Slackline Stories is back… with a twist! Slackline Productions is now accepting submissions for Slackline Stories (Part Deux), a new writing night to be held at the Southwark Playhouse in London on 8th March, 2020 in honour of International Women’s Day. For their second new writi
Read with a free account →19 December 19 · Opportunities
Sharp Scratches is back for 2020, with the first of many scratches being ‘Transforming the Narrative’ putting Transgender and Non-binary writers and performers centre stage. They are looking for: Play scripts or spoken word poetry no longer than 15 minutes running time. Pieces wi
Read with a free account →18 December 19 · Opportunities
What is it? The Phoenix Writes is a new One Act playwriting competition for 2020, which is open to playwrights of all age groups across the UK. Five successful submissions will be performed at the Daneside Theatre in Congleton, Cheshire on Saturday 5th September 2020, and the win
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 2019. 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 →21 November 19 · Opportunities
Following three sold out editions, Broken Silence Theatre will return with Volume 4 of Voices From Home in the first half of 2020 and are currently seeking writers. Voices From Home is a curated evening of short plays and spoken word theatre, exclusively from emerging writers bas
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in November 2019. 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 →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Blowin’ a Hooley Theatre are looking for one exceptional new female writer from North East England to have their short play professionally produced. The selected writer will receive £400 and their piece will be performed in ‘Yarns from Hyem’ – a collection of four North-East play
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
2020 STAGE IT! 10-Minute Play Festival and Book Publication is open for submissions. Arts Center Bonita produces TEN 10-minute plays in full at our Festival in March, coinciding with their book publication of at least 20 plays. Additionally, they make offers to playwrights for ot
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