20 January 21 · Opportunities
SCRATCHING THE SERVERS IS BACK! And this time they have some funding under our belt thanks to the wonderful Space Theatre This online new writing night is once again in need of writers, directors and actors. “Theatre in lockdown, where can I apply!?” We hear you cry…All details c
Read with a free account →20 January 21 · Opportunities
Deadline: 29 January 2021 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook group
Read with a free account →20 January 21 · Opportunities
Source: Playwriting UK
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · Opportunities
CYTO are looking for writers based in Croydon or South East London aged 16-30 to submit short plays for online performance. CYTO will rehearse and perform up to 4 plays of 15-30 minutes each with two groups, aged 6-12 and 13-18. Plays need to be suitable for these ages. Plays do
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · Opportunities
SpareParts is delighted to bring Lullaby, by internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram, to Sandbach in April 2021 in association with Sandbach Transport Festival. In their words: To accompany the work, we are offering a commission for a North West based writer to create an orig
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · Opportunities
Applause Rural Touring is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation based in Kent, a rural touring scheme that supports communities throughout Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex to access professional theatre, music and other performing arts. We are looking to commission bet
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · News
The Living Record Festival is now live! Explore a festival of digital media designed specifically for streaming created by over 40 independent artists and theatre companies from across the world. Accessible from your living room at the click of a button, the Living Record Festiva
Read this article →18 January 21 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is accepting submissions for British Theatre Challenge 2021. The BTC is entering its ninth year and gives the opportunity for playwrights both new & seasoned to have their work professionally produced at the Jack Studio Theatre in London. – The opportunit
Read with a free account →15 January 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support us? Become a member today for less than £4! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news. Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! London Playwrights’ Workshop supports the Living R
Read with a free account →14 January 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: Beardance Theatre – Texts in Isolation Descriptio
Read with a free account →14 January 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support us? Become a member today for less than £4! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news. Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! London Playwrights’ Workshop supports the Living R
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2021. 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 →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Date: 17 January 2021 Source: Playwriting UK
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Literature Wales recognises the impact COVID-19 has on well-being and mental health and how it has increased loneliness and isolation for many people. Literature in all its forms can help bring people together and give voice to the voiceless during these challenging times. Litera
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
FUTURE FORMS will be an 8 week investigative course for writers that will offer participants the opportunity to interrogate the story telling potential and social implications of new technologies such as AI, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and other areas of technological ad
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for monologues based on the timely theme of Past, Present, Future by writers with a connection to south east London. The Jack Studio wants to find bold and original voices from our community in this new writing event. You might be a playwright or a poet,
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Cast, Doncaster’s iconic theatre, are looking for an experienced, professional Playwright with experience of leading workshops with children and young people to lead our new Young Writers Club. The role will include leading workshops for young people aged 8 – 11, 11 -14 and 14 –
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Cast, Doncaster’s Performance Venue, is looking for an early career, Northern Playwright to support their new Young Writers Club and to act as a positive role model to our young writers and develop a piece of their own writing. The role will include assisting workshops for young
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · News
Happy New Year everyone and hope you all had a great festive break! Whilst going into Lockdown (for our UK followers at least) hasn’t been quite the best way to kick off 2021, we’re still feeling optimistic about developing our work throughout the year and most of all, supporting
Read this article →07 January 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: ChewBoy Productions Seeking Isolation Inspired Wo
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Global pandemic? Second Lockdown? Homeschooling children? At your wit’s end? 2020 has been A LOT. Especially for creative parents. So let’s check in with each other! Staying connected in a crisis is hard. Staying creative when faced with homeschooling children full-time is harder
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Have you always wanted to write Comedy? Do you have an idea for a Sitcom but don’t know where to start? Have you started a Sitcom script but don’t know how to finish it? Whether you are a first time writer or an experienced one, this Sitcom Writing Workshop will help you develop
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
We are looking for 3 emerging writers and 1 emerging dramaturg to join the OT’s Writers Collective. The Collective is an opportunity for a group of writers and a dramaturg to share skills, techniques and obsessions, and to fire up conversations and collaborations. It is run by th
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