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02 December 20 · Opportunities
Heads Bodies Legs Theatre Company is looking for writers to attend a series of free online writing workshops to explore themes primarily around sexuality, LGBTQ+ identity and sex work themes. The writing workshops are part of the Molly’s Masquerade, a Heritage Lottery and Arts Co
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Queer writers, creatives, and artists of any discipline are welcome to drop in on a weekly two-hour Zoom call for dedicated silent creative work every Thursday evening throughout the month of November from 7pm – 9pm GMT. These open creative sessions are offered free and open to a
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
FRESH is Frumpish Theatre’s first New Writing Festival, dedicated to promoting new short plays by womxn writers. They are looking for nine new 30-minute plays to be performed as part of FRESH. Theyare looking for stories by womxn and non-binary voices, though the cast does not ha
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Open Culture are looking for proposals to form next year’s festival programme and showcase the city’s phenomenal year-round arts offer to a diverse audience from across the North West and beyond. LightNight is Liverpool’s annual one-night arts festival offering audiences an unfor
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The Northern Writers’ Awards are now open for entry until Thursday 18 February 2021. There are multiple categories and Prizes available. The winners of the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards will be announced during the week of 21 June 2021. The 2021 announcement may take place virtua
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
OMF Theatre is looking for writers to submit comedy sketches for a new radio series on community radio station Liskeard Radio in Cornwall (staffed entirely by volunteers). This is an unpaid opportunity to have your work produced and performed on local radio as well as on the OMF
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A Thousand Stories (an iteration of Thousand Films) was established in 2019 to find new voices in film and television and to provide a bridge between writers looking for a break and an industry hungry for new talent. In its first year, the Thousand Stories competition focused on
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · News
Congratulations to LPW members, Lekha Desai Morrison whose new play, Myles and Me is being performed on 9th and 10th December at The Space Theatre in London. It will be streamed live on the evening of the 10th. The link to book tickets is https://space.org.uk/event/myles-and-me/.
Read this article →30 November 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December2020. 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 →30 November 20 · Opportunities
The Bush is looking for eight people who are passionate about writing a play to join their new West London Playwrights’ Group. Over the course of 9 weekly classes, taking place every Friday, our artistic team will take you through the fundamentals of playwriting and support you i
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
The Bush Theatre is committed to championing exciting new voices in theatre. If you’re a playwright who is not currently represented by an agent, and you have a play to share with them, they would love to receive it during their submissions window! What they are looking for: play
Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Original Content
Is it really almost Christmas?! This year seems to have flown by, despite containing some of what seemed like the longest of locked down days! But here we are at the end of this strange and challenging year and although there is still plenty of uncertainty, we hope you’ll be look
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The Papatango New Writing Prize is back! The UK’s biggest annual playwriting award has been remodelled, in a new partnership between Papatango and English Touring Theatre, to support thrice as many artists. Remaining free, open to anyone in the UK or Ireland, and anonymously asse
Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Opportunities
Kimberley Andrews leads this intensive two-hour workshop designed to sharpen your dialogue skills! This fun, interactive session will allow you to tune your ears to natural speech patterns and explore how dialogue functions within and serves your story. You’ll learn to be a rigor
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As playwrights, we have to pitch in many different ways: from an interview for a writer development programme to a meeting with a producer to a friend asking ‘what are you writing at the moment?’ During this two hour session , LPW Director Kimberley Andrews will work through a ra
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This course is recommended as a follow on from Introduction to Writing for Audio. Find out more here. You’ve got the fundamentals of audio down. You know your sound effects from your dialogue. You know how to create interesting worlds, moments of action and are beginning to get t
Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Opportunities
When theatre festivals do finally start up again there will be huge competition for slots, so it will pay to know what you are letting yourself in for. This 2-hour crash course will explore some of the key considerations when thinking about taking your own work to a theatre festi
Read with a free account →26 November 20 · Opportunities
Following the ‘Playwrighting for Everyone’ course, which opened up the mystical writing courses of theatre for everyone, this second course is designed to help you focus your writing and write that play! Using a combination of more advanced looks at elements of playwrighting- cha
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Playwrights’ Playground is our new monthly ‘get together’ (virtually for now) where writers can meet, talk writing and share work. The sessions will be guided but really it’s a chance to informally talk about writing- the good the bad and the ugly, ask questions and try out work.
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This 4-week course will explore the skills required to write a screenplay or TV pilot. Beginning with an interrogation of the fundamental principles of good storytelling, the course will go on to consider other key elements of writing for screen including character, dramatic stru
Read with a free account →23 November 20 · Opportunities
MONOLOGUE CALL-OUT Young Vic Genesis Network members, designer David Medina Águila and director Alice Chambers, are looking to commission an important piece of theatre, which we intend to produce as part of a larger project of monologues that speak to a coming-of-age generation,
Read with a free account →23 November 20 · Opportunities
London-based Chalk Roots Theatre are seeking 20-40 minutes play to be staged as audio dramas in 2021. Over the past year all of us have been forced to contemplate our roles in arts and the role of arts in our own lives. Is life so full of confusion already that we have no right t
Read with a free account →23 November 20 · Opportunities / Uncategorized
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