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20 November 20 · News
Want to find your favourite playwriting books or plays and support independent booksellers? We’ve created our own store front with Bookshop (an online book store which supports independents!). It’s still very much work in progress but we plan to add to it as we go along. Please f
Read this article →20 November 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →19 November 20 · 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: Act Your Age: Call out for plays with roles for o
Read with a free account →19 November 20 · Opportunities
The Barn Theatre are pleased to announce a Playwriting Showcase in March 2021. Over three nights, we will stage three new works in The Barn Theatre (to a socially distanced audience) and simultaneously live stream these shows via our website. Audience members will be asked to rat
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Deadline: 18 December 2020 Source: Playwriting Uk Facebook Group
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
CALL OUT! POTLUCK: ONLINE EDITION Our annual Potluck Festival is a chance to bring your ideas to life! We are looking for proposals ranging from fully formed scripts to fledgling ideas. This festival will be a little different as we bring it to the digital age. We want to help yo
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS/DIRECTORS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for our THIRD scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. The night
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Don’t miss DaDaFest International Festival’s biennial celebration of disability art, which will take place digitally this year! 27 November – 3 December, tune in for an exciting programme of FREE online events and artworks: https://dadafest.co.uk/events/ Source: Write A Play
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
ThickSkin is looking to offer a paid opportunity to an early career writer based in Greater Manchester. This is an opportunity to collaborate with ThickSkin’s Artistic Director Neil Bettles towards an innovative new digital project This could be a script sample or an extract of p
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
The short course entitled “Responding and Adapting to the New Normal” is an eight-week series of sessions for anyone living within the Greenwich area at the early stages of their writing career. This course will challenge its members to write to a specific brief, giving them the
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Stratford East are looking for TWO artists with excellent theatre-based participatory practice to work in collaboration with two Newham-based community organisations to create a creative project with their members early next year, as part of their Learning & Participation departm
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
The BBC is looking for a writer who is the start of a promising career in writing comedy to join them as a staff writer. Find out more https://www.writeaplay.co.uk/event/bbc-studios-audio-recruiting-staff-writer/here. Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020 Source: Write A Pl
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
The Yard’s Live Lab will support six artists from a wide range of performance practices to develop as directors, strengthen their artistic style, and work on a new idea for a show over four months, with financial support. The programme is dedicated to the memory of the late Howar
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Calling all Audio Drama writers! Dark Unicorn Productions Ltd (UK-based) are currently planning their next few strands of online content as they work towards theatres viably reopening here in the UK and one area they are giving due consideration to, in collaboration with some fri
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
BBC Academy Digital Cities 24 – 26 November: A series of FREE events for the creative industries. Book here Digital Cities Virtual returns on the 24th November for another fantastic lineup of ONLINE events for people working in or interested in TV and related creative industries.
Read with a free account →16 November 20 · Opportunities
A fun two evening workshop designed to help you create a unique monologue for performance. Nov 23/ 24 6-8pm. Run by Lily Bevan (BBC Radio 4) About this Event Are you an actor or writer (or anyone else who fancies it) who’d like to write your very own brand new dramatic or comedic
Read with a free account →16 November 20 · Opportunities
Do you have a great idea for a musical but need an incentive to get writing? Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is offering dramaturgical support for the next great idea. To enter email chalkdramaturgy@gmail.com with the subject heading ‘Chalk To Me! Competition’, attaching a one m
Read with a free account →13 November 20 · 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! Featured posts: **Update: Covid-19 and our work**
Read with a free account →12 November 20 · News
Some good news! LPW member Henry Dawe has just had his first book published, a six-part series of extended comedy sketches called ‘Play on Words’. To give a taster from the episode called ‘The Grand Tour of the British Isles’: ‘Well, don’t forget my cousin’s a seamstress if that
Read this article →12 November 20 · Opportunities
Writer Sarah McDonald-Hughes leads this workshop on writing for young audiences. Read the full details here. Date: 25 November 2020 at 7pm Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →12 November 20 · Opportunities
Are you aged 16-25? Interested in telling or writing stories? Would you like to learn to write a short audio play? Pentabus is looking for 8-10 Young Writers to join writer Sophie Ellerby across six sessions to explore the principles of playwriting and work towards creating a 5 m
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Miniver’s Minute Monologue Challenge. Let’s get those creative juices flowing! The theme for entries is… ‘unfamiliar’ so please do incorporate this however you like. How to apply: head to https://www.minivertheatre.com/minute-monologue for more details! Deadline: 23 November 2020
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Papatango are running a free online playwriting course in winter 2020-21, specifically for writers based in Wiltshire and Dorset. This 6-week course will provide an in-depth overview of the key elements of playwriting, including finding inspiration and generating ideas, building
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Thanks to the generous financial support of Morven McLean at Original Editions, the Tom McGrath Trust is offering 3 Awards, each up to £2,000: two awards will be given as Maverick Awards in memory of Tom, and one will be a Wild Award, to celebrate the unique contribution made by
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