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14 April 16 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
The course covers the basics of writing drama through scenes written in class: dialogue, character, structure, story and performance. Dates: 23/04/16 – 25/06/16 Time: 14:00 – 17:00 Location: KS – Keeley Street Tutor: Ben Ellis Cost: £269 Find out more here. Source: Playwriting UK
Read with a free account →12 April 16 · Opportunities
Doughnut Productions are looking to hire writers for a new writing night that will be performed during the Camden Fringe 10 year celebration in August. They will be using the Cockpit Theatre as our venue and we are looking for two writers to write a 20 minute play each that is ba
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
Call out from The Equilibrium for a final short play for ‘Vintage Humans’, a scratch festival celebrating what we gain with age which will take place at Southwark Playhouse this May. The event will feature a series of short plays from a wide age range of writers (20’s-80’s) and t
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
Theatre Royal Strafford East is looking for artists to join them for this summer’s Musical Theatre Workshop (11-23 July 2016). MTW gives writers of beats, words, and sounds a place to develop their projects and voices under the guidance of TRSE’s artistic team along with Fred Car
Read with a free account →08 April 16 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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 grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →07 April 16 · Opportunities
Applications are now being accepted for the Graeae Theatre Company’s Play Labs programme. This one-day R&D platform provides a safe space and creative support to Deaf and disabled artists wishing to explore raw ideas and fresh stories for live performance, with artistic guidance
Read with a free account →06 April 16 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
Camden People’s Theatre is offering a new seed commission to artists from BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) backgrounds to create a new ‘scratch’ performance (up to 25 minutes long) as part of our Autumn 2016 programme. What you get: Each artist will receive £750 towards pr
Read with a free account →06 April 16 · 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: Nick Darke Writers’ Award 2016 Description: The N
Read with a free account →06 April 16 · Events
Meet The Radio Drama Producers Thursday, 21 April 2016 from 19:00 to 22:00 St Alban’s Centre, London Do you want to know more about writing for radio? The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has brought together a panel of audio producers to tell you about the business and art
Read this article →05 April 16 · Opportunities
The ArtsEd drama school in London is offering opportunities for screenplay writers to have their work developed and produced over the course of the next 12 months. Each script should combine ‘a clear, narrative arc with a degree of dramatic action’, be of 10-12 minutes in duratio
Read with a free account →05 April 16 · Education / Writing Workshops
Musical Theatre: Using music and lyrics to tell the tale Nov 21st – Nov 26th 2016 Totleigh Barton, Devon LPB is helping to promote courses from Arvon – a creative writing charity that enables writers to develop their craft with top practitioners in beautiful settings. Dreaming of
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Writing For Puppetry: Writing The Impossible Oct 24th – Oct 29th 2016 Lumb Bank, Yorkshire LPB is helping to promote courses from Arvon – a creative writing charity that enables writers to develop their craft with top practitioners in beautiful settings. Dreaming of a holiday whe
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Arvon City JW3 Playwriting: Step By Step May 01st – May 03rd 2016 London LPB is helping to promote courses from Arvon – a creative writing charity that enables writers to develop their craft with top practitioners. Arvon is wrapping up its special ingredients and bringing them to
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Playwriting: Improving your playwriting craft from blank page to stage Jun 20th – Jun 25th 2016 Lumb Bank, Yorkshire LPB is helping to promote courses from Arvon – a creative writing charity that enables writers to develop their craft with top practitioners in beautiful settings.
Read this article →04 April 16 · Opportunities
The 2016 Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, is now open for applications. The winner will receive £6000. Eligibility and Criteria: The Award is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for
Read with a free account →04 April 16 · Opportunities
Studio Players, Kentucky’s Oldest Community-Involved Theater, located in Lexington, is proud to announce their 3rd Annual 10-Minute Play Festival, to be performed in July 2016. We are looking for 7 strong, entertaining plays to feature so, once again, we are holding a competition
Read with a free account →02 April 16 · Opportunities
In Between Time in partnership with Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Fierce Festival, Trinity Centre, supported by Arnolfini, seek to commission an artist to make new work to premiere at IBT17 and tour throughout 2017. Wild Card Award is committed to supporting a
Read with a free account →01 April 16 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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 grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →31 March 16 · Opportunities
Doughnut Productions is looking to hire writers for a new writing night that will be performed during the Camden Fringe 10 year celebration in August. They will be using the Cockpit Theatre as a venue and are looking for two writers to write a 20 minute play each that is based on
Read with a free account →31 March 16 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2016. 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 the
Read with a free account →30 March 16 · Opportunities
The Pleasance is launching Litmus Fest a new annual RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT festival at Pleasance Islington. During the month of August, the Pleasance relocates to Edinburgh to run our 23 performance spaces at the Festival Fringe, so often London becomes a maintenance hub. This ye
Read with a free account →29 March 16 · Opportunities
The Pensive Federation will be launching The Significant Other Festival, an original new writing festival in the north at the Oldham Coliseum. The performances will take place on Saturday May 14th 2016. 10 x 10 minute plays, 10 writers, 10 directors, 20 actors – all in 10 days 10
Read with a free account →29 March 16 · Writing Workshops
HighTide produces plays by outstanding new writers, and as part of their HighTide Academy your play could be performed at HighTide Festival 2016. The Academy takes place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd April at their offices in Farringdon, London. They’re inviting twenty five emer
Read this article →29 March 16 · Writing Workshops
Masterclass: Introduction to Playwriting with Fin Kennedy Saturday 4 June 2016, 10 – 6pm, London Location: Tamasha (Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA) This one-day workshop for beginners aims to introduce some basic principles of dramatic storytelling, and demystify som
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