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16 June 20 · Events
The Upload Festival is a virtual festival showcasing comedy and writing (of all kinds) on air across BBC Local Radio and online, from Friday 19 June to Sunday 21 June. It includes stand up, sketches or scenes… Poetry, fiction, spoken word, blogs or drama, all uploaded by you! Fin
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QUEER ALL ABOUT IT SCRIPT CALL OUT HIV: 30+ YEARS OF CHANGE Green Carnation Company are looking for script submissions for the first of their QUEER ALL ABOUT IT short film commissions. They are looking for writers to respond to the theme HIV: 30+ Years of Change, exploring how at
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Gemma Arrowsmith, writer on Tracey Ullman’s Show and script editor of Newsjack is running ‘The Crash Course’; a short FREE online sketch comedy writing course aimed at improving diversity in writers’ rooms. The Crash Course consists of four 90 min workshops covering sketch struct
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Submissions are open for the 2020 Graduate Rep Season ‘Acting Out’ organised by Adam Morley Acting Out aims to provide a creative platform to 2020 graduate artists whose final year performances and showcases have been affected by Covid-19. The scheme is also open to 2019 graduate
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Script Search with TriForce Creative Network and Greenacre Films. TriForce Creative Network and Greenacre Films are launching a new opportunity for writers. #ScriptSearch is a great opportunity for writers to get their feature film idea into paid development! Greenacre Films, the
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Monologues or poetry (750 words maximum) are invited for a curated literary event responding to the theme – How to be young again The event is a fundraiser for health based charities on July 4th. Following the success of Power of One at University of Glasgow Literary Festival (sh
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The opportunity is for all LGBTQ+ writers. It is run by Bloom Theatre (consisting of Jack Albert Cook & Simon Rupert). Writers should submit their script, a short synopsis & a short bio of themselves. They can apply by emailing us at theatrebloom@gmail.com No entry fee. All info
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COMBATTING COVID-19 WITH CULTURE: WORLD’S FIRST MULTIMEDIA THEATRE DISCOVERY PLATFORM LAUNCHED. Thespie showcases over 1000 theatre shows & resources from across the globe: filmed performances, livestreams, podcasts, artist talks, educational resources and more Headline Details:
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The Dramatist Guild have a variety of free readings and workshops. These are all completely free and open for anyone to attend. DG Footlights™ will present a virtual reading of JEMENEYE by J.B. Miller. 10 June 2020, 7pm BST https://www.eventbrite.com/e/united-kingdom-online-dg-fo
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Want to support LPB? Become a member! 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
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Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, producers of the satirical audio comedy, “Throwing Shade”, are looking to expand their audio drama offerings! Are you a writer with a radio-play-style idea but no way to produce it? Then contact Eclectic Full Contact Theatre at info@eclectic-theatre
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‘Shakespeare in Italy’ is looking for short radio dramas of no more than 15 minutes which can be read by two actors max (you can have more than 2 characters) which are a modern response to the stories of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Think of it as a short folk-tale with a modern settin
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Part of the Grid is Part of the Main’s programme of affordable theatre tech, design and producing workshops. With the theatre industry on pause, they’ve decided to offer affordable Zoom workshops designed to provide artists with opportunities to train and create. They are offerin
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The Factory Theatre Workshop are doing a callout for submissions for the second edition of their monthly newsletter. In association with The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, they are sending out a monthly email featuring YOUR WORK! This month, they are looking for work that responds
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@TriForceCreativeNetwork are excited to announce a new opportunity for writers! They’re working with @GreenacreFilms to launch #ScriptSearch, an opportunity for writers to get their feature film idea into paid development! Greenacre Films, the team behind Netflix hit Been So Long
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Fund-raising New Writing Festival to support Shakespeare’s Globe. Each day 4 Plays (3 short 1 Full Length) will be broadcast / performed. The globe is on the verge of collapse financially During this crisis and doesn’t get any help from the government or The national lottery fund
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Prime Theatre have playwrighting and drama workshops for 9-13’s and 14-25’s from 15 June – 28 Aug. These are open to everyone across the UK. Most recently the writing group have been involved in writing for a play with Pitlochry Festival Theatre which is being recorded by profess
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The BAFTA & Emmy winning Danny Brocklehurst will be joining Actor Awareness to discuss his incredible achievements so far. Danny is a BAFTA and International Emmy winning screenwriter who has written on some of the biggest UK dramas of recent years. Credits include BRASSIC, SHAME
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OutStageUs is an annual LGBT+ new writing event run by Manchester based Hive North. Each year up to eight short plays, scenes or monologues are selected to be developed and brought to production at The Lowry, Salford. The successful script writers will receive a fee of £300 and b
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Sharp Shorts is a new opportunity for Scotland’s most exciting emerging filmmakers to help reinvent the nation’s reputation in this format. Writers, writer/directors or film making teams of writer, director and producer are invited to submit a one-page outline of their film idea.
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The Queans Theatre is looking for artists to join REPRESENT: The Digital Performance Fundraiser to help raise money for SARI (Stand Against Racism and Inequality). Pieces can be a maximum length of 10 minutes and must be filmed and edited in preparation for the digital fundraiser
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Box of Tricks Theatre, based in Manchester, run several opportunities for writers including a PlayMakers Network. PlayBox 2021 Their upcoming PlayBox 2021 is an open-call opportunity for North-West England based playwrights Box of Tricks is looking to find three early-career Nort
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Box of Tricks Theatre, based in Manchester, run several opportunities for writers including a PlayMakers Network. Pen Pals Their Pen Pals scheme is currently open for applications. Pen Pals is an exchange programme which will match pairs of playwrights to connect, share ideas and
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We’re halfway there… Play Club 2020 has seen three incredible winning plays so far, and we had a brilliant selection to choose from for our second window in response to Duncan Macmillan’s play Lungs, with writing from an eclectic range of voices. It’s been a tough choice to selec
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