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28 May 20 · Resources
Joining in for a Q&A on Thursday 28th May 2020 at The Breakfast Club with Joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roy Alexander Weise MBE. Roy Alexander Weise is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award and directed his critically acclaimed, sell o
Read this article →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Calling all under 18s! The Questors Theatre have been setting young people a series of writing challenges over lockdown, and last week they launched their first competition. Write a soliloquy from the point of view of this character – winner will be produced for their Scenes in S
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Master Class are a theatre education charity *usually* based in the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Their charitable objectives are to advance the education of young people aged 17 – 30 by promoting the study of drama and in particular the art and craft of theatre, and they are delighte
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
For those of you looking for writing opportunities from a distance, The Undisposables are looking for a small selection of new scenes and monologues. Selected scenes will be performed live to an online audience via Zoom Webinar, all as part of their virtual scratch night, Scratch
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Write Now Berlin are launching a 10-minute play competition. It’s time to write. Today sharing stories is more important than ever. Even though they are a Berlin based playwriting community they would like to make this competition accessible to anyone from anywhere around the wor
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Events
There are still a couple of spaces left for a chat & Q&A with multi-talented Luke Barnes on Thursday 28th May @ 7.30PM. Want some tips on writing? Developing a script? Wanna learn how to go from page to stage? Find out about process? Then come join us! Luke is an award-winning pl
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Claire-Monique Martin is currently putting together a new writing festival of 80 new plays to help raise funds for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The globe is on the verge of collapse financially During this crisis and doesn’t get any help from the government or The natio
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities
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
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities / Resources
Are you interested in a career writing fiction for the television industry? There are five scholarships available to study a Masters for FREE at Glasgow Caledonian University including one for a Gaelic speaker. These scholarships are supported by industry partners including: Warn
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Entries are now open for writers to submit a short play of no more than 10 minutes in length on the theme of THE ROAD NOT TAKEN for the Chesil Theatre’s TakeTen fesitval. Ten plays will be selected from all the submissions and the PRIZE for the winning ten plays is that they will
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · News
UK independent production company Red Planet Pictures and ITV, are due to hold the next phase of their bi-annual writing competition as digital masterclasses this year. Leading the online sessions will be prolific writer and Red Planet Pictures CEO Tony Jordan, ITV Drama Commissi
Read this article →26 May 20 · Resources
Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is a new script-reading service for musicals. They want to make sure services are open and accessible to everyone, so they are accepting submissions from writers of all levels for pay-what-you-can feedback on new projects. Please take a look at th
Read this article →26 May 20 · Events
Here are all the upcoming Dramatists Guild events for United Kingdom based dramatists. These are all free and open for anyone to attend: 27 May 2020, 7pm BST United Kingdom DG Footlights: Souvenir by Matt Gurr 1 June 2020, 7pm – 8:30pm BST “Hopping Across the Pond” Discussion wit
Read this article →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Script6 and Nicholas McInerny are looking for five 10-minute scripts about life during the Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of identifying a producer to develop them for television broadcast. If the offer is accepted, the aim would be to have the scripts filmed and produced during
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Reflex Theatre based in Norwich – an Actor-Led Ensemble creating exciting and original content through Rehearsed Improvisation. They’re looking for submissions for their short form online scratch night that will take place on 1st July 2020. They have one rule – the writers must s
Read with a free account →22 May 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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
Read with a free account →21 May 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: ChewBoy Productions Seeking Isolation Inspired Wo
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Aktualise is so excited to be taking its biannual scratch night online: cue CYBER-SCRATCH. Due to be hosted by Poplar Union in May, Aktualise Theatre are determined to continue to find, support and give new work a platform despite the current circumstances. The CYBER-SCRATCH will
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Making Wave Theatre Company are looking for monologues (5-15 mins) written by young people (11-18) for their online scratch night. There is no theme or genre so write about anything and everything. The chosen pieces will be performed and filmed by their actors and premiered on Yo
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Events
Chronic Insanity has a new production coming out as part of their 12 shows in 12 months project and they’d love for people to see it. Life_Stream is an immersive play about a group of people waiting for a Red Room, a live stream of a murder on the dark web, to begin. The audience
Read this article →19 May 20 · Uncategorized
An online workshop this Thursday (21st May) on character arcs: from the hero’s journey, to the tragic, flat and absurdist arcs, across drama and comedy! All levels of experience welcome… amateurs to professional writers. It will be a fun and supportive session. Sign up today! htt
Read this article →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Inspired by the success of Kali SOLOS, they are launching an open call-out for writers to submit monologues for the series. They are looking for monologues that are between 3 -5 minutes long and are spoken by a character who is in isolation due to the Covid-19 crisis. Their reade
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Events / Resources
The Goats Theatre Company presents podcast Play The Goat : Podcast Edition featuring new short plays and poems. Their latest play, Retha’s First March by Rex McGregor sees a young teacher, Retha, experiencing her first Black Lives Matter protest, and she is galvanized to take fur
Read this article →19 May 20 · Events / Resources
Every week, for one week only, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival are showcasing a film of a theatre show from a previous SMHAF, with brand new programme notes. To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, from 18-24 May they are delighted to bring you Electrolyte by Wildcard Theatre,
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