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29 April 20 · Opportunities
As stage one of Sphinx Theatre’s 30th anniversary programme Sphinx 30, Sphinx is pleased to be able to offer ten £1000 seed commissions to emerging or mid-career female playwrights based in the UK via an open call. Each selected Sphinx 30 playwright will take part in the Sphinx L
Read with a free account →29 April 20 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for the University of Bristol Theatre Collection 2020 Kevin Elyot Award – created in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer. The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre
Read with a free account →29 April 20 · Resources
The team behind National Writing Day 2020 want their joint resources to be really useful for teachers and parents alike; thet hope writing together for young people can give them a sense of community and an outlet for their voices to be heard. Led by First Story, National Writing
Read this article →29 April 20 · Opportunities
The Phil Fox Award for Playwriting invites playwrights with any level of experience from across the UK to submit full-length scripts about issues related to addiction. The competition winner will receive a £6,000 commission from OETC to continue developing the winning script or t
Read with a free account →29 April 20 · Opportunities
Write and film yourself performing a monologue that is no longer than 60 seconds in Miniver Theatre’s minute monologue challenge. There will be three winners and three prizes of £50 each. Click here to enter. Deadline: 11th May 2020 Source: Instagram
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
Center Stage Israel, the first professional English-language theatre in Israel, are trying to survive and to keep the spirit of theatre alive. They embarked on their first 5 minute virtual play festival and it was a huge success. As such they are doing it again and are looking fo
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
Fable Workshop is looking for writers and performers who would be willing to use their time spent social distancing due to COVID-19 to help create new theatrical works that push the boundaries of how theatre can be produced for an online audience. In the wake of this global emer
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Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions. What sort of submissions do they consider?They accept plays and musicals. Only scripts for performance on stage; please do not send them screenplays or novels. They are happy to read work from agented and unagented playwr
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
Call all writers, artists, and anyone with creative bones. Anna Blackburn is running a collaborative poetry and art project called “Collected Thoughts From Cooped Up Creatives” and they are recruiting new contributors! Week-by-week creatives submit a few lines of poetry or a piec
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
Looking for a chance to share your migration experience and creative practice and to connect with fellow migrant artists? Join the Migrant Institute for ‘The Migrant Institute: performing (non)belonging & post-Brexit imaginaries’ on Tuesday, 9 June 2020 (10am-4pm) at the Universi
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
This week Theatre is the Cure: Worldwide Online Event producers will be developing a show that offers funny and dramatic, hopeful, inspiring, challenging, steeped in truth, monologues. Every interested playwright who sends an email requesting prompts by 1pm Pacific Time (9pm in L
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
Script Angel is delighted to offer the Screenwriter Coaching Inclusion Scholarship to writers from backgrounds underrepresented in film and television, who have talent and professional ambition. The scholarship will fund three months of coaching for one writer from a disadvantage
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities / Original Content
One down, three to go! We received some fantastic entries for the first Play Club 2020 window in response to Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones; with writing from vibrant and unique voices, so it was a difficult task to choose a piece for the reading. Howe
Read with a free account →24 April 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 →23 April 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: NHB Playgroup: read a play for free and take part
Read with a free account →22 April 20 · Events / Opportunities
Black Lives Black Words International Project is delivering a 2 hour online workshop to present a dynamic formative process in Playwriting. This is a pay-what-you-can workshop to develop your skills on 7th May. The course is open to all. Click here for more information and to boo
Read with a free account →22 April 20 · Resources
If you’re looking for some more interesting content for aspiring writers, Professor Dan Rebellato discusses matters with playwrights during lockdown. Lucy Kirkwood https://youtu.be/Lvg1LvXQF3c Alistair McDowall https://youtu.be/ioTHctF4_lA David Greig https://youtu.be/_1Xu5wmTvDg
Read this article →22 April 20 · Opportunities
As part of Subtext at The Earl of Derby’s New Writing Festival, they invite you to apply for their short play competition. Successful plays will be performed by professional actors in their lovely, small, but perfectly formed Pub Theatre in South East London (Zone 2) Please submi
Read with a free account →21 April 20 · Resources
Smith Scripts has set up a list of plays which they are offering entirely for free – no cost to the script and no performance fees – scripts to read by yourself, in your household, to record as a radio play, a podcast, a video – whatever you like! Take a look at the list … Free s
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Playwrights’ Workshop are doing a 15 min writers warm-up every Mon/Fri at 10:15am. If you can’t come join the live group, watch the videos for some inspiration. Click the link here. Source: PLAYWRITING UK Facebook
Read this article →21 April 20 · Opportunities
Are you a Black writer? Talawa’s free Script Reading Service provides feedback and support to emerging Black writers across the UK. How it works? Send them your script before 11.59pm on Sunday 26th April 2020 and they will confirm that they have received your script. Your script
Read with a free account →21 April 20 · Events / Resources
Part of the Main has a number of resources that may be useful for writers & artists during this time: Their Digital Theatre Resources database that lists all of the free & paid theatre opportunities to apply for (mostly playwriting!!!): bit.ly/digitaltheatreopps Their free & unde
Read this article →21 April 20 · Opportunities
Join ŠITE production’s special edition Quarantine Writing Exercise. Their experienced ŠITE Council will guide you through the process of writing a play in 1000 words, right from your living room. Please leave your information on their application form and they will get back to yo
Read with a free account →21 April 20 · Digital Resources
In this new blog series, the LPW team discuss their thoughts on all things writing and performance during the lockdown. In this post, Jack Pepper talks about the current opportunities to watch theatre performances online, and whether these can compare to the real thing… This week
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