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21 April 20
DIGITAL RESOURCES Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre & playwriting coming soon! May 10, 2021 Learn with London Playwrights is a series of podcast style… Read More An English Angst – a new political comedy drama in reaction to Brexit, written and c
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Applications are now open for the White Bear’s August Festival of New Writing! Last year they had 11 shows over three weeks, and shows have since transferred to various other venues around the country, including Theatre Deli Sheffield, The Vaults Festival, Theatre 503 and many mo
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Calling artists and companies with a connection to Europe and something to say! Voila! want to hear about your shows. Voila! Europe is the annual theatre rendez-vous of European theatre makers in London. Their curated programme is a border-busting mix of multicultural, multilingu
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Join the BBC Writer’s Room for a Live Q&A Webinar with BAFTA Award-Winning writer, Nicole Taylor about BBC One’s latest 5-part Drama, The Nest. Nicole will be joined by Studio Lambert’s Head of Drama Susan Hogg and Executive Producer of The Nest, Simon Lewis. The Q&A will be chai
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Actor Awareness are launching an online virtual Scratch Night. They will try and run this as close to how they would normally run a scratch night as possible. They are looking for 4 monologues/ duologues and the theme is just comedy. Stuck in isolation, with anxiety, worry & it’s
Read with a free account →17 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 →16 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: LPW Play Club 2020: Lockdown Edition – A Taste of
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Quince Magazine is a new online literary magazine to be launched Spring/Summer 2020. They are accepting submissions for Issue One from writers and artists on the theme of LOVE. There are five categories including one for SCRIPTS (stage or screen scripts of up to 10 pages/minutes)
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Back for a second year, Like The Prose is a writing opportunity from The Literal Challenge – a small social enterprise that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and newbies through creative challenges. Over the last few years, they have run 9 different challeng
Read with a free account →14 April 20 · Opportunities
This is a call out for independent theatre makers and playwrights throughout the North of England who wish to make a short creative response to this unprecedented moment, to be shared online with Digital Squad’s audiences. They are offering nine commissions worth £1,000, aimed at
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Nouveau Riche are on the lookout for up and coming Writer-Performers of Colour for a new online competition. Mad Times Monologues seeks aspiring candidates to submit a short monologue, of approximately 3-5 minutes to be judged by a panel of industry professionals as well as an op
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Brush Stroke Order has partnered with Manchester International Festival to deliver a 2 hour online workshop de-mystifying the world of playwriting competitions for writers who are ready to submit their work to theatres, competitions and writer development schemes. The workshop wi
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What do we mean by form in theatre? How can we feel empowered to discover bold and fitting forms to tell our stories? This session will unlock your creative imagination and further your understanding of form. The session is for writers of all experiences levels to further their u
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Theatre companies Sohaya Visions and Mukul and Ghetto Tigers are looking for scripts that promote tolerance and understanding in imaginative ways for their RAFTA award (Rise Against Fanaticism Through the Arts). The winner will be awarded £1,000 to develop the work to performance
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Want to hear your writing being read on the radio by some well known Scottish names? Pulse 98.4 want your funny monologues. The theme is A Day to Remember. You can take that to mean anything you like. Just spread some comedy joy. The winning six entries will be broadcast on the a
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Live Theatre is a home for new plays, and they want to read your script. They are interested in bold, diverse and contemporary new plays. They tell stories about the world we live in and often, but not limited to, their home region of the North East. If you have an imaginative an
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Newly established production company Kickitdown productions are on the lookout for new pieces of writing that will work in a video call format. These pieces will be live streamed over meeting platform “Zoom” to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. The writi
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The Northern Exposure: Short Film Script Lab is back, taking place this year from June – November. The Script Lab is an opportunity for up to ten emerging writers to develop a short film from an early idea to a completed script in a supportive, inspiring environment. Taking place
Read with a free account →13 April 20 · Digital Resources / Original Content
Our submission window is officially open for the lockdown edition of #PlayClub! We’re looking for brand new short plays written in response to our bonus play: A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney. Selected plays will be given a rehearsed reading at a special event at the end of th
Read this article →10 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 →09 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: BBC Writers Academy 2020 Description: The BBC Stu
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Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize accepts plays on any topic affecting the LGBTQ+ community, and the promotion of diversity in love, society, politics and culture. Two plays (one in English and one in Italian) will be awarded the amount of 1000 Euros each. Special Ment
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Submissions are now open for ‘And, We’re Back’ a scratch night celebrating the fringe theatre community and supporting the reopening of the Bread and Roses Theatre after covid-19. Date still to be confirmed. They are seeking submissions from writers with short plays no more than
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The King Lear Prizes have launched to encourage ordinary people, who have never been published before and are not professional writers, musicians or artists, to create new works of literature, poetry, music and art during the time they are quarantined. King Lear Prize Categories
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