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01 April 20 · Opportunities
Connecting, empowering end inspiring female Welsh and Wales-based writers. Unheard Voices is a new Sherman Theatre programme designed to help ensure that unheard voices get heard. Each year Unheard Voices will champion a different group we would like to be heard more on our stage
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The Sherman Theatre is pleased to announce further projects as part of their Interval programme which is designed to support their artistic and freelance community and give our audiences the exceptional new writing they are used to. Read more here Deadline: not applicable Source:
Read with a free account →01 April 20 · Opportunities
The Royal Court has now moved their submissions process online. Read more here. Deadline: rolling Source: LPW Team
Read with a free account →31 March 20 · Opportunities / Original Content
Announcing a bonus edition of Play Club for 2020! In light of these isolating times, we thought we’d run an extra play club, open to everyone; LPB member or not. We’ve selected a classic text which should be easy to nab a copy of online and we’re inviting everyone and anyone to w
Read with a free account →30 March 20 · Opportunities
Are You A Playwright Needing A Reading Of Your Script? Well the Quarantined Theatre Company is looking to add some original scripts to their upcoming season! How to apply: If you have any finished one act or full length plays or musicals submit them to our email QuarantinedTheatr
Read with a free account →30 March 20 · Original Content / Play Club
Our first submission window is officially open for #PlayClub2020! We’re looking for brand new short plays written in response to this month’s play: Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones. Selected plays will be given a rehearsed reading at a special event at t
Read this article →27 March 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 →26 March 20 · Opportunities
The National Theatre has announced plans to stream NT Live shows for free on YouTube. From Thursday 2 April, a number of productions previously screened in cinemas globally as a part of National Theatre Live will be made available to watch for free. Read more Source: Whats On Sta
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2020. 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 to peruse the w
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
WRITE HOME: SCRIPT SURGERY ONLINE Are you a playwright in Devon and Cornwall and currently working on a script? Feel like you need some help on an extract of it? Would you like to talk over your idea? Check a character is working on the page? Down Stage Write’s SCRIPT SURGERY ONL
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
The Writing Squad wants to appoint a new member of their Core Team, with a specialism in prose fiction. If you are someone passionate about writers and new writing, who gets up in the morning excited by the prospect of working with other writers and is able to balance this with y
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
Feeling listless while in lockdown? The Creative Pandemic is a community website built to keep creative folk motivated and connected while stuck at home. They discuss ideas online, encourage each others work and celebrate every completed post. What they are looking for: short sto
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
The Manchester Performing Arts Group are currently looking for stage plays and musicals ready for a rehearsed reading. Due to the Covid19 situation they are not in a position to confirm when readings will take place. They are presuming it could be some months, but in the meantime
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
Short Com is delighted to announce its first ever script competition. Having screened some of the funniest short comedy films for several years by emerging comedy film-making talent to audiences and industry alike, they are now looking to unearth comedic writing talent to help ki
Read with a free account →26 March 20 · Opportunities
EMERGE is a platform that gives four emerging writers the opportunity to showcase their work to the industry. Plus each writer is offered an Associate Writer role at Flux Gym – receiving long term support. It’s FREE to submit. Location: Arcola Theatre (June 2020 – providing theat
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Digital Resources
As promised in our latest update, we’ll be opening up for rolling submissions from our members – if you’re not a member yet, find out more about joining for just £3.63 here! Why? One of our (many!) plans for the year was to use our member meetups to showcase the work of our membe
Read this article →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Slackline Productions is looking for submissions again… This time, they’re seeking your best monologues or two-handers… Send them either: A short monologue (2-3 minutes), featuring a strong female-identifying character aged 35+ or A short two-hander (5 minutes) which will be film
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Create a short video for the chance to win £250 and have your work screened at a showcase of the most exciting new comedy at the BFI in 2020. COVID-19 UPDATE – The BFI is currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions so the screening event with LOCO is now expected take place lat
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
An opportunity to get your work filmed! Following a very successful series of short films screened in 2019 at International Film Festivals the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Acting are once again accepting script submissions for next year’s short films to be shot in Autumn 202
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Uproar Theatre is looking for 15 minute radio plays for their project Some Noise. Originally a scratch night, Uproar are keen to still produce a showcase of new writing, just in a different format! Writers must have a strong connection to the East of England (Suffolk, Norfolk, Ca
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
WriteNow is publisher Penguin’s programme to find, nurture and publish writers and illustrators from communities under-represented on the UK’s bookshelves. This includes (but is not isolated to) writers from BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) or LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, T
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Are you of East Asian or South East Asian descent and living in the English Midlands region? Are you interested in writing for live performance? After two years of offering an acting course in Birmingham, YELLOW EARTH ACADEMY is returning this year with a brand new FREE introduct
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize provides a great platform for new comedy plays and writers across the UK. To qualify for the prize, scripts must be original, unperformed and funny! The Prize is judged anonymously, meaning the reading and judging panels do not know the identi
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Power of One is the theme for a new writing Podcast. Monologues, short stories, poetry (maximum 750 words) based on a factual or fictional moment where a character discovers something new alone or reveals an experience or knowledge only solitude can bring are required. For contin
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