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20 February 20 · Opportunities
What is it? Creative Youth is pleased to announce their new Creative Talent Programme for 2020-2021. They are searching for three new and exciting emerging or early career companies/artists to support. What will you receive? £2,000 to develop a piece of creative work Support acro
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What is it? The Voice of a Woman (VOW) is working with an international broadcaster to produce a series of short films by women screenwriters. With plans to go into production in the next few months, VOW is looking for a short screenplay for the Pilot. Requirements: The short sho
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The Phil Fox Award for Playwriting, which is named after OETC’s founder, 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 conti
Read with a free account →18 February 20 · Opportunities
BBC New Creatives is an exciting talent development scheme offering commissioning opportunities for emerging creatives to make new artistic works in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC channels and platforms. If you’re based in the English Midlands, the New Creativ
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The 2nd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition, hosted by Langham Court Theatre in Victoria, Canada, is open to playwrights worldwide. Cash prizes of $9000 for the winner and four $525 prizes for the runners up. The winning play will be workshopped in Victoria
Read with a free account →17 February 20 · Opportunities
The ETPEP Award 2020 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP). The Award’s purpose is to find and nurture a playwright wh
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The Pleasance Theatre Trust and Theatre Common have partnered to launch INCUBATE, providing vital support to 4 working class playwrights through giving them the time, money & space needed to explore a new concept / script. Who is eligible? You must identify as a working-class pla
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The Pleasance Theatre Trust have launched a new £10k Development Fund which will provide financing, mentorship and programming opportunities to support UK-based Artists of Colour in bringing their work to #EdFringe. The fund will provide productions with investment of up to £5,00
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Scribe Playwriting Competition are inviting playwrights from around the world to submit new full length and one-act plays or musicals into the competition. The winners of the competition will receive a live reading in front of an audience and the prestigious Marsha Ann Croyle Awa
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What is it? Scratching the Surface is a scratch night for new writing on the 24th April 2020 at the Space theatre in East London/ the Docklands. They’re looking for 8 new, exciting pieces of writing to combine into one memorable production, giving a platform to emerging artists a
Read with a free account →17 February 20 · Events
Casarotto Ramsay are hosting another unrepresented female writer surgery which will be taking place on the 4 March 2020. They’re now expanding these surgeries to female writers from ALL genres, not just comedy. To book a spot please email fiftyfifty@casarotto.co.uk telling them a
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Roundhouse associates Global Voices Theatre are accepting submissions for Global Youth Voices, an event featuring a unique selection of international plays never before performed in the UK. The event, produced, curated, directed and performed by artists under 25 showcases 5 excer
Read with a free account →14 February 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 →12 February 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: EKP and Paines Plough: The Women’s Prize for Play
Read with a free account →11 February 20 · News
You asked, we listened. We’ve had lots of questions lately about how to format a stage play. So, we thought we’d come up with a useful, downloadable guide. Packed with all you need to know about formatting, plus some handy hints and tips, this guide is perfect for both beginners
Read this article →11 February 20 · Jobs / Opportunities
The Creative Future Writers’ Award, New Writing South and Preston Park Recovery Centre are pleased to offer a unique development opportunity for a talented, emerging/mid-career under-represented writer who is interested in working with vulnerable adults and/or in non-traditional
Read with a free account →11 February 20 · Jobs / Opportunities
Are you interested in bringing cultural history to life? Capable of reimagining stories, and repackaging myths and legends with the words and slang of today? Opal22 is looking for a scriptwriter for their Life of Shaka project. They are looking for someone who can present a moder
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Lungs Project is now accepting proposals for new works to be published in the fourth issue of their annual magazine. This open call themed “Visions of Home” is aimed at early-career photographers (or artists working with lens-based media), poets and writers from the African diasp
Read with a free account →11 February 20 · Jobs / Opportunities
The Watermill Theatre are looking for a writer to adapt Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for The Watermill Ensemble to create an abridged version for a cast of three. Their acclaimed A Mini Summer Night’s Dream in 2019 saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by only three actors tour
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The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is inviting applications for the one-year MA in Operamaking for 2020-21. Since it began in 2014, this course has already launched some of the most exciting new practitioners in the world of contemporary opera. Their writers and composers ha
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Brush Stroke Order are now offering a limited number of bursaries each month to help writers on low incomes access their script reading service. These bursaries are available to people who are in receipt of benefits, registered as disabled, full time carers or students in full ti
Read with a free account →11 February 20 · Opportunities
Creative Youth are looking for new work to for their Creative Youth Scratch Night to be held in a new and exciting space in Kingston. Successful applicants will receive a set fee to present their work at the event, a safe space to trial new work in front of a live audience, and f
Read with a free account →11 February 20 · Events
Mrs C’s Collective Theatre Company are extremely excited to launch their FIRST workshop for their Spring Season 2020 with “Writing is Re-Writing” led by Francis Grin on the 10th February 2020 (4pm-6pm). So you might have ‘Draft 0’ sitting in front of you. You might hate it, you m
Read this article →11 February 20 · Opportunities
What is it? The Customs House South Shields is currently preparing for their Takeover Festival for 2020 and are seeking to appoint this year’s Young Writer in Residence. Each year The Customs House is taken over by emerging artists and arts professionals aged up to 25 years of ag
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