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18 February 25 · Opportunities
It’s Flawstate‘s birthday in May. To celebrate, they’re holding their third Scratch Night at The Glitch in Waterloo on May 3rd, 2025. They are looking for pieces in development to be showcased at their event. Pieces must be ten minutes long and must have an existing creative team
Read with a free account →18 February 25 · Opportunities
Flawstate‘s Manchester branch is seeking scripts from new writers looking for support to complete their first full-length play. In 2025, Flawed Up North will select one Northern playwright for a three part research and development process, culminating in a read-through and feedba
Read with a free account →18 February 25 · Opportunities
Every good play starts a conversation. We’re delighted to bring you JST Pre Show Debate – a wide-ranging series of discussions, talkbacks, interviews and more. Wednesday 19 February 2025 17.45 – 18.45pm Join this panel of literary leaders in theatre, to hear their thoughts on wri
Read with a free account →18 February 25 · News / Offers
We have been offered discounted tickets to Son of a Bitch at London’s Southwark Playhouse, running 26th Feb – 15th March. Written and performed by award winning comedian, actor and writer Anna Morris, Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman wh
Read with a free account →18 February 25 · Opportunities
The BFI Future Film Festival is the UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers. This year, the festival runs from 20 February to 6 March, with events and screenings available online (for free) and in cinemas across the UK. Designed to help talented young filmmakers, age
Read with a free account →14 February 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Make sure you never miss an opportunity! Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Our weekly round-up has always been, and always will be totally free! However, we do rely on our paid subscribers to keep our organisation going. Please consider su
Read with a free account →14 February 25 · Opportunities
Deadline: 1 March 2025 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
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In the final week of Brighton Fringe Festival (28th May-1st June), the Regency Town House will be taken over for one week by The Writer’s Mark to celebrate the life and legacy of the enigmatic artist and writer of short stories – the extraordinary Leonora Carrington (1917-2011).
Read with a free account →07 February 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Make sure you never miss an opportunity! Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Our weekly round-up has always been, and always will be totally free! However, we do rely on our paid subscribers to keep our organisation going. Please consider su
Read with a free account →05 February 25 · Opportunities
Cast are looking for a professional playwright to work with the Doncaster People’s Theatre on a consultation and R&D phase of a proposal for our next production (Summer 2026). Job Description Cast are looking for a professional playwright to work with the Doncaster People’s Theat
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The Hodgkiss Director Award 2025 offers an emerging theatre director from Greater Manchester a unique opportunity to build a lasting relationship with the Royal Exchange Theatre. This award aims to support a director with a distinctive, underrepresented voice who has faced barrie
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Applications are now open for the Innovate Artist 2025/2026 cohort at Lincoln Arts Centre, made possible by funding from Arts Council England. We are looking for 5 artists, companies, or collectives local to Lincolnshire or within a 45 mile radius of Lincoln to join our Innovate
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Danú Media, in association with Greasán na Meán Skillnet and National Talent Academy for Film & TV Drama are delighted to partner with Philip Shelley and bring Greenlight Screenwriting Lab back in 2025 for it’s third year running! Greenlight Screenwriting provides support and up-
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This year, The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize will be awarded for the best playwriting response on the theme of Fear. Prizes First place: £3,000 Second place: £1,000 Third place: £1,000 Rules Open to all nationalities. Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry. Al
Read with a free account →04 February 25 · Opportunities
Barnstormers Amateur Dramatic Society, Minehead, West Somerset are seeking short minute plays. Open to all ages we encourage writers with a connection to Exmoor and/or West Somerset to apply What to should submit – 10-20 minute plays for a touring production in 2026 – these shoul
Read with a free account →31 January 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities and news! Can you help us to keep going? Find out more here Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! London Playwrights’ Member Opportunities Not a member yet? Sign up
Read with a free account →30 January 25 · Opportunities
We are commissioning 3 artists, creatives or activists connected to Peterborough or Cambridgeshire to host Culture Forum sessions between May 2025 – March 2026. These commissions are an opportunity to develop your facilitation skills, build your network, and strengthen your leade
Read with a free account →30 January 25 · Opportunities
Nottingham Playhouse is seeking a Writer and Composer to commission for our family show, The Little Mermaid, in 2025/26. Job Description Every Christmas, Nottingham Playhouse produces a family show aimed at children aged 3-8 in the Neville Studio. The production then tours to pri
Read with a free account →24 January 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities and news! Can you help us to keep going? Find out more here Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! London Playwrights’ Member Opportunities Not a member yet? Sign up
Read with a free account →23 January 25 · Opportunities
Crossing the Tees Book Festival invite writers from the Tees Valley to apply for the writer in residence commission for the 2025 festival. Job Description The festival would like to commission a writer in residence to support the 2025 Short Story Competition. The writer in reside
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Following the huge success of the first Festival in Oct 2023, The Script’s The Thing 2 will take place on Saturday 3rd May 2025, and is a celebration of new writing for theatre, TV, film, radio and all performance. It will take place across five different venues in the centre of
Read with a free account →23 January 25 · Opportunities
The Play Lottery is a playwriting contest for writers based anywhere in the UK, with a twist – the winning play is chosen entirely at random. Submissions are open for UK-based playwrights to submit a play with up to 2 performers. The selected script will be chosen by lucky dip an
Read with a free account →17 January 25 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities and news! Can you help us to keep going? Find out more here Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! London Playwrights’ Member Opportunities Not a member yet? Sign up
Read with a free account →17 January 25 · News
It’s fair to say that since we started in 2013, we’ve grown year on year in terms of the work we do to support emerging writers in the UK and beyond! We’re kicking off 2025 with the same goals we’ve always had: to nurture the next generation of playwrights and support writers in
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