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13 March 19 · Opportunities
The Upsetters is a short play night featuring plays written by writers of colour, directed by directors of colour and performed by actors of colour in all roles unless the script specifies otherwise. What they are looking for: scripts (15 mins) by writers of colour for their shor
Read with a free account →04 March 19 · Opportunities
Full Disclosure Theatre are now accepting submissions for special PRIDE edition of XPOSED, which will be staged at Southwark Playhouse on Sunday 30th June. The new writing night of short plays has enjoyed sold out audiences and continues to reveal the naked and entertaining truth
Read with a free account →04 March 19 · Opportunities
Shore Scripts have now opened their 2019 Feature Screenplay and TV Pilot Contest. They have re-invigorated their contests this year: The TV Pilot Contest now has separate categories for 1-hr and ½-hour projects and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes will be awarded in each category Every w
Read with a free account →27 February 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2019. 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 →15 February 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 2019. 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 th
Read with a free account →13 February 19 · Opportunities
The International Moving Image Society is seeking script submissions for their Table Read on the 21st February at Zero One, Soho in London. The event will feature a table read of short screenplays and extract and give a voice to your characters. What they are looking for: scripts
Read with a free account →13 February 19 · 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: Plays Rough London accepting submissions for new
Read with a free account →07 February 19 · Opportunities
Only 20 plays will be selected to receive three performances in the 88-seat Lion Theatre in the renowned Off Broadway performance center, Theatre Row. Right on 42nd Street in the heart of the theater district, this space is the choice of many professional Off Broadway premieres.
Read with a free account →30 January 19 · Opportunities
Submit a play for Plays Rough London’s twelfth new-writing night – ‘Theatre Without Sight or Sound’. They are staging six 5-15 minute plays: three for a blindfolded audience and three without any sound. “We want you to use this brief to break the boundaries of theatre. In order t
Read with a free account →30 January 19 · Opportunities
Playmill is the King’s Head Theatre’s festival of brand new work. For two weeks every July, they open their doors to the UK’s most exciting, bold and ambitious emerging companies. Whether you’re looking for a venue to host your London previews before heading off to the Edinburgh
Read with a free account →21 January 19 · Opportunities
The Lyric Theatre Belfast is now taking submissions for its third annual New Playwrights’ Programme. Aimed at new and emerging playwrights, this six month programme from May to November 2019 provides intensive, hands-on dramaturgical support for four writers. A showcase of the wo
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2019. 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
Read with a free account →14 January 19 · Opportunities
Rapid Write Response (RWR) is a short play initiative open to writers of all levels of experience. Attend a full-run show in its first week and write a 10 minute play inspired by the show. Deadline for submissions is always the following Monday at 12 noon. The 503 team will selec
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
They are looking for groundbreaking short science fiction plays, for writers coming from all walks of life, for daring and innovative creators, for new ideas, revolutionary dreams, crazy stories, for the bold, the daring, and the unique. Submission guidelines: Length: Up to 15 m
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre‘s writing window is now open for their twelfth short play night in April. This time it’s an open theme, you get to write exactly what YOU want to write! Cast Iron Theatre are looking for are plays that are exciting, fresh and explore narratives with challenging
Read with a free account →07 January 19 · Opportunities
Old meets New: your favourite narratives turned upside down! Swings & Roundabouts is hosting an inclusive night of new theatre in aid of Shelter.. They are looking for submissions to join their showcase for Shelter England on 24 March 2019 at Southwark Playhouse. What they are lo
Read with a free account →12 December 18 · Opportunities
The Bush Theatre is committed to discovering the best new plays from playwrights who may be unknown to them and therefore seek unsolicited submissions from playwrights in dedicated script windows. They are proud to be a champion of playwrights with a keen interest in those voices
Read with a free account →04 December 18 · Opportunities
Every summer Capital Stage (California) presents professional staged readings of new works through their new works festival PLAYWRIGHTS’ REVOLUTION. They are currently seeking new, full-length plays for the festival. Submission guidelines: read the full guidelines and apply here.
Read with a free account →28 November 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 2018. 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 th
Read with a free account →05 November 18 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2019 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail.The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its nineteenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Festival’s eight days, eight
Read with a free account →26 October 18 · Opportunities
Scene Gym are accepting submissions for an R&D project to be held over 5 consecutive days early in 2019. What they are looking for: two, new, full length plays that writers feel would benefit from practical workshopping to support them with their final stages of development. Each
Read with a free account →23 October 18 · Opportunities
On Friday 22 February 2019, Breakwater Theatre Company will be holding a night of new writing for the stage in the Albert Room at Cleethorpes Library, entitled “Rough Cuts and Scratches”, in conjunction with Lincs Inspire. Plays will be performed script in hand by local actors. T
Read with a free account →15 October 18 · Opportunities
Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen is a New Writing Scratch Night at London’s Drayton Arms Theatre on 2nd & 3rd December 2018. They are currently taking submissions of short (up to 15 minute) plays about the relationships that shape our lives. Successful writers will get to see their script
Read with a free account →11 October 18 · Opportunities
Thunder Theatre are a micro performance production company and they need material for their prospective micro shows. They are currently gathering plays so that they can assign them to theatre companies or freelance directors and actors in order to produce their shows. What they a
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