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04 September 14 · Education / Writing Workshops
Tamasha Developing Artists (TDA) is soliciting applications for a new playwriting group, Tamasha Playwrights. The group will meet regularly from October 2014 and will run for at least 3 months. It will be led by Tamasha’s new co-Artistic Director (and award-winning playwright) Fi
Read this article →04 September 14 · Opportunities
Write Angles – formerly the Southend Playwriting Festival 2015 – is now looking for entries. The Festival, entering its fifth year, will present selected plays as rehearsed readings at the Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, UK. What to submit: In 2015 there wi
Read with a free account →04 September 14 · Opportunities
NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences seeks new unpublished and unproduced scripts for young audiences (ages 4-21) for their 18th season, June 2015. Submission Guidelines: Please include your name, the name of the play, and where wetheycan contact you. They prefer receiving scripts
Read with a free account →01 September 14 · Opportunities
Fractured Lines are looking for writers that have a play or an excerpt of one of a play for four actors, of no longer than 25 minutes, based on one of the themes from the next theme list. Blaggards presents a lively collection of plays from selected emerging, up and coming writer
Read with a free account →29 August 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Golden Lane Films call for scripts, IdeasTap – Deadline: 29 August 2014 Etch seeking submissions for scratch night at the Peckham Pelican
Read with a free account →28 August 14 · Opportunities
Ok, so this one’s not strictly a ‘writing opportunity’, but it could be useful if you’re considering producing your own work… HighTide is giving up to 32 IdeasTap members the opportunity to attend a two-hour masterclass on how to apply for Grants for the Arts funding from the Art
Read with a free account →22 August 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Hampshire County Council seeking Writer in Residence (paid) – Deadline: 22 August 2014 Freelance scriptwriters required for children’s edu
Read with a free account →17 August 14 · Funding and Bursaries
The Royal Society of Literature is accepting applications for Brookleaze Grants for Writers. The purpose of these grants is to buy time for novelists, short-story writers, poets or playwrights with pieces of work in hand. The Council of the RSL, who will be responsible for awardi
Read with a free account →15 August 14 · Education / Opportunities
If you’re 16-26 years old, the Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab gives you the chance to develop and refine your writing voice. Meeting once a month, on Tuesday evenings through the academic year, each Lab session gives you support, inspiration and guidance from our course leaders and
Read with a free account →15 August 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Growing Stage seeking plays for young audiences for 4th Annual New Play-Reading Festival (New Jersey, USA) – Deadline: 15 August 2014 Lond
Read with a free account →13 August 14 · Opportunities
IdeasTap have launched their latest Editor’s Brief which as usual, is open to all ages and disciplines. There will be first (£250), second (£100) and third (£50) prizes in each category (audio/video, writing and visual art/photographs. The Brief: It’s a warm summer’s morning. You
Read with a free account →08 August 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Skylight Theatre seeking plays for Postscript series at the Drayton Arms – Deadline: 10 August 2014 The Peckham Pelicam seeking playwright
Read with a free account →07 August 14 · Opportunities
The TS Eliot Commissions are now in their second year and if you’ve got a story to tell they want to hear from you. In 2013 they commissioned plays that explored topics such as dystopian future governments, the big bang theory and monogamy in gay relationships. They want writers
Read with a free account →01 August 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Short Back and Sides seeking short plays – Deadline: 1 August 2014 UMass Amherst Play Lab (Massachusetts, USA) – Deadline: 1 August 2014 T
Read with a free account →30 July 14 · Opportunities
Mind The Gap is now accepting submissions for consideration in its ongoing BRITBITS series. What to submit: These short plays must be: 1-20 pages in length maximum written by NATIVE UK playwrights require simple set and technical elements accompanied by a brief playwright biograp
Read with a free account →30 July 14 · Opportunities
The Play Lab is a UMass Department of Theater mainstage production, running from March 23 – April 4, 2015. Two playwrights will be chosen for concurrent 10-day residencies during this period. These residencies are structured around a series of public staged readings directed and
Read with a free account →29 July 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in August and late July 2014. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but if you’d like to p
Read with a free account →28 July 14 · Jobs / Opportunities
Scriptwriting Bootcamp Panel Judges are needed on Friday 15th August from 11.30pm – 12.30pm. £50 fee (travel costs provided) and up to date CRB certificate needed. Your role is to listen and give constructive feedback to children age 13- 16 who have taken part in a week long scri
Read with a free account →28 July 14 · Opportunities
Z-arts, Manchester’s venue for children and families, is offering a Digital Writer Fellowship, subject to Z-arts being successful in their application to the BBC Performing Arts Fellowship. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/performingartsfund/posts/The-2014-BBC-Performing-Arts-Fellowshi
Read with a free account →27 July 14 · Original Content
Kimberley Andrews continues her quest to bring her own writing to the stage, sharing her top tips along the way. In the second post of the series, she looks at venues: how to find them, what to expect from them and when to run away screaming. In my case, finding a venue required
Read this article →25 July 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Fevered Sleep seeking applicant for BBC Performing Arts Fellowship – Deadline: 29 July 2014 Peabody seeking Theatre Fellow for BBC Perform
Read with a free account →23 July 14 · Uncategorized
Medair is looking for a writer to turn stories about Syrian Refugees into 4 theatrical monologues each of 2-3mins. WeTheyalready have a writer (but not a playwright) who has done a first draft but we are looking for a playwright to take them further and re-write them for a perfor
Read this article →18 July 14 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). BFI Teen Scene Script Challenge (age 16-25) – Deadline: 18 July 2014 Papatango seeking applications for Resident Playwright 2015 (BBC Perf
Read with a free account →15 July 14 · Opportunities
Tamasha is now seeking submissions for its next Scratch event on Friday, 5 September 2014 at Rich Mix, E1. Scratch nights provide an opportunity for artists to showcase their work in a professional setting to a public audience. This enables the artists to test out their work and
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