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10 December 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: BBC Writersroom Drama Script Room Open for submis
Read with a free account →09 December 19 · Opportunities
The Literal Challenge – a company that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and newbies through creative challenges. Over the last five Februarys, they have run run five 28 Plays Later, a play-a-day writing challenge that has inspired the writing of 26,649 play
Read with a free account →09 December 19 · Opportunities
NHB have launched a subscription service for play scripts. Each month, subscribers (or their chosen recipient) will receive one newly published NHB playscript selected by their expert team. It could be a major premiere from a big-name playwright, a timely new version of a classic
Read with a free account →06 December 19 · 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 →03 December 19 · Uncategorized
In this latest blog series, our Artistic Development Manager, Jane Ryan will be introducing us to some of today’s most exciting playwrights! Jane will be chatting to various writers about themselves, their inspiration, and their latest projects. In this post, she sits down with E
Read this article →03 December 19 · Opportunities
Jerwood Arts announced today over £1 million of funding over the course of the next two years to support 19 specialist programmes across the arts and cultural sector that will support early career artists, curators, and producers working in literature, music, performing, visual a
Read with a free account →03 December 19 · Opportunities
Perthshire Plays is a new joint Programme between Horsecross Arts, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Birnam Arts, local playwright Lesley Wilson and Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland which aims to provide platforms for new and existing playwrights, giving them opportunities to develop thei
Read with a free account →03 December 19 · Opportunities
Aged 14 – 17? Have you got a story to tell? Want to see your own words performed on stage?? Join The Bush’s Young Writers Group for the chance to write your own play and see it performed in the Studio at Bush Theatre. You will: • Learn new skills in play writing • Build a network
Read with a free account →03 December 19 · Opportunities
Applications for 2020 are now OPEN. What is it? Each year the Theatre Reserve provides a young theatre company with 4 of more cast members, the rare and extraordinary opportunity to present a fully produced, financed production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What do you get? £
Read with a free account →03 December 19 · Opportunities
The 2020 Papatango Prize is open for entries! The UK’s only playwriting award to guarantee: a month-long premiere in London; a month-long UK tour; royalties; publication; £6,500 commission and feedback for all entries, it is assessed anonymously and open to all residents of the U
Read with a free account →29 November 19 · 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 →27 November 19 · Opportunities
To celebrate our Play Club: The Selections event at the Old Red Lion on 16 December, we’re raffling off a LPW Script Report offering feedback on your script, worth £78. For every 20 entries, we’ll add another report, so there is a one in 20 chance of winning! All proceeds from th
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · News / Opportunities
We recently announced the launch of London Playwrights 2020, the new writer development programme for 2020 and we’re pleased to bring you a bit more information on this exciting new opportunity! 4 playwrights will be selected to develop their plays with us over the course of 2020
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 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 →26 November 19 · Jobs / Opportunities
With Flying Colours is an exciting new play-making programme for young people in areas of low cultural engagement and high deprivation in Plymouth. Working in local schools, children will co-create plays based on their own ideas and words supported by professional writers. Each s
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Imaginary Advice is an experimental storytelling podcast, produced by Ross Sutherland. Starting in 2014, it won the British Podcast Award for Fiction and was listed as one of the “10 Fiction Podcasts That Shaped the Genre” by vulture.com. To date, Imaginary Advice has had over 70
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Nottingham Light Night are seeking existing poetry or short prose that has been written in Nottingham, related to the theme ‘Life on Earth’ including environment, sustainability and nature. The selected works (or lines from it) will be used during the publicity campaign for the e
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Dates 14 Feb – 3 Apr 2020 (8 weeks) Time Fridays evenings, 6.30-9.30pm Cost £400 Ages 18+ Location London, WC1 RADA has been offering Advances in Scriptwriting annually for over 20 years. The course provides original approaches to essential techniques such as making a scene, subt
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
FlUX GYM writers workshop. All writers need is a 6 page scene (max), 3 character max and they will be teamed up with an exciting emerging director and a group of actors. As part of the FLUX GYM. Cost : £20 Date and time : THURS, 12th Dec (10-1pm) Writers can book here: https://cl
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Science Fiction Theatre Network & Workshop 2 December 2019 Cyborphic is excited to be hosting a networking event and two sci-fi workshops (the first on AI & Creativity, the second on Sci-Fi Theatre). These workshops will be of interest to anyone interested in science fiction scri
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
WRITE THEATRE is a series of unique, intensive courses for emerging theatre writers run by established playwrights. As well as working with the tutors, all participants have extracts from work in progress workshopped and rehearsed with very experienced professional actors. Dates:
Read with a free account →22 November 19 · 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 →21 November 19 · 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: The Soho Theatre 2020 Verity Bargate Award – Subm
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
CALLOUT FOR YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS AND DIRECTORS Are you aged 18-25? Passionate about pursuing a career in theatre? The North Wall in Oxford is on the lookout for early-career playwrights and directors aged 18-25 to join them for two weeks for their annual FREE Easter ArtsLab residenc
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