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21 November 19 · Opportunities
Are you interested in immersive theatre? This two-day Writers Room aims to give theatre practitioners an introduction to storytelling in Immersive spaces. Working with practitioners from Punchdrunk, creative technologists and StoryFutures Academy Head of Writers Room Adam Ganz, d
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30 Performers + ONE Location + ONE Vital Topic + ONE Minute Each What a year! I mean, really, what happened? Why? How? And what didn’t happen, that should have? SLAMinutes is back with a BUMPER edition in the New Year: a compilation of all the hits and the s**ts of 2019! Here are
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UGC Writers Campus by Series Mania is a week-long TV series writing workshop, conducted in English and open to 20 screenwriters. The 2020 edition will be held in Lille in northern France from March 20-27, 2020 under the supervision of Lorraine Sullivan. UGC, who sponsor the Write
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
Following three sold out editions, Broken Silence Theatre will return with Volume 4 of Voices From Home in the first half of 2020 and are currently seeking writers. Voices From Home is a curated evening of short plays and spoken word theatre, exclusively from emerging writers bas
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
BBC Writersroom’s annual window for unsolicited drama scripts will open between 10am on Monday 9th December 2019 and 5pm on Monday 6th January 2020 for Drama scripts (TV, film, radio, stage or online). You’ll need to submit an original drama script of at least 30 pages in length,
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Original Content
It’s that time of year again! The nights are long, it’s cold outside and Christmas hits have been blasting out in shopping centres for what already seems like an eternity. With just a few weeks to go, you’re no doubt thinking about Christmas shopping and so as always, we’ve got y
Read this article →15 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 →14 November 19 · Opportunities
Counterpoise is an international and interdisciplinary network to improve the gender balance in the creative industries. Their 6-month peer coaching programme is designed to help participants thrive both creatively and financially. It works on two levels. The peer groups each hav
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in November 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
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The VAULT Festival New Writers Programme offers a total introduction to writing for stage! Taking place at VAULT Festival 2020 (28 January – 22 March) this eight week practical course will start right at the beginning, guiding you through the basics of playwriting in a non-patron
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Make it Write Productions CIC is committed to promoting the work of new playwrights in the North West of England. Each year we run a 30 minute play competition and the prize is to have your play performed in The Hope Street Theatre as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival in June
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The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is an open invitation to all writers who identify as female in the UK and Ireland to create vivid, exciting, and brave new work for the stage. The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work fr
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A guide to playwriting competitions within the U.K. including how to make your script stands out with industry insider Naomi Sumner Chan. Date and time: Sat, 30 November 2019, 14:00 – 16:00 Location: Nexus Art Cafe (The Nook) 2 Dale Street Manchester M1 1JW How to book: here Cost
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Blowin’ a Hooley Theatre are looking for one exceptional new female writer from North East England to have their short play professionally produced. The selected writer will receive £400 and their piece will be performed in ‘Yarns from Hyem’ – a collection of four North-East play
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LAMDA is thrilled to announce that April 2020 will see the first ever LAMDA MishMash Festival; a three-day event celebrating new writing and work created by LAMDA alumni and their contemporaries. MishMash is a platform to celebrate the variety of creative paths LAMDA trained arti
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Stitchin’ Fiction accepting submissions for their next event Next event: Monday 25th November (last one of 2019) Open to all levels and backgrounds – 10-15 minutes MAX can be extracts or standalone pieces to workshop with our resident directors and actors at Theatre Deli Studios,
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B3 Productions and Aside Theatre Company of Phoenix, Arizona, seek scripts for their Third Festival of Shorts in June 2020. These will be fully rehearsed shows. Performance dates are June 5-21. The final weekend, the audience will vote on their favourite play each night, and the
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2020 STAGE IT! 10-Minute Play Festival and Book Publication is open for submissions. Arts Center Bonita produces TEN 10-minute plays in full at our Festival in March, coinciding with their book publication of at least 20 plays. Additionally, they make offers to playwrights for ot
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Come along and see the selected Play Club plays, and catch up with other London Playwrights whilst you’re there! Over the year, we’ve been running Play Club, our online book club for plays – and inviting our members to submit a short play to us in response. We’ll be presenting re
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The Bush Theatre is committed to discovering the best new plays from playwrights who may be unknown to them and therefore are currently seeking submissions in a dedicated script window. They look for exciting new voices that tell contemporary stories with wit, style and passion a
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Optik Theatre’s Script Room, under the direction of Barry Edwards is open to writers who want to see a first script given a public showing, or established writers who have a script that they want to promote to a wider audience or industry contacts How to submit: Writers should su
Read with a free account →08 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 →06 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: Take part in #WrAP2020 for the chance to win a pl
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Curatorial Call-Out 2019: John Thaw Initiative 2019 Latin American Season at The Actors Centre Are you a writer interested in performing your own work? Or perhaps you are an actor looking for an opportunity to mount your own show? For the debut edition of the 2020 John Thaw Initi
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