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05 November 19 · Opportunities
The Director’s Club are looking for scripts for The Director’s Club showcase – Crackers Christmas! Christmas stories, that are absolutely Crackers! The wild, the wacky and the wonderful – this Christmas show is all about those stories that make you snap, crackers and pop! Writers
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre and New Venture Theatre are looking for submissions for their Short Play Night on 15th December 2019 in Brighton. The night will be a script-in-hand performance and they’re looking for new writing that is suitable to be staged in a ‘black box’. What they are loo
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2020 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its twentieth year. It will perform each day from 22nd to 29th August, on each of the Festival’s e
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The Felix Dexter Bursary aims to make a positive intervention to address an under-representation of black, Asian, minority ethnic professionals in comedy production and development in the broadcast industry. This training scheme is designed to find writers with fresh and unique p
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Starter for Ten with Sharon Clark The opening scenes of your play is vital to kickstart the storytelling. What gives a play opening punch? What do we have to consider when building the first ten pages that has real impact for an audience and possible commissioners? How do we make
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This autumn 2019 Soho Theatre is offering playwriting workshops to introduce new writers to their Verity Bargate Award. The workshops are timed to provide writers with the best opportunity to submit their new play for the Verity Bargate Award 2020. The Verity Bargate Award is our
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Women Are Funny 2020 Prize Send your full-length comedic script, and if it’s the funniest, you will receive USD$100 and confirmation that you are hilarious. Full-length comedic scripts (75-120 pages) Written in English within the last three years Female playwrights based anywhere
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Calling all theatre makers & writers. The Pleasance are seeking 3 new London Associate Artists/Companies. Based in London? Would being an Artistic Associate enable you to take your work & craft to the next level? Find out more here Deadline 9 December 2019 Source: direct contact
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · Opportunities
SAfter Modern Times, Shorts @ The Canal 1 & 2, Shorts @ The Union, Love Shots and The Twilight Hour seasons 1, 2 & 3, Shorts @ The Canal are inviting all writers to submit a play no longer than 25-minute, for their next show: “Love Shots 2” The show will have a love theme … Short
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The fourteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays, will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 12, 13 and 14, 2020. For electronic submission(s): https://www.kingstheatre.ca/kingweb/kings-shorts-info/ making certain to complete the reg
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · News / Opportunities
#WrAP2020 announcement! We promised this year’s #WrAP (write a play) challenge would be better than ever, and now we’re going to tell you why! This year, we’ll be inviting all #WrAP2020 participants to submit their work to us. Up to 4 writers will then be selected to take part in
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · News
LPW member Emily Garside would like to invite the London Playwrights community to a rehearsed reading of her play ‘Don’t Send Flowers’ at 1.30pm Friday 15th November at the Drayton Arms. Following a successful run in Cardiff, Wolverhampton and Oldham this year, Emily is working w
Read this article →01 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 →25 October 19 · Opportunities
Fight Like A Girl! is bringing a new Play In A Day to Viaduct Theatre in Stockport on Saturday 16th November 2019 to raise even more money for Cancer Research UK! Six writers toil through the night to come up with six scripts and then, six directors and a gaggle of actors have ju
Read with a free account →25 October 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 →24 October 19 · Opportunities
Aged 16-25? Apply now to be part of Pleasance Future at the Young Pleasance, bursaries are available. For more information, visit their website: https://pleasance.co.uk/yp Deadline: 24 November 2019 Source: direct contact
Read with a free account →24 October 19 · Opportunities
RESIDENTIAL PLAY WRITING COURSE SIMON STEPHENS & ELLA HICKSON 22-29 MARCH 2020 The Priory, Pressigny, France “Join us in the heart of the French countryside with two leading British playwrights”. ‘Write. Read. Write again. Read again. Think. Write again. Read more. Write more. Ne
Read with a free account →23 October 19 · Jobs / Opportunities
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: We are looking for an Intern to join the LPW team
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Cyborphic is excited to be hosting two workshops on lost/fragmentary Greek tragedy. These workshops will be of interest to anyone into Greek Tragedy and they will showcase various perspectives of approaching a fragmentary play. We particularly encourage playwrights and theatremak
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Are you aged 16-25? Are you interested in writing stories for the stage? Through a series of FREE workshops Pentabus Theatre will teach you the principles of great playwriting. You will learn about the basic rules of playwriting and creating work for the stage, tutored by profess
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Orisun Productions are an emerging and ambitious theatre production company based in London, aimed at creating opportunities for African & African Caribbean talent.They will be hosting a scratch night on 21 November to showcase BLACK FEMALE WRITERS. If you’ve been waiting for a c
Read with a free account →21 October 19 · News / Opportunities
London Playwrights’ Workshop is looking for an intern to support our work. If you’re passionate about new writing, interested in blogging, and happy to give a wide variety of tasks your best shot, then we want to hear from you! What we’re looking for: we’re looking for someone wi
Read with a free account →18 October 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 →16 October 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: Questors Theatre seeking submissions for Power Pl
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