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15 October 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 →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Tanika Gupta and Maxine Peake are among the judges for a £12,000 prize for female playwrights. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is being launched by Paines Plough in partnership with Ellie Keel Productions. The winner will receive £12,000 towards a production of their play, with
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle- A Festive New Writing Scratch Night SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! This will be in aid of MIND Mental Health Charity. Sunday 8th December at Gentileza, Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1AZ. Writer’s Guidelines: – Theme must be based around the Festi
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Warts and All Theatre are looking to commission a Writer who has experience of generating a new play With/By/For Children and Young People. The commission involves a period of research and development, in which the Writer will deliver a series of exploratory and development works
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
The First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition is a free-to-enter peer-to-peer competition aiming to help brand new writers get a foot in the door of the UK comedy industry. It’s for people with credits on two shows or fewer, so people with no credits at all can enter, which isn’t th
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Entries are invited for the 2020 Steyning Festival Theatre Trails. These should be one act plays of around 40 minutes duration, small casts (up to 6), and simple production and staging requirements, suitable for staging in a variety of small informal venues, indoor or outside. Fo
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines October 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 wh
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · News / Play Club
Last week, the final Play Club submission window closed for business, and we’re thrilled to now have our full line-up of short plays which will get receive readings in the final members meet-up of 2019. Play Club Winner #4 – Jo Spencely: If You See My Dad… Our fourth winner of Pl
Read this article →14 October 19 · Opportunities
Lisa Holdworth (Chair of the Writers Guild GB) and writer on ‘Call The Midwife’, ‘Ackley Bridge’, ‘Midsomer Murders’ and many more high end television shows on FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER in Manchester (Media City). Lisa will discuss how to protect your work, your rights and yourself in
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NO : INTERMISSION 2020, a one act play festival in Sydney, Australiais taking script submissions from emerging and established playwrights from around the world. All the details are available at www.theatretravels.org/submit and shows will be informed by Christmas if they have be
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Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (Houston, Texas) seeking submissions for its’ ten minute play festival in Houston, Texas, United States, which is now entering it’s 12th year. – The festival is open to any playwright – It’s run by Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company https://mild
Read with a free account →11 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 →09 October 19
PODCAST Making It with Temi Wilkey Temi Wilkey is an actor & writer from North London. She studied English at Cambridge before training as an actor with the National Youth Theatre REP company in 2014. Her acting credits include Hamlet & Cymbeline (RSC), Jubilee (Manchester Royal
Read this article →09 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: BBC Caroline Aherne Bursary Description: BBC Come
Read with a free account →08 October 19 · Opportunities
A 2 hour writing for performance workshop aimed at playwrights, poets, performers and theatre-makers who want to make autobiographical work. When: 30 October 2019 Cost: £10 Location:Nexus Art Cafe (The Nook), 2 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 1JW How to book: here Source: Playwriting
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National Queer Theater is a producing organization dedicated to the progress of new works. If interested, please direct all play submissions to submissions@nationalqueertheater.org. We are especially seeking social justice-based theater and the work of LGBTQ artists. The Nationa
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The International Youth Arts Festival is the UK’s largest multi-arts festival for and by people under 27, featuring some of the most exciting new work by emerging young talent. Creative Youth and IYAF supports work for and by young people between the ages 5 to 26. These may be pr
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The International Radio Playwriting Competition 2020 – from the BBC World Service and British Council in partnership with Commonwealth Writers – is an opportunity for writers from outside the UK to tell their stories. The competition runs from 1 October 2019 to midnight GMT 31 Ja
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4Stories, the new-talent scheme from Channel 4, designed to bring on and help establish the next generation of writers and directors, is back! The scheme is aimed at finding genuinely diverse voices, exploring contemporary stories of and by communities that are rarely seen on mai
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BBC Comedy Commissioning in partnership with BBC Writersroom and BBC North are delighted to announce the Caroline Aherne Bursary 2019. The inaugural bursary scheme in the memory of the late Caroline Aherne was launched in 2017 at the Salford Sitcom Showcase. Aimed at writer/perfo
Read with a free account →08 October 19 · Opportunities
Save the date and secure your ticket for the BBC Writersroom Wales Festival. Further details for the festival will be announced soon! WHEN: Monday 9th December 2019 from 9.30 – 19.00 WHERE: National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP Secure your free ticket now! Dead
Read with a free account →08 October 19 · News
We have a super exciting announcement to make! We’ve launched a podcast – and as it’s all about playwrights, we think you’re going to love it! Created by the brilliant OneFinePlay, and supported by the Bush Theatre, this brand new podcast features playwright and actress Temi Wilk
Read this article →07 October 19 · Opportunities
Andrea Ling is a director looking to collaborate with a writer that has either a written piece or has started a process that explores the theme of nature. It can be a prominent theme or an undertone. Genre, content and form of the piece are very open. “I have an opportunity to de
Read with a free account →04 October 19 · Opportunities
In their words: We are pleased to present the fourth installation of JW3’s seasonal scratch night. On 22 March 2020, 3 writers, theatre-makers or companies will perform 15-20 minutes of new material in a studio space at JW3. The performances will be followed by an informal chance
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