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17 September 19 · Opportunities
Beginning September 1, PlayPenn will be accepting applications for its 2020 New Play Development Conference; we are pleased to request your full length, unproduced script for consideration. Please review the guidelines carefully and completely before making application. Your appl
Read with a free account →17 September 19 · Opportunities
Hammond House Publishing accepting submissions for their International Writing Competitions 2019 on the theme of LEAVING. They are accepting poetry, short plays and screenplays. Find out more here. For Submission Guidelines, click here For Terms and Conditions, click here Entry F
Read with a free account →17 September 19 · Opportunities
The Inkubator: Introduction to Playwriting Course with Euphoric Ink The Inkubator is a ten-week Introduction to Playwriting Course led by Ola Animashawun. Ola is the National Theatre Connections Dramaturg, former Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre and Creative Director
Read with a free account →17 September 19 · Opportunities
How to be a regular writer on the Soaps with Emmerdale Script Editors Jennifer Fox and Lauren Heeley. Jennifer and Lauren will be doing a workshop on structuring elements within episodes and how to write and cross over different strands of storyline. The details of this are: Date
Read with a free account →17 September 19 · Opportunities
Open script pitching and development with production companies workshop for writers of all backgrounds with Ali Coulson, Head of Drama Development at Hurricane Films. Ali heads up the development slate of feature scripts. She oversees ideas from optioning right through the first
Read with a free account →16 September 19 · Opportunities
Down Stage Write are looking for Devon and Cornwall based writers to submit scripts for their latest production of short plays. ‘I Think I’d Explode’ is an evening of four short plays written in response to the poetry of acclaimed Launceston poet Charles Causley. The project is s
Read with a free account →13 September 19 · News
Our next fantastic resource for LPW members is now available! The Self-Producing Handbook (e-book, available for download from our members’ site). One of our core values is to empower emerging writers – to write, to find opportunities, and to get their work seen. We know how hard
Read this article →13 September 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 →11 September 19 · Opportunities
POWERPLAY is the theme for the next evening of short plays at The Questors Theatre, Ealing, London. Power takes many forms. It’s about gender, class and social status. But it can also be sexual, political or economic. Some people have power, some people don’t. But the balance of
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The search is on to find the next group of exciting artists to become The Old Vic 12. The Old Vic 12 is a group of 12 extraordinary developing artists ready to take the next step in their careers. The scheme provides access and insights into top-level theatre-making, mentoring fr
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
As Scotland’s only theatre wholly dedicated to new writing, The Traverse Theatre strives to discover, nurture and produce the brightest new voices across Scotland, the UK and Ireland. Each year they open our submissions window seeking bold, brilliant and innovative new plays. “We
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Have you got a script laying dormant on your hard-drive or gathering dust in a drawer? Have you always wanted to write something but don’t know where to get it staged? Studio Salford Development Week is the answer! Find out more here. Deadline: none posted Source: Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
The Space operate a rolling submissions window, so you can submit a show proposal at any time and will be considered for our next season. They are looking for high quality theatre productions to programme for 1, 2 or 3 week runs. They accept proposals from new, emerging and estab
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
As part of The Mono Box’s commitment to supporting emerging theatre talent we are proud to announce PLAYSTART, their new writing initiative, for the third year. After last year’s successes, where all the plays were published in a collection from Oberon Books and most saw a furthe
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Have an idea for a new play and not sure what to do with it? Had a successful scene shown at a scratch night but struggling with what the full play is? Have the seed of a concept but need some help to flesh it out? Come and sound out your ideas with SONAR. What they … Airlock The
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Are you a budding Playwright? Do you want to learn more about playwriting and work with professional playwrights and directors? National Theatre New Views project is an annual playwriting programme for 14 – 19 year olds. Each year hundreds of students from across the UK learn abo
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Idle Discourse will be taking an artistic residency at the historic St Augustine’s Tower in Hackney, London this autumn. The project has received Arts Council funding, and they are seeking four UK resident writers to each create an eight minute scene. If successful, the writers w
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Do you live in or around Peterborough? Are you interested in screenplays, writing poetry or plays? Apply to the Eastern Angles Young Writers Group in Peterborough for 16-30 year olds. After a successful first year setting up the 2018 Young Writers Group, they are back for another
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
The purpose of the course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and to provide a “dry-run” of what it can be like to write under a television drama commission, specifically for one hour series and serial drama, and to work with them
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
The «Neem-2019» award was created by performance troupe, Vibrating Body, to support and identify underground dramatic writers. The author of the play-winner will receive a cash prize: 2000 rubles. The best plays will be staged in the format of reading, sketching or performance by
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Tamasha Playwrights is a writer-led collective founded in October 2014 by Tamasha’s Artistic Director Fin Kennedy and formed of 10 emerging playwrights from diverse cultural backgrounds. Writers meet for weekly sessions in Tamasha’s office from October to July. The group is refre
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Submissions are open for The Delta Collective’s festive new writing night which will take place in early December. They will be using the scratch night to raise money and food bank donations – the Christmas season is often very difficult for London’s food banks, and they want to
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Education / Opportunities
An introduction to developing, writing, pitching and producing audio drama with playwright James Fritz. What makes writing for audio different from other forms of drama? How do you find the perfect audio idea? And how do you find a home for your script? Audio drama has a long, il
Read with a free account →09 September 19 · Original Content / Play Club
The fourth and final submission window is officially open for #PlayClub! We’re looking for brand new short plays written in response to this month’s play: Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams. Selected plays will be given a rehearsed reading at a special event at the end of the
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