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16 August 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 August 19 · Opportunities
Interested in a group for playwrights/actors in Loughton in Essex, UK at the eastern end of the London Underground Central Line? The aim would be to have regular meetings where both newbie and experienced playwrights can have their plays read for an audience of group members by a
Read with a free account →14 August 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: Chippy Lane Productions Welsh Female Writers Grou
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
NewmanConsults.com and Tom Lincoln are organising a “Four Minute Screenplay Competition” that will give the winners the chance to have their film produced in the second half of 2019 as part of the annual “4 x 4 Film Making Challenge”. This is a great chance for screenwriters to m
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Write About Now is a brand new monthly event giving new and established writers an opportunity to try out their work before a paying audience and a panel of industry professionals. Beginning Sunday, 22nd September, 5 pieces will be selected for each monthly event, then semi-stage
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Got a 5-10 min audiodrama script you want to try out? Or maybe the start of a longer piece you want to check has legs? Then submit it to the Ragged Scratch Podcast. How to submit: via the link Deadline: 22 August 2019 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
‘Glass Splinters’ is returning for their third event of new writing on the 4th of November in the new Downstairs Space at The Pleasance Theatre in Islington, and are seeking submissions from female (or female identifying, including non-binary and transwomen) writers for pieces in
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Pontardawe Arts Centre is seeking submissions from Wales based writers for their 2019 Script Slam. Twelve scripts will be selected and performed in three heats during the autumn season in front of an audience and a panel of judges. The judges (Derek Cobley, Chelsey Gillard and De
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
A five-week short course on both the creative and the practical aspects of writing novels, short stories and scripts. You’ll create characters, plan plots and discuss dialogue as you write from scratch or develop work you’ve already begun. At the same time you’ll learn about what
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Events / Opportunities
The Progress Theatre will be launching two projects for new writers this autumn. Reading Playwrightsis a set of workshops for new playwrights and Scratch Reading is an opportunity for playwrights to see their work staged. The Progress Theatre is at the Mount, off Christchurch Roa
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Each year, up to eight writers are invited to join The Everyman & Playhouse’s completely free Playwrights’ Programme and work closely with our New Works team to hone their playwriting skills and knowledge. The programme invites writers to explore the fundamentals of playwriting t
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
How to Develop your Playwriting Autumn 2019 Tue 17 September – Tue 3 December (not including Tue 22 and 29 Oct), 6.30-8.30pm Clore Learning Centre, £500/£350 A ten-week course led by playwright Chris Bush which will give an insight into approaches to developing your playwriting.
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Clean Break’s Writers: Here. There. Then. Now. For forty years Clean Break is proud to have produced ground-breaking plays by some of Britain’s best playwrights. A selection of these progressive, brilliant artists come together to share what they have learnt from working with Cle
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
The Writer’s Club is an innovative club for writers run in association with the Director’s Cut Theatre. The club meets fortnightly on Saturdays 11am – 1pm or Monday evenings 6pm – 8pm at Calder Bookshop & Theatre, Waterloo, London. Find out more here. Membership charges apply. De
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Papatango have various online workshops available on their website. Find out more here. Deadline: not applicable Source: @Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Chippy Lane Productions recently set up an open list of female writers. If you want to take a look, find out more and get your name added, please see the link below – it is open to anyone who identifies as female. Click here to access the list Deadline: not applicable Source: dir
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
In a bid to develop and champion emerging Welsh female playwrights, Chippy Lane Productions’ Artistic Director, Rebecca Jade Hammond runs a Welsh Female Writers Group. These sessions are four hours of fun, friendly, supportive and informative discussion. Writing can be a very iso
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Curatorial Call-Out 2019: John Thaw Initiative 2019 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? The Actors Centre is currently seeking submissions of work-in-progress
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
This September, for the first time, Rose Theatre Kingston is curating a new writing festival. Three plays will be selected for the festival. The writers of the chosen plays will work alongside director Fay Lomas, inaugural winner of the Peter Hall Emerging Artists Fellowship, to
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Guest Post
How do you make a centuries-old novel exciting and relevant for a modern-day stage audience? Award-winning theatre-makers HUNCHtheatre recently converted A Hero Of Our Time, a 180-year-old Russian novel, for performances in Edinburgh, London and St Petersburg. In this post, Georg
Read this article →12 August 19 · Opportunities
Scrap night is a brand new event in October, giving writers, singers, musicians, playwrights, poets, rappers, new and existing artistes the opportunity to showcase their material before a paying audience and industry professionals. How to apply? If you are interested in participa
Read with a free account →12 August 19 · Opportunities
Playhouse Playmaker is the Oxford Playhouse writers attachment programme for new and emerging playwrights led by award-winning writer and director John Retallack. https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/get-involved/adults/playhouse-playmaker/ Each year they select up to 6 writers who me
Read with a free account →12 August 19 · Opportunities
The Lancaster Playwriting Prize is an initiative arising out of the cultural partnership between Lancaster University and The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster; it is supported by Lucy Briers. The Prize aims to discover new voices from a diverse range of backgrounds; each year, it has dif
Read with a free account →09 August 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
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