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02 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 →01 August 19 · Money Talks
It’s a common myth that ‘successful’ playwrights make a living from writing plays. This idea can make us feel like an impostor as we trudge to faithfully to an unrelated day job; but the fact is, even the most “successful” playwrights tend to supplement their incomes with other j
Read this article →01 August 19 · Opportunities
Cameo Real Playhouse are looking for playwrights for a 10 min Play Write Competition.The plays must be 10 minute in length. An original and not performed prior professionally Submissions must be sent in to the playhouse along with a $10 fee. The fees collected are divided across
Read with a free account →01 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: The Female Edit call out for female identifying w
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
14-25 and enjoy telling stories? Join award-winning Formby playwright Luke Barnes, for a free Playwriting and Storytelling workshop from the National Youth Theatre. Whatever your experience level, this interactive workshop will give you the tools to kickstart your writing and sta
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities
Plymouth Cultural Education Partnership, alongside Theatre Royal Plymouth, are looking for freelance playwrights/ theatre practitioners with experience in facilitating playwriting interventions for children and young people. With Flying Colours is a DCMS funded Youth Performance
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Jerwood Bursaries provide funding of up to £1,250 to help you explore and develop your practice by enabling you to gain new skills and knowledge. They want you to have the opportunity to pursue your interests independently and on your own terms. Find out more here. Deadline: 9 Se
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities
Over Our Head Players is accepting submissions for the “2020 Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival,” now through November 1. “Snowdance®” entry is open to original 10 minute or shorter comedies for the stage. Winning entries will be performed together in one theatre presentation b
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Write Lines is an opportunity for writers to attend workshops with producer and playwright Lisa Nicoll over the course of four sessions in September & October to create a new 10 minute play or the beginning of a larger piece of work inspired by a favourite book. This will include
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Following the success of the inaugural event in 2018, Hebden Bridge Little Theatre is pleased to announce their second One-Act Drama Festival. Budding playwrights are invited to submit original, one act plays, with the winning scripts to be performed at the Festival, in July 2020
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
StageWrite is now OPEN for submissions and they looking for two brand new scripts for StageWrite on Saturday 28th September, at The Place Bedford. You can find the brief below. Please note that if your script doesn’t match the requirements of the brief, they won’t be able to cons
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Two Player Productions are on the hunt for monologues, around 5-7 minutes long for their upcoming monologue night, Single Player Mode! This project will work on a profit-share basis and they are looking into performance late this year. Who can apply: “As a company, we are always
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
The TLC Free Reads Scheme offers low-income writers the opportunity to get free professional feedback on their writing via The Literary Consultancy, the UK’s leading editorial consultancy. TLC has helped hundreds of writers on to publication, but its main aim is to support writer
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Chronic Insanity is a newly formed theatre company based in Nottingham. By doing 12 shows in 12 months, they plan to contribute significantly to the live performance scene in Nottingham and develop a huge amount as theatre makers. They are also going to be using sustainable theat
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
The search is on. Soho Theatre and Character 7, producer of The Night Manager, are looking for extraordinary plays from extraordinary new voices. The Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s flagship new-writing award with the winning play produced in a full production on our stage
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Hampstead Theatre will be expanding its month-long submissions window into a year-round operation, as part of a series of initiatives announced by new artistic director Roxana Silbert. Read the full article in The Stage. Source: The Stage
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
CAMP is a residential arts facility perched high in French Pyrenees, where masterclasses are led by the worlds most celebrated artists, writers and thinkers. In August 2019, John Burgess will lead two catalytic five day workshops intended to give playwrights of all abilities the
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
“A Call to Arms for our scribing sisters!” The Female Edit is a female creative collective formed in 2018, with a view to contributing towards the conversation about gender equality through creative work. They are committed to shining a light on the stories of all identifying as
Read with a free account →26 July 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 July 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: Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab Description: The Soho T
Read with a free account →23 July 19 · Opportunities
StoryFutures Academy is delighted to announce an open call to screenwriters for submissions to take part in a Writers Room on September 18th and 19th 2019. Location: The National Film & Television School, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG Summary: A two-day Writ
Read with a free account →23 July 19 · Education / Opportunities
If you’re just stepping into the world of playwriting, welcome! In this 5-week class, Reginald Edmund will help you build a toolbox of the fundamentals, so your first play (and each play you write after that!) can be built on a strong foundation. How to book: find out more here D
Read with a free account →23 July 19 · Opportunities
Radar Sofia and the Drama Pact platform are offering a playwright/dramaturge/performer/theatremaker the opportunity to come and stay in Sofia, Bulgaria, meet local theatre operators and form the basis of future partnership(s) or joint new project(s). What you get: the selected re
Read with a free account →23 July 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines August 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 who
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