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06 June 19 · Opportunities
The Northern Exposure: Short Film Script Lab is back, taking place this year from July – October. The Script Lab is an opportunity for up to ten emerging writers to develop a short film from an early idea to a completed script in a supportive, inspiring environment. The 2019 coho
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WriteWest provides free playwriting workshops every month for adults without professional theatre experience. These cover a wide range of skills and are led by leading theatre-makers. They take place in venues across Devon, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Find out more here. Deadli
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Participants will learn tools and techniques to help them generate theatrical stories, create characters, write dialogue and structure scripts as well as learning how to start and sustain a career as a freelance writer. Through a series of writing exercises, participants will lea
Read with a free account →06 June 19 · Opportunities
The Monobox runs a range of workshops for industry professionals, including writers. As part of this, they run a weekly playwriting group and writing workshops. Find out more on their website. Deadline: not applicable Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
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Feast Theatre are looking for an unperformed small cast play to be a part of their tenth anniversary season next year. Some link to Norfolk or the East of England (you or the play) preferred. If successful this will be a paid gig. If you have submitted before they may have missed
Read with a free account →03 June 19 · Opportunities
New Creatives is an exciting talent development scheme that offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists to create new work in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC platforms.Calling the Shots is running the New Creatives project for the South West region,
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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines June 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 whole
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Black Rainbow is an informal and relaxed bi-monthly night of visually arresting, interdisciplinary performance and exhibitions from Third Verse Theatre. Set in an intimate yet open environment, the Black Rainbow nights are not-for-profit events designed to be engaging and stimula
Read with a free account →31 May 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 →28 May 19 · Opportunities
Do you dutifully start typing only to be tempted to dive into Instagram, or start cleaning the kitchen, or Skype an old friend…? Zenpens is an exciting new writer’s retreat based in Cardiff City Centre. Adapted from the Writer’s Army workshops created by the New York playwright A
Read with a free account →28 May 19 · Opportunities
Pint-Sized are currently taking submissions for short plays and extracts for a week-long festival at Bunker Theatre in October. . What you get: a £150.00 fee, the opportunity to be mentored by the likes of Simon Stephens, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Lolita Chakrabarti, and a showc
Read with a free account →28 May 19 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
Writers aged 18-29 on low-income can apply for the David Pease Award grant to attend an Arvon playwriting course. Two full grants are available to cover the full cost of the fee. The course runs from 2nd September to 7th September and the tutors are Ola Animashawun and Jessica Sw
Read with a free account →28 May 19 · Opportunities
Squint has teamed up with The Mono Box for round two of the Squint Writers’ Group. Facilitated by Squint’s Literary Associate, Lee Anderson, and guest writers who have previously collaborated with Squint, the group empowers first-time and early-career writers to take risks, exper
Read with a free account →28 May 19 · Opportunities
What’s On Tom? Productions in Kilkenny, Ireland invites playwrights, both established and emerging, to submit original 15 minute plays, with a maximum cast of three, on the theme – SHAME. Scripts chosen by the reading panel will be performed at The Red Door Theatre in Thomastown,
Read with a free account →24 May 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 →22 May 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 Bruntwood Prize (just 2 weeks to go!) Descrip
Read with a free account →21 May 19 · Opportunities
Read all the details here: Tiny Theatre Submissions Deadline: none posted Source: @Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →21 May 19 · Opportunities
Writers based in South-West England (Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Scilly Isles, Somerset or Wiltshire) are invited to apply to be Papatango’s 2019 Resident Playwright, as part of our WriteWest programme. The Resident will receive a commission of £6,500 to
Read with a free account →21 May 19 · Opportunities
As part of their 90th birthday celebrations, The Questors Theatre is seeking submissions for our student playwriting competition 2019. Do you have ideas whizzing around your head that you’d love to put to pen and paper? Are you itching to see your stories come to life? Or perhaps
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A Pleasance Scratch is an evening of variety, ideas and fun; a chance to see artists present brave, new work at the first stages of development. The Pleasance is proud to support a large number of developing artists every year through our various Pleasance Futures initiatives, an
Read with a free account →21 May 19 · Education / Opportunities
As part of this year’s Norwich Pride, on Monday nights in July 7-9, James McDermott is running a ‘Playwriting With Pride’ course for LGBTQ writers at Norwich Theatre Royal. How to book: find out more and book on the website Deadline: not applicable Source: @Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →20 May 19 · Opportunities
Sharp Scratches is a new writing night dedicated to starting conversations. They do not shy away from tackling challenging topics at each night. As part of Beyond Borders Festival at Theatre Deli – this night is about Finding Home in the midst of this refugee crisis we are facing
Read with a free account →20 May 19 · Opportunities
New Views is the National Theatre’s annual playwriting programme for 14 to 19-year-olds. Every year, hundreds of students from across the UK learn about playwriting from some of the finest writers in the industry and write their own 30-minute plays. One play will then be selected
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