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07 May 19 · Opportunities
The submissions window for the 2019 international ten-minute play festival produced by Raze The Space in Los Angeles is now open. It’s free to enter, there’s a $250 first-place prize and eight winning plays are selected for performance. This year’s theme is LOST AND FOUND. Who ca
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
Blindspot Theatre (Coventry) host scratch nights and slots are bookable for performers/ writers on a first come first serve basis. The next night will be held on 5 June 2019, and they usual take place on the first Wednesday of every month. Find out more and apply here. Deadline:
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
Clapham Fringe a bright and bold three week fringe festival at The Bread & Roses Theatre is seeking original and exciting responses to the motif ‘beyond borders’. How to apply: follow the link to submit your ideas and find about more http://www.claphamfringe.com/take-part.html De
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
CRIPT CALLOUT: WildChild would love to connect with new writers. If you have a script that you think needs to be told NOW – send it over to them. They’d love to hear from any writers with ready to go scripts or intriguing ideas they’d be keen to develop. How to submit: email adam
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
The London Playwriting Lab exists to help stage writers discover a sense of direction. It is a series of workshops including exercises tailored to individual play ideas. You can find out more about the programme here. More information: All six of our sessions are held at Theatre
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
ArtfulScribe and Lighthouse are excited to announce a new vacancy for a Writer in Residence to work with Lighthouse staff, visitors and touring productions from September 2019 as part of the DO: Write Literature Development Project in Dorset. It’s envisaged that the successful ca
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
New Vic Education seeks a writer to work alongside their team. You will co-deliver their Live Age Connects programme with a group of older people in Stoke on Trent. Live Age Connects and Live Age Festival are funded by the Big Lottery Building Connections Fund. Live Age celebrate
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
ArtReach, producers of Journeys Festival International, have teamed up with Commonword to create a new commissioning opportunity for an artist/writer from a refugee background or refugee led artists group currently based in Greater Manchester. They are seeking proposals for an in
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
Beinghuman are currently accepting applications from local, national & international artists & cultural producers for their yearly residency during Frome Festival in the Somerset warehouse, being summer, 05.07.19 – 14.07.19. With both residential & non residential opportunities,
Read with a free account →07 May 19 · Opportunities
Decorating Dissidence, an online journal published every six weeks, explores the political, aesthetic and conceptual qualities of craft and the decorative, from modernist experimentation in the early twentieth-century to contemporary practices today. They hope to open up a space
Read with a free account →06 May 19 · Original Content
Another month, another new Play Club announcement! We received some fantastic entries for the first Play Club window which were incredible responses to Far Away by Caryl Churchill some vibrant and unique voices, so it was a difficult task to choose a piece for the reading. Howeve
Read this article →03 May 19 · Opportunities
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 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: Swings and Roundabouts script call out for new wr
Read with a free account →30 April 19 · Opportunities
Victor Esses are looking for performers, theatre makers, game masters, live artists, poets, spoken word artists, dancers, musicians and activists to submit proposals for short pieces of work, work in progress, extracts of longer work, up to 20 minutes long that challenges usual r
Read with a free account →30 April 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines May 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
Read with a free account →30 April 19 · Education
The Lir Academy, at Trinity College Dublin offers a one year full time (or two years part time) MFA in Playwriting. They are now accepting applications. Find out more here. Deadline: 28 June 2019 Source: Playwritng UK Facebook Group
Read this article →30 April 19 · Opportunities
A discussion about ageism in theatre and the struggle older women playwrights have in accessing development opportunities.When: Sat 29 June, 1pm Where: The Ovalhouse How to book: here (tickets are free) Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →29 April 19 · Uncategorized
Little Wonder Radio Plays are an anglophone full cast audio drama production company based in Paris. Little Wonder is an Artist’s Collective, a group of professionally trained writers, actors, director, musicians, editors and artists who, amongst other things, come together to pr
Read this article →29 April 19 · Opportunities
The BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award is a talent search organised by BBC Studios Comedy to find the next generation of comedy (including stand-up, sketch, musical and character comedy) stars. Who can apply: entry is open to UK residents aged 18 or over as at 17th April 2019.
Read with a free account →29 April 19 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit their scripts for the fifth season of the ArtsEd Original Screenplay Project their open submission system for receiving BA Acting Screenplays. Each year, ArtsEd holds open submissions for original screenplays to be performed by graduating BA Actors,
Read with a free account →29 April 19 · Education / Original Content
The latest instalment of our members’ content is our online course, The Submissions Checklist, and it’s now live. (If you’re not a member yet, sign up here for the price of a coffee!) About the Course: so you’ve finished your play and plan to submit it to a theatre, a producer or
Read this article →29 April 19 · Events / Opportunities
Sci-Fi Theatre Network – London, May 11 Meeting Following the 2nd Talos: The Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London in 2018, and the launch of the Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab, our theatre company Cyborphic resumes its sci-fi theatre meetings in 2019. “Our Sci-Fi Thea
Read with a free account →29 April 19 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for the University of Bristol Theatre Collection 2019 Kevin Elyot Award – created in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer. The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre
Read with a free account →29 April 19 · Opportunities
Paradox are excited to present their first SISTERHOOD workshop, a safe space to try out new work for female identifying and non-binary theatremakers and writers. Got a script you’ve been working on, but need some feedback? Want to test out ideas and have discussions, or meet some
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