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07 March 18 · 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:Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2018 open for subm
Read with a free account →06 March 18 · Opportunities
Gi60 is now accepting one minute play submissions for the 2018 season. The festival runs in three locations: Leeds, UK, Brooklyn, NY and a spot in New Zealand. How to apply: Send your one minute plays to screammedia@yahoo.com Deadline: 1 April 2018 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook
Read with a free account →06 March 18 · Opportunities
Manchester ADP are seeking new script submissions from anywhere in the country. Following the sell-out success of their first full production at the Lowry and on tour, Manchester ADP are looking for their next script to produce. They are also keen to read new 15 minute plays. The
Read with a free account →05 March 18 · Opportunities
The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award is a competition for full length theatre plays that have not previously been produced or published and feature at least half of female, non-binary or gender neutral roles. Submissions for the next award are now open. Up to three winning plays w
Read with a free account →26 February 18 · Opportunities
Kibo Productions have been offered a three-week slot at the Barons Court Theatre from 16 April-6 May 2018, and they’re keen to use this opportunity to stage a world premiere of a new play. They welcome submissions from playwrights of all ages and backgrounds who have written an o
Read with a free account →26 February 18 · Opportunities
“You know that one act play that you’ve written? Or that one you’ve always been thinking about? We want it!” WRiTEON are accepting submissions for one-act plays to be staged as part of our festival of new writing which they are producing in Cambridge in the Summer of 2019. They a
Read with a free account →26 February 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2018. 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 w
Read with a free account →21 February 18 · Opportunities
Ready, Steady, Scratch are accepting submissions on the theme of ‘endurance’ for a scratch night on 13 March 2018. .They are looking for plays 5-15 mins long. The event will take place at The Leather Exchange SE1 and money from tickets sales will go to Rosie’s London Marathon tar
Read with a free account →21 February 18 · Opportunities
Submissions for are now open for Itchy Scratch Night at The London Theatre, which will take place on 27 April 2018. In their words: “Wanna come along and try snippets of your new script, a song you wrote, a dance or movement piece or maybe performance poetry or play some music. D
Read with a free account →21 February 18 · Opportunities
Bench Theatre, an amateur company based at The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant (on the South Coast in Hampshire). This will be their 8th Supernova festival of new one act plays, and the selected pieces will be performed over a week in February 2019. Plays will be selected b
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Opportunities
Now in its’ 16th year, New Works of Merit is accepting submissions for its’ playwriting contest. The winner will receive a professional reading in New York and a $300 cash prize. How to apply: find out more here. There is a $25 entry fee. Deadline: 2 July 2018 31 July 2018 Source
Read with a free account →06 February 18 · Opportunities
To kick off 2018, CultureClash Theatre is hosting a new writing night at Greenwich Theatre on Sunday 22nd April 2018, called ‘Voices in the Dark’. What to submit: They are on the search for new and established playwrights to submit work. They are looking for writers to submit sho
Read with a free account →01 February 18 · Opportunities
The Director’s Club present What is love? The Director’s Club Showcase, an evening of short plays about love, produced by Director’s Cut Theatre Company in partnership with Southwark Playhouse. The showcase is on Sunday 18th March at Southwark Playhouse. Prompt / What to submit:
Read with a free account →29 January 18 · Opportunities
Drama Notebook is currently soliciting submissions of short plays written for kids and teens. The opportunity is advertised as paid, but rates are not posted. How to apply: Get in touch with Janea via their contact form. Deadline: none posted Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →23 January 18 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 2018. 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 th
Read with a free account →20 January 18 · Opportunities
June sees Bradford Playhouse‘s LGBT month. They are hoping to showcase some of the Best LGBT theatre in the country. Part of the month will include their New Writing Festival. What to submit: They are currently open to submissions of short plays between 15 minutes and half an hou
Read with a free account →19 January 18 · Opportunities
Updated! The Theatre503 Playwriting Award is now open for submissions. The Theatre503 Playwriting award is made possible by the long term support of The Richard Carne Trust. Nick Hern Books are returning as Publishing Partners and Award Ceremony Sponsors for the third time. Eligi
Read with a free account →18 January 18 · Opportunities
Chesil Theatre is inviting submissions of ten-minute plays based on the theme, HIDDEN WORLDS. Ten plays will be selected for performances at the 10×10 New Writing Festival to be held in October 2018. The aim of 10×10 is to discover, promote and produce the very best new writing o
Read with a free account →16 January 18 · Opportunities
Yellow Stockings theatre company is seeking play submissions to be produced in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. What to submit: Running time around 50-60 minutes For a cast of 2-5 actors, at least 50% of the cast will be made up of women They are particularly interest
Read with a free account →12 January 18 · Opportunities
PlayList, organised by WoLab, will take place at the King’s Head Theatre on 4 and 5 March 2018. After this, two pieces will be chosen to go into further development with WoLab during 2018, to be staged in 2019. No previous writing experience is necessary to submit, just a desire
Read with a free account →11 January 18 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for the James Tait Black Prize for Drama. The £10,000 award is bestowed to the best original new play produced from 1 January – 31 December 2017. Agents and producing companies are invited to submit plays to the Department of English Literature by 22 Janu
Read with a free account →11 January 18 · Opportunities
Kinkyfish is looking for the next exciting new writer to collaborate with and bring some exciting new work up to Edinburgh for the 2018 fringe. They have had 2 successful shows at the Fringe and looking for a third hit. What they are looking for: A play of 45-50 minutes New writi
Read with a free account →11 January 18 · Writing Workshops
*Note – not affiliated with London Playwrights’ Blog or London Playwrights’ Workshop! London Playwriting Lab is looking for twelve writers with full length play ideas for our first 2018 programme. The Lab runs over four intensive days between January 27th to February 10th at the
Read this article →11 January 18 · Opportunities
Spontaneous Productions in association with Kirkdale Bookshop presents Love Bites Again: short plays about love and heartbreak by emerging playwrights. Following on from the first LOVE BITES show in 2014, Spontaneous Productions is back with more tales of love and heartbreak by e
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