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11 May 23 · Opportunities
The Etcetera Theatre in Camden are hosting their first “Indie Summer Festival” from 1st – 18th of June and are looking for shows to programme. Submission and production is free. (box office splits) To find out more contact admin@etceteratheatre.com Source: londonpubtheatres.com
Read with a free account →07 May 23 · Opportunities
PlayZoomers, a live, online theater company, is seeking short (10-15 min.) scripts about theatre for production in 2023 or 2024. They are looking for humorous or serious, clever plays with themes related to actors, directors, playwrights, plays, critics, backstage crews, audience
Read with a free account →05 May 23 · Opportunities
The Nursery Theatre are producing the FLOURISH FESTIVAL at the Bush Theatre from 18-23 September 2023. As part of this festival, they are calling out for writers/theatre-makers to apply for the Artist Development Initiative which will take place during the festival. Selected writ
Read with a free account →29 April 23 · Opportunities
Kumu Kahua Theatre is running a new monthly playwriting contest in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press. Every month, Kumu Kahua’s artistic director Harry Wong III will select a writing prompt on the first day of that month. They are looking for 5-page monologues or 10-page scen
Read with a free account →29 April 23 · Opportunities
Director’s Cut Theatre are looking for 1-2 minute monologues for their upcoming event, ‘Make The Cut’ at Pleasance Theatre on Wednesday 31st May. 10 writers monologues will be chosen for the event. Writers’ Brief 1-2 minute monologues We are looking for a mixture comedy and drama
Read with a free account →27 April 23 · Opportunities
The Seagull Theatre, in Lowestoft, is producing a brand new children’s science fiction web series and seeks three young professional writer/producers to get involved. Job Description This is an opportunity for early career professional writers aged 18 – 25 to be part of a collabo
Read with a free account →22 April 23 · Opportunities
The Writers’ Block is running a 3 day training programme for Emerging Playwrights, funded and supported by The Minack Theatre. The outcome of the programme is for the Minack Youth Theatre to commission a selection of short, original plays for Summer 2023. Led by writer and lectur
Read with a free account →22 April 23 · Opportunities
The Squint Playwriting Award discovers, develops and champions exceptional playwrights of the future. Squint Theatre are addressing the lack of financial support for early career writers with a paid playwriting programme designed to support East London artists from low-income bac
Read with a free account →20 April 23 · Opportunities
Troy Foundry are currently accepting submissions of new plays (never before produced) for the 2023 MAY session of our DARK DAY MONDAYS FREE READING SERIES. The selected plays will be presented in staged reading format with a director and actors from the Troy Foundry Theatre compa
Read with a free account →20 April 23 · Opportunities
CALLING WRITERS, THEATRE MAKERS, STORYTELLERS, SONGWRITERS, SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS Cracking Slate is seeking submissions for its upcoming scratch night Early Dawn at the Golden Goose Theatre on the 22nd of June! It will be a celebration of fresh ideas, warm summer days and the varie
Read with a free account →20 April 23 · Uncategorized
In this article, Jane Woddis, writer of Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-making and Civil Society (Palgrave) shares her thoughts on Playwrights and Policy. Back in the 1990s, I was combining work as a theatre administrator with studying and researching in the
Read this article →20 April 23 · Digital Resources / News
In this episode of 300 Thoughts for Theatremakers, Russell Lucas talks to Fraser Robinson, Media Lecturer and International Scripted Drama Consultant, about his theories on what makes a good screenplay. There is lots of great inside knowledge on what studios and channels may be l
Read this article →19 April 23 · Opportunities
Warner Bros. Discovery, Wall to Wall and the Royal Exchange Theatre are looking for 5 stage writers who want to break into TV, to take part in the Writers Exchange Programme. During the programme, a unique package of workshops and bespoke development opportunities will be offered
Read with a free account →15 April 23 · Opportunities
Stages is Houston’s premiere mid-sized theater, and produces a broad scope of plays and musicals ranging from jukebox musicals and family entertainment to world premieres and new work by emerging writers. They are committed to telling stories by and for traditionally excluded com
Read with a free account →15 April 23 · Opportunities
The Old Red Lion Theatre in Angel is looking for writers and producers for their horror themed scratch night on the 9th of May. If you have a script, a few scenes or even just a concept for a new piece of horror theatre or if you have experience producing fringe or touring shows
Read with a free account →14 April 23 · Opportunities
Deadline: 31 May 2023 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →14 April 23 · Opportunities
PROJEKT EMPOWER is a unique mentorship programme specifically aimed at supporting migrant theatre makers at the beginning of their UK careers. Are you a first generation migrant theatre maker? Are you at the beginning of your career? Do you feel like you could benefit from being
Read with a free account →06 April 23 · Opportunities
The Kevin Elyot Award was established in 2016 as an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. It is given in memory of Kevin Elyot (1951-2014) – an alumnus of the University of Bristol Drama Department – and the
Read with a free account →06 April 23 · Opportunities
The Playwright’s Laboratory are hosting two Playwrights Networking Events as part of our Pop Up Festival of Plays at the Arcola Theatre from 25 April – 5 May. From a docudrama set on the doorstep of the murder of George Floyd, spiralling into a gangster-torn Singapore, and drifti
Read with a free account →06 April 23 · Opportunities
The Queens of Cups (@thequeensofcups) are looking for Playwrights, Poets, Drag Artists, Songwriters Comedians and Sketch Groups to join them for a variety night of Comedy, Music, Theatre and more for New Moon Monologues! They are looking for acts of any kind between 5-30 minutes
Read with a free account →05 April 23 · Opportunities
Submissions are still open for Flat 4 Theatre’s Freshly Squeezed Scratch Night at the Bread and Roses Theatre on the 27th of April. Ideally pieces will be 10-15 mins long but they may be able to be flexible with this. They are particularly keen to hear from queer/ female/ NB arti
Read with a free account →05 April 23 · Opportunities
The Phoenix Theatre is a small, professional receiving venue in Hampshire looking to support emerging talent. Writers are asked to submit a ten-minute play for an opportunity to see their work rehearsed and performed on The Phoenix Theatre stage. Selected scripts will be staged a
Read with a free account →30 March 23 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
London-based theatremaker Russell Lucas & London Playwrights, are teaming up to deliver a two day theatre producing course for playwrights! Venue – London TBC. Firmly focused on inspiring and enabling writers to take control and stage their own work, this workshop will take your
Read with a free account →30 March 23 · Opportunities
New Earth Academy has offered introductory courses to performing, writing, theatre making and technical theatre to over 300 alumni. After taking academy courses, many alumni are keen to future pursue their career in theatre but feel there’s a gap between introductory courses and
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