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06 June 18 · Opportunities
Patchwork Theatre Company presents ‘Write Yourself In’, the young playwrights competition 2018. Submit now for the chance to see a rehearsed reading of your play delivered by professional actors at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama! The theme of the 2018 competition is
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Talawa have opened their submission window for scripts. How it works (in their words): Send us your script using the option below – click the button which will call up an email window, add your script and a short cover note We’ll confirm that we have received your script Your scr
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Critical Mass is a free playwriting programme run at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry for writers aged 18+ from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee backgrounds. It’s run in partnership with Euphoric Ink and in association with Tamasha Theatre Company. Previous participants
Read with a free account →06 June 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: Pint-Sized call out for shorts and extracts Descr
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Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, M6 Theatre Company and Touchstones are working in partnership to launch a new playwriting competition for young people aged 14-25 who live in Rochdale Borough. They want you to write a short play which tells a different story of Rochdale. M
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Langham Court Theatre announces that it is inaugurating a major new playwriting competition, the world’s richest competition specifically for the writing of tragedy: the all-new 2019 Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition. At stake is $10,000 in prize money. The winning play wil
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The Spill is an evening of new writing, giving one playwright the opportunity to have their new play performed as a rehearsed reading in front of a live audience. The performance will take place on 30 July 2018. The event is run by Monday Club and has been running since October 2
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WRITE THEATRE is a series of unique, intensive courses for emerging theatre writers run by established playwrights. As well as working with the tutors, participants will have the opportunity to have their writing workshopped and rehearsed with very experienced professional actors
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Pint-Sized is looking for submissions for their first week-long festival at The Bunker Theatre, London in October 2018. Each Pint-Sized showcases 5 pieces of new writing from the best in emerging talent, wrapped up with a live band playing tailor-made tracks written about the pie
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Lost Chapters Theatre is inviting writers to come and see their show “Lies” and submit a 5-10min script as a response to the show. It can be of any form -conversations, monologues, poems , or anything they haven’t thought of -all welcome! The writing can be inspired by the story
Read with a free account →01 June 18 · Opportunities / Pick of the Week
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 →31 May 18 · Opportunities
@WildClawTheatre are looking for 10 minute horror audio scripts for Deathscribe 2018. Submissions are accepted through their online submission form Read more here. Deadline: 31 July 2018 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group via the London Horror Festival
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Hot on the trail of their recent show at The Bunker London, Reboot Theatre Company are looking for new writing for their Autumn production. Reboot will choose 4-6 plays to perform at a central London Theatre on 2-3 evenings in October 2018. A £50 fee will be paid to each writer w
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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in June 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 wh
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Playhouse Playmaker is the Oxford Playhouse writers attachment programme for new and emerging playwrights led by award-winning writer and director John Retallack. Each year they select up to 6 writers who meet one Saturday a month between October and June. These sessions are used
Read with a free account →30 May 18 · Original Content
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Read this article →30 May 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: Just Some Theatre accepting submissions for 2019
Read with a free account →30 May 18 · Original Content
In this post, Editor Jennifer Richards shares her tips on how she gradually fell in love with the re-drafting process, as editing exercises and tips and tricks helped her realise how vital re-drafting is for playwriting success! Re-drafting a script used to be the dreaded monster
Read this article →30 May 18 · Opportunities
The Creative Youth Network is looking for 5 young people to take part in a paid 6 month opportunity to set yourself up as a freelancer, make and show your own work and get mentoring. It is open to people aged 16–25. What you get: Studio space Professional mentoring Work placement
Read with a free account →29 May 18 · Opportunities
heatr Genedlaethol Cymru (the national Welsh-language theatre) are leading on a new venture – Grŵp Awduron Newydd (New Writers’ Group). The New Writers’ Group is open to writers of every age and from all parts of Wales and beyond writing in the Welsh language – people who are eag
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Are you a budding Playwright? Would you like to have your work performed on a London stage? Bloom Theatre & Film are looking for two 30 to 45 minute, 2 character fictional stage plays to be performed in July this year at a London theatre. Chosen by Bloom Theatre & Film and a pane
Read with a free account →29 May 18 · Opportunities
submissions for the next round of PLAY LA awards are now open! Winners will receive a $1,500 grant to develop a new play “from the ground up,” as well as critiques from theatre, film and television professionals throughout the year-long development process. Former mentors include
Read with a free account →29 May 18 · Opportunities
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is exploring new ways of developing creative ideas to engage audiences across its five historic sites; in particular, through collaborations with artists working in different disciplines. In April 2018 the Trust was granted Arts Council Engl
Read with a free account →28 May 18 · Opportunities
The Hidden Theatre Company are delighted to be collaborating with The Nell for a theatrical takeover of their upstairs every first Wednesday of the month. Think open mic, new writing nights, playreading groups, monologue scratching, discussions, networking, comedy… all things the
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