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20 January 22 · Opportunities
London-based company Miniver Theatre are once again running their Minute Monologue Competition and are looking for creatives to write and film original monologues that are no longer than sixty seconds. • The theme is ‘New Year’s Resolution’ – incorporate this into your monologue
Read with a free account →16 September 21 · 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 Queens of Cups: New Moon Monologues – accepti
Read with a free account →08 September 21 · Opportunities
New Moon Monologues are a monthly platform established for emerging writers based around the lunar cycle. Launched by Erin Holland and Grace O’Keefe, aka the Queens of Cups, in the Autumn of 2020, the new writing nights have featured over 30 playwrights, poets, and writers from a
Read with a free account →17 June 21 · Opportunities
London-based company Miniver Theatre are once again running their Minute Monologue Competition and are looking for creatives to write and film original monologues that are no longer than sixty seconds. The theme is ‘Three Little Words’ – incorporate this into your monologue howev
Read with a free account →15 April 21 · 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 Queens of Cups: Submissions open for May’s Ne
Read with a free account →14 April 21 · Opportunities
To submit your poem, monologue, spoken-word piece, song, or piece of solo choreography (or anything that one person can do) to May’s New Moon Monologue on the theme of “Growing Together”, we are asking writers to donate £3.33. The fee is £33 and every monologue will receive feedb
Read with a free account →07 April 21 · Opportunities
MAKE ‘EM LAUGH is a night of new comedy set up by Rebecca Rayne and is a night of 5-10 minute live & screened comedy acts! (monologues/stand up/sketches/Improv/filmed sketches/funny shorts) which will take place on ZOOM with an invited audience WHEN? Saturday 29th May 2021@ 8pm!
Read with a free account →17 March 21 · Opportunities
The Queens of Cups are back with another installment of New Moon Monologues. They are accepting 3-10 minute submissions of poems, songs, and monologues on April’s theme of “Come Clean”. There is a £3 entry fee which is used to support the artists involved, with a £33 payment if s
Read with a free account →08 March 21 · Opportunities
Deadline: 21 March 2021 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →18 February 21 · 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 Queens of Cups: New Moon Monologues – seeking
Read with a free account →16 February 21 · Opportunities
The Queens of Cups, the founders of the New Moon Monologues are seeking new writing for their next event. The theme is “Begin Again”. The submission deadline is February 27th, the full moon and the performance will be on the next new moon, March 13th. In the spirit of the theme,
Read with a free account →27 January 21 · Opportunities
MAKE ‘EM LAUGH is a night of new comedy set up by Rebecca Rayne, in partnership with The Etcetera Theatre. A night of 5-10 minute live & screened comedy acts (monologues/stand up/sketches/Improv/filmed sketches/funny shorts) which will take place on ZOOM with an invited audience
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for monologues based on the timely theme of Past, Present, Future by writers with a connection to south east London. The Jack Studio wants to find bold and original voices from our community in this new writing event. You might be a playwright or a poet,
Read with a free account →23 November 20 · Opportunities
MONOLOGUE CALL-OUT Young Vic Genesis Network members, designer David Medina Águila and director Alice Chambers, are looking to commission an important piece of theatre, which we intend to produce as part of a larger project of monologues that speak to a coming-of-age generation,
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Miniver’s Minute Monologue Challenge. Let’s get those creative juices flowing! The theme for entries is… ‘unfamiliar’ so please do incorporate this however you like. How to apply: head to https://www.minivertheatre.com/minute-monologue for more details! Deadline: 23 November 2020
Read with a free account →03 November 20 · Opportunities
‘Lost Souls Monologues’ is a brand new podcast. This ground-breaking series features new works from British, Irish, Australian and American writers. Drawn from more than six hundred submissions from around the globe, the thirty monologues reflect something of the richness of the
Read with a free account →05 October 20 · Opportunities
The Factory Theatre Workshop is looking for submissions for the next edition of their monthly newsletter, in association with the Bomb Factory Art Foundation. The theme for this edition is ‘DISGUISE’ and entries can be in any form/genre: think poetry, monologues, short films, dra
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
The submission window for next month’s New Moon is now Open! FOR WHO: Playwrights, Poets, Spoken Word Artists & New Writers – All Welcome. WHEN: 7pm Friday 16th of October – The September New Moon WHERE: Live on The Queens of Cups Facebook page & YouTube channel. THEME – Break Up
Read with a free account →15 September 20 · Opportunities
‘I’m still here’ – Summerseat Players monologue competition The Summerseat Players, a thriving community theatre in the north of England, are looking for short monologues which can then be produced by professional filmmaker Michael Wray to form a series of short films for periodi
Read with a free account →26 August 20 · Opportunities
WHAT: A New Writing Night WHO: Playwrights, Poets, Spoken Word Artists & New Writers – All Welcome. WHEN: 7.30pm Thursday 17th of September -The September New Moon WHERE: Zoom THEME – 2020 (Interpret this however you please) FORM: A poem or 5 minute monologue, either from the per
Read with a free account →25 August 20 · Opportunities
The Factory Theatre Workshop would like to announce the theme for the next edition of their monthly newsletter, which will be released a month from today: ‘RETURN’. They are looking for images and written submissions of 500 words or less, in any genre (think monologues, poems, sh
Read with a free account →12 August 20 · Opportunities
WRITERS! Troubadour Theatre @troubadour2018 are calling for submissions for their Dark Work Monologues series. They are seeking monologues between 2-3 minutes in length that have an element of darkness/sinister theme/unexpected dark twist. They are not in a position to pay, unfor
Read with a free account →10 August 20 · Opportunities
Poems, short stories and monologues that show something new emerging either from a rediscovery made after returning to a familiar place or from an embarrassing moment that became cathartic. This moment can only be experienced now, like One Last Gasp. Recent projects from this tea
Read with a free account →30 June 20 · Opportunities
Los Angeles based RAZE THE SPACE THEATRE ENSEMBLE’s ten-minute international plays festival will go ahead in 2020. It will NOT be a play festival or reading on Zoom, but feature a series of monologues performed by different actors, filmed in physical theatre spaces, and broadcast
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