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03 July 26 · Opportunities
Writers opportunity!! Deadline 11th July. ONE MINUTE SCRIPTS IS BACK!!!!🥳🥳🥳 THE THEME IS ‘Home Town’ This is to celebrate the Dare to Create festival coming back to @daretoknowtheatre (and ours!) home town #Oldham this year 🙌 After the success of ‘One Minute Scripts’ at last
Read with a free account →03 July 26 · Opportunities
Our Writers’ Lab programme is an entry-level course designed to support new writers in creating their first play over the course of 9 months. The Lab is led by Sharmila Chauhan, Jules Haworth and Roy Alexander Weise, featuring a number of guest artists throughout the Lab, with se
Read with a free account →25 June 26 · Opportunities
The Iskador Project | An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas for Emerging Theatre-makers As part of its upcoming artistic development scheme The Iskador Project, the Marylebone Theatre invites emerging theatre-makers to attend an introductory course on the Mystery Dra
Read with a free account →25 June 26 · Opportunities
The National Theatre has partnered with the Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation in committing to supporting playwrights. Celebrating the life and career of Sir Peter Shaffer, this partnership will continue his desire to support playwrights as they create larger scale plays. A
Read with a free account →25 June 26 · Opportunities
The Mercury Theatre is delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural Mercury Essex Playwrights Award! 🎉 The winner will receive: 💰 a full commission 🤝 dramaturgical support from the Mercury’s artistic team 🎭 and a fully staged production in the Mercury Studio during 2027
Read with a free account →25 June 26 · Opportunities
Submissions are now OPEN for the Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize. The Bill Cashmore Award offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays by writers aged 18-30, to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Bristol Old Vic. The two winning plays w
Read with a free account →19 June 26 · Opportunities
INK Festival is offering a free series of adult scriptwriting workshops this autumn, led by acclaimed playwright, scriptwriter and theatre director Rob John. Writing a Short Play is a practical, hands-on course designed to help writers develop the skills needed to create a compel
Read with a free account →12 June 26 · Opportunities
En Route Theatre Company is looking for submissions for VOYAGES, a new writing festival taking place at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, from 25–28 August 2026. VOYAGES is seeking original plays exploring journeys of all kinds. “Voyages” may be interpreted freely and is intend
Read with a free account →12 June 26 · Opportunities
Summerseat Players, a volunteer-led theatre company based at Theatre Royal Ramsbottom. We’ve just launched submissions for our inaugural New Writing Festival, taking place in July 2027, and wondered whether this might be relevant to writers, artists or theatre-makers in your netw
Read with a free account →12 June 26 · Opportunities
World building writing workshop with Joshua Azouz Saturday 20 June, 10am-1pm Join award-winning writer Joshua Azouz (Kiss / Marry / Push Off Cliff, National Theatre) for a practical workshop that explores the engine of a play. Redrafting workshop with Beth Flintoff Saturday 27 Ju
Read with a free account →12 June 26 · Opportunities
The National Theatre are running two free Words from the Wild webinars this July, for emerging or early career writers. Using creative activities and exercises inspired by animals and the natural world, and taking inspiration from the National Theatre’s productions of War Horse a
Read with a free account →05 June 26 · Opportunities
Nick Hern Books (NHB) – the UK’s leading specialist theatre publisher and performing rights agents – is looking for five passionate, up-and-coming playwrights to join our exciting new Mentoring scheme. Each mentee will be paired with an experienced, NHB-published playwright, who
Read with a free account →05 June 26 · Opportunities
The Writers’ Block is running a 4 day training programme for Emerging Playwrights, funded and in partnership with The Minack Theatre. The outcome of the programme is for the Minack Youth Theatre to commission a selection of short, original plays for Autumn 2026 for their Play in
Read with a free account →05 June 26 · Opportunities
Applications to become Jerwood Writer in Residence 2027 with Pentabus are open! The £12,000 Jerwood Bursary supports a professional playwright in the early stage of their career, giving the recipient the opportunity to spend up to a year at the base in Ludlow in South Shropshire.
Read with a free account →22 May 26 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for Stage Writing for Commission — a fully funded training programme for emerging playwrights, delivered by The Writers’ Block in partnership with The Minack Theatre. We would greatly appreciate your support in sharing this opportunity across your networ
Read with a free account →15 May 26 · Opportunities
We are delighted to be joining forces with @nwnnewwritingnorth ‘s Creative Associate Programme to offer a Live Theatre Writer In Residence opportunity. We are seeking one writer to take part in a six-month residency between Aug 2026 – Feb 2027 to create a new piece of artistic wo
Read with a free account →30 April 26 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS OPEN – WOMEN IN THE NOW I’m so excited to be bringing Women in the Now to the King’s Head Theatre, and submissions are now open. I’m looking for short pieces of new writing exploring what it means to be a woman in the world right now. This is a space for women’s voice
Read with a free account →30 April 26 · Opportunities
Callout for pre-existing 15 minute scripts for Framework Festival 2026! These scripts can be excerpts of longer works or stand-alone short plays, and they should require a maximum of 3 performers. The selected scripts will receive support from Framework Theatre to produce them in
Read with a free account →29 April 26 · Opportunities
Applications for the Kevin Elyot Award 2026 to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection are now open! The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award given to support a promising writer, practitioner or scholar to begin the process of creating a new
Read with a free account →29 April 26 · Opportunities
THE LAMBETH FRINGE 2026 Applications are now open for Lambeth Fringe 2026. A month long celebration of bold, brilliant performance across South London. From theatre and comedy to cabaret, dance and everything in between, the Fringe champions new voices and fresh ideas. “A brand n
Read with a free account →28 April 26 · Opportunities
Attention all playwrights! You have less than a month left to submit your original play to the ETC/Kaplan Playwriting Competition. This is your chance to showcase your talent and win a share of over $1750 in prize money! The Eventide Theatre Company of Massachusetts is excited to
Read with a free account →24 April 26 · Opportunities
Award-Winning Playwright Isley Lynn will be leading a 3-hour online workshop on writing, an intensive look at story structure for anyone interested in theatre, storytelling and dramaturgy. Whether you want to develop a project already underway, use structural thinking to grow an
Read with a free account →23 April 26 · Opportunities
Live Writes is an event where a handful of writers chosen from an open submission window have their work performed in a scratch setting in our main theatre space in front of a panel of industry experts and a full house audience. Rehearsals, tech and performances all happen over o
Read with a free account →16 April 26 · Opportunities
Theatre at the Library will take place on October 14 and 15 2026 presenting three performances in a uniquely configured studio space in Whitton Library Richmond. Scripts are fully rehearsed and performed to professional workshop production level. This is not a rehearsed reading!.
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