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24 November 17 · Opportunities
Recognize & Inspiring are looking for a script writer to work with several community groups and a group of actors. The brief is to develop a play about civil rights in Birmingham. The play will be performed as part of a series of events at a venue in Birmingham and will be filmed
Read with a free account →24 November 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →23 November 17 · Opportunities
MGSO4 Festival is a multi-arts festival based in Epsom, Surrey, and they have announced a new open arts commission to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of the discovery of Epsom Salts and the festival theme ‘Discovery.’ Artists, groups and creative activists working in any genre
Read with a free account →23 November 17 · Events / Opportunities
Art School, the new company being set up to support the education sector and arts industry to come together to improve and protect arts education has announced its next two events in its first initiative. The first of the event will take place on 29 November 2017 and speakers wil
Read with a free account →22 November 17 · Opportunities
The Script Room is an initiative from director Barry Edwards and Optik Theatre to give professional support and showings to new theatre scripts and writers. They are looking for original and unperformed scripts. They produce both one act plays and extracts from full length theatr
Read with a free account →22 November 17 · 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: Goblin Baby Co. accepting short play and monologu
Read with a free account →21 November 17 · Opportunities
BBC Writersroom’s regular window for unsolicited scripts opens 11 December 2017. They are looking for for Drama scripts including TV, film, radio, stage or online. What to submit: One drama script of at least 30 minutes / pages in length for TV, Film, Radio, Stage or Online* – Yo
Read with a free account →20 November 17 · Opportunities
IASH and the Traverse will commission a play on or inspired by any aspect of the Institute’s current interests. The stipend will be £10,000 and the recipient will have a private office and full Fellowship at IASH, and contribute to the Institute’s events, including giving at leas
Read with a free account →17 November 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →16 November 17 · Original Content
A short six months ago, I started (trying) to write plays. Being a novice in any industry is daunting, particularly when it’s one you really want to get into. And it’s so easy to let that fear stop you from trying at all, especially when you know there’s a million other people tr
Read this article →15 November 17 · Opportunities
BBC Wales is launching a brand-new initiative to find up to three new comedy programmes for BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer. Find Me Funny is a new comedy pilot initiative aimed at writers living or working full time in Wales, or those writers who can represent Welsh culture with a
Read with a free account →14 November 17 · Opportunities
Persistent and Nasty is a platform for female-identified humans working, writing and performing in the stage and screen industry. It was born from the frustration and anger of four actresses/writers, fed-up with the treatment of women across the industry; from the lack of profile
Read with a free account →13 November 17 · Opportunities
Goblin Baby Co. are currently seeking short play and monologues submissions for their upcoming Breaking Loose Festival. The festival aims to explore intersectionality and solidarity and will be taking part at The Bread and Roses from 18-25 February 2018. In their words: “The batt
Read with a free account →10 November 17 · Opportunities
The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its seventeenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Arundel Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel. The Trail is f
Read with a free account →10 November 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →08 November 17 · Opportunities
An innovative writing competition using contemporary Irish art to inspire writers has been launched by London Irish Green Curtain Theatre Company. Entries are now invited for the Green Curtain Monologue/ Playlet Writing Competition. Entitled “Every Picture Tells a Story” writers
Read with a free account →08 November 17 · Opportunities
Reboot Theatre Company are accepting submissions for their next show at a Central London theatre in early Spring 2018 and they are offering a £50 fee to all writers that are selected. They are producing an evening of new writing, and will select and perform 4 – 6 short plays. The
Read with a free account →08 November 17 · 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: Talos II: Science Fiction Theatre Festival – Call
Read with a free account →07 November 17 · Opportunities
Last Word Theatre are seeking a LGBTQ identifying female playwright to develop a female LGBTQ focused piece of writing. In their words: “We are very open to ideas and keen this should be lead by a writer’s tastes. We aim to develop a funding application to R&D the idea or script
Read with a free account →03 November 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Playwrights are invited to join the 2017 season of new writing workshops at the Jack Studio Theatre. The Jack Writers’ Workshop is a dynamic hub for emerging contemporary theatre writing in south London. The group will meet at the Jack Studio Theatre on Monday evenings, (7.30pm –
Read with a free account →03 November 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →01 November 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Filotico Arts, in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Words of Colour, are running a 6-month fully funded development programme for first, second, or third generation migrants interested in becoming a performance storyteller. They aim to work with those who want to reimagine
Read with a free account →01 November 17 · Events
University Women in the Arts and Sphinx Theatre Company will offer free advice to female arts students and women wanting to work in the arts on how to deal with harassment and bullying in the arts industry, following the recent case involving film producer Harvey Weinstein. The a
Read this article →01 November 17 · 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: Jermyn Street Theatre seeking three female playwr
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