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27 May 17 · Opportunities
After a successful launch in February 2017, Red Dragonfly Productions in association with Grist to the Mill are running Taking Flight Festival 2018 and are looking for new and emerging writers from British East Asian, South Asian and South East Asian communities who are intereste
Read with a free account →26 May 17 · Opportunities
Calling all budding film makers! As part of the Lancaster Words festival in July they are holding a short-film competition which invites entrants to make a 5-minute film responding to Paul Muldoon’s short poem ‘The Weepies’* Entry to the competition is FREE and there will be a sh
Read with a free account →26 May 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to help support LPB without spending any extra cash? Check out our ‘Gifts & Gear’ series and do your Amazon shopping via our links! 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). O
Read with a free account →24 May 17 · Education / Opportunities
Applications are now open for a brand new playwriting course in central Oxford, taught by Olivier Award-winning playwright and director John Retallack. It is a new professional course that covers every aspect of writing a play and, over 30 weekly 2-hour sessions and 3 day-long wo
Read with a free account →24 May 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: Threadbare Theatre’s playwriting competition seek
Read with a free account →24 May 17 · Opportunities
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is an award-winning museum in a picturesque Sussex village. It is currently showing a major exhibition entitled, Eric Gill: The Body, a thought provoking exhibition in which visitors are asked to consider whether their knowledge of Gill’s life impa
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Opportunities
BBC Comedy Commissioning is the largest comedy department in the UK, responsible for some of the most watched and critically acclaimed programmes in the world. BBC Comedy prides itself on working with the very best in comedy talent, new and established, on and off screen; across
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Opportunities
The Bread & Roses Theatre offers one Emerging Theatre Company a one-week-run as part of their Summer Season 2017. This includes two technical rehearsal days and five performance nights free of charge, for which the company will also receive 90% of the box office takings. Technica
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Education / Opportunities
This one day workshop, co-led by Tamasha’s Producer Alex Towers, Soho Theatre’s Producer David Luff* and Tamasha’s Artistic Director Fin Kennedy, will introduce some of the key principles of producing small scale theatre for fringe and studio venues. Areas covered will include: f
Read with a free account →23 May 17 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in June 2017. 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 th
Read with a free account →22 May 17 · Opportunities
RL productions are looking for plays which respond to the following brief: Plays must be about gay male hookups, but can explore any aspect before, during, or after. Plays may not be longer than ten minutes, but can indeed be shorter. Plays should have no more than four character
Read with a free account →22 May 17 · Uncategorized
Aurora Metro is running a competition to giveaway 3 copies of ‘Classic Plays by Women’. All you need to do to be in with a chance, is answer the question: Which seventeenth century woman playwright also worked as a spy? Send your answers to: cheryl@aurorametro.com Deadline: 21 Ju
Read this article →22 May 17 · Events / Offers
The Old Red Lion is offering London Playwrights’ Blog readers the chance to get £14 tickets to see Mark Weinman’s new play DYL. DYL is a new play that the Old Red Lion has developed in house and stands as great example of how they want to engage with new work. To get your discoun
Read this article →19 May 17 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to help support LPB without spending any extra cash? Check out our ‘Gifts & Gear’ series and do your Amazon shopping via our links! 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). O
Read with a free account →18 May 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
For performers, theatre makers, playwrights and composers – at any level of experience – with an interest in building a tool kit for devising theatre and finding their voice in a collaborative process Presented by The Scenic Route with: Tangled Feet (Award-winning, inspirational
Read with a free account →17 May 17 · Opportunities
From Writers Avenue Theatre Company – contemporary plays by contemporary writers. Open to writers 18-30 years old who would like the opportunity to develop work and showcase it in front of an audience including top industry professionals. “ We’re not one to gossip but…we heard t
Read with a free account →17 May 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: The After School Club looking for plays with youn
Read with a free account →17 May 17 · Opportunities
Theatrefullstop will celebrate turning 4 on the 14th July, and with this, this August they’ll be introducing the ‘Theatrefullstop presents… Carnival’ podcast. As we all know, the streets of Notting Hill take on the rhythms of the Caribbean as Europe’s largest party; Notting Hill
Read with a free account →17 May 17 · Opportunities
Ismena Collective (www.ismenacollective.com) is looking to expand their semi-staged musical exploration into the life and work of diarist Anais Nin into a fully theatrical event. They are looking for a young, enthusiastic and talented dramaturg/playwright to take our existing scr
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
Writer required for innovative Research and Development period based at mac, Birmingham and funded by Unlimited International R & D award. Led by British Deaf dancer Billy Read and Hong Kong Deaf dancer Ariel Fung. You will join a talented and accomplished team that includes Benj
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Education / Opportunities
The next open submissions session for the Royal Court’s Introduction to Playwriting Groups is now open. The group is an opportunity to learn more about playwriting from an experienced writer. The intention of the introductory group is to primarily provide demystified access to th
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
The After School Club are a brand new young female-led theatre company looking for a gem of a play to make their debut. They describe themselves as “sick of seeing plays where female roles are always supporting, or love interest” and want to explore the issues that young women fa
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
Miscellany Theatre Productions are seeking love stories for their next project My Irish Love Song, which will premiere in 2018. Stories can be any length and submitted until August 2017. Stories can take any form, including poetry, prose, dialogue or monologue, but the story shou
Read with a free account →16 May 17 · Opportunities
Fancy seeing your play produced professionally on the London stage? A competition has been launched to find a new playwright among the Irish community in the UK. Last year the London based Green Curtain Theatre Company held its inaugural festival of new Irish plays in venues acro
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