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18 May 16 · Opportunities
The call out for scripts for Irlam Fringe 2016 – taking place August – is now open. Submissions are limited to ONE per writer. Please do not send multiple submissions. There is no fee for submitting your work or, if selected, for staging it. They are looking for 15 minute plays w
Read with a free account →12 May 16 · Opportunities
LA Musa Sulla Nuvola are a newly launched multilingual literary platform based in Venice and they welcome submissions from writers, poets, playwrights and screenwriters until the 20th of December 2016. They are keen to receive the first 25 pages of your manuscript and will reques
Read with a free account →11 May 16 · Opportunities
Re-Write Theatre are looking for 3 15-20 minute play submissions on the theme ‘Awakened’ to debut at Theatre503 on the Monday 11th July. Click the document link for full details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_1jFYaLUFX-xbvrpkoN1HCB4UDzJ7PJ72wVHuYfm53w/edit or follow Re-Wri
Read with a free account →03 May 16 · Opportunities
Little Fish Theatre is accepting scripts for their 15th Annual PICK OF THE VINE short play production to be presented in January-in January/February 2017 in California. There will be a $50 flat fee royalty payment to playwrights per play produced. Submission Guidelines: 1. Only O
Read with a free account →26 April 16 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in May 2016. 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 peruse the wh
Read with a free account →06 April 16 · Opportunities
Sonderlust Theatre is seeking submissions for its inaugural new writing event, a showcase of brand new short plays by promising writers and the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, brought to life by an ensemble of emerging directors and actors. What to submit: In their own words: “We favor s
Read with a free account →01 April 16 · Opportunities
The Spill organises quarterly rehearsed readings at the Old Red Lion Theatre of the freshest new work from the most exciting of contemporary writers. They are now looking for new plays to programme. Their next reading is on 5th June, but any submissions will be considered for tha
Read with a free account →31 March 16 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2016. 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 peruse the
Read with a free account →29 March 16 · Opportunities
The Pensive Federation will be launching The Significant Other Festival, an original new writing festival in the north at the Oldham Coliseum. The performances will take place on Saturday May 14th 2016. 10 x 10 minute plays, 10 writers, 10 directors, 20 actors – all in 10 days 10
Read with a free account →21 March 16 · Opportunities
THE 8 Minute USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PLAYWRITING CONTEST. Can you write an 8 minute play about the USA Presidential Elections before 14th May 2016? Worldwide Submissions Wanted. 8 minute plays and 3 minute monologues Prize: Top ten plays will be performed in the Hollywood Frin
Read with a free account →16 March 16 · Opportunities
Jo Smith Productions is a theatre company dedicated to providing a springboard for undiscovered theatre. Jo Smith is a self-published playwright and actress and understands how difficult it can be to get your work out there without the backing of an agent or publisher…and so Jo S
Read with a free account →14 March 16 · Opportunities
The Best of Bolton, a celebratory festival of local talent next takes place on Saturday 28 May 2016. Submissions can be in any short form – story, poem, monologue, sketch, a short extract (only) from a novel or play, but no more than three minutes long. “We welcome work in all la
Read with a free account →10 March 16 · Opportunities
The Arch and Bruce Foundation is currently accepting submissions for its 2016 Playwriting Competition. What to submit: All works must concern LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) life and be based on, or directly inspired by, a historical person, culture, work of art or event.
Read with a free account →09 March 16 · Opportunities
EndTimes Productions is now accepting submissions for its 7th Edition of Vignettes for the Apocalypse, New York’s oldest and largest Sci-fi/Horror themed theater festival. This year’s program will consist of two full-length plays and three short play collections. All submissions
Read with a free account →29 February 16 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2016. 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 peruse the
Read with a free account →24 February 16 · 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: Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize open for submiss
Read with a free account →22 February 16 · Opportunities
The second Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize is now open for entries. One comedy writer will walk away with £10,000 and the opportunity to have their play considered for production by Liverpool’s Royal Court, while up to two Highly Commended awards of £1,500 will also be on offer.
Read with a free account →14 February 16 · Opportunities
Barrel Organ presents LIVE, a new scratch night taking place at Camden People’s Theatre, for experimental and non-traditional work that specifically acknowledges the presence of the audience and plays with the ‘liveness’ of theatre. As a company, Barrel Organ try to make work tha
Read with a free account →04 February 16 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is now accepting submissions of one-act plays for the 2016 British Theatre Challenge competition. What to submit: The competition is open to all nationalities, but plays must be written in English and unpublished for the duration of the competition. Plays
Read with a free account →03 February 16 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 2016. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but if you’d like to peruse the wh
Read with a free account →03 February 16 · Opportunities
The Chesil Theatre is pleased to announce that its fifth biennial 10×10 Playwriting Competition is now open for submissions. The aim of Chesil Theatre’s 10×10 event is to discover, promote and produce the very best new writing of 10 minute plays. In 2008 the Chesil Theatre hosted
Read with a free account →02 February 16 · Opportunities
The George Devine Award is an annual prize, established in 1966 in honour of the first director of the Royal Court Theatre. The award is now administered by his daughter, Harriet Devine. While your play need not have been produced to be submitted, it’s worth noting that any list
Read with a free account →25 January 16 · Opportunities
The Owl and Cat are currently accepting script submissions from playwrights to be produced by The Owl and Cat Theatre as part of their second season 2016, Melbourne Australia (www.owlandcat.com.au). Submission Guidelines: -MUST be in pdf format ONLY -Plays should be 50min-70min i
Read with a free account →20 January 16 · Opportunities
“HighTide exists to discover and nurture exciting new plays by exceptional emerging writers. As we enter our tenth year, our writers have consistently shaped the mainstream of new writing theatre today. Could you be next? We want audacious, challenging and inspiring writing that
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