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05 January 15 · Opportunities
Peppered Wit are looking for new and challenging material for 2015 for performance at the Fringe Festivals and theatre tours. They are looking for something edgy that will challenge audiences and actors alike! How to apply: send your submissions to tara@pepperedwit.co.uk Deadline
Read with a free account →02 January 15 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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). Opportunities are now grouped into three sections: 1) Opportunities with Deadlines; 2) Ongoing opportunities (no deadline); and 3) Worksho
Read with a free account →31 December 14 · Opportunities
The Putney Arts Theatre New Writing Team is looking for fully formed pieces of drama relating to the theme ‘Crime and Punishment’ for our new writing production in October 2015. What to submit: Plays can be any genre (comedy, love story, ghost story, social or historical drama, m
Read with a free account →26 December 14 · Opportunities
Backwell Playhouse will be presenting classic-style radio plays in 2015, which will be released as free podcasts shortly after recording. They are looking for plays that can be recorded in a radio style, with the ability to tell a story without visuals. The plays will be recorded
Read with a free account →25 December 14 · Opportunities
As part of its commitment to supporting emerging practitioners, the Blue Elephant announces that it is now receiving entries to its 2015 Playwriting Competition. What you get: The Blue Elephant will mount rehearsed readings of the winning entries this summer. What to submit: We a
Read with a free account →24 December 14 · Opportunities
The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its fifteenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel – this year, for example
Read with a free account →23 December 14 · Opportunities
Sphinx are looking for theatre pieces of roughly 10 to 20 minutes to be part of our festival programme at the National Theatre Temporary Space on 28th March 2015. What to submit: Pieces must be female centred and/or driven and will be presented either as scratch performances, wor
Read with a free account →22 December 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2015 and late December 2014. 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
Read with a free account →22 December 14 · Opportunities
The BBC has published their writersroom submission windows for 2015, with some slight tweaks to their model. Rather than grouping submissions strictly by medium as in 2014 (with different entry dates for radio/stage, screen, etc), they will have two submission windows: a window i
Read with a free account →18 December 14 · Writing Workshops
Master Raconteur will be running a four-session workshop with Simon Vinnocombe (who has recently worked with the National Theatre) on playwriting. Dates: Saturday 31st January/ Feb 7th / 14th /21st 2015 from 10am – 4pm Location: Central London, TBA More details are available on t
Read this article →16 December 14 · Opportunities
Bare Fiction magazine is now open to submissions of poetry, fiction and plays for their March 2015 issue. What they are looking for: “We want our readers to discover genre-defying boldness from exciting writers in poetry, fiction and plays, literary review, interviews and comment
Read with a free account →16 December 14 · Opportunities
The King’s Head Theatre is pleased to announce the 2015 Adrian Pagan Award. This year the award is open to anyone who has not been professionally produced more than once. The winning writer’s script will be produced at the King’s Head Theatre. What to submit: “We are looking for
Read with a free account →12 December 14 · Opportunities
Amateur playwrights are invited to submit unpublished one-act plays for the 11th Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Drama Writing Award. Three winning scripts, judged purely on the writing, will be selected for performance in October during the 2015 Windsor Fringe Festival. Judges: I
Read with a free account →12 December 14 · Opportunities
Almost Random Theatre is seeking four outstanding 10 minute plays to be put on in Oxford in February 2015. The play must be no more than 10 minutes long and require no more than three actors. The theme of the competition is ‘Valentine’. What to submit: A ten minute play on the su
Read with a free account →11 December 14 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for the Papatango New Writing Prize 2015. What to submit: In their own words: “Papatango are not prescriptive in the plays we consider, asking only that they have never before been professionally performed, although musicals, adaptations and children’s pl
Read with a free account →11 December 14 · Uncategorized
This annual award was established in 2009 by Moniack Mhor to honour Jessie Kesson’s inspirational life and work. Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre is inviting established writers to apply for the Jessie Kesson Fellowship in 2015. The successful candidate will receive time and space to
Read this article →09 December 14 · Opportunities
Claremorris Fringe Festival 2015 is seeking submissions of 15 minute plays. The Fringe will be held from April 4th to 11th 2014 – with two plays each night – that’s a total of sixteen plays. The venue is The Dalton Inn Hotel in the centre of the town, adjacent to the Town Hall. T
Read with a free account →03 December 14 · Opportunities
Berliner Festspiele is accepting submissions of plays from dramatists at the beginning of their career for a performance in Berlin next year. The competition is open to applicants from all over Europe. For full details see the website. Deadline: 15 December 2014 Source: Playwriti
Read with a free account →28 November 14 · Opportunities
Fisher Taylor-Gaunt Productions is offering four writing teams the opportunity to develop their musicals. Each successful musical will receive a week’s worth of development in Spring 2015, culminating in a 30-minute showcase in a Central London venue. Each successful musical will
Read with a free account →26 November 14 · Education / Events
Head to IdeasTap HQ to meet Ugly Sister Productions (As of 2015 to be known as The Story Project), a new writing theatre company headed up by Esther Jane Shepherd and Julia McShane. They are responsible for The Story Project – a large project where they collaborate with writers,
Read this article →24 November 14 · Opportunities
Vertical Line is inviting writers to submit a brief or 10 pages from a full length script made for 10 year olds. Selected plays will be performed at Little Line Up, a new writing event for young audiences. The performance will take place on 17 January 2015 at a Greenwich Theatre
Read with a free account →18 November 14 · Opportunities
Amsterdam based theatre company, Orange Tea, is accepting full length plays for a production in 2015-2016. They are looking for plays of about 60-90 minutes in length for a cast of 2-4. Plays should be contemporary and reflect global society. Topics might – but don’t have to – in
Read with a free account →14 November 14 · Opportunities
Giant Cherry Productions are pleased to announce the launch of their new annual LGBT Playwriting Contest! The premise is simple: they are on the lookout for the next great gay play with LGBT characters, stories or themes. Three scripts will be selected as finalists and then perfo
Read with a free account →13 November 14 · Opportunities
The Sussex Playwrights’ Club is now open to submissions for their annual Ten Minute Play Competition. These plays will be produced at the New Venture Theatre in the 75 seat Theatre Upstairs for 8 performances during the week 17 to 25 July 2015. What to submit: Your play should me
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