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20 January 16 · Opportunities
The Young Harts Writing Festival is an exciting opportunity that will see five young writers go head to head with five professional writers in a two- night festival on the 8-9th April 2016 at the Lyric Hammersmith! All ten plays will be performed in the Lyric’s refurbished Studio
Read with a free account →17 January 16 · Opportunities
The Production Exchange are now accepting submissions of new plays from early-career writers for consideration for their Festival of New Writing to be held in London this autumn. During the festival, they will showcase five brand new plays over five consecutive nights as script i
Read with a free account →16 January 16 · Opportunities
Tomo Suru Players is calling for submissions for short plays for their second annual About Love Festival. The 2016 festival will be June 14 to June 18 at Vancouver’s storied Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC. The goal of the festival is to provide encouragement
Read with a free account →12 January 16 · Opportunities
A production team from Sedos, a well-respected London based amateur theatre company is looking for submissions of 10 minute scripts to join a line-up of four other scripts to form part of a hour of short plays to be performed in late July/early August 2016 in both London (the Bri
Read with a free account →11 January 16 · Opportunities
This international playwriting project involves over 200 playwrights who have signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history. The project’s ambitious yet focused goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well
Read with a free account →08 January 16 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for ‘A Festival of New Writing’, presented by Etch in association with the Pleasance, London. The Festival will take place from 31st March – 3rd April 2016. They will be supporting the development of eight brand new plays in a festival of new writing at t
Read with a free account →07 January 16 · Opportunities
Submissions wanted of 8 minute plays about “ShowBiz”. There is no charge/no fee to submit. Winning scripts will be performed at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood as part of the Hollywood Fringe Theatre Festival, June 2015. Produced by Hollywood Scribbler Theatre. Producer, D. Bancroft.
Read with a free account →04 January 16 · Opportunities
Soggy Brass is back at the Southwark Playhouse on 6 March 2016, with exciting news: “We’ve improved the deal for the writers on two accounts this time, firstly the venue has almost doubled in size to a 200+ capacity space and also we will be paying all those involved to boot.” Wh
Read with a free account →08 December 15 · Opportunities
Entries for the 2016 James Tait Black Prize for Drama will close on 12 February 2016. The winner of the £10,000 annual award will be announced in August. Eligibility: Eligible plays are those over sixty minutes in playing time, originally written in English (including all standar
Read with a free account →01 December 15 · Opportunities
RED Women’s Theatre awards invites all playwrights who identify as female to submit One-Act political plays on the theme of Resistance. Their first regional competition is taking place at Greenwich Theatre on 6 March 2016. How to apply: Please read submission guidelines before ap
Read with a free account →25 November 15 · Opportunities
As promised, here are the details of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award/ Theatre503 Five… SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2016 PLAYWRITING AWARD WILL BE OPEN IN SPRING 2016. Theatre503’s Playwriting Award is an unprecedented opportunity for playwrights at all levels to be recognised for w
Read with a free account →24 November 15 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 2015. 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 →19 November 15 · Opportunities
The 2016 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers is now open to submissions. All women who consider themselves emerging playwrights (as distinct from fledgling or mid-career playwrights) are eligible to apply for the 2016 FEWW Prize. Eligibility: Playwrights from all over the w
Read with a free account →12 November 15 · Opportunities
Pokfulam Rd Productions are looking for extracts and short plays (5 – 10 minutes) from writers who would like to participate in the launch of a collaboration between Pokfulam Rd Productions and Theatre N16: “The Pit Part I” to be produced at Theatre N16 on February 14th 2016 on t
Read with a free account →20 October 15 · Opportunities
Christmas Jumpers Theatre Night is being staged on Thursday 10th December to raise money for ITV’s Text Santa campaign, which supports Save The Children, Make-A-Wish UK and Macmillan Cancer Support. What to submit: They are seeking submissions of short plays for the evening. Play
Read with a free account →17 October 15 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2016 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail. The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its sixteenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Festival’s eight days, eight
Read with a free account →13 October 15 · Opportunities
Encompass Productions is currently seeking short play submissions for its Bare Essentials writing night (“London’s best reviewed new writing night”). The event is designed to showcase emerging and established theatrical talent. This event will be their ‘Christmas edition. so in a
Read with a free account →24 September 15 · Opportunities
Sci Fest LA is currently accepting submissions for its 2016 event/ Co-founded by veteran Los Angeles theatre producers, Michael Blaha and Lee Costello and actor, David Dean Bottrell, SCI-FEST LA: The Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival debuted to a sold-out house at
Read with a free account →23 September 15 · Opportunities
UPDATE: Due to a high volume of submissions, Plain Paper have put this opportunity on hold so please don’t send your work in at the moment. We will let you know as soon as they are accepting submissions again. London-based Plain Paper Productions (founded by theatre producer Robe
Read with a free account →17 September 15 · Uncategorized
The Orange Tree aims to challenge, move and amaze with a bold and continually evolving mix of new and re-discovered plays in their unique in-the-round space. They have presented new plays by writers in formative moments of their careers, and provoked radical re-evaluations of oth
Read this article →14 September 15 · Opportunities
Punk Monkey Productions is officially accepting submissions for their 2016 production of PL.A.Y Noir. What to submit: Plays should ideally be 10-20 pages in length and possess the classic noir themes of murder, mystery, deceit, and double-crossing. In their words: “We always enco
Read with a free account →07 September 15 · Opportunities
Coffee House Theatre is now accepting submissions for a One-Act Play with two actors, to be performed alongside an existing 50 minute monologue next year – in an evening of two One-Acts. This will be a paid opportunity. Coffee House Theatre is a collaboration between community me
Read with a free account →27 August 15 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in September 2015. 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 w
Read with a free account →26 August 15 · Opportunities
10 Minutes to… is the latest addition to Live Theatre’s Live Lab programme, giving writers and directors the opportunity to forge new creative partnerships, be showcased at Live Theatre and bring their work to a new audience. Out of the submissions received, five plays will be se
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