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21 June 16 · Opportunities
If you’re an individual working in the world of film and TV and you need financial assistance to develop your career, why not see whether the John Brabourne Awards could help you! The John Brabourne Awards scheme is a talent development programme which provides awards of up to £5
Read with a free account →20 June 16 · Inspiration / Pursued By A Bear
Pursued By A Bear is our weekly advice column with playwright Adam Taylor. He’ll tackle your playwriting questions – from practical issues to existential dilemmas – relying on nothing but his bare wits, brute strength, and questionable personal experiences. *I’m writing a politic
Read this article →20 June 16 · Education / Events
BBC Writersroom is delighted to be involved with Talawa Firsts. The initiative aims to kick start the careers of new writers, directors and theatre makers. It’s a festival that brings together a community of artists and gives them a space to meet, spark off ideas, build networks
Read this article →20 June 16 · Opportunities
The Owl and Cat Theatre are currently seeking new works to be produced as part of their 4th season. The Owl and Cat Theatre is an independent theatre located in Melbourne, Australia. They are dedicated to sourcing and producing contemporary plays that reflect the voices of today.
Read with a free account →17 June 16 · 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 grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →15 June 16 · Opportunities / Original Content
London Playwrights Workshop is seeking directors for the Dark Horse Festival in London Writers Week. The Festival will share 15 minute excerpts of the five of the best unproduced plays in London, which we’ve sourced from theatre nominations (from venues including the Soho, Almeid
Read with a free account →15 June 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: Drift Theatre accepting submissions for Drift Sho
Read with a free account →14 June 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
Doctors is produced by BBC Birmingham and has been screened on BBC One since March, 2000. A vacancy has arisen on the show for a Script Editor. The Script Editor reports to the Series Producer in the first instance, and works in close conjunction with the Producers to provide edi
Read with a free account →13 June 16 · Inspiration / Pursued By A Bear
Pursued By A Bear is our weekly advice column with playwright Adam Taylor. He’ll tackle your playwriting questions – from practical issues to existential dilemmas – relying on nothing but his bare wits, brute strength, and questionable personal experiences. “How do I get into mus
Read this article →13 June 16 · Opportunities
Drift Shop scratch night is an evening of new theatre writing and original performance. They are currently looking for playwrights, directors and actors to take part in their next scratch night, which takes place on 30 August 2016 at the book club in Shoreditch. Visit their websi
Read with a free account →10 June 16 · 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 grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Even
Read with a free account →10 June 16 · Events / Opportunities
London Playwrights Workshop is delighted to be a partner for London Writers’ Week 2016. For The Dark Horse Festival, we’ve worked to find the best unproduced scripts in London, that represent the innovative, vibrant, and diverse new writing happening in our city. During the proce
Read with a free account →08 June 16 · Opportunities
The final professional development creative day of Juno’s year 1 is on Saturday 23 July 2016 and offers 8 women playwrights the chance to work on a short piece of comic scripts. They are looking for a female writer/ director with a record of developing comic drama to lead this da
Read with a free account →08 June 16 · Opportunities
The Black Theatre Live national touring consortium is inviting expression of interest applications for the 3rd mid scale touring / co-production for 2017-18. MAIN CRITERIA For clarity, the “mid-scale Black Theatre Live tour” is understood to mean predominantly narrative/text base
Read with a free account →08 June 16 · Events / Writing Workshops
If you’re interested in sitcoms then Salford should rock your world on the 5th and 6th July because the 2016 Salford Sitcom Showcase is coming to town! BBC Writersroom, in collaboration with Salford University, MediaCityUK, is running a series of panels and masterclasses for aspi
Read this article →08 June 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: Talawa Seeking Theatre Makers Aged 18-25 for TYPT
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
Lit Up! and Poole Libraries are delighted to announce they are seeking to appoint a freelance Writer in Residence to work with libraries, staff and visitors in the summer of 2016. It’s envisaged the successful candidate will deliver workshops that interact with current library in
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Opportunities
Tetrad are excited to announce a brand new opportunity for artists and creative writers. Tetrad are happy to announce that they will be releasing an online digital magazine in autumn 2016, and are on the lookout for contributions that fit the Brief: The Drawing Board. Tetrad’s fi
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Opportunities
Submissions are now being accepted for the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting, 2016. The deadline is 31 August, 2016 and entrants should be ‘a person of Indian origin from any country’. The organisers are looking for plays 75 – 120 mins in duration and the works must be in Eng
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Opportunities
Plays are meant to be seen and heard, not read by oneself! This playreading group is an inspiring way to get a feel for plays you have not seen and start to enter and inhabit the world of that play. Participants can attend on a drop-in basis to discover a new play or can attend …
Read with a free account →07 June 16 · Opportunities
Musical Theatre Studio is a platform for developing new musical theatre before it hits the West End. “We launch our first Musical Theatre Studio presentations on 22, 23, and 24 July 2016 in collaboration with The Space theatre. This is an amazing opportunity for musical theatre m
Read with a free account →06 June 16 · Inspiration / Pursued By A Bear
Pursued By A Bear is our weekly advice column with playwright Adam Taylor. He’ll tackle your playwriting questions – from practical issues to existential dilemmas – relying on nothing but his bare wits, brute strength, and questionable personal experiences. “I am wondering at wha
Read this article →05 June 16 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
Shonibare Studio is the studio of artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. The studio also hosts a project space that serves a laboratory of artistic experimentation. Guest Projects is an initiative concieved by Shonibare Studio (UK) to offer an opportunity for projects of any artistic discip
Read with a free account →04 June 16 · Opportunities
Each year, the Foundation of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences administers the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and to offer them the recognition and en
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