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25 April 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’ve written a first
Read this article →22 April 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 →20 April 16 · Education / News
Comedy Classroom is a new BBC initiative designed to get young people writing and involved in comedy. There’s a competition with three different categories but even if you’re not eligible to enter, the scheme’sofficial website is bursting with fantastic videos offering practical
Read with a free account →20 April 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: Shakespeare in 400 Competition with Arts North No
Read with a free account →19 April 16 · Opportunities
Sheer Drop are looking for a playwright to collaborate with to create a brand new site-specific theatre piece, in two halves, for performance in August 2016. Performances will take place as part of the Saffron Walden Maze Festival, a community arts festival, over the weekend of 2
Read with a free account →19 April 16 · Opportunities
Launched in 2013 in partnership with Burberry, Breakthrough Brits showcases and supports the next generation of British creative talent in film, TV and games. Each year, up to 20 on-screen and off-screen talented newcomers are selected by a stellar industry Jury to take part in a
Read with a free account →18 April 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. “Do you have any sugge
Read this article →18 April 16 · Opportunities
Chaskis Theatre’s playwrights response scheme is part of Las Americas Above – an exciting festival of international work and new writing in the heart of London’s West End! “Chaskis Theatre is inviting ten emerging writers from around the capital to join us in a three week develop
Read with a free account →16 April 16
Thanks for booking your workshop with London Playwrights Workshop! We’ve added you to our participant list and look forward to meeting you soon. We’ll send out a reminder email shortly before the event to confirm the details of where and when we’ll be meeting, and if there’s anyt
Read this article →15 April 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 April 16 · Opportunities / Original Content
London Playwrights Blog is putting out a call for scripts! The Dark Horse Script Festival will take place as part of London Writers’ Week 2016 this July. It will be organised by London Playwrights Workshop, the non-profit company that manages LPB. We’re now looking for writers to
Read with a free account →14 April 16 · Opportunities
Have you got a boxed up tale about our messed up world? Goblin Baby are open for new writing submissions! Please make sure your monologue fulfills all of the following criteria: Theme ‘Alone Inside the Box’ (which can be interpreted as literally or abstractly as you wish) One act
Read with a free account →14 April 16 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
The course covers the basics of writing drama through scenes written in class: dialogue, character, structure, story and performance. Dates: 23/04/16 – 25/06/16 Time: 14:00 – 17:00 Location: KS – Keeley Street Tutor: Ben Ellis Cost: £269 Find out more here. Source: Playwriting UK
Read with a free account →12 April 16 · Opportunities
Doughnut Productions are looking to hire writers for a new writing night that will be performed during the Camden Fringe 10 year celebration in August. They will be using the Cockpit Theatre as our venue and we are looking for two writers to write a 20 minute play each that is ba
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
Call out from The Equilibrium for a final short play for ‘Vintage Humans’, a scratch festival celebrating what we gain with age which will take place at Southwark Playhouse this May. The event will feature a series of short plays from a wide age range of writers (20’s-80’s) and t
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
The Scottish Book Trust has launched an intriguing project for unpublished writers, aiming to share their secrets and confessions… The annual campaign welcomes entries in English, Scots or Gaelic and your story can be in a number of styles – prose, play-form, poetry, etc – but mu
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
Theatre Royal Strafford East is looking for artists to join them for this summer’s Musical Theatre Workshop (11-23 July 2016). MTW gives writers of beats, words, and sounds a place to develop their projects and voices under the guidance of TRSE’s artistic team along with Fred Car
Read with a free account →11 April 16 · Opportunities
Award-winning playwright Chris Thorpe, who wrote Chorus for The Iphigenia Quartet, will take participants through his process of writing the play. This is a practical wrokshop with a Q&A included. This workshop is aimed at anyone who has ever been interested in writing for the st
Read with a free account →11 April 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 bored by naturali
Read this article →10 April 16 · Education
Screenplays form the starting point for most dramatic films, the essential work from which all other filmmaking flows. All of the tender romance, terrifying action and memorable lines begin at the screenwriter’s desk. Get the skills and resources to tell these stories with the In
Read this article →09 April 16 · Opportunities
Peter K Grey acts as an intermediary between rightsholders and adapters, so as to facilitate opportunities for existing titles to be reconceived in other artforms. He is seeking a bookwriter for a musical theatre adaptation of a successful novel by a name writer. This is to be a
Read with a free account →08 April 16 · Opportunities
To get everyone involved in the international festivities of 400 years since Shakespeare, Arts North Norfolk is inviting people of all ages and across the UK to submit a very short synopsis of a Shakespeare play – in 400 characters! What to submit: A short synopsis of a Shakespea
Read with a free account →08 April 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 →07 April 16 · Opportunities
Sharp Scratches is a unique platform for showcasing newwriting. Their process consists of choosing scripts, then taking a 4 day rehearsal period before performing the scratch night. During this process writers have a chance to be very involved with the sculpting of their piece, a
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