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12 November 14 · Opportunities
Lost Theatre is open to applications for its 5 Minute Festival, which will run from 2-7 February 2015. They are looking for emerging/newcomer playwrights, poets, spoken word artists, comedians, actors (who write their own material), physical performers…etc who have something diff
Read with a free account →09 November 14 · Opportunities
Goblin Baby Theatre Company is now accepting submissions for the UNHEARD Festival in February 2015! What to submit: They aim to include as wide a variety as possible of new, challenging and thought-provoking writing addressing sexual abuse and violence, the victims, the survivors
Read with a free account →08 November 14 · Opportunities
The Bravo 22 Company are currently looking to commission a new play up to 70 mins with a delivery date of January 30th 2015 and four performances of the production at the studio at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on 26th-28th March 2015. It is the first play to be commissioned as par
Read with a free account →08 November 14 · Opportunities
Descent Theatre is looking for incredible short plays to be performed in February 2015. On Friday 6th February they will return to Rich Mix with our regular night of new writing: Descent Shorts. What to submit: They are looking for five original shorts, 5 – 20 mins in length Scri
Read with a free account →07 November 14 · Opportunities
Playmakers Festival is looking for playwrights who would like to see their script performed at The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick as part of the theatre’s 30th Anniversary celebrations. Eligibility: Scripts can be submitted from anywhere across the UK, however, successful applicants
Read with a free account →07 November 14 · Opportunities
The Writing Platform Bursary supports experimentation and inter-disciplinary collaboration between writers and technologists. What you get: This year they will be awarding two £4000 bursaries. Each bursary will be awarded to a team made up of one writer and one technologist to co
Read with a free account →06 November 14 · Opportunities
The Saving Endangered Species International Playwriting Competition is accepting submissions. Entries must be received by midnight November 30, 2015. Winners and Finalists will be announced by May 31, 2016 via e-mail and on the SES website. What to submit: A ten-minute play about
Read with a free account →06 November 14 · Opportunities
Following the sell-out success of Briefs‘ first foray to Waterloo East Theatre, they are now accepting submissions for the next edition of the quarterly new writing night will be back at the same venue in the New Year. The Winter 2015 show will take place on January 7 2015; with
Read with a free account →04 November 14 · Opportunities
Carabosse in Milton Keynes is currently accepting submissions for its next Pub Theatre nights to be performed in May 2015. What to submit: Pieces for the Pub Theatre night can only be 5 minutes up to 20 minutes in length – however they can be pieces in their own right, ‘works in
Read with a free account →27 October 14 · Jobs / Opportunities
Bravo 22 Company is the Royal British Legion’s theatre welfare programme. The Company is currently looking to commission a play (up to 70 minutes in length) to be delivered by January 2015. The play will be performed on 26-28 March 2015 at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. It is essen
Read with a free account →23 October 14 · Opportunities
East End Literary Salon have one slot left for their November show. The theme is Great Escapes and they are looking for 10-15 minute plays with no more than three actors. Submit to: eastendliterarysalon@gmail.com Deadline: none posted Source: Playwriting UK Facebook page.
Read with a free account →21 October 14 · Opportunities
The Bruntwood Prize will be open to submissions in 2015, so start getting yourself ready! In honour of the prize’s 10th Anniversary, a special panel event will be held at the National Theatre on the official launch date of 29 January 2015. (The closing date has not yet been annou
Read with a free account →17 October 14 · 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). Secret Theatre has an opportunity for playwrights… – Deadline: None posted NT New Views Playwriting programme for 15-19-year-olds – Deadli
Read with a free account →15 October 14 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
New Views is a nationwide playwriting programme, with around 800 students in schools, colleges and other theatres around the UK taking part. Participants have the chance to develop creative writing skills, work with professional writers and directors, see plays at the NT and subm
Read with a free account →14 October 14 · Opportunities
The Sussex Playwrights’ Club is pleased to announce a new playwriting competition to help celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2015. What to submit: New plays in any genre (not musicals) are welcome, lasting from a minimum of 75 minutes to a maximum of 100 minutes – and containing t
Read with a free account →13 October 14 · Opportunities
Entries are now open for the Channel 4 screenwriting course 2015. The purpose of the course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and to provide a “dry-run” of what it can be like to write under a television drama commission, specif
Read with a free account →13 October 14 · Jobs / Opportunities
Glastonbury Theatre and Circus Fields are commissioning 4 new shows for Glastonbury Festival 2015. They are looking for some new experiences for our audiences that are spectacular and brave, and that work well with the creative atmosphere and scale of the festival. They will util
Read with a free account →09 October 14 · Opportunities / Uncategorized
Arcola Theatre is pleased to launch Playwrought #3, an opportunity to develop and have a play performed as a rehearsed reading at Arcola. This will be part of the third instalment of their new writing programme, PlayWROUGHT. Following a successful first and second outing, PlayWRO
Read with a free account →08 October 14 · Opportunities
Throughout 2015, Rich Mix is looking for emerging performers and companies to tell their stories of city life. Rich Mix is located in the heart of East London, one of the most diverse and exciting parts of the city. It’s seeking submissions for theatre and performance work that e
Read with a free account →08 October 14 · Education / Events
BBC Writersoom’s Abigail Gonda will give an insight into what the BBC look out for in scripts, an overview of how the BBC can support emerging artists and take questions about pathways to becoming a scriptwriter. The event is part of the Into Film Festival, a free education event
Read this article →07 October 14 · Opportunities
The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep is inviting artists to apply with projects that would benefit from a residency in Berkeley for 1–4 weeks. Applicants must be available for residency between June 2 and 28, 2015. What you get: Berkeley Rep will provide transportation, housing, rehe
Read with a free account →30 September 14 · Opportunities
NTC Touring Theatre Company has received funding from ACE Grants for the Arts to produce ‘4THOUGHTS’: MYTH, MUSIC, MAYHEM AND MIRTH – An evening of 4 short new plays which will tour the Northern Region in March 2015 and seeks writers of new plays/musicals. Writers may have had so
Read with a free account →25 September 14 · Opportunities
Origins Theatre Company, based in the Isle of Wight, is looking for original 15 minute plays on the theme of ‘Turning the Tables’. Six winners will receive £50 cash; the reward of seeing their play published; brought to the stage at a special event on the Isle of Wight in Spring
Read with a free account →22 September 14 · Jobs
Mordue Pictures are looking for 3 writers for a new film project. In 2015, they will be shooting their third feature film ‘Midnight Sky’ which follows two people in three parallel universes, where three separate choices set in motion three contrasting lives of love, regret & indi
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