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24 January 15 · Opportunities
TreePress is looking for playwrights to come on board and help us develop our platform before their public launch later this year. What they’re looking for: Innovative and original scripts: something a bit different Plays that were written and developed by you, either through a c
Read with a free account →23 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 →23 January 15 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is now accepting submissions of one-act plays for the 2015 British Theatre Challenge competition. What you get: Your play will be staged and performed by a professional director and actors at the Courtyard Theatre in London on the 4th and 5th of July. Wri
Read with a free account →22 January 15 · Opportunities
Have you committed to challenging your creativity in 2015? We’ve got just the thing for you. February brings the launch of a brand new playwriting challenge – 28 Plays Later! During the month of February, 2015 (it’s not a leap year so we have 28 days) you will have to write one s
Read with a free account →22 January 15 · Opportunities
A Friend of a Friend Productions, in partnership with Southwark Council, is proud to be working towards the second instalment of Blackfriars Stories. Following the success of October 2014’s Another Day, a site-specific promenade theatre production celebrating the area of Blackfri
Read with a free account →22 January 15 · Jobs
Channel 4 has a vacancy for an Assistant Script Editor in their Drama department to work on Hollyoaks. The role is offered on a 12 months’ fixed term contract and is based in London. The Drama department is responsible for Drama output across all the portfolio of channels, predom
Read with a free account →22 January 15 · Opportunities
To launch the Write Now 6 Festival the Jack Studio Theatre invites you to submit a 10 minute play based on the theme of Leadership. Writers of the shorts do not need to have a connection to south east London. Performances of selected scripts will take place on Saturday 9th May 20
Read with a free account →22 January 15 · Opportunities
East End Literary Salon accepts rolling submissions! If you have scripts. Or know people who have scripts. This is all the info you need – please share! There is no theme published in advance – the theme is very much writer-led dictated by the submissions we get each month. Previ
Read with a free account →20 January 15 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
The Les Enfants Terribles Award is designed to help one new theatre company who’re producing original work to be able to bring their show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Les Enfants Terribles hope to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit amongst young companies, helping them to a
Read with a free account →20 January 15 · Opportunities
SPUR is an independent artist-run organisation based in the North. They are currently working on a project with Tate Britain as part of the wider Radio City project, organised by artists Harold Offeh and Marion Harrison, being held at Tate Britain between November 2014 and Februa
Read with a free account →16 January 15 · Opportunities
Six playwrights will get the opportunity to attend two one-on-one feedback sessions – one on their play, the other on their pitching skills. How do you persuade a theatre company to take on your play? How can you maximise the power of your pitch? Have you sent out a great play, b
Read with a free account →16 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 →14 January 15 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
In the run up to the launch of the Bruntwood competition, there’ll be an online live workshop with Bryony Lavery. When: 20 January 2015 at 6pm Find out all the details here.
Read with a free account →14 January 15 · Opportunities
As part of The Space Arts Centre’s spring season, OddServants theatre company are looking for a crack team of writers to work in response to The Domestic Extremists by Dan Davies. Opening at the Space February 10th, this new Arts Council Funded play is an uncompromising expose of
Read with a free account →14 January 15 · Opportunities
Masterclass is once again offering you the opportunity to have your play staged as a rehearsed reading on stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket! Applications for this year’s Pitch Your Play close at 5pm on Friday 27th February 2015. Pitch Your Play is an initiative that Masterclas
Read with a free account →13 January 15 · Education / Opportunities
Whether you’re a budding filmmaker or a film fan who wants to understand more about what happens behind-the-scenes, this free online course from the internationally acclaimed National Film and Television School will have something for you. Over six weeks, our team of award-winnin
Read with a free account →13 January 15 · Jobs / Opportunities
Creative Writer / Script Writer / Questions Writer / UK Popular Culture required for an initial 6 month contract based in Reading and London. The ideal candidate will be creative, witty writer with the ability to deal with high volume requests, and experience of successfully deal
Read with a free account →09 January 15 · News / Original Content
If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably made new year’s resolutions that involve playwriting; whether it’s to make more time to write, to apply for more writing opportunities or to get that script finished! So, we thought it would be a good time to share with you the exciting
Read this article →09 January 15 · Opportunities
Here’s one for our international readers… The Royal Court’s International Playwrights Group is now open for submissions. About the group: International playwrights will be asked to develop a new play during their time in London in collaboration with members of the Royal Court art
Read with a free account →09 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 →08 January 15 · Opportunities
Mind Your Head is an innovative new theatre company, creating new work that will inspire thought in its audiences. Mind Your Head was formed in September 2014 by Marni Appleton and Jessica Daniels. What started out as a little seed of an idea has quickly grown into an exciting co
Read with a free account →08 January 15 · Jobs / Opportunities
With over 350 hours of in-house output a year, BBC Drama Production is making some of the most original, diverse and highly acclaimed television. These range from continuing drama such as Holby City, Casualty, EastEnders and Doctors, to series and serials such as Silent Witness,
Read with a free account →08 January 15 · Jobs / Opportunities
Arts and literature charity Living Words is excited to be looking for 4 writers/artists to take part in Re:Generation, funded by ACE. Living Words run residencies in care homes across the South East. We work one to one with people living with a dementia, to create individual book
Read with a free account →08 January 15 · Opportunities
HighTide Festival are giving two IdeasTap members the chance to have your play read at their brilliant theatre festival in Aldeburgh in September 2016. Up to two winners of this brief will each receive feedback from Steven Atkinson, HighTide Artistic Director, and Stephanie Stree
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