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14 May 14 · Opportunities
Everything Theatre welcome script submissions for their Podcast Readings series from both established and emerging playwrights. What they are looking for: 15 – 20 MINUTE scripts that portray modern urban society in all its complexity, both nationally and internationally. Alternat
Read with a free account →29 April 14 · Opportunities
Menagerie is now accepting entries for the One Page Play Competition which will take place at this year’s Hotbed, Cambridge’s premier new writing festival, from 10-13 July 2014. All entries will be read and the best will be performed by professional actors throughout the Hotbed w
Read with a free account →24 April 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in late-April and May 2014. 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 per
Read with a free account →23 April 14 · Opportunities
Bare Fiction Magazine is currently accepting submissions of short plays for its June 2014 issue. What they’re looking for: In their own words: “We want our readers to discover genre-defying boldness from exciting writers in poetry, fiction and plays, literary review, interviews a
Read with a free account →15 April 14 · Opportunities
In celebration of their 30th anniversary, Rosebery Management is producing a series of short films & are currently looking for screenplay submissions. These scripts must be written for film, be no longer than five minutes in length & must be around a theme of 30 and should also b
Read with a free account →15 April 14 · Opportunities
Pint-sized Plays is now in its seventh year and recognised as one of the leading international competitions for short 5-10 minute plays. The 2014 competition is now open. Plays can be poignant, funny or downright hilarious, but they have to be between 5 and 10 minutes long with o
Read with a free account →04 April 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). Play Submissions Helper publishes contests with April deadlines – Deadline: various MT Pockets Theatre seeking submissions for 10 Minute P
Read with a free account →02 April 14 · Opportunities
Page to Stage will soon be open to submissions for the festival to be held in Liverpool in September of this year. They are looking for one-act plays between 45-60 minutes in length. Ten scripts will be selected for a number of performances during the festival. Plays will be adju
Read with a free account →26 March 14 · Opportunities
Submissions sought for the 2nd Annual M. T. Pockets Theatre 10-Minute Play Contest, celebrating playwrights–emerging and professional– and culminating in a bare bones production of the top 6 to 8 submissions. What to submit: Limit of TWO entries per playwright. Only original play
Read with a free account →25 March 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2014. 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 whole
Read with a free account →20 March 14 · Opportunities
Tiny Dog Productions are currently accepting submissions from practitioners who wish to participate in the next Theatre Breaks Festival. They are looking for 6 – 8 productions in total. Theatre Breaks is comprised of a 3 night run, which Theatre Companies/individuals can use as a
Read with a free account →20 March 14 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for BARE ESSENTIALS, a night created to showcase new and emerging theatrical talent. See your work staged and performed by experienced and professional actors and directors, all of whom have worked with Encompass who have been mounting productions and eve
Read with a free account →13 March 14 · Opportunities
Sixteen Feet Productions present an opportunity for aspiring and emerging writers to showcase new work. They welcome submissions from anyone who lives, works or studies in Lambeth. There is also a category for young writers of 21 and under. The selected plays will be rehearsed wi
Read with a free account →12 March 14 · Opportunities
The Art of Putting Shorts On (TAPSO) is a new writing event, currently accepting submissions for its’ second performance. Are you an aspiring writer? Would you like to see you work performed on stage? Would you benefit from working alongside other like-minded individuals? After t
Read with a free account →27 February 14 · Opportunities
The Traverse Theatre will be open to submissions of unsolicited scripts from writers across the UK until 30 April 2014. About the Traverse: In their own words: The Traverse has rich history of working with some of the most adventurous playwrights both in Scotland and around the w
Read with a free account →27 February 14 · Opportunities
DISQUIET International Literary Program is proud to announce its first Short Play Contest! Submit your 10-15 minute play (any genre, any style) to win airfare, accommodations, and tuition to the 2014 Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal (June 29-July 11, 20
Read with a free account →26 February 14 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is now accepting submissions of one-act plays for the 2014 Cambridge 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. W
Read with a free account →26 February 14 · Opportunities
To launch the Write Now 5 Festival the Jack invites you to submit a 10 minute play based on the theme of ‘Speak Up, Speak Out.’ Performances will take place on Saturday 17 May 2-14, and selected writers will be announced on the website in mid-April. Submission prompt: “In 2013, U
Read with a free account →26 February 14 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper has released its list of open opportunities with March deadlines. We’re already pulled the ones we think are most relevant – with a few still to come today and tomorrow. Many of these opportunities are based in the USA and not necessarily relevant to Londo
Read with a free account →20 February 14 · Opportunities
The George Devine Award is an annual prize, established in 1966 in honour of the first director of the Royal Court Theatre. The award is now administered by his daughter, Harriet Devine. While your play need not have been produced to be submitted, it’s worth noting that any list
Read with a free account →14 February 14 · Opportunities
Samuel French is now accepting submissions of short plays (30 minutes or less) for its highly successful Off Off Broadway Festival in Manhattan. The festival requires applicants to collaborate with a producing organisation and it offers a prize of publication in the notable Off O
Read with a free account →13 February 14 · Opportunities
Burbage Productions has launched its new writing prize. The winning play will receive a full production in London, there are no rules on content or style, but the play must be full length and complete (at least 90 minutes running time) and previously unperformed, although plays w
Read with a free account →12 February 14 · Opportunities
“Theatre503’s Playwriting Award is an unprecedented opportunity for playwrights at all levels to be recognised for writing an outstanding, original piece of work for the stage. It will build upon the foundation of the venue’s reputation for engaging with the next generation of pl
Read with a free account →11 February 14 · Opportunities
Page to Stage will soon be open to submissions for the festival to be held in Liverpool in September of this year. They are looking for one-act plays between 45-60 minutes in length. Ten scripts will be selected for a number of performances during the festival. Plays will be adju
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