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06 May 14 · Opportunities
Mardibooks is giving up to 30 IdeasTap members the opportunity to have their one-act, one-person plays published in an online anthology. Up to 30 IdeasTap members will be selected to become Mardiwriters and to have their pieces published in an IdeasTap/Mardibooks one-act play e-b
Read with a free account →02 May 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). Rosebery Management accepting short film scripts for 30th anniversary – Deadline: none posted New York Television Festival at BAFTA Forum
Read with a free account →30 April 14 · Opportunities
Open Arts Café is accepting submissions for the Spring/Summer Season 2014. Open Arts Café is a monthly themed arts evening giving artists from all mediums a chance to present new and original work at various stages of development. Open Arts Café was established in 2008 to give ar
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 →29 April 14 · Opportunities
In the year of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, Time Zone Theatre Company invites British and international playwrights to write a play in response to Austrian writer Karl Kraus’s epic The Last Days of Mankind. Prompt from Time Zone Theatre Company: The project explo
Read with a free account →28 April 14 · News
The BBC have announced the selected writers for the BBC Writersroom 10, an initiative that partners writers with theatres who will support them during the year-long development scheme, and gives them a £1000 seed commission to develop a new work. The selected writers are: Alice B
Read this article →25 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). Rosebery Management accepting short film scripts for 30th anniversary – Deadline: none posted New York Television Festival at BAFTA Forum
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 →24 April 14 · Opportunities
The new revised mission of the 2014 William Saroyan $10,000 Playwriting Award invites stimulating new works that explore socially and politically charged themes about Human Rights /Social Justice. Their aim is to harness theatre’s ability to make a relevant impact on our global s
Read with a free account →23 April 14 · Education / Writing Workshops
Papatango Theatre Company is hosting two playwriting masterclasses for 24 budding writers. They will be led by Papatango’s resident playwright May Sumbwanyambe. Twelve writers will attend each workshop. These masterclasses will introduce you to the fundamentals of playwriting, su
Read this article →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 →22 April 14 · News
Papatango have announced the shortlist for their annual writing competition, run in association with the Finborough Theatre. The shortlisted plays are: Briar Rose City Melodies Come Home, Badger Gash Coolatully Harbour Stage Irish Stuff The Demolition The identities of the writer
Read this article →22 April 14 · Events
The New York Television Festival is returning to London on 25 April 2014 for an afternoon of free panels and networking, geared toward emerging producers, writers, and content creators looking to further their careers and break into the U.S. marketplace. Panelists/Guests: Toby Wh
Read this article →22 April 14 · Uncategorized
You may notice a temporary new look on the site while we sort out some software issues. Due to a recent update, the WordPress software our site runs on is no longer compatible with our previous design. We’re adopting this style as a temporary measure, with new changes to come soo
Read this article →18 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). Rosebery Management accepting short film scripts for 30th anniversary – Deadline: none posted Ticket to Write seeking one act plays about
Read with a free account →16 April 14 · Opportunities
Tamasha is now seeking submissions for its next Scratch event on Friday, 20 June 2014 at Rich Mix, E1. Scratch nights provide an opportunity for artists to showcase their work in a professional setting to a public audience. This enables the artists to test out their work and to r
Read with a free account →16 April 14 · Education / Opportunities
BBC Writersroom are giving 40 aspiring screen, stage and radio writers the opportunity to attend a practical, hands-on workshop at The Lowry, Salford. It will take place on Tuesday 8 July 2014. The workshop will take place from 2pm to 5pm, with a free lunch being served at 1pm fo
Read with a free account →15 April 14 · Resources
Theatre Centre have recently launched Skylines, an online resource for writers interested in writing plays for children and young people. It is regularly updated with video interviews, articles, exercises and useful play extracts. Check it out here. Source: Soho Theatre e-newslet
Read this article →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 →14 April 14 · Opportunities
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Rocliffe today announced a call for scripts from emerging comedy screenwriters for two BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Showcase events. The successful writers will showcase their work for some of the biggest names in the UK an
Read with a free account →14 April 14 · 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
Read with a free account →11 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). Applications now open for the Live Theatre Playwriting course – Deadline: 6 April 2014 11 April 2014 NEWSBOY seeking short plays about col
Read with a free account →11 April 14 · Opportunities
Sketch Submissions Wanted! Behind The Bikeshed are a london based non-profit sketch collective. They are producing a show in May and we want to showcase your sketches! The show does not yet have a name but it will be themed around the idea of: “Midnight in the garden, a picnic of
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