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10 April 14 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is an annual, international competition for emerging playwrights. The winner is awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the winning play by Yale University Press and a staged reading. The reading of the 2013 winning play will take pla
Read with a free account →09 April 14 · Opportunities
DVM is currently seeking submissions to its next two scratch night showings. ‘Scratch’ is an opportunity for Artists to showcase their work and talents and test out their material on a live audience and is open to Artists from across all disciplines, including theatre, music, dan
Read with a free account →04 April 14 · Opportunities
The 2014 Alfed Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, is now open for applications. The winner will receive £6000. Eligibility and Criteria: The award is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK. The p
Read with a free account →04 April 14 · Uncategorized
New Perspectives are looking for expressions of interest from playwrights with an interest or knowledge in interactive theatre to work with director Tilly Branson on a practical theatre project based in the East Midlands. New Perspectives has been creating touring work for 40 yea
Read this article →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 →03 April 14 · Education / Writing Workshops
Live Theatre has an international reputation for developing and nurturing talented playwrights and offers regular introductory workshops to get people writing relevant and engaging plays. This popular course aims to give writers a sound understanding of the key elements of playwr
Read this article →02 April 14 · Opportunities
Organised Chaos Productions is now accepting scripts for its’ 2014 script call. The company is based in Manchester and the winning script(s) will receive a debut production at the Lowry as well as the possibility of a North West tour. Guidelines: Your submission must be: Original
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 →02 April 14 · Writing Workshops
you just don’t have as long to tell your story! With this in mind, IdeasTap is offering 20 members the chance to attend two screenwriting workshops designed to take you through the mechanics of short film scriptwriting. The workshops will be held in London on 14 and 21 May 2014 f
Read this article →01 April 14 · Opportunities
Are you aged 15-24? Do you love comedy? Do you like to have your voice heard? And would you like to see your ideas on screen? Well, this is an opportunity for you to have your comic writing performed by excellent funny people and have it broadcast on bbc.co.uk. Deadline now exten
Read with a free account →31 March 14 · Opportunities
BAFTA have announced a call for scripts for 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 and US television industry at two major international television fe
Read with a free account →28 March 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). Character Invasion Day with BBC Radio 4 – Deadline: workshop takes place on 29th March 2014 but you need to book in advance Sky Blue Theat
Read with a free account →27 March 14 · Opportunities
Good news for all those who need a little extra time! The deadline for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award has been extended to 7 April 2014. Now there’s no excuse not to submit, right?
Read with a free account →27 March 14 · Resources
If you’re interested in writing for Radio Comedy, the BBC has just released a free e-book with interactive features that provides a guide to both the practical and interactive aspects of Writing Radio Comedy. (And just in time to prep for their next submissions window, which will
Read this article →27 March 14 · News
As reported in The Stage: Rory Mullarkey has won the 2014 Pinter Commission playwriting award, which sees a new work by the winner supported by London’s Royal Court Theatre. The prize is now in its third year and is given to any playwright, whether they be established or unpublis
Read this article →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 →26 March 14 · Opportunities
ArtsEd is consolidating its reputation for innovation by producing eight new short films in which their students will be cast. Submit your script for the chance to have your short-film made by a professional director and director of photography. Successful scripts will be filmed
Read with a free account →26 March 14 · Events
The Tricycle Theatre will be holding a special screening of Abi Morgan’s latest project ‘The Invisible Woman’, which will feature a Q&A with her afterwards. This is a brilliant chance to hear one of the most prolific and successful writers for stage and screen talk about the proc
Read this article →26 March 14 · Offers / Ticket Deals
Nick Hern Books is running a competition offering free tickets to see ‘Let the Right One In’ in the West End. For more details on how to enter, see their website: http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/win Source: Nick Hern Books e-newsletter
Read this article →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 →25 March 14 · Opportunities
The Burbage New Writing Prize is an open competition where the winning script will receive a full production by Burbage Productions. There are no rules on content or style aside from that the play must be complete and be in the English language. The aim of the prize is for us as
Read with a free account →25 March 14 · Opportunities
The next BBC Writersroom submission window is coming soon, and geared at COMEDY. Scriptroom 6 will open at 10am on Monday 28th April and close at midnight on Monday 12th May. This year they are accepting submissions by genre. For Scriptroom 6, they will only be accepting Comedy (
Read with a free account →21 March 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). Young playwright wanted for Gretna WWI Commemoration Project – Deadline: None posted Short plays required for TAPSO (new writing event) –
Read with a free account →21 March 14 · Funding and Bursaries
The Royal Society of Literature is accepting applications for Brookleaze Grants for Writers. The purpose of these grants is to buy time for novelists, short-story writers, poets or playwrights with pieces of work in hand. The Council of the RSL, who will be responsible for awardi
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