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08 June 23 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper Blog has a round-up of Play Submissions, they are are largely US based but often open to international writers. Check out their list for June here. Deadlines: various throughout April 2023 Source: Play Submissions Helper Blog
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Under 26? Become a Collective Member to access a year round programme of workshops and projects, unlock discounts and offers at the theatre, and join a growing network of young creatives in Greater Manchester. Collective workshops are typically weekdays from 6pm-8pm, but we also
Read with a free account →07 June 23 · Opportunities
The BBC New Comedy Awards is a nationwide talent search to find the best new stand-up, sketch and musical comedians. Since they first launched in 1995, the prestigious awards have helped launch the careers of many of the UK’s best-loved comedians. What’s the prize?: Shortlisted c
Read with a free account →05 June 23 · Opportunities
The submission window for Little Fish Theatre’s (San Pedro, California, USA) 22nd Annual PICK OF THE VINE short play festival to be presented January-February 2024 is now open. Only short plays (under 15 minutes)submitted through this process will be considered. The theme for thi
Read with a free account →02 June 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU more than ever! Find out about 7 easy ways to support us here and help us to continue our work! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news!
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Laurels Theatre are offering £10k to a storyteller to get their work onstage in the form of a brand new theatre production in 2024. This is a completely unique initiative as a script isn’t necessarily required. You could be a rap artist who has an epic story idea that they want t
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Green Curtain Theatre are offering writers with an Irish heritage the opportunity to have their writing performed. This is as part of their latest theatre project to mark the centenary of the ending of the Civil War in Ireland in May 1923 The competition is open to anyone over 18
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Discovery is Kali’s free writing programme for aspiring female and nb playwrights of South Asian descent in the West Midlands, East Midlands and London, in collaboration with Birmingham Repertory Theatre Leicester Curve and Theatre 503. Selected writers receive: 3 playwriting wor
Read with a free account →30 May 23 · Opportunities
Since the inception of The Ten-Minute Musicals Project, over sixteen hundred submissions have been received, from librettists, lyricists and composers in seventeen nations: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Uruguay, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Ge
Read with a free account →29 May 23 · Opportunities
Since its inception in 1998, The Festival has received over 10,000 submissions from across the world and produced 132 world premieres by 102 different playwrights. The Festival presents between five and seven plays each season. Guidelines: Playwrights may only submit one play per
Read with a free account →26 May 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →25 May 23 · Opportunities
On 19 May 2023 – what would have been Comedy legend Victoria Wood’s 70th Birthday, Sean Foley, our double Olivier Award-winning Artistic Director, announced the creation of the first ever major playwrighting prize dedicated to the art of Comedy. The Victoria Wood Playwrighting Pr
Read with a free account →25 May 23 · News
Our previous Literary Projects Manager George Bailey has a brand-new play opening at The Pleasance from 13-24 June! ’These Words’ was longlisted for the @OriginalTheatre Award and is an experimental odyssey through time, space and lost astronauts. Get your tickets here: https://w
Read this article →20 May 23 · Opportunities
With its 2023 applications currently in reading, the Scribe Playwriting Competition (partnered with Play Submissions Helper) is currently taking submissions for its 2024 competition. They invite playwrights from around the world to submit new full length and one-act plays or musi
Read with a free account →19 May 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU more than ever! Find out about 7 easy ways to support us here and help us to continue our work! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news!
Read with a free account →17 May 23 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2024 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Jeremy O. Harris. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their
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If you are aged 25 years or younger and would like to enter the Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme to win £3,000 and mentoring from a top Black British playwright. Run by the Alfred Fagon Awards, The Mustapha Matura Award is supported by the Estate of Mustapha Matura,
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We’re looking for a poet or spoken word artist to produce a poem which will be performed at our event on the evening of Friday 11th August. Research for the poem will take place in July 2023, through meetings and workshops with our Poetry Exchange Hub. Job Description Poet in the
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This year Popcorn Group is partnering with BBC Writersroom for the second time on the Popcorn Writing Award, which champions brave and imaginative writing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that is best adaptable to the screen. Set up in 2019, the award offers a prize fund of £6,00
Read with a free account →15 May 23 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →15 May 23 · Opportunities
RTS Story Conference: Liverpool – Thursday 25th May The RTS in partnership with Culture Liverpool, Liverpool Everyman and WoWFest and supported by BBC Writersroom have announced the inaugural RTS Story Conference, which will be hosted this year by RTS North West in Liverpool at T
Read with a free account →15 May 23 · Opportunities
Want to be a part of the UK’s largest festival for young emerging filmmakers? Want to see your film on the big screen at the BFI Southbank in London? Want to kickstart your career with cash prizes and industry mentoring up for grabs? Submissions are now open for the #BFIFutureFil
Read with a free account →11 May 23 · Opportunities
From 2024, Transient Arena are planning to produce and stage a number of plays every year. The theme for the 2024 season is ‘Life & Death’. Whether you’re an experienced playright, of fancy trying your hand at writing a play, you may submit a script for consideration. The company
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Women in Film & TV UK is launching the inaugural WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab 2023. This is an opportunity to spotlight and develop emerging female writers who have some writing experience and are looking to take the next step in their career to achieve their first screenwr
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