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18 November 13 · Opportunities
Receive £1,000 for a horror treatment or first draft screenplay with further development from Hopscotch Films. Are you a screenwriter or writer/director with a passion for psychological horror? Do you have an idea or a script for a low budget feature film to match the imagination
Read with a free account →15 November 13 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Pokfulham Rd Productions seeking playwright for collaboration (fluent Korean required) – No deadline posted Applications open for Sundance Theatr
Read with a free account →14 November 13 · News
Theatre Centre has announced the winners of its competitions recognizing and supporting writing for young people. Danny Braverman won the Brian Way Award for Wot? No fish!!. The £6,000 is designed to support the development of a new play. Lou Ramsden received the Adrienne Benham
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The New Musical Project is searching for up and coming musical theatre writers who want to develop their work alongside industry professionals and a West End theatre. The Project is looking for submissions of new one act musicals, of which The Project will select six to be develo
Read with a free account →14 November 13 · Jobs / Opportunities
Edinburgh University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and the Traverse Theatre are delighted to announce their continued partnership in a Creative Fellowship to be based within the University, and are currently inviting applications. IASH and the Traverse will commi
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Get your scripts ready – the next submissions window at The Bush opens in less than two weeks! Their Autumn/Winter submission window will be open from 21st November 2013 and closes at 5pm on 20th December 2013. In an interesting twist, the Bush is only looking for proposals for d
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Channel 4 has announced the winners of the Channel 4 Playwrights Scheme, who will receive £7,000 and a year’s attachment to a theatre to support the development of a new play. The winners are: Clara Brennan – Soho Theatre Zodwa Nyoni – West Yorkshire Playhouse Simon Longman – Pen
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This article from the New York Times won’t give you a definitive answer, but it does provide interesting background on the differences between the standard English (GO-doh), American (go-DOH), and French (GO-DOH, equal emphasis) pronunciations of the elusive Godot. Interestingly,
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ScriptSpace is The Space’s monthly script-reading workshop which provides playwrights with an opportunity to have a work in progress read by professional actors. In addition to allowing the playwright to receive feedback on their work, a ScriptSpace session is also a networking o
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Pokfulham Rd Productions 薄扶林道©, a new writing non-profit production company, is gearing up for its 2014 lineup with a play about North and South Korea. They are just coming off the success of a soldout run of “the t-group” which ran 14-23 October during the KCL Arts and Hum Festi
Read with a free account →12 November 13 · Offers
BushGreen has two upcoming book sales at the Bush Theatre as part of its RADAR Festival. All playtexts in the sale are £2 (or why not take a gamble on a Book Bag with 5 secret playtexts for £5?). Dates: Thursday 14 November from 5-7pm Saturday 16 November from 11am-5pm Tuesday 19
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As reported in The Stage, the shortlist has been announced for the Adrian Pagan Award. The five shortlisted plays are: Kitchen Sinking by Gina Gough Dead Party Animals by Thomas Pickles Dissolution by Isobel Middleton My Darling Wife by Isaac Ssebandeke The Visitor by Remi Rachub
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The Sussex Playwrights’ Club has renamed their annual writing competition the Constance Cox Playwriting Competition; they are now accepting entries. (Note: All their playwriting competitions are listed on the same page, so you may have to scroll down a bit to find all the details
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Entries are now being accepted for the 2013 Red Planet Prize, supported by Red Planet pictures and Kudos Productions. Eligibility: The competition is open to anyone in the UK and Eire. What to submit: Entrants must upload the first ten pages of an original 60 minute script for TV
Read with a free account →11 November 13 · Opportunities
David Winitsky (Artistic Director) and Jeremy Stoller (Contest Producer) of the jewish plays project (jpp) are excited to announce the return of their competition for full-length plays dealing with contemporary jewish themes. Using a curated jury process followed by a series of l
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As reported in The Stage, Carla Grauls has been announced as the winner of the Nick Darke Award. The Award, funded by Falmouth University, is presented to a playwright writing on an environmental theme. The £6,000 prize is designed to support the writer in developing their piece.
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Write on Tap is open to submissions of short plays for its next event in February 2014. Submitted plays should respond to the following theme: “Does that one sin of mine wipe away all the good things?” What to submit: Plays should respond to the set theme, and running time should
Read with a free account →08 November 13 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Almost Random Theatre seeking short plays (entry fee) – Deadline: 10 November 2013 ‘Retreats’ Playwriting Competition from Almost Random Theatre
Read with a free account →07 November 13 · Opportunities
DVM Theatre host monthly scratch night, SCRATCH, and are now seeking submissions for their January and February performances. SCRATCH is open to artists from all disciplines, including theatre and primarily showcases work-in-progress performances. There is also the opportunity fo
Read with a free account →06 November 13 · Business Advice
The BBC Writersroom has posted a new column from Sally Stott about one of the big career questions for young and emerging writers: How do I get an agent? There won’t be many surprises here for writers who have researched this topic before, although the piece is a good introductio
Read this article →05 November 13 · Jobs / Opportunities
The Bush Theatre seeks a number of critically minded, enthusiastic and opinionated BushGreen Readers to aid with their winter script submission process. This post will play a key role in evaluating the unsolicited scripts submitted by new writers and identifying potentially inter
Read with a free account →05 November 13 · Offers / Ticket Deals
Theatre503 will be holding Writers Nights’ for its upcoming production of Mucky Kid on 12 & 13 November 2103. Theatre 503 Writer’s Nights are a great night out – they give writers the opportunity to: See the show at a discounted rate; Meet and talk to the lovely team at Theatre50
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Broken Glass Theatre Co are excited to announce the return of Short Fuse on 10 January 2014 at the Camden Head. A free platform for the work of young and new theatre practitioners, Short Fuse is now looking for proposals for complete performances, or extracts from new works, of a
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Theatre Company nabokov is now open for submissions for the third part of their WikiTheatre Project, where three different writers will write 5 minute pieces of a 15 minute script. How it works: Writers read and respond to the previous section, then can submit their own 5-minute
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