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14 October 13 · Opportunities
Following the success of last year’s One Festival, The Space is delighted to once more open its doors to new acting, writing and directing talent. The One Festival is a showcase of monologues featuring work from a wide range of theatre professionals. With an exciting blend of wor
Read with a free account →14 October 13 · News
The Bruntwood Prize has announced the list of Top 100 plays (out of nearly 1800 submissions), which will receive feedback from the competition. Check them out! The shortlist and winner will be announced in the coming weeks…
Read this article →14 October 13 · Opportunities
TLW LEXiCON has announced a Play and Short Story Competition. Running from the 15th to the 16th March 2014 in the Alexander Centre, Faversham, TLW LEXiCON is a cross between a small convention or expo, and a relatively large literary event in the traditional style. The prompt: Wr
Read with a free account →11 October 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). Submissons are now open for the 8th Theatre Breaks Festival from Tiny Dog Productions – Deadline 11 October 2013 International Student Playwritin
Read with a free account →11 October 13 · Opportunities
Tower Theatre Company are accepting submissions for their new play competition. The winning writer will have a full scale production of their play at a London Fringe venue in November 2013. There is an entry fee of £10 for this competition (£5 for Tower members or friends of the
Read with a free account →10 October 13 · Education / Writing Workshops
Papercut Theatre will be running their ‘Professional Development for Emerging Writers’ workshop on 2nd November 2013 (10.30am – 6pm) in London. This day long workshop will look at: At what stage should you send your plays to literary departments What should your objectives be whe
Read this article →09 October 13 · Writing Workshops
Pentabus Theatre are running a playwriting workshop led by Elizabeth Freestone on Saturday 19th October 10.3oam – 4.30pm. The workshop will look at developing your play, analysing structure and exploring conflict and how it affects your characters.There will also be a chance to r
Read this article →09 October 13 · Opportunities
Irresponsible Decorators are looking for aspiring playwrights to submit original work for a new writing night. They are looking for four 20 minute plays responding to the theme of ‘crossing the line’. Plays must require a cast of no more than 5 actors, although doubling is encour
Read with a free account →08 October 13 · Opportunities
Theatre Renegade’s Courting Drama programme promotes the work of four emerging directors and writers by creating new collaborations and presenting the subsequent work in the Bush Theatre’s Attic space once every four months. This time, they are looking for a new writer to have th
Read with a free account →08 October 13 · Education / Opportunities
The Arcola Theatre along with London Metropolitan University are looking for three writers for their ‘Voices from the Future’ scheme. The chosen writers will attend a week of playwriting workshops led by a professional playwright culminating in developing a piece of new writing f
Read with a free account →04 October 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). Call for submissions: Camden People’s Theatre Festival of Feminism – Deadline: 7 October 2013 Little Pieces of Gold seeking short plays – Deadlin
Read with a free account →04 October 13 · Opportunities
The Paul Darby Prize is now open for submissions with the aim of encouraging new stage plays and emerging writers. The winner will receive a prize of £1000, together with a staging of their play at the Questors Theatre in Ealing which is renowned for its’ association with new wri
Read with a free account →03 October 13 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
For the third year running, Sky Arts in association with IdeasTap, is giving away five £30,000 bursaries and mentoring support to talented artists aged 18-30 from the UK and Ireland. The fund is aimed at helping emerging artists from different disciplines to take their work to th
Read with a free account →01 October 13 · News
The Soho Theatre has announced the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2013, which goes to Vicky Jones for her play ‘The One’. At the same event (which also recognised VBA runner-ups), the Soho revealed the next intake of the Soho Six, which gives six artists the opportunity to de
Read this article →01 October 13 · Opportunities
The Lace Market Theatre Programme Advisory Group (PAG) is currently seeking submissions of new plays to feature as part of the 2014/15 season. They are open to submissions of all styles of play but the successful production must be of a scale that can be performed in the theatre’
Read with a free account →01 October 13 · Opportunities
Descent is a new writing company and they are looking for playellas to post on our blog. A playella is a tiny play – twelve-line gems of writing genius. Some guidelines: A playella can be about anything at all. It can have as many characters as you like. BUT it can only have twel
Read with a free account →30 September 13 · Opportunities
Performance date: 10 – 13 November, 7:30pm – 10:30pm Venue: The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, NW5 3HS Theatre Breaks is comprised of a 4 night run, which Theatre Companies/directors/writers/producers can use as a free platform to showcase new or developing work. Be it a new short play
Read with a free account →30 September 13 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper publishes upcoming opportunities and competitions on a monthly basis – i.e. “October Deadlines” – with the only downside that you have to hustle a bit to make the ones due on the first of the month! So, here is a list of opportunities from them with deadli
Read with a free account →30 September 13 · Opportunities
The following call for submissions appeared on the UK Playwriting Facebook Group. We’re including it here in its original format rather than our normal breakdown so you can get a feel of what they’re going for: Hi guys, I am the co-artistic director of 6FootStories. We are a rela
Read with a free account →27 September 13 · Inspiration / Writing Advice
If you’re in need of a little writing inspiration or guidance, the Dramatists Guild of America has a wonderful collection of talks available from a range of exciting theatremakers, including Lanford Wilson, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, Paula Vogel, and a host of ot
Read this article →27 September 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). The Royal Court accepting applications for playwriting groups – Deadline: 27 September 2013 Southend Playwriting Festival accepting submissions f
Read with a free account →26 September 13 · Opportunities
The Castillo Theatre (NYC) sponsors the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest and reading series annually. In its seventh year, the political play contest is intended to encourage the writing of scripts for the stage that engage the political/social/cultural questions a
Read with a free account →26 September 13 · Opportunities
Open Arts Café is accepting submissions for the Autumn Season. 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 artists a chan
Read with a free account →25 September 13 · Opportunities
The Certainty of Chance Theatre Company in association with the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation are delighted to present the Ronald Duncan Prize 2013. The Ronald Duncan playwriting competition is for new and up and coming writers. For the last two years the competition has been
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