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29 June 20 · Opportunities
Lincolnshire-based cultural solutions UK is one of 49 organisations from across the country awarded a grant from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Authorities to highlight the story and legacy of MV Empire Windrush. cultural solutions UK wishes to commission a suitab
Read with a free account →16 June 20 · Opportunities
Monologues or poetry (750 words maximum) are invited for a curated literary event responding to the theme – How to be young again The event is a fundraiser for health based charities on July 4th. Following the success of Power of One at University of Glasgow Literary Festival (sh
Read with a free account →10 June 20 · Opportunities
OutStageUs is an annual LGBT+ new writing event run by Manchester based Hive North. Each year up to eight short plays, scenes or monologues are selected to be developed and brought to production at The Lowry, Salford. The successful script writers will receive a fee of £300 and b
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Opportunities
Liam Ashmead Darrel Draper and Laura Shoebottom are working together on #LifeLogues, a series of monologues based on lived experiences and untold stories. The opportunity is unpaid as we will be raising money for several charities throughout the series. If you would like to get i
Read with a free account →03 June 20 · Opportunities / Resources
In light of George Floyd’s recent killing in Minneapolis, and the ongoing universal racial inequality, Sharp Scratches wanted to shine a light during these dark times – with work from new BAME writers. Written a Monologue that you’d love to see performed by an actor? Or perhaps w
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
For those of you looking for writing opportunities from a distance, The Undisposables are looking for a small selection of new scenes and monologues. Selected scenes will be performed live to an online audience via Zoom Webinar, all as part of their virtual scratch night, Scratch
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities
OutStageUs is an annual LGBT+ new writing event run by Manchester based Hive North. Each year up to eight short plays, scenes or monologues are selected to be developed and brought to production at The Lowry, Salford. The successful script writers will receive a fee of £300 and b
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Making Wave Theatre Company are looking for monologues (5-15 mins) written by young people (11-18) for their online scratch night. There is no theme or genre so write about anything and everything. The chosen pieces will be performed and filmed by their actors and premiered on Yo
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Inspired by the success of Kali SOLOS, they are launching an open call-out for writers to submit monologues for the series. They are looking for monologues that are between 3 -5 minutes long and are spoken by a character who is in isolation due to the Covid-19 crisis. Their reade
Read with a free account →18 May 20 · Opportunities
This is an invitation to create a piece of writing (monologue or verse) that expresses acceptance, celebration or the joy of speaking truth out loud for a Dublin Pride Virtual Event – Rainbow Poetry and Prose. Please send a 60 second MP4 video of yourself reading your writing usi
Read with a free account →04 May 20 · Opportunities
Sapphic Voices are looking for women playwrights who’d like a wee segment of their work featured on their RadioReverb 97.2fm. Monologues, duologues or segments of full plays are all welcome. Only stipulation is that pieces must feature strong women characters. Your play will be p
Read with a free account →29 April 20 · Opportunities
London based Chalk Roots Theatre are seeking 5 to 10 minutes monologues for their online showcase OUT OF CONTROL that will be streamed online on their YouTube channel this May. For the first time in our lives humanity as a whole is forced to confront the vulnerability and helples
Read with a free account →27 April 20 · Opportunities
This week Theatre is the Cure: Worldwide Online Event producers will be developing a show that offers funny and dramatic, hopeful, inspiring, challenging, steeped in truth, monologues. Every interested playwright who sends an email requesting prompts by 1pm Pacific Time (9pm in L
Read with a free account →20 April 20 · Opportunities
Actor Awareness are launching an online virtual Scratch Night. They will try and run this as close to how they would normally run a scratch night as possible. They are looking for 4 monologues/ duologues and the theme is just comedy. Stuck in isolation, with anxiety, worry & it’s
Read with a free account →14 April 20 · Opportunities
Nouveau Riche are on the lookout for up and coming Writer-Performers of Colour for a new online competition. Mad Times Monologues seeks aspiring candidates to submit a short monologue, of approximately 3-5 minutes to be judged by a panel of industry professionals as well as an op
Read with a free account →13 April 20 · Opportunities
Want to hear your writing being read on the radio by some well known Scottish names? Pulse 98.4 want your funny monologues. The theme is A Day to Remember. You can take that to mean anything you like. Just spread some comedy joy. The winning six entries will be broadcast on the a
Read with a free account →07 April 20 · Opportunities
Popelei are looking for writers to submit brand new theatrical monologues to the Popelei Seed Commission 2020, under the theme ‘Women in Lockdown’. Popelei invite you to write and send in a new short monologue (maximum 4 minutes) for a female character who has had some kind of r
Read with a free account →07 April 20 · Opportunities
The second Lockdown Liftups callout from the newly established production company KickItDown Productions who are on the look out for monologues that can work in a radio format. The monologues will be recorded by professional actors and streamed live on their website. The writing
Read with a free account →02 April 20 · Opportunities
The Mercury Theatre and Josef Weinberger are joining forces once again, following their successful partnership on the 2018 Mercury Weinberger Playwriting Prize, to discover a new cohort of talent by engaging with aspiring writers and creatives during these uncertain times. Mercur
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Slackline Productions is looking for submissions again… This time, they’re seeking your best monologues or two-handers… Send them either: A short monologue (2-3 minutes), featuring a strong female-identifying character aged 35+ or A short two-hander (5 minutes) which will be film
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Power of One is the theme for a new writing Podcast. Monologues, short stories, poetry (maximum 750 words) based on a factual or fictional moment where a character discovers something new alone or reveals an experience or knowledge only solitude can bring are required. For contin
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
Women & Theatre have released a series of monologues exploring women and work. The first series is now live and can be downloaded and listened to anywhere in the world for free. Episode 1 by Naylah Ahmed explores working in the theatre. Simply search “Women & Theatre” in your pod
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
*Opportunity for writers/actors who identify as Working Class* What they are looking for: 5 minute monologues on the theme of class. There will be a £50 cash prize for the winning monologue. For more information, please check out their post on Facebook. There will be a £50 prize
Read with a free account →24 March 20 · Opportunities
In their words: This is a really scary time for all artists, for people worried about their families and loved ones. We planned on running a workshop this month but because of the virus are thinking of how else we can support female identifying and non-binary writers + actors. We
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