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10 October 24 · Opportunities
A brand-new support network for professional scriptwriters, based in the East Midlands. Are you an East Midlands-based scriptwriter, writing to a professional standard? Do you have a stage play, feature film, TV pilot or audio pilot you want to hear out loud? Then join this free,
Read with a free account →10 October 24 · Opportunities
Belfast-based TV production company, Conker Pictures Northern Ireland (part of Banijay UK), is looking for up-and-coming writers from Northern Ireland for their brand-new, year-long Writer In Residence scheme. The scheme, which runs from January-December 2025, is being launched t
Read with a free account →07 October 24 · Opportunities
This competition honors the memory of Thomas W. Stephens, PhD, playwright and PlayZoomers Board Member Emeritus. PlayZoomers, a live, online, nonprofit theater company, seeks one-act scripts (20 – 30 minutes) suitable for online production, on any subject, related to any genre, w
Read with a free account →04 October 24 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities and news! Can you help us to keep going? Find out more here *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * London Playwrights’ Member Opportunities Not a member yet? Sign
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Want to develop your play but need some support and accountablilty? This group, led by Emily Garside, will focus on sharing your work and getting feedback from yuor peers. Rather than focusing on ‘teaching’ playwriting , you’ll pick up advice and learn practically, through workin
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Promoting your work as a writer might sound like an awkward task but if you want to get noticed – and hopefully get your work produced, it’s essential. In this session, you’ll find out what you should be doing to promote your play effectively and explore different ways of getting
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Want to feel empowered to put your own work on stage? Self-producing can seem daunting, but armed with the right information and a good plan, you can do it! Come along to this interactive session where you’ll explore how to produce your own work, you’ll get the chance ask questio
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
You’ve written your play, but not sure what it should look like on the page…unsure what theatres want, how many pages, what font even how many stage directions to write? In this workshop we’ll go over the common formatting styles, look at different approaches for different types
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
A one hour session of practical writing exercises to help you get those creative juices flowing and come up with new ideas! We’ll work through a selection of writing exercises during the session which will leave you feeling energised and maybe even plant the seeds for an idea for
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Writing for neurodiverse folks throws up its own challenges- whether it’s organisation, following formatting conventions or just harnessing our own style of thinking on the page. In this workshop, neurodiverse playwright Emily Garside will take you through her approaches to playw
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
CALLING ALL CREATIVES We’ve been working pretty hard over the last few months, and we’re pretty pumped to announce that… The Nu’ Pen Festival will be launching in January 2025 at the Union Theatre, debuting SIX brand new pieces of theatre by emerging creatives… wait for it… EXPEN
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
The innovative club for playwrights, helping writers take their work to the next level. To apply, please send two 10 minute scripts to info@directorscuttheatre.co.uk or fill out the form below. The Writers Club is the only club for writers in the UK, and Europe, of its kind, wor
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Are you looking for a vibrant, exciting new space to showcase your work? VAULT Creative Arts has recently received funding to completely renovate their space at The Glitch, Waterloo into a top-notch, 55-seat, in-the-round or 3-side performance space, and they are seeking shows to
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
After huge success as a stage production, The Scene is now a Podcast – aiming to help keep fringe theatre and new writing alive, by embracing the digital audience. The Scene Podcast offers anybody the chance to have their script made in to a ‘PodPlay’ – a tiny little audioverse.
Read with a free account →03 October 24 · Opportunities
Unusual Productions are looking for contributors for Season 12 of their award winning programme, The Skewer for BBC Radio 4, a topical comedy show with the week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Presented by Jon Holmes. What Kind of Contributions? Long form i
Read with a free account →01 October 24 · Opportunities
Call for Playwrights: 20-Minute Plays Needed! 4 Playwrights, 2 Actors, 1 Relationship. Caromoon Productions are seeking passionate and new playwrights to submit short, 20- minute plays for an exciting evening of theatre centred around the evolving relationship of two women in the
Read with a free account →30 September 24 · Opportunities
With success rates of less than 5% for the Court and Soho writing groups, London-based production company Kick It Anywhere (Vault, Alt B, Camden Fringe) wants to create space for the many talented artists ready for the structure, community, and support that a writing group will p
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Our weekly round-up of opportunities and news! Can you help us to keep going? Find out more here *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * London Playwrights’ Member Opportunities Not a member yet? Sign
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities
The most compelling plays show us a vivid snapshot of the world they occupy; conveying interesting details about time, place, and atmosphere. World building can be something we overlook as writers as we focus on developing other aspects of our work such as plot and structure; but
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Digital Resources / Opportunities
The Writers’ Card is an offer, an invitation, and a promise for theatre writers at every stage of their careers. It’s an offer: to share the resources of the Royal Court with playwrights who want a professional home. It’s an invitation: to join us, with exclusive access and benef
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities
The Royal Court is dedicated to finding the most exciting new plays, underpinned by the history of their open submissions policy: the year-round promise that anyone writing in English around the world can send a play that will be read and responded to. The main way to send a play
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities
Submissions for writers with full-length scripts are being accepted for the Peripeteia Theatre Company’s The Boiler Room call out. When submitting scripts for development, they have to be a minimum run time of 40 minutes, there is no maximum length. Please consider the practical
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities
Box of Tricks has a year-round, open door policy to receiving new plays and forging creative relationships with Northern playwrights. They work closely with playwrights to support their development through the PlayMakers Network and various playwriting programmes and commission n
Read with a free account →27 September 24 · Opportunities
Are you a writer with 10 minutes of a new play that you’d like feedback on? The Sunday Fix is a scratch night in two parts: first a Q&A with an established theatre maker followed by 3-4, 10-minute excerpts from new plays. After each play is read, Barons Court Theatre Artistic Dir
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