From our earlier websites
Writing advice, interviews, projects and opportunities from our earlier websites, kept together for you to explore.
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17 March 21 · Opportunities
The National Theatre are running an ‘Introduction to Playwriting’ course, taking place on Zoom over 8 biweekly sessions across April. This online course is led by playwright Chris Bush (Standing on Sky’s Edge, Crucible Theatre; Pericles, National Theatre) and will give an introdu
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The Factory Theatre Workshop is looking to connect with an emerging woman/non-binary Producer who is keen to work with us on our New Writing festival in the first week of September 2021. The Factory Theatre Workshop is a new-writing theatre company permanently based in the Bomb F
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What We Are Looking For FIRST TIME playwrights. Of course, the more experienced you are, the more likely your writing will be of good quality and thus accepted. However, we strongly encourage you to be brave and send in your writing, even if you have never written a play in your
Read with a free account →13 March 21 · Opportunities
POPLARISM! – A digital arts festival celebrating the centenary of the Poplar Rates Rebellion of 1921. The Finborough Theatre and Poplar Union are inviting anyone with a connection to the Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Kensington and Chelsea to submit a proposal outlining their cre
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Playwrighting Prize for Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley The Royal Exchange Theatre Leigh Ambassadors are inviting anyone who lives or has a connection to Leigh, Atherton or Tydesley to enter our second annual playwrighting competition LocalTALE. Write an orginal 10-30 minute play a
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Call-out to commission a writer/dramaturg for Theatre of Wandering, a new theatre performance coming to Coventry as part of the UK City of Culture programme. A Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 and Entelechy Arts co-production, in association with OiBokkeShi In a new production co
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New writing opportunity for a Digital Project by ThickSkin, commissioned by Lawrence Batley Theatre. ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre are delighted to announce a paid commission to an early career writer, based in West Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to collaborate with Th
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Designed as a ‘sequel’ to the introduction to musical theatre (find out more here), but also working as a stand alone, this two hour course breaks down starting to write a musical. Aimed at book writers/lyricists, but also useful for composers, we will look at dramatic structure
Read with a free account →24 February 21 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
A 2 hour overview of musical theatre style and structure and how to get started! This 2 hour workshop with Emily Garside is aimed at anyone looking to make a start in musical theatre. The workshop will take a look at the history and structure of the musical as a guide to writing
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Paid Opportunity for Yorkshire-based Playwright / Poet / Spoken Word Artist FEE £3,100 in instalments DEADLINE 9:00am on Wednesday 10 March 2021 Between June and August 2021, Cast and Public Acts will tour an interactive pop-up theatre adventure from a mobile van. The Fabulous, R
Read with a free account →23 February 21 · Opportunities
Are you a TV scriptwriter? Do you have comedy experience? Would you like to mentor an emerging artist? Open Theatre are looking for a freelance script advisor to support our emerging artist Rob Bate with his new situation comedy – Ronnie and Johnny! We’re looking for an experienc
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Ad Infinitum is inviting applications from theatre makers, writers and storytellers, to collaborate on our latest project, working with older adults experiencing loneliness. This is part of Ad Infinitum’s activities during lockdown and a wider project exploring elderly care in th
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Outside Edge Theatre Company, which is the UK’s only theatre company and participatory arts charity focused on addiction, is recruiting our next Chair of the Board of Trustees. For the past 21 years we have created theatre productions about issues related to addiction and offered
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Reflex Theatre are bringing their globally successful Short Form Scratch Night format to the Norwich Fringe Festival and they are accepting new submissions! They are inviting writers to send in only the First page, Last page and a brief Synopsis of their script, after which the R
Read with a free account →18 February 21 · Opportunities
Are you a creative young Black person interested in playwriting? Are you passionate about theatre and Black British culture? Anthem is an exciting new playwriting project for aspiring Black writers aged 16-25, inspired by Lolita Chakrabarti’s new play Hymn. Participants will have
Read with a free account →18 February 21 · Opportunities
In this brand new one-off 2-hour workshop, you’ll learn some tips, techniques and tricks of the trade when it comes to setting up your theatre company. From where to find funding, to marketing yourself to taking your play to the fringe, to even finding that pesky name, we’ll be c
Read with a free account →11 February 21 · Opportunities / Pick of the Week
Each week we look through our pile of writing opportunities to pick out one we think is particularly worth your time. It could be an innovative brief, great prize money, a high-profile company, or just plain fun. This week’s pick: Theatre 503: Applications open for 503five playwr
Read with a free account →10 February 21 · Opportunities
Theatre503’s pioneering 503Five 2021-22 Writers Residency is now open for applications! The 503Five is an 18 month residency supported by the Carne Trust and Orseis Trust offering writers the opportunity to find their creative home at Theatre503, develop work and experience being
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An artist support initiative for pairs of artists from the creators of Show in a Bag Building on ten years of successful partnership, Fishamble: The New Play Company, Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe Festival are joining forces again for DUETS, an artist development sche
Read with a free account →04 February 21 · Opportunities
In Good Company led by Derby Theatre, in partnership with Attenborough Arts Centre, Nonsuch Studios, Burton Brewhouse, Lincolnshire One Venues, Mansfield Old Library, Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton, Curve, Leicester, and Nottingham Playhouse, are thrilled to announce that they wi
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Awarded for the best playwriting response to the theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2021 – Untamed: On Wilderness and Civilization. The prize will be £3,000 plus a rehearsed reading at the Fellowship’s annual Symposium to which the winner will be invited to attend. Runners up will be
Read with a free account →03 February 21 · Opportunities
This brand new 5-week course will introduce you to the untapped potential of horror theatre. Participants will explore how the unique nature of theatre lends itself to all things terrifying and write their own short plays which will receive feedback. Run by writer and director Sa
Read with a free account →03 February 21 · Opportunities
Theatre Peckham are delivering a writing programme for 6 emerging young writers and we wanted to share this news around! Writers between the ages of 14-21 will take part in a 4-week programme to hone their craft and skill in writing poetry, prose and industry tips on breaking thr
Read with a free account →03 February 21 · Opportunities
London performing arts charity, KDC Theatre, have been running a new writing project annually for the last few years to encourage new writers and promote efficient storytelling, here are the details of their latest scheme: What writers should submit Short plays: Related to our th
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