10 May 24 · Opportunities
The National Trust in partnership with Word Up North is seeking a Writer-in-Residence for Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire. The site’s mysterious and awe-inspiring rock formations are a magnet for geologists, naturalists, climbers, walkers and young families.
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About Hot House 2024 – Stories of the Climate Transition The Hot House development lab for scripted long form TV and feature film projects is part of Climate Spring’s writer development offering. Launched in 2022, the programme aims to stimulate a pipeline of new, engaging and co
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Aviva Studios’ vast spaces have been designed to provoke artists to do things differently, explore what’s possible and offer a backdrop to create some of the most ambitious work in the world. In September 2024, we will hand over the keys to our South Warehouse space to artists wi
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Live Writes is Live Theatre’s brand new series of new writing showcase and development events spread throughout the year with Open Calls for North East based Writers, Directors and Actors. A whole host of opportunities for Theatre creatives of all experiences to flourish in a saf
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We often examine the work of ‘classic’ or ‘well known’ playwrights in courses and workshops. Dissecting the text helps us to interpret it and uncover techniques which can be used in our writing. But, how often do we really analyse our own writing? In this 5 week course, you will
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Whether you are a budding Script Reader or just want to be able to offer valuable feedback to your playwriting peers, this workshop will explore how to provide feedback that is clear and constructive. Workshop leader, Kimberley Andrews, has provided feedback to hundreds of writer
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Special Offer £5! Limited time only! If you want to participate in writing workshops but can’t make it in person or to the live Zoom sessions, these digital workshops are for you! Whilst we love meeting you at our workshops, we appreciate live sessions don’t work for everyone: pe
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For our very first evening of shorts, we are seeking out four female, BlPOC playwrights whose works we will fully produce and present at a London venue to be determined. HHTC is looking to hear stories from Black and Brown women (in the broad sense of the term). The plays may be
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We invite Welsh speakers worldwide to contribute to a special exhibition at the Ruthin International Arts Festival, taking place from 28 June to 4 July 2024 in Ruthin, North Wales, UK. Under the theme “Elsewhere,” we aim to bring the essence of Welshness from across the globe bac
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Liverpool’s Royal Court is committed to developing new writing and new writers, with all of their main house output having been new writing since 2017. Stage Write is a regular, new writing night that runs year round and they are looking for scripts. Excerpts of several pieces ar
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Live Writes is Live Theatre’s brand new series of new writing showcase and development events spread throughout the year with Open Calls for North East based Writers, Directors and Actors. A whole host of opportunities for Theatre creatives of all experiences to flourish in a saf
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Homegrown is a new writing festival, showcasing local talent by staging an evening of original short plays, featuring local writers, directors, and actors. Homegrown is looking for writers, regardless of age or experience to submit their work. If selected, the pieces will be allo
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JDAL—the Jewish Dramatic Association of London—is looking for exciting new scripts from Jewish writers for our inaugural showcase in late spring. This is a great chance to have your work performed in front of an audience! The only requirements are as follows: Between 10 and 15 mi
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This is an IN-PERSON event in the UK. Monday, May 6 White Bear Theater 138 Kennington Park Road London, Kennington SE11 4DJ UK 12pm-4pm BST (British Standard Time) Join visiting playwright and seasoned improv teacher/performer, Jeffrey Sweet, for a free workshop at The White Bear
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KDC Theatre New Writing show: “The Plan” **Deadline for scripts: 18 May 2024** KDC Theatre’s new writing summer show returns as a Festival of New Writing of rehearsed readings, and we are inviting submissions of short plays. The Festival of New Writing, “The Plan” will take place
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The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence based at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. It is made in memory of Kevin Elyot (1951-2014) – an alumnus of the University Drama Department – and the influence he has had on writi
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The Bruntwood Prize launching new resources ahead of the 2025 competition! “As we prepare for the next round of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, wewant to support you in exploring your writing practice – whether you are coming to playwriting for the first or 100th time. We ar
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It’s officially time for another round of New Work at the Ritzy, a scratch night taking place at the fabulous Ritzy Cinema in Brixton! This month’s edition is happening Thursday, May 16th; doors at 7pm, performance starts at 7:30 with Q&A to follow. The theme for this round is: r
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The Hot House development lab for scripted long form TV and feature film projects is part of Climate Spring’s writer development offering. Launched in 2022, the programme aims to stimulate a pipeline of new, engaging and commercially viable climate stories for film and TV, whilst
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The STARTS Award are inviting talented scriptwriters from The Armed Forces Community to submit work for The STARTS Award 2024 Spoken Word category. The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on 28th June 2024. The STARTS award promotes new talent & creative wellbeing. It is an award
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