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15 December 20 · Opportunities
The ETPEP Award 2021 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work or have worked in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP). The Award’s purpose is to find and nurture
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LabWeek is development time in the Changing House offered to one artist each season. The one-week residency comes with a £3,500 budget to support the artist in their activities. A successful LabWeek applicant receives: a five-day residency in the Tron Theatre’s Changing House sup
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Our next submission window will be from Monday 4th January (10am) until Thursday 7th January (10pm). During this period we will allow access to our portal that can be found here. You will only be able to submit your script during a submission window. Before submitting your scrip
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Caravan Theatre are seeking plays – this time they are looking for longer plays, finally your opportunity to submit scripts 60-90mins For our World Record Attempt for longest Zoom playreading in Feb 2021. Planned for 24hrs 13/14th Feb but awaiting date confirmation from Guinness.
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Warts and All Theatre are back with more online Q&A’s – this time we’re chatting to: Thursday 10th December at 8.30pm – Renowned comedian James Acaster – bit.ly/ACASTER Friday 11th December at 5pm – Prolific Writer of #RedVelvet and #lifeofpi Lolita Chakrabarti – bit.ly/CHAKRABAR
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Broken Silence Theatre, have just launched a new course called the Playwrights Hive for writers wanting to develop a new full-length play in 2021. Support for 12 months, including: – 10 monthly sessions, including online group showcase with professional actors – Write a short pla
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Angel Exit Theatre are in the research and development phase of a collaborative project with Theatre Newfoundland, Canada. We are exploring the stories of the thousands of men and women who migrated from the South West over to Newfoundland to work in the cod fishing industry. We
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The Unity Theatre Liverpool are asking Merseyside creatives to submit work for consideration as part of their reopening season taking place between February and May 2021. The call-out is open to a wide range of people and practices. For example, you might be a theatre company, pe
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Just Some Theatre are seeking an experienced Dramaturg for an R&D of a new horror/thriller theatre production within a contemporary setting. The project is currently supported by Arts Council England for the completion of a full performance ready script. They plan at a later date
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45 North are offering 3 seed commissions to trans and gender non-conforming artists looking to develop an idea for live theatre. They include all forms of gender diversion under this banner including Non-binary people, and especially encourage QTPOC artists to apply. They are kee
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In this guest post by Florence Bell, she discusses how she set up ITCH (www.itchwriting.com), a new approach to writing workshops and how the urge make theatre is still worth pursuing even in these difficult times. ‘Get ‘em in hot water and then get ‘em out again’. So goes the ad
Read this article →02 December 20 · 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: LPW Introduction to Writing for Musical Theatre W
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Heads Bodies Legs Theatre Company is looking for writers to attend a series of free online writing workshops to explore themes primarily around sexuality, LGBTQ+ identity and sex work themes. The writing workshops are part of the Molly’s Masquerade, a Heritage Lottery and Arts Co
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FRESH is Frumpish Theatre’s first New Writing Festival, dedicated to promoting new short plays by womxn writers. They are looking for nine new 30-minute plays to be performed as part of FRESH. Theyare looking for stories by womxn and non-binary voices, though the cast does not ha
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OMF Theatre is looking for writers to submit comedy sketches for a new radio series on community radio station Liskeard Radio in Cornwall (staffed entirely by volunteers). This is an unpaid opportunity to have your work produced and performed on local radio as well as on the OMF
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Congratulations to LPW members, Lekha Desai Morrison whose new play, Myles and Me is being performed on 9th and 10th December at The Space Theatre in London. It will be streamed live on the evening of the 10th. The link to book tickets is https://space.org.uk/event/myles-and-me/.
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The Bush is looking for eight people who are passionate about writing a play to join their new West London Playwrights’ Group. Over the course of 9 weekly classes, taking place every Friday, our artistic team will take you through the fundamentals of playwriting and support you i
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
The Bush Theatre is committed to championing exciting new voices in theatre. If you’re a playwright who is not currently represented by an agent, and you have a play to share with them, they would love to receive it during their submissions window! What they are looking for: play
Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Opportunities
The Papatango New Writing Prize is back! The UK’s biggest annual playwriting award has been remodelled, in a new partnership between Papatango and English Touring Theatre, to support thrice as many artists. Remaining free, open to anyone in the UK or Ireland, and anonymously asse
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When theatre festivals do finally start up again there will be huge competition for slots, so it will pay to know what you are letting yourself in for. This 2-hour crash course will explore some of the key considerations when thinking about taking your own work to a theatre festi
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Following the ‘Playwrighting for Everyone’ course, which opened up the mystical writing courses of theatre for everyone, this second course is designed to help you focus your writing and write that play! Using a combination of more advanced looks at elements of playwrighting- cha
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MONOLOGUE CALL-OUT Young Vic Genesis Network members, designer David Medina Águila and director Alice Chambers, are looking to commission an important piece of theatre, which we intend to produce as part of a larger project of monologues that speak to a coming-of-age generation,
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London-based Chalk Roots Theatre are seeking 20-40 minutes play to be staged as audio dramas in 2021. Over the past year all of us have been forced to contemplate our roles in arts and the role of arts in our own lives. Is life so full of confusion already that we have no right t
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