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10 June 20 · Opportunities
Box of Tricks Theatre, based in Manchester, run several opportunities for writers including a PlayMakers Network. PlayBox 2021 Their upcoming PlayBox 2021 is an open-call opportunity for North-West England based playwrights Box of Tricks is looking to find three early-career Nort
Read with a free account →10 June 20 · Opportunities
Box of Tricks Theatre, based in Manchester, run several opportunities for writers including a PlayMakers Network. Pen Pals Their Pen Pals scheme is currently open for applications. Pen Pals is an exchange programme which will match pairs of playwrights to connect, share ideas and
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Opportunities
Saw It Here First Productions are aiming to put on another show early next year to raise money for charity. (This all depends on the situation regarding the re-opening of theatres.) But for now they are calling all playwrights to submit their short plays! If you’re interested in
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Resources
An Online Workshop (1 hour a day for 5 days) for those interested in writing Comedy for Television, Radio and Theatre. Have you always wanted to write Comedy? Do you have an idea for a Sitcom but don’t know where to start? Have you started a Sitcom script but don’t know how to fi
Read this article →04 June 20 · Opportunities
This year Theatre Adhoc have partnered with Congress Theatre, Cwmbran to make this possible in all of the uncertainty of current time! It’s true what they say: better together! Submit a 20-30 minute socially distanced playlet on the theme of “Creative Minds in Isolation” by 12pm
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Opportunities
The Mercury Theatre in Colchester and Josef Weinberger Ltd have joined forces once again to nurture and grow the very best writing talent from the East of England in their exciting new playwriting development programme. Over the next 9 months, Mercury Playwrights in association w
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Resources
Stage Door Live: Episode 8 #AccessAndInclusion Stage Door Live is a live webcast from TheatreMaker.ie made by theatre makers in Ireland for theatremakers and fellow lovers of live performance. Each week, Host Amy Kid delivers the news in Irish Theatre, Ireland’s top theatremakers
Read this article →03 June 20 · Opportunities
Lippy Kid are a theatre collective from Manchester. They are working on a new project of theatre in isolation and are looking for duologues that they will film. Scripts must be no more than 15 pages. All you need to do is send over a short biography a character list a full synops
Read with a free account →29 May 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
We were planning on running this workshop in London in June, but as this has been postponed, we we will now be running an online version of it via Zoom! The in person version will still take place, hopefully in October, depending on the Covid-19 guidelines. The Zoom version will
Read with a free account →29 May 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 Zoom Workshop – An Introduction to Musical Th
Read with a free account →28 May 20 · Opportunities
Just Some Theatre’s Forward Dialogue initiative invites writers of any experience to submit their unperformed and original scripts for developmental online readings with actors and directors. They ask all applicants to submit a full (unperformed) theatre script. Their team will t
Read with a free account →28 May 20 · Resources
Joining in for a Q&A on Thursday 28th May 2020 at The Breakfast Club with Joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roy Alexander Weise MBE. Roy Alexander Weise is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award and directed his critically acclaimed, sell o
Read this article →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Calling all under 18s! The Questors Theatre have been setting young people a series of writing challenges over lockdown, and last week they launched their first competition. Write a soliloquy from the point of view of this character – winner will be produced for their Scenes in S
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Master Class are a theatre education charity *usually* based in the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Their charitable objectives are to advance the education of young people aged 17 – 30 by promoting the study of drama and in particular the art and craft of theatre, and they are delighte
Read with a free account →27 May 20 · Opportunities
Claire-Monique Martin is currently putting together a new writing festival of 80 new plays to help raise funds for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The globe is on the verge of collapse financially During this crisis and doesn’t get any help from the government or The natio
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Entries are now open for writers to submit a short play of no more than 10 minutes in length on the theme of THE ROAD NOT TAKEN for the Chesil Theatre’s TakeTen fesitval. Ten plays will be selected from all the submissions and the PRIZE for the winning ten plays is that they will
Read with a free account →26 May 20 · Resources
Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is a new script-reading service for musicals. They want to make sure services are open and accessible to everyone, so they are accepting submissions from writers of all levels for pay-what-you-can feedback on new projects. Please take a look at th
Read this article →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Reflex Theatre based in Norwich – an Actor-Led Ensemble creating exciting and original content through Rehearsed Improvisation. They’re looking for submissions for their short form online scratch night that will take place on 1st July 2020. They have one rule – the writers must s
Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Opportunities
Aktualise is so excited to be taking its biannual scratch night online: cue CYBER-SCRATCH. Due to be hosted by Poplar Union in May, Aktualise Theatre are determined to continue to find, support and give new work a platform despite the current circumstances. The CYBER-SCRATCH will
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 · Events / Resources
The Goats Theatre Company presents podcast Play The Goat : Podcast Edition featuring new short plays and poems. Their latest play, Retha’s First March by Rex McGregor sees a young teacher, Retha, experiencing her first Black Lives Matter protest, and she is galvanized to take fur
Read this article →19 May 20 · Events / Resources
Every week, for one week only, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival are showcasing a film of a theatre show from a previous SMHAF, with brand new programme notes. To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, from 18-24 May they are delighted to bring you Electrolyte by Wildcard Theatre,
Read this article →19 May 20 · Opportunities
JustOut Theatre pride themselves on promoting new writing up North that challenges and inspires. As they are currently unable to put on their regular scratch nights due to Covid-19, they are moving their celebration of new writing online… From June 3rd onwards, they will be relea
Read with a free account →18 May 20 · Resources
Russell Lucas has challenged himself to interview 300 theatremakers over the next couple of years and has created a brand new theatre channel in order to record the study of these different paths artists take into performance making. The interviews, or ‘thoughts’ seek to unpack,
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