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22 November 21 · Opportunities
The RSC are teaming up with their 12 theatre partners across the country to get the nation writing. They are inviting children, young people and adults, including established, emerging and first-time writers to write/create the comedies, tragedies, and untold histories of our tim
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Liverpool’s Theatre in the Rough has announced an open callout for short works for a new digital arts festival exploring women’s experience of the Climate Crisis. 400 Parts Per Million is an ecological arts festival taking place in February 2022, coinciding with the UN Internatio
Read with a free account →19 November 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU! Become a member today for less than £4 and help us to continue our work! 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! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news! L
Read with a free account →18 November 21 · Opportunities
The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, will be in its twentieth year in 2022. At the end of August, during each of the Festival’s eight days, eight short plays are performed at eight different venues all over Arundel – for exam
Read with a free account →18 November 21 · Opportunities
The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2021 is now open with a theme of sustainability, open to all genres (short stories, children’s literature, scriptwriting and poetry), and for the first time ever they are encouraging children to enter as well. They are delighted to be in partners
Read with a free account →17 November 21 · News
All female theatre Company, Sixteen Sixty, have a brand new show coming up at the Bread & Roses Theatre from 22nd November. In Bad Taste is a horror-comedy involving gallons of fake blood and a distinct lack of fourth wall. Written with the current political climate biting at our
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THE LITERARY SERIES The Literary Series: Interviews with Literary Managers, Dramaturgs and New Work Associates – Episode 1: Stewart Pringle from the National Theatre November 9, 2021 What happens when you submit your script to a Literary… Read More
Read this article →17 November 21 · Opportunities
On Friday 19 and 20 November, Nick Hern Books are bringing a pop-up bookshop at the Bush Theatre, London. We’ll have a massive range of playscripts and theatre books on offer at one-off, bargain prices, with hundreds available at just £2. The selection will include playscripts by
Read with a free account →16 November 21 · Digital Resources / Inspiration
What happens when you submit your script to a Literary Department? What does a Literary Manager do? What’s the difference between a New Work Associate and a Dramaturg? In this brand new video series from London Playwrights, Kimberley Andrews interviews Literary Managers, Dramatur
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Read with a free account →11 November 21 · News / Original Content
The end of 2021 is fast approaching and it’s time for us to let you know for the 5th year running our January playwriting challenge Write A Play (WrAP) is BACK! As always, we’ll be challenging you to write a first draft of a play in January, whilst providing all the prompts you n
Read this article →11 November 21 · Opportunities
Savage Theatre Co are accepting submissions for a one man play for a middle aged male actor. Open to themes, genre. Savage Theatre Co is small independent & self funded, we are initially offering profit share based on box office split to perform at a London fringe venue 2022/3 Su
Read with a free account →11 November 21 · News
To recognise excellence in the field of dramaturgy, the Dramaturgs’ Network presents the Kenneth Tynan Award (KTA) 2021. Established in 2011, this biennial award honours theatre professionals, working and residing in the United Kingdom, who have made an outstanding contribution t
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Scriptwriters & Co’s next online Scratch Night will take place at 7pm (UK time) on Tuesday 23rd November 2021. Their submissions window is open to writers anywhere in the world. This month they’re looking for original plays, screenplays or audio plays of 8-10 pages, on the new th
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The first in a series of four workshops aimed at unlocking creativity particularly for female writers and parents in the creative arts. About this event Join playwright Tamara von Werthern (Best Screenplay at Lift-Off 2019, published with Nick Hern Books & HarperCollins) and dire
Read with a free account →05 November 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →04 November 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in November 2021. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but you can click through to peruse th
Read with a free account →04 November 21 · Opportunities
Submissions for the 40th anniversary of Soho Theatre’s playwriting award, the Verity Bargate Award, are now open #VBA40 Following the critically-acclaimed sold-out run of its 2020 winner, Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin, earlier this year, Soho Theatre is thrilled to announce the
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Luminate is delighted to announce a programme of bursaries for artists aged 50 or over who are in the early stages of a new artistic career. Each bursary will be between £500 and £1,200, and can be used to support your artistic development. A total fund of £12,500 is available. T
Read with a free account →04 November 21 · Festival
Mum is the centre of Edie’s universe. They’ve stuck together through thick and thin, as other family members abandoned them one by one. But after a terrible accident, Edie has to learn to function as an independent adult in a world that she severely dislikes. Mum will be featured
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As the war draws to an end, Lee Miller, World War II reporter, isn’t ready to return home and surrender her career and the unlikely freedoms she has experienced as a woman on the frontline. Lee celebrates the amazing career of Lee Miller and explores the tensions between the libe
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This year’s Play Club was such a success and we are thrilled to be including the three selected plays in the festival! But what is Play Club? Who’s plays were picked? In the video below, our Literary Associate, Emily Glaze gives you the lowdown! Find out more about the Play Club
Read this article →03 November 21 · Opportunities
Spectra seeks a Storyteller/Writer to contribute to the development of our new show, Woods for the Trees. During the challenges brought by 2020, we researched and developed our first online multi-sensory show. Woods for the Trees is the next stage of that work, continuing our exp
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Are you a Black writer? Talawa’s free Script Reading Service provides feedback and support to emerging Black writers across the UK How it works Send them your script before the deadline (the script submission window closes on 15th December 2021) They’ll confirm that they have rec
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