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03 December 19 · Opportunities
Aged 14 – 17? Have you got a story to tell? Want to see your own words performed on stage?? Join The Bush’s Young Writers Group for the chance to write your own play and see it performed in the Studio at Bush Theatre. You will: • Learn new skills in play writing • Build a network
Read with a free account →03 December 19 · Opportunities
Applications for 2020 are now OPEN. What is it? Each year the Theatre Reserve provides a young theatre company with 4 of more cast members, the rare and extraordinary opportunity to present a fully produced, financed production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What do you get? £
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Jobs / Opportunities
With Flying Colours is an exciting new play-making programme for young people in areas of low cultural engagement and high deprivation in Plymouth. Working in local schools, children will co-create plays based on their own ideas and words supported by professional writers. Each s
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Science Fiction Theatre Network & Workshop 2 December 2019 Cyborphic is excited to be hosting a networking event and two sci-fi workshops (the first on AI & Creativity, the second on Sci-Fi Theatre). These workshops will be of interest to anyone interested in science fiction scri
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
WRITE THEATRE is a series of unique, intensive courses for emerging theatre writers run by established playwrights. As well as working with the tutors, all participants have extracts from work in progress workshopped and rehearsed with very experienced professional actors. Dates:
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · 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: The Soho Theatre 2020 Verity Bargate Award – Subm
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
CALLOUT FOR YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS AND DIRECTORS Are you aged 18-25? Passionate about pursuing a career in theatre? The North Wall in Oxford is on the lookout for early-career playwrights and directors aged 18-25 to join them for two weeks for their annual FREE Easter ArtsLab residenc
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
Are you interested in immersive theatre? This two-day Writers Room aims to give theatre practitioners an introduction to storytelling in Immersive spaces. Working with practitioners from Punchdrunk, creative technologists and StoryFutures Academy Head of Writers Room Adam Ganz, d
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Opportunities
Following three sold out editions, Broken Silence Theatre will return with Volume 4 of Voices From Home in the first half of 2020 and are currently seeking writers. Voices From Home is a curated evening of short plays and spoken word theatre, exclusively from emerging writers bas
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Make it Write Productions CIC is committed to promoting the work of new playwrights in the North West of England. Each year we run a 30 minute play competition and the prize is to have your play performed in The Hope Street Theatre as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival in June
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Blowin’ a Hooley Theatre are looking for one exceptional new female writer from North East England to have their short play professionally produced. The selected writer will receive £400 and their piece will be performed in ‘Yarns from Hyem’ – a collection of four North-East play
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Stitchin’ Fiction accepting submissions for their next event Next event: Monday 25th November (last one of 2019) Open to all levels and backgrounds – 10-15 minutes MAX can be extracts or standalone pieces to workshop with our resident directors and actors at Theatre Deli Studios,
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
B3 Productions and Aside Theatre Company of Phoenix, Arizona, seek scripts for their Third Festival of Shorts in June 2020. These will be fully rehearsed shows. Performance dates are June 5-21. The final weekend, the audience will vote on their favourite play each night, and the
Read with a free account →08 November 19 · Opportunities
The Bush Theatre is committed to discovering the best new plays from playwrights who may be unknown to them and therefore are currently seeking submissions in a dedicated script window. They look for exciting new voices that tell contemporary stories with wit, style and passion a
Read with a free account →08 November 19 · Opportunities
Optik Theatre’s Script Room, under the direction of Barry Edwards is open to writers who want to see a first script given a public showing, or established writers who have a script that they want to promote to a wider audience or industry contacts How to submit: Writers should su
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre and New Venture Theatre are looking for submissions for their Short Play Night on 15th December 2019 in Brighton. The night will be a script-in-hand performance and they’re looking for new writing that is suitable to be staged in a ‘black box’. What they are loo
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2020 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its twentieth year. It will perform each day from 22nd to 29th August, on each of the Festival’s e
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This autumn 2019 Soho Theatre is offering playwriting workshops to introduce new writers to their Verity Bargate Award. The workshops are timed to provide writers with the best opportunity to submit their new play for the Verity Bargate Award 2020. The Verity Bargate Award is our
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Calling all theatre makers & writers. The Pleasance are seeking 3 new London Associate Artists/Companies. Based in London? Would being an Artistic Associate enable you to take your work & craft to the next level? Find out more here Deadline 9 December 2019 Source: direct contact
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · Opportunities
The fourteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays, will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 12, 13 and 14, 2020. For electronic submission(s): https://www.kingstheatre.ca/kingweb/kings-shorts-info/ making certain to complete the reg
Read with a free account →25 October 19 · Opportunities
Fight Like A Girl! is bringing a new Play In A Day to Viaduct Theatre in Stockport on Saturday 16th November 2019 to raise even more money for Cancer Research UK! Six writers toil through the night to come up with six scripts and then, six directors and a gaggle of actors have ju
Read with a free account →21 October 19 · Opportunities
Cyborphic is excited to be hosting two workshops on lost/fragmentary Greek tragedy. These workshops will be of interest to anyone into Greek Tragedy and they will showcase various perspectives of approaching a fragmentary play. We particularly encourage playwrights and theatremak
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Are you aged 16-25? Are you interested in writing stories for the stage? Through a series of FREE workshops Pentabus Theatre will teach you the principles of great playwriting. You will learn about the basic rules of playwriting and creating work for the stage, tutored by profess
Read with a free account →21 October 19 · Opportunities
Orisun Productions are an emerging and ambitious theatre production company based in London, aimed at creating opportunities for African & African Caribbean talent.They will be hosting a scratch night on 21 November to showcase BLACK FEMALE WRITERS. If you’ve been waiting for a c
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