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05 August 21 · Opportunities
The 2022 Lancaster Playwriting Prize is now open to anyone from the North West of England who identifies as LGBTQAI+ aged 16 and up to and including the age of 30. The Lancaster Playwriting Prize, now in its third year, is run in partnership by the Department of English Literatur
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
This year, Shoot the Company, is celebrating 15 years. As part of the occasion, they are offering a competition for young writers to make a film on a subject of their choice. The winner will be awarded a budget of £15,000 and will work with Shoot the Company to develop, plan, sho
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
FIZZY SHERBET accepts short play submissions of 10-20 minutes length (maximum of 15 pages of script) for 1-4 characters by women writers* worldwide for their podcast. This is a paid opportunity, each chosen writer will receive a fee, an audio production of the play & inclusion on
Read with a free account →24 June 21 · Opportunities
Call out for short play submissions (around 15 minutes) from emerging women writers with a firm connection with Greater Manchester. Bluestocking Theatre are curating a playful, exciting event over two nights at the end of September showcasing the brilliant diversity, talent and i
Read with a free account →17 June 21 · Opportunities
The Screen & Story Film Festival, to be held between 15 and 25 September 2021 announces its first screenwriting contest to sit alongside their expanded programme. This is an opportunity to discover, promote and celebrate the work of international writers as well as to create and
Read with a free account →02 June 21 · Opportunities
The Screen & Story Film Festival, to be held between 15 and 25 September 2021 announces its first screenwriting contest to sit alongside their expanded programme. This is an opportunity to discover, promote and celebrate the work of international writers as well as to create and
Read with a free account →10 May 21 · Opportunities
The Customs House in South Tyneside is thrilled to be able to offer a new opportunity for five writers to have 15 minutes of their play performed as a rehearsed reading by professional actors as part of an evening of new writing on Friday 11 June at 7.30pm. They are seeking submi
Read with a free account →05 April 21 · Opportunities
VOILA! EUROPE THEATRE FESTIVAL Connecting border-busting theatre to citizens of everywhere at The Cockpit in London, UK & Online 15 – 21 November 2021 Voila! Europe is a multilingual theatre festival produced by The Cockpit. Now in its 9th year, the curated programme of cross-cul
Read with a free account →13 March 21 · Opportunities
As part of their Arts Council Funded writer development programme Write Up!, Down Stage Write are on the lookout for 10-15 minute audio plays by playwrights based in Devon and Cornwall to produce this year. They are looking for bold plays that make the most of the audio medium an
Read with a free account →11 March 21 · Opportunities
Do you have a short script that you want to showcase or a scene that you want to test out in front of an audience? Then this might be for you. Very Rascals are looking for new scripts, roughly 10-15 minutes in length, to be a part of their scratch night. They have to … Very Ras
Read with a free account →01 March 21 · Opportunities
The 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, a prominent Quaker congregation in Manhattan, New York City, is seeking scripts based on people or events from Quaker history. We’re planning a non-union production in 2022 in our beautiful meetinghouse, a landmark buil
Read with a free account →22 February 21 · Opportunities
Synecdoche Works is pleased to announce: The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Monetary award to playwright: $3000 (USD) for full-length works, $1500 for one-acts. Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provi
Read with a free account →04 February 21 · Opportunities
Lockdown, Taboo and You focuses on the theme of mental health and the stigma surrounding it. You are invited to submit a short 15-minute play (comedy or drama) based on your own experiences of the pandemic. The winning short play will be chosen from four finalists, performed onli
Read with a free account →30 January 21 · Opportunities
Flux Writers’ Lab. 10 Writers. 10 Weeks. 1 Full Length Play. This rapid-write course will equip any budding writer to finish a full length. Dates: 17th February – 21st April (ten sessions) Every Wednesday 6-7.30pm Cost: £150 Limited Spaces. How to book: visit the website www.flux
Read with a free account →27 January 21 · Opportunities
Saturday 15 May, 11am – 4pm Saturday 12 June, 11am – 4pm John Retallack’s taster day for the Oxford Playwriting Course will take you through key elements of his course, engage you in a writing a dramatic scene and invite you to hear it read aloud by professional actors. The taste
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · Opportunities
CYTO are looking for writers based in Croydon or South East London aged 16-30 to submit short plays for online performance. CYTO will rehearse and perform up to 4 plays of 15-30 minutes each with two groups, aged 6-12 and 13-18. Plays need to be suitable for these ages. Plays do
Read with a free account →15 January 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Watersprite Student Film Festival is looking for eight short film screenplays for the 2021 Festival. Pieces must be up to 15 pages long in standard industry format. Entry is free and open to all students currently in education, or within a year of graduating. However, Watersprite
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Pathways Writers will take place between January 2021 and June 2022. Pathways Writers is strand three of our Arts Council England (ACE)-funded Pathways programme. The purpose of this programme is to support visually impaired emerging writers: on their journey to work professional
Read with a free account →11 November 20 · Opportunities
Working with independent community Edinburgh radio station, EH-FM, as a broadcast partner Birds of Paradise will commission three disabled writers to each write a brand new 15 minute radio play (monologue or duologue only) for broadcast on EH-FM. FEE: £1010.00 per commission Find
Read with a free account →02 November 20 · Opportunities
The Painkiller Project run by Bitter Pill Theatre is now open to all writers. They are looking for 1500 word plays, with a maximum cast of two (multi-rolling allowed). TWO winners will be selected. Each will receive £150 and their play will be produced for the Painkiller Podcast.
Read with a free account →16 September 20 · Opportunities
Find out more and apply here. Deadline: 15 October 2020 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →20 July 20 · Opportunities
Script Submissions for ANPF 2021 Now Being Accepted Ashland, Oregon – Ashland New Plays Festival’s flagship Fall Festival is an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays chosen from hundreds of submissions by a team of volunteer readers
Read with a free account →25 June 20 · Uncategorized
The Painkiller Project is now a monthly playwriting competition with a small £150 prize for each winning play. Two plays will be selected each month and released fortnightly as podcasts (available here). So far our plays have featured Sophie Thompson, Toby Jones, Miriam Margolyes
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