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16 October 19 · 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: Questors Theatre seeking submissions for Power Pl
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Warts and All Theatre are looking to commission a Writer who has experience of generating a new play With/By/For Children and Young People. The commission involves a period of research and development, in which the Writer will deliver a series of exploratory and development works
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Entries are invited for the 2020 Steyning Festival Theatre Trails. These should be one act plays of around 40 minutes duration, small casts (up to 6), and simple production and staging requirements, suitable for staging in a variety of small informal venues, indoor or outside. Fo
Read with a free account →14 October 19 · Opportunities
NO : INTERMISSION 2020, a one act play festival in Sydney, Australiais taking script submissions from emerging and established playwrights from around the world. All the details are available at www.theatretravels.org/submit and shows will be informed by Christmas if they have be
Read with a free account →09 October 19
PODCAST Making It with Temi Wilkey Temi Wilkey is an actor & writer from North London. She studied English at Cambridge before training as an actor with the National Youth Theatre REP company in 2014. Her acting credits include Hamlet & Cymbeline (RSC), Jubilee (Manchester Royal
Read this article →08 October 19 · Opportunities
A 2 hour writing for performance workshop aimed at playwrights, poets, performers and theatre-makers who want to make autobiographical work. When: 30 October 2019 Cost: £10 Location:Nexus Art Cafe (The Nook), 2 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 1JW How to book: here Source: Playwriting
Read with a free account →08 October 19 · Opportunities
National Queer Theater is a producing organization dedicated to the progress of new works. If interested, please direct all play submissions to submissions@nationalqueertheater.org. We are especially seeking social justice-based theater and the work of LGBTQ artists. The Nationa
Read with a free account →08 October 19 · News
We have a super exciting announcement to make! We’ve launched a podcast – and as it’s all about playwrights, we think you’re going to love it! Created by the brilliant OneFinePlay, and supported by the Bush Theatre, this brand new podcast features playwright and actress Temi Wilk
Read this article →04 October 19 · Opportunities
In their words: We are pleased to present the fourth installation of JW3’s seasonal scratch night. On 22 March 2020, 3 writers, theatre-makers or companies will perform 15-20 minutes of new material in a studio space at JW3. The performances will be followed by an informal chance
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Curious Monkey is recruiting a Freelance Script Writer (with facilitation skills) to work with our TROUPE group to co-create a new play to be performed in July 2020. TROUPE is a group of young people who have experience of the care system, who attend regular theatre trips and wor
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for Criterion New Writing 2020 and it’s free to apply and take part. How it works: There will be 3 sets of 6 workshops. Each will welcome 6 writers to the stage of the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, for a sequence of highly-focused script development se
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Playwrights of science fiction, fantasy, horror and speculative plays! You are invited to submit a short play for our scratch night on the evening of Monday 9th December at the Omnibus Theatre during Talos III: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London. “Hopepunk”, a term invent
Read with a free account →30 September 19 · Opportunities
Writers & Theatre Makers Sparkhaus Theatre are looking for writers and theatre makers who have brand new ideas to try out as part of their 6th scratch night, IGNITE. They are interested in: presenting a space for new ideas to grow, encouraging writers to take risks in a safe spac
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
SHOOK is a relaxed evening of new work written and performed by millennials, melting into a dj set above The Arts Theatre West End in London. They have their next evening SHOOK: THE THIRD on the 1st December 2019 and are looking for submissions now. The evening is completely free
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
The prize aims to encourage authors in the creation of bold and powerful plays for young audiences (12-21 years old) Rules (summary): . Open to all writers worldwide and there is no age or nationality limit for the entrants. . The play must cater for a performance time of 60-120
Read with a free account →25 September 19 · Opportunities
Writing for Stage will equip budding playwrights with the tools to write for live performance. In their words: “Over the course of five weeks, we will focus on developing a different playwriting skill – from crafting dialogue and constructing characters, to structuring your play
Read with a free account →18 September 19 · Opportunities
Sheffield Theatres are looking to find the best new plays in the region and the country. They are seeking work which is bold, brilliant and essential, for plays which reflect the here and now, writing from unique voices with original perspectives, based around ideas not often exp
Read with a free account →17 September 19 · Opportunities
The Inkubator: Introduction to Playwriting Course with Euphoric Ink The Inkubator is a ten-week Introduction to Playwriting Course led by Ola Animashawun. Ola is the National Theatre Connections Dramaturg, former Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre and Creative Director
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
POWERPLAY is the theme for the next evening of short plays at The Questors Theatre, Ealing, London. Power takes many forms. It’s about gender, class and social status. But it can also be sexual, political or economic. Some people have power, some people don’t. But the balance of
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
The search is on to find the next group of exciting artists to become The Old Vic 12. The Old Vic 12 is a group of 12 extraordinary developing artists ready to take the next step in their careers. The scheme provides access and insights into top-level theatre-making, mentoring fr
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
As Scotland’s only theatre wholly dedicated to new writing, The Traverse Theatre strives to discover, nurture and produce the brightest new voices across Scotland, the UK and Ireland. Each year they open our submissions window seeking bold, brilliant and innovative new plays. “We
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
The Space operate a rolling submissions window, so you can submit a show proposal at any time and will be considered for our next season. They are looking for high quality theatre productions to programme for 1, 2 or 3 week runs. They accept proposals from new, emerging and estab
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
As part of The Mono Box’s commitment to supporting emerging theatre talent we are proud to announce PLAYSTART, their new writing initiative, for the third year. After last year’s successes, where all the plays were published in a collection from Oberon Books and most saw a furthe
Read with a free account →11 September 19 · Opportunities
Have an idea for a new play and not sure what to do with it? Had a successful scene shown at a scratch night but struggling with what the full play is? Have the seed of a concept but need some help to flesh it out? Come and sound out your ideas with SONAR. What they … Airlock The
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