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11 September 19 · Opportunities
Are you a budding Playwright? Do you want to learn more about playwriting and work with professional playwrights and directors? National Theatre New Views project is an annual playwriting programme for 14 – 19 year olds. Each year hundreds of students from across the UK learn abo
Read with a free account →03 September 19 · Opportunities
Lovers of scary stories, unite. Storytellers from across the Horrorfest and beyond will share their worst (or should that be best?) nightmares at Blackshaw Theatre’s fifth annual Scare Slam at London’s Pleasance Theatre on Friday 11th October. Prepare yourself for a night of chil
Read with a free account →27 August 19 · Interviewing Playwrights / Original Content
In the lasted post in our Interviewing Playwrights series, Jennifer Cerys and Samia Djilli sit down to talk about their double bill of plays, Different Sand and Willow. “In theatre it is expected to have more than one hat. It is natural to juggle.” Sitting in Rich Mix, on a Thurs
Read this article →23 August 19 · Opportunities
TALOS III: SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE FESTIVAL OF LONDON, 2-8 December 2019 “Talos is the first science fiction theatre festival of London, the UK and, to our knowledge, Europe, and it’s currently in its third year. Talos III invites theatre companies and self-producing theatremaker
Read with a free account →23 August 19 · Opportunities
The Arcola is producing the UK premiere of Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D’Amour (Pulitzer Prize finalist and New Orleans’ leading living playwright) in September at Arcola Theatre, London. To coincide with the production, Lisa D’Amour will be coming to the UK and giving a talk at the
Read with a free account →23 August 19 · Opportunities
RoundPeg are looking for script submissions which explore the theme of Extinction for their new writing night, HATCH. Performances will be on the 22 and 23 September at the Drayton Arms Theatre. In a world which feels so uncertain – politically, environmentally, economically and
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
Write About Now is a brand new monthly event giving new and established writers an opportunity to try out their work before a paying audience and a panel of industry professionals. Beginning Sunday, 22nd September, 5 pieces will be selected for each monthly event, then semi-stage
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
‘Glass Splinters’ is returning for their third event of new writing on the 4th of November in the new Downstairs Space at The Pleasance Theatre in Islington, and are seeking submissions from female (or female identifying, including non-binary and transwomen) writers for pieces in
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Events / Opportunities
The Progress Theatre will be launching two projects for new writers this autumn. Reading Playwrightsis a set of workshops for new playwrights and Scratch Reading is an opportunity for playwrights to see their work staged. The Progress Theatre is at the Mount, off Christchurch Roa
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
How to Develop your Playwriting Autumn 2019 Tue 17 September – Tue 3 December (not including Tue 22 and 29 Oct), 6.30-8.30pm Clore Learning Centre, £500/£350 A ten-week course led by playwright Chris Bush which will give an insight into approaches to developing your playwriting.
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
The Writer’s Club is an innovative club for writers run in association with the Director’s Cut Theatre. The club meets fortnightly on Saturdays 11am – 1pm or Monday evenings 6pm – 8pm at Calder Bookshop & Theatre, Waterloo, London. Find out more here. Membership charges apply. De
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Opportunities
This September, for the first time, Rose Theatre Kingston is curating a new writing festival. Three plays will be selected for the festival. The writers of the chosen plays will work alongside director Fay Lomas, inaugural winner of the Peter Hall Emerging Artists Fellowship, to
Read with a free account →13 August 19 · Guest Post
How do you make a centuries-old novel exciting and relevant for a modern-day stage audience? Award-winning theatre-makers HUNCHtheatre recently converted A Hero Of Our Time, a 180-year-old Russian novel, for performances in Edinburgh, London and St Petersburg. In this post, Georg
Read this article →12 August 19 · Opportunities
The Lancaster Playwriting Prize is an initiative arising out of the cultural partnership between Lancaster University and The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster; it is supported by Lucy Briers. The Prize aims to discover new voices from a diverse range of backgrounds; each year, it has dif
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
14-25 and enjoy telling stories? Join award-winning Formby playwright Luke Barnes, for a free Playwriting and Storytelling workshop from the National Youth Theatre. Whatever your experience level, this interactive workshop will give you the tools to kickstart your writing and sta
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities
Plymouth Cultural Education Partnership, alongside Theatre Royal Plymouth, are looking for freelance playwrights/ theatre practitioners with experience in facilitating playwriting interventions for children and young people. With Flying Colours is a DCMS funded Youth Performance
Read with a free account →01 August 19 · Opportunities
Over Our Head Players is accepting submissions for the “2020 Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival,” now through November 1. “Snowdance®” entry is open to original 10 minute or shorter comedies for the stage. Winning entries will be performed together in one theatre presentation b
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Write Lines is an opportunity for writers to attend workshops with producer and playwright Lisa Nicoll over the course of four sessions in September & October to create a new 10 minute play or the beginning of a larger piece of work inspired by a favourite book. This will include
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Following the success of the inaugural event in 2018, Hebden Bridge Little Theatre is pleased to announce their second One-Act Drama Festival. Budding playwrights are invited to submit original, one act plays, with the winning scripts to be performed at the Festival, in July 2020
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Chronic Insanity is a newly formed theatre company based in Nottingham. By doing 12 shows in 12 months, they plan to contribute significantly to the live performance scene in Nottingham and develop a huge amount as theatre makers. They are also going to be using sustainable theat
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
The search is on. Soho Theatre and Character 7, producer of The Night Manager, are looking for extraordinary plays from extraordinary new voices. The Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s flagship new-writing award with the winning play produced in a full production on our stage
Read with a free account →31 July 19 · Opportunities
Hampstead Theatre will be expanding its month-long submissions window into a year-round operation, as part of a series of initiatives announced by new artistic director Roxana Silbert. Read the full article in The Stage. Source: The Stage
Read with a free account →24 July 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: Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab Description: The Soho T
Read with a free account →23 July 19 · Opportunities
Radar Sofia and the Drama Pact platform are offering a playwright/dramaturge/performer/theatremaker the opportunity to come and stay in Sofia, Bulgaria, meet local theatre operators and form the basis of future partnership(s) or joint new project(s). What you get: the selected re
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