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 →19 January 21 · Opportunities
SpareParts is delighted to bring Lullaby, by internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram, to Sandbach in April 2021 in association with Sandbach Transport Festival. In their words: To accompany the work, we are offering a commission for a North West based writer to create an orig
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · News
The Living Record Festival is now live! Explore a festival of digital media designed specifically for streaming created by over 40 independent artists and theatre companies from across the world. Accessible from your living room at the click of a button, the Living Record Festiva
Read this article →18 January 21 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is accepting submissions for British Theatre Challenge 2021. The BTC is entering its ninth year and gives the opportunity for playwrights both new & seasoned to have their work professionally produced at the Jack Studio Theatre in London. – The opportunit
Read with a free account →15 January 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 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 the
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Date: 17 January 2021 Source: Playwriting UK
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · News
Happy New Year everyone and hope you all had a great festive break! Whilst going into Lockdown (for our UK followers at least) hasn’t been quite the best way to kick off 2021, we’re still feeling optimistic about developing our work throughout the year and most of all, supporting
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Global pandemic? Second Lockdown? Homeschooling children? At your wit’s end? 2020 has been A LOT. Especially for creative parents. So let’s check in with each other! Staying connected in a crisis is hard. Staying creative when faced with homeschooling children full-time is harder
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
The Lyric Belfast is now accepting submissions for the New Playwrights Programme 2021! The programme is open to all new and emerging playwrights interested in developing a new full-length play with the guidance of the Lyric’s Literary Manager. They are also thrilled that, for the
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Amateur playwrights world-wide are invited to submit unpublished one-act plays. Three winning scripts will be selected for fully staged performances during the Fringe Festival in October. This year, due to Covid, we filmed them on-line. One of the three scripts will be chosen for
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Appetite are delivering The Newcastle Common, a three year programme in the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which will look at the changing use of the town centre. It will test empty shops as sites of production of culture, rather than consumption, and as useful community spaces.
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
Composer and improviser James Banner is commissioning 6 people who work with words to create new pieces of writing for a new duo with Stephanie Lamprea. The words will form the basis of a new series of works for voice and double bass (plus guests) for a 2021 album release. Each c
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
The Greenhouse – the UK’s first zero-waste theatre – is now accepting applications for its 2021 programme. Whether you’re passionate about making the world a greener place through performance, or you’re simply excited to develop your sustainable practice, we’d love to hear from y
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 →18 December 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →15 December 20 · 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: #WrAP 2021 write a play this January Description:
Read with a free account →15 December 20 · Opportunities
KEEP WRITING: Subtext | 6-8 PM, Wednesday 17th February | £10.00 | Book online via squinttheatre.com/book. In this 2-hour online playwriting workshop, London-based new-work company Squint will explore how to create subtext in your writing. Squint’s Keep Writing workshops are for
Read with a free account →15 December 20 · Opportunities
GET WRITING: Action | 6-8 PM, Wednesday 3rd February | £10.00 | Book online via squinttheatre.com/book. In this 2-hour online playwriting workshop, London-based new-work company Squint will use the action of a scene as a starting point. Squint’s Get Writing workshops are for part
Read with a free account →15 December 20 · Opportunities
Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops | Booking for 2021 sessions now open | From £1 to £10 | Book online via squinttheatre.com/book. Starting in February 2021, Squint launch their third series of online playwriting workshops for participants of all experience levels. The
Read with a free account →15 December 20 · Opportunities
The ETPEP Award 2021 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work or have worked in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP). The Award’s purpose is to find and nurture
Read with a free account →14 December 20 · Opportunities
Back for a seventh year, 28 Plays Later, a writing opportunity from The Literal Challenge – a social enterprise that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and newbies through creative challenges. Over the last six Februarys, 28 Plays Later has inspired the writi
Read with a free account →11 December 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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