09 December 20 · Opportunities
Caravan Theatre are seeking plays – this time they are looking for longer plays, finally your opportunity to submit scripts 60-90mins For our World Record Attempt for longest Zoom playreading in Feb 2021. Planned for 24hrs 13/14th Feb but awaiting date confirmation from Guinness.
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Podcast script call out. Got an amazing script but have no idea where to start with recording, casting and editing? Well Quintuple L Productions wants to make your show happen. We are looking for writers or groups of writers to write a series of 8-10 episodes 20-40 minutes each,
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Broken Silence Theatre, have just launched a new course called the Playwrights Hive for writers wanting to develop a new full-length play in 2021. Support for 12 months, including: – 10 monthly sessions, including online group showcase with professional actors – Write a short pla
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John Hansard Gallery and ArtfulScribe are looking to recruit a Writer in Residence to devise, develop, and deliver a creative outcome that draws on practices and processes demonstrated by artists and projects at the Gallery from February – July 2021. We are seeking an experienced
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The Unity Theatre Liverpool are asking Merseyside creatives to submit work for consideration as part of their reopening season taking place between February and May 2021. The call-out is open to a wide range of people and practices. For example, you might be a theatre company, pe
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Without Walls is looking for artists and companies working on early and mid-stage projects to support through the Blueprint R&D programme. This support is for work intended for presentation from 2022 at the earliest. Read more here. Deadline: 8 January 2021 Source: Write A Play
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he Originate Fund is offering opportunities for artists based in Greater Manchester who want to develop new performance work in the first half of 2021. We are offering 3 awards that will each include the following: £5,000 cash investment A package of bespoke support in kind drawn
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SLACKLINE SLEEPOVER – OVERNIGHT AND ONLINE! Call for submissions Six playwrights, six directors, twelve (or so) actors… Six new short plays written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. SLACKLINE STORIES IS BACK… WITH YET ANOTHER TWIST! Slackline Productions is now accepting
Read with a free account →04 December 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →02 December 20 · Digital Resources / Events
You can now watch this event on YouTube. Watch here: https://youtu.be/TFAyrVGjLv8 It’s free to watch but if you like what you see, donations are very welcome and help us to create more events like this! Over the bizarre year that 2020 has been, we’ve been running our annual Play
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Radius invites short plays (up to 2000 words) set in an online meeting and relating in some way to their strapline “exploring faith through drama”. See https://www.radiusdrama.org.uk/ for details. Deadline: 14 December 2020 Source: direct contact
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In this guest post by Florence Bell, she discusses how she set up ITCH (www.itchwriting.com), a new approach to writing workshops and how the urge make theatre is still worth pursuing even in these difficult times. ‘Get ‘em in hot water and then get ‘em out again’. So goes the ad
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The Northern Writers’ Awards are now open for entry until Thursday 18 February 2021. There are multiple categories and Prizes available. The winners of the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards will be announced during the week of 21 June 2021. The 2021 announcement may take place virtua
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A Thousand Stories (an iteration of Thousand Films) was established in 2019 to find new voices in film and television and to provide a bridge between writers looking for a break and an industry hungry for new talent. In its first year, the Thousand Stories competition focused on
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December2020. 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
Read with a free account →27 November 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Is it really almost Christmas?! This year seems to have flown by, despite containing some of what seemed like the longest of locked down days! But here we are at the end of this strange and challenging year and although there is still plenty of uncertainty, we hope you’ll be look
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When theatre festivals do finally start up again there will be huge competition for slots, so it will pay to know what you are letting yourself in for. This 2-hour crash course will explore some of the key considerations when thinking about taking your own work to a theatre festi
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London-based Chalk Roots Theatre are seeking 20-40 minutes play to be staged as audio dramas in 2021. Over the past year all of us have been forced to contemplate our roles in arts and the role of arts in our own lives. Is life so full of confusion already that we have no right t
Read with a free account →20 November 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support us? Become a member today for less than £4! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news. Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! Featured posts: **Update: Covid-19 and our work**
Read with a free account →19 November 20 · Opportunities
The Barn Theatre are pleased to announce a Playwriting Showcase in March 2021. Over three nights, we will stage three new works in The Barn Theatre (to a socially distanced audience) and simultaneously live stream these shows via our website. Audience members will be asked to rat
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Deadline: 18 December 2020 Source: Playwriting Uk Facebook Group
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Don’t miss DaDaFest International Festival’s biennial celebration of disability art, which will take place digitally this year! 27 November – 3 December, tune in for an exciting programme of FREE online events and artworks: https://dadafest.co.uk/events/ Source: Write A Play
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
The BBC is looking for a writer who is the start of a promising career in writing comedy to join them as a staff writer. Find out more https://www.writeaplay.co.uk/event/bbc-studios-audio-recruiting-staff-writer/here. Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020 Source: Write A Pl
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