23 October 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →19 October 20 · Opportunities
Turn Point Theatres newest theme of their FREE online scratch night is of course: “SPOOKY STORIES” Send in your 5-8 minute piece by Friday 23rd October at 5PM (UK TIME) for a chance to have it performed online and receive feedback by their panel of judges next week. You can send
Read with a free account →16 October 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →09 October 20 · Opportunities
The Living Record Festival is a month-long curation of Digital Art made from independent companies and freelance artists launching in January 2021. A broad church of accessible digital entertainment will be presented within their brand spanking new interactive virtual theatre in
Read with a free account →09 October 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →07 October 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in October 2020. 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 →07 October 20 · Opportunities
Part of the Grid is Part of the Main’s programme of affordable theatre tech, design and producing workshops. There are 20 bursary places available for Black artists across the majority of our October-November workshops. Please sign up for a place here. Dates: various Find out mor
Read with a free account →07 October 20 · Opportunities
As part of Black History Month, award winning playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero will be running an online workshop with the Octagon Theatre. Date: 26 October 2020 7pm-8.30pm Find out more and book here. Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →05 October 20 · Opportunities
Northern Opera Group are looking for short (around 5 minute) music theatre pieces, with no more than 4 musicians, which will be recorded for online broadcast, and performed live in 2021. They welcome artists from different musical backgrounds, and will accept applications from ex
Read with a free account →05 October 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →05 October 20 · Opportunities
Welsh Female Writers Group (WFW GROUP) Generously supported by The Carne Trust A monthly online writing group for any Welsh born female identifying writer. OCTOBER’S SESSION Mon 26th Oct 6pm-9pm Location: Zoom Facilitator: Emily White Focus Session: Scale Maximum Participants: 10
Read with a free account →05 October 20 · Opportunities
Coming Spring 2021, Dean Productions Theatre Company is launching “Premiere the Play,” a podcast featuring dramatic readings of new stage plays. Submissions are now open for their first season! Entry Fee: None! Guidelines (in their words): Our goal is to fill our season with dive
Read with a free account →30 September 20 · Opportunities
The Playground is Downstage Left’s bi-annual showcase of short plays. We perform between three and five short plays, drawing on the work of new and emerging playwrights. Playground 4 will take place in March, 2021 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our next expanded edition of the Pl
Read with a free account →30 September 20 · Opportunities
Scriptwriters & Co’s next virtual Networking and Scratch Night will take place online on Tuesday 13th October 2020 from 7pm. Their submissions window is now open to writers anywhere in the world. This month they’re looking for plays, screenplays or radio plays, up to 12 pages in
Read with a free account →30 September 20 · Opportunities
This new scheme offers five successful applicants £20,000 each to be trained and guided through the development process of writing their own original screenplay. It is aimed at Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers, who are currently under-represented in the UK screen industry
Read with a free account →28 September 20 · Opportunities
The 2020 Cheshire Prize for Literature is a celebration of all the creativity that has flowered and continues to flourish during the pandemic. This year the Prize is opening up its digital doors, in collaboration with Storyhouse, to accept digital submissions from all four catego
Read with a free account →28 September 20 · Opportunities
Turn Point Theatres 4TH theme of their FREE weekly online scratch night is “LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING” Send in your 5-8 minute piece by Friday 2nd October, 5pm (UK), for a chance to have it showcased on Thursday 8th October & recieve feedback by their group of readers. You can send
Read with a free account →25 September 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
The purpose of the course is to offer 12 writers new to television drama an insight into how the industry works and to provide a “dry-run” of what it can be like to write under a television drama commission, specifically for one hour series and serial drama, and to work with them
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
Newsjack the Radio 4 Extra topical news sketch show, which anyone can write for, is again looking for writers to submit sketches and one-liners for its 23rd series. Irreverent and satirical, Newsjack is the scrapbook sketch show written entirely by the Great British public, and t
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
BBC Writersroom: Who We Are and What we Do: Saturday 26th September 2020 13.00 – 14.00 online webinar Ever wondered how to get noticed by the BBC as a writer? How to send your script and what happens when you do? BBC Writersroom is always on the look-out for fresh talented writer
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Opportunities
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 20/21 Launch – Friday 25th September 2020 from 21.00 – 22.00 The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award is a £5,000 bursary for Northern writers new to radio established in 1992 to commemorate the life and work of Alfred Bradley, the distinguished BBC Radio
Read with a free account →23 September 20 · Guest Post
12.4%: The number of people who come from a working-class background working in Film, TV or Radio. In These Streets, the new film from Underscore Studios, the issue of classism within the arts is brought to the forefront. We caught up with writer, Jordan John, to find out more ab
Read this article →23 September 20 · Opportunities
The Swiss Church London are offering subsided (pay-what-you-can) space for emerging artists, including semi-residencies where they offer our smaller room for up to 2 weeks of unlimited access (perfect for R&D or pre-production rehearsals). The Swiss Church in London, Covent Garde
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