23 February 23 · Digital Resources / Inspiration
What happens when you submit your script to a Literary Department? What does a Literary Manager do? What’s the difference between a New Work Associate and a Dramaturg? In this brand new video series from London Playwrights, Kimberley Andrews interviews Literary Managers, Dramatur
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Play Submissions Helper Blog has a round-up of Play Submissions, they are are largely US based but often open to international writers. Check out their list for March here. Deadlines: various throughout March 2023 Source: Play Submissions Helper Blog
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Pen to Print and Alternative Stories are on the hunt for innovative, original plays that have been designed specifically for listening. This Audio Play Competition is a truly unique opportunity for emerging writers to get their work out there and have it heard by a global audienc
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The Evening Standard are searching for fresh new voices in their free-to-enter Stories competition, encouraging anyone with a story to share their piece in written word, audio or film. Judged by a high-profile panel from different storytelling mediums, this is an opportunity to t
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Are you a theatre maker with a new play in development? Are you looking for an opportunity to hear your play read out loud to a live audience? Are you ready for some feedback? Working in partnership with The Playwright Laboratory, we’re seeking new plays for a monthly series of t
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The Cambridge Festival Student Creative team is looking for student writers (no experience needed) from any university to write poems about a plant or type of plant in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden that is often overlooked or underappreciated. Drawing on the plant profi
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Platform Presents is receiving script submissions for its 2023 Playwright’s Prize, an open call for distinctive, dynamic, heart-stopping, extraordinary, wonderful plays. The annual prize and fundraiser is co-produced with Finite Films & TV, founded by Amy Gardner, and judged by a
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Author and actor Rebecca Humphries is running a short course on comedy writing with The Mono Box. Come and find your style, your comic voice, and have a giggle in this 3 part online course. Each week you’ll explore a new form of comic storytelling looking at each’s specific set o
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The New American Full-Length Play competition has been created to support new plays. The competition is in line with The New American Theatre’s on-going commitment to inspire, educate and nurture artists and communities towards a thoughtful and humane world view through the art o
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Allison Heinz is a Theatre Directing postgraduate student at the University of East London who is searching for new work to use for the final project in her course. She is looking for a play with a 2-3 person cast and around a 30-minute run time. The project will be a collaborati
Read with a free account →17 February 23 · Digital Resources / Inspiration
What happens when you submit your script to a Literary Department? What does a Literary Manager do? What’s the difference between a New Work Associate and a Dramaturg? In this brand new video series from London Playwrights, Kimberley Andrews interviews Literary Managers, Dramatur
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MI will support a 4-month-long programme that showcases the city region’s creativity, supported financially and with other resources including a joined-up marketing initiative. The programme will feature two categories of work: 1. Projects that need resources 2. Work happening in
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Battersea Arts Centre (London), Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow), Tramway (Glasgow), Transform (Leeds) and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton) have come together to support artists who are ready to dream big and create a new work of scale that can tour nationally and
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Galway based production company Danú Media are launching a new Script Writing Development Programme – Greenlight Screenwriting Lab. The course Director will be Philip Shelley, who has run the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course for 13 years and through that has worked with much of the
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The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award is an opportunity for writers based in the North of England who are new to writing for audio. It offers a £5,000 bursary to the winner as well as the chance of a Radio 4 Drama commission. The Award was established in 1992 to commemorate the life a
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The Bomb Factory Theatre is a women-led emerging theatre company platforming work by women and non-binary identifying writers. They are looking to programme a selection of emerging women and non-binary identifying playwrights to create a piece of work using the provocation made b
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Clean Break is holding several new events as a part of their spring training programme at their headquarters in Kentish town: Staging Rehabilitation – in partnership with Geese Theatre 9 March 2023 Taking place in Birmingham, this masterclass is for both theatre artists and crimi
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KDC Theatre, a non-professional performance arts charity focused on the development of theatre artists, is accepting submissions for the 7th annual Full Stack new writing competition. Successful submissions will be performed in an anthology show in the summer. Brief: A package ar
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WRITER CALL OUT for our fourth ‘To Whom It May Concern’ Please send your 5 minute monologue submission to us by 1.00pm 1st of March to info@saltcircleproductions.com Subject line ‘TWIMC 4- Writer- insert your name’ Please specify if you would like to perform the piece yourself or
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Are you a budding Playwright? Would you like to have your work performed on a London stage? Rebound Productions are looking for a series of 10 to 15 minute, 2-3 character fictional stage plays. This is a fantastic opportunity for new and emerging playwrights to have their work pr
Read with a free account →10 February 23 · Digital Resources / News
(Un)scripted is a series of short films focused on exploring the possibilities of working with deaf and hearing artists to use British Sign Language, English and visual storytelling within a theatrical context. The year 2022 was an incredible year for deaf artists, with the risin
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