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18 September 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 →16 September 20 · Opportunities
Rcreatives is on the lookout for new scripts for R Online Read#2 If you have a script you have been working on and would love to hear it read out loud for the first time. Get other artists in the industry reactions and discuss what makes your piece special. Contact at Rcreativesl
Read with a free account →16 September 20 · Opportunities
Tuesday 22 September 2.30pm – 3.30pm Park Theatre Stage Craft: Narrative, Exposition, Subtext, Dialogue… This workshop, which is aimed at actors, writers and directors, aims to unlock some of the key components of drama: from narrative structure to exposition to creating (and spe
Read with a free account →16 September 20 · Opportunities
Find out more and apply here. Deadline: 15 October 2020 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →16 September 20 · Opportunities
First Commissions is a new project in association with Plaines Plough to commission three new writers. Applications are now open via this link. Each writer will: -Receive a £1,500 commission to cover 3 weeks of writing and development work, spread between October – December 2020
Read with a free account →14 September 20 · News / Play Club
And that’s a wrap for Play Club 2020 submissions! We’re thrilled to now have our full line-up of short plays which will get receive readings in an event towards the end of 2020, or start of 2021 – COVID depending! Play Club Winner #6 – Rupert Mallin: Juno’s Swans Our fourth winne
Read this article →11 September 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 →09 September 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in September 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 t
Read with a free account →07 September 20 · Opportunities
Disentangle Projects are planning a live/broadcast Halloween storytelling/theatre show based at Stanley Halls this October. They are calling out for 10-30 minute spooky scripts that they can produce as part of this project. £200 is available if they choose to produce a script tha
Read with a free account →07 September 20 · Opportunities
By popular demand, Rebecca Humphries is returning to The Mono Box to run her brilliant comedy writing course. The past two iterations have been a huge success (2 people who’ve taken it so far have had a tv show optioned and another has won a major bursary) and we would love to in
Read with a free account →07 September 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
This week Actor Awareness have a chat with Artistic Directors of Salford Arts Theatre Scott Berry & Roni Ellis. Date: 9 September 2020 6.30pm-7.30pm Location: Online Cost: Free Book here. Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →07 September 20 · Opportunities
Edwin Wong presents the 2021 Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition. The world’s richest competition for the writing of tragedy is now richer. At stake is over $12,000 (CDN) in prize money. The competition challenges playwrights to write 90-120 minute tragedies and c
Read with a free account →04 September 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 →02 September 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 →26 August 20 · Opportunities
WHAT: A New Writing Night WHO: Playwrights, Poets, Spoken Word Artists & New Writers – All Welcome. WHEN: 7.30pm Thursday 17th of September -The September New Moon WHERE: Zoom THEME – 2020 (Interpret this however you please) FORM: A poem or 5 minute monologue, either from the per
Read with a free account →26 August 20 · Opportunities
American Actors UK are accepting play submissions for this event! Click here for details and to submit: https://forms.gle/nejxfqYH6V95smFh7 Unfortunately this is unpaid. Each piece must be written for 2-4 Actors, must have 50% female/ femal identifying characters and include the
Read with a free account →25 August 20 · Opportunities
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award is a £5,000 writing bursary to Northern writers new to radio and the chance of a Radio 4 drama commission. The Award was established in 1992 to commemorate the life and work of Alfred Bradley, the distinguished BBC Radio Drama Producer and is run
Read with a free account →24 August 20 · Digital Resources / News
After the success of the launch of our Zoom workshops in 2020, we’re excited to bring you a selection of courses to take you into 2021! Whilst we’d love to see you in person again soon (and when the time comes when we can run live events and courses again, we’ll be straight in th
Read with a free account →24 August 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Back by popular demand! This 2 hour workshop will explore inventive ways of utilising Zoom as a platform for dramatic writing; considering digital performance as a medium of it’s own – when we ran this recently, it sold out, so we decided to run it again in October. This one off
Read with a free account →24 August 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
A 2 hour overview of musical theatre style and structure and how to get started! This 2 hour workshop with Emily Garside is aimed at anyone looking to make a start in musical theatre. The workshop will take a look at the history and structure of the musical as a guide to writing
Read with a free account →24 August 20 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
In this six week course of 2 hour sessions with Emily Garside, we will combine writing advice and exercises with talking about our own work and sharing/reading extracts (only if you want to!). Designed for anyone whatever your experience of writing- whether you’ve never written a
Read with a free account →21 August 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 August 20 · Opportunities
Fizzy Sherbet’s new podcast, which showcases short plays by womxn writers launches on 24 August. They are accepting submissions for the next series. Their submission policy is that all women and non-binary people from anywhere in the world, and of any age can submit short plays (
Read with a free account →18 August 20 · Guest Post
In this post, playwright Tamara von Werthern talks about Fizzy Sherbet, a short play reading series which has now been reimagined as a podcast to showcase the voices of womxm writers… At the tail end of 2016, theatre director Lily McLeish and myself met up for a coffee. We were m
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