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15 July 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: Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award #2 Desc
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Opportunities
The accomplished playwriting competition is now open for 2020 to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, for a new stage play in English. Find out all the details and apply here. Deadline: 31 July 2020 Source: Playwriting UK Face
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Scriptwriters & Co’s next virtual Networking and Scratch Night will take place online at 7.00pm on Tuesday 4 August 2020. Their submissions window is now open to writers anywhere in the world. This month they’re looking for complete 10-minute plays, screenplays or radio plays (no
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2020 Vision’ is an opportunity for 6 artists from different disciplines to deliver a professionally filmed online workshop. There will be an opportunity to be coached by a producer, a film-maker/editor and a writer in the creation of your online presentation, creating a professio
Read with a free account →14 July 20 · Events / Opportunities
These Streets: Class in the Arts nterrogates class imbalance in the arts, the project began on stage at Theatre 503 and is now adapted for the screen. Find out more about the project here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/these-streets-class-in-the-arts/coming_soon/x/24002971 D
Read with a free account →10 July 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**
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In the light of these extraordinary times, the Questors Theatre, Ealing have changed their submission policy. They have opened a new submission window for 2 months (starting 1 July), which will focus on plays which are suitable for Zoom readings. Find out more here. Deadline: win
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Theatre Uncut has announced their second Political Playwriting Award, in partnership with the Lyric Theatre Belfast, Sherman Theatre, Traverse Theatre and Young Vic. Supported by Independent Talent, Nick Hern Books and Arts Council England. Finding the next generation of politica
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NEW FILM & TELEVISION PRODUCTION COMPANY SEEKING FEATURE FILM SCRIPTS “Every production begins with a Golden Idea!” Golden Idea Productions is a Film and Television Production Company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2018, the company’s aim is to create scripted content to
Read with a free account →06 July 20 · Opportunities
POLEROID : PLAY IN – SERIES 2 The sell out sessions connecting emerging artists with some of the UK’s HOTTEST theatre makers are BACK and bigger than ever. WATCH THE TRAILER NOW! An Introduction to… Starting a theatre company & producing your first show Back by popular demand wit
Read with a free account →03 July 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**
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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in May 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 who
Read with a free account →30 June 20 · Opportunities
Los Angeles based RAZE THE SPACE THEATRE ENSEMBLE’s ten-minute international plays festival will go ahead in 2020. It will NOT be a play festival or reading on Zoom, but feature a series of monologues performed by different actors, filmed in physical theatre spaces, and broadcast
Read with a free account →29 June 20 · Opportunities
The theme for our 2020 Festival has always been ‘translations’. So they are “translating” the 2020 Festival into an online celebration of digital work by d/Deaf and disabled artists. And more than that, they have plans to spread our work across the year to allow those artists for
Read with a free account →29 June 20 · Opportunities
Lincolnshire-based cultural solutions UK is one of 49 organisations from across the country awarded a grant from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Authorities to highlight the story and legacy of MV Empire Windrush. cultural solutions UK wishes to commission a suitab
Read with a free account →29 June 20 · Opportunities
Applications to the 2021 TV Drama Writers’ Programme are open from Friday 26th June 2020 to 12 noon on Monday 20th July 2020 for credited and/or agented writers. Please read the full Terms and Conditions of Entry ELIGIBILITY Writers must have at least ONE professionally produced
Read with a free account →29 June 20 · Opportunities
To help lift writers’ spirits Natura Contemporary Theatre have a free podcast of our live theatre production of ‘The Tree Charter Tapestry’ recorded at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham in 2017. Streaming now. Here is the link: The Tree Charter Tapestry by Caroline Summerfield • A
Read with a free account →29 June 20 · Original Content / Play Club
Our third submission window is now officially open for #PlayClub2020! We’re looking for brand new short plays written in response to this month’s play: ear for eye by debbie tucker green. Selected plays will be given a rehearsed reading at a special event at the end of this year.
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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 →24 June 20 · Opportunities
Playwrights Wanted: New Normal / New Writing Theatre Festival, 17 & 18 July 2020. Over a twenty-four hour period, new plays will be written, rehearsed & performed via a digital platform. The Common Air Theatre Company is producing the New Normal / New Writing Theatre Festival, a
Read with a free account →19 June 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities
Read with a free account →17 June 20 · Opportunities
Creative Youth are delighted to announce that applications are open for their Creative Talent Programme for 2020-2021. They are searching for three new and exciting emerging or early career companies/artists to support. What they are looking for? They are particularly keen to sup
Read with a free account →17 June 20 · Opportunities
Plays Rough London are looking for writers to take part in ‘Fly on the Wall’ a 24 Hour Plays Challenge, taking place 11th – 12th July. 4 short plays will be written and staged in 24 hours and performed live via Zoom. Plays Rough are a new-writing collective founded in Feb 2016. S
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Are You the Next Spoken Word Star? Words First is a talent development scheme for Spoken Word artists that will run throughout 2020. Selected artists will be given the chance to attend digital workshops in July and August 2020, where they will work with established artists and me
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