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16 June 20 · Events
The Upload Festival is a virtual festival showcasing comedy and writing (of all kinds) on air across BBC Local Radio and online, from Friday 19 June to Sunday 21 June. It includes stand up, sketches or scenes… Poetry, fiction, spoken word, blogs or drama, all uploaded by you! Fin
Read this article →16 June 20 · Opportunities
Submissions are open for the 2020 Graduate Rep Season ‘Acting Out’ organised by Adam Morley Acting Out aims to provide a creative platform to 2020 graduate artists whose final year performances and showcases have been affected by Covid-19. The scheme is also open to 2019 graduate
Read with a free account →16 June 20 · Events / Resources
The Dramatist Guild have a variety of free readings and workshops. These are all completely free and open for anyone to attend. DG Footlights™ will present a virtual reading of JEMENEYE by J.B. Miller. 10 June 2020, 7pm BST https://www.eventbrite.com/e/united-kingdom-online-dg-fo
Read this article →12 June 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →10 June 20 · Opportunities
‘Shakespeare in Italy’ is looking for short radio dramas of no more than 15 minutes which can be read by two actors max (you can have more than 2 characters) which are a modern response to the stories of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Think of it as a short folk-tale with a modern settin
Read with a free account →10 June 20 · Events / Resources
Prime Theatre have playwrighting and drama workshops for 9-13’s and 14-25’s from 15 June – 28 Aug. These are open to everyone across the UK. Most recently the writing group have been involved in writing for a play with Pitlochry Festival Theatre which is being recorded by profess
Read this article →10 June 20 · Opportunities
Box of Tricks Theatre, based in Manchester, run several opportunities for writers including a PlayMakers Network. PlayBox 2021 Their upcoming PlayBox 2021 is an open-call opportunity for North-West England based playwrights Box of Tricks is looking to find three early-career Nort
Read with a free account →10 June 20 · Opportunities / Original Content
We’re halfway there… Play Club 2020 has seen three incredible winning plays so far, and we had a brilliant selection to choose from for our second window in response to Duncan Macmillan’s play Lungs, with writing from an eclectic range of voices. It’s been a tough choice to selec
Read with a free account →05 June 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Opportunities
This year Theatre Adhoc have partnered with Congress Theatre, Cwmbran to make this possible in all of the uncertainty of current time! It’s true what they say: better together! Submit a 20-30 minute socially distanced playlet on the theme of “Creative Minds in Isolation” by 12pm
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Opportunities
Submissions are open for the 2020 Graduate Rep Season ‘Acting Out’ organised by Adam Morley Acting Out aims to provide a creative platform to 2020 graduate artists whose final year performances and showcases have been affected by Covid-19. The scheme is also open to 2019 graduate
Read with a free account →04 June 20 · Resources
Actors Awareness have had a combined 300+ people booked in for their previous 2 Actor Awareness Q&A’s so far. Already people have been buzzing about how insightful they have been. Over this lockdown period they want you to gain access to industry role models you wouldn’t normally
Read this article →03 June 20 · Opportunities
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2021 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the current judge, Paula Vogel. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript b
Read with a free account →29 May 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →28 May 20 · Events
Black Lives Black Words International Project was created to give the community voice, and so they are proud to announce their low-cost playwriting workshop in character development. Open to all interested. Taking place Saturday, May 30th, 12pm Central Time Space is limited, so s
Read this article →28 May 20 · Opportunities
The Brighton Scratch Night is at the Rialto for ONE NIGHT ONLY this year. Six extracts, one play receiving a fully produced run at Brighton Fringe 2021 and always an absolutely cracking night, here are the 2020 guidelines: • Scripts can be on ANY subject (PDFs), from ANYONE – Alt
Read with a free account →28 May 20 · Resources
Joining in for a Q&A on Thursday 28th May 2020 at The Breakfast Club with Joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roy Alexander Weise MBE. Roy Alexander Weise is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award and directed his critically acclaimed, sell o
Read this article →27 May 20 · Events
There are still a couple of spaces left for a chat & Q&A with multi-talented Luke Barnes on Thursday 28th May @ 7.30PM. Want some tips on writing? Developing a script? Wanna learn how to go from page to stage? Find out about process? Then come join us! Luke is an award-winning pl
Read this article →26 May 20 · Events
Here are all the upcoming Dramatists Guild events for United Kingdom based dramatists. These are all free and open for anyone to attend: 27 May 2020, 7pm BST United Kingdom DG Footlights: Souvenir by Matt Gurr 1 June 2020, 7pm – 8:30pm BST “Hopping Across the Pond” Discussion wit
Read this article →26 May 20 · Opportunities
Reflex Theatre based in Norwich – an Actor-Led Ensemble creating exciting and original content through Rehearsed Improvisation. They’re looking for submissions for their short form online scratch night that will take place on 1st July 2020. They have one rule – the writers must s
Read with a free account →22 May 20 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →19 May 20 · Events
Chronic Insanity has a new production coming out as part of their 12 shows in 12 months project and they’d love for people to see it. Life_Stream is an immersive play about a group of people waiting for a Red Room, a live stream of a murder on the dark web, to begin. The audience
Read this article →19 May 20 · Uncategorized
An online workshop this Thursday (21st May) on character arcs: from the hero’s journey, to the tragic, flat and absurdist arcs, across drama and comedy! All levels of experience welcome… amateurs to professional writers. It will be a fun and supportive session. Sign up today! htt
Read this article →19 May 20 · Events / Resources
Every week, for one week only, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival are showcasing a film of a theatre show from a previous SMHAF, with brand new programme notes. To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, from 18-24 May they are delighted to bring you Electrolyte by Wildcard Theatre,
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