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21 February 18 · Opportunities
Bench Theatre, an amateur company based at The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant (on the South Coast in Hampshire). This will be their 8th Supernova festival of new one act plays, and the selected pieces will be performed over a week in February 2019. Plays will be selected b
Read with a free account →21 February 18 · 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: Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2018 Description: Th
Read with a free account →19 February 18 · Opportunities
With the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Camden People’s Theatre offers six seed commissions annually to artists from BAME backgrounds, to support the development of innovative new theatre projects. Two of these will be offered in Spring 2018: successful candidates will re
Read with a free account →19 February 18 · Opportunities
In spring 2018, Camden People’s Theatre stages two short seasons of work exploring working-class experience, identity and representation (Common People, April 16 – 28); and the ‘post-truth’ landscape (All Is True, June 4 – 9). At each event, alongside the main programme of work,
Read with a free account →16 February 18 · Opportunities
Secret Hour Theatre seeks 20-30 minute plays with a strong female narrative to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage. Following the success of their sell-out 5 star new writing night at the Camden Fringe last year, Secret Hour Theatre are looking for plays that explore the untold an
Read with a free account →15 February 18 · Opportunities
After a successful run at the Vaults (Jan-Feb) with ‘Double Infemnity’ a co-production between ‘Little But Fierce’ and Paperclip- all female theatre company Paperclip are looking for pieces of 15-20 minutes responding to the theme ‘Echoes of the Past’. They are looking for pieces
Read with a free account →14 February 18 · Opportunities
Stitchin’ Fiction is a free rehearsed reading performance where creatives are invited to come and stretch their theatre muscles in an informal workshop setting. What are they are looking for: Like-minded creatives who seek a platform for collaborative theatre-making opportunities
Read with a free account →14 February 18 · 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: Stage Front: A Night Celebrating Older Women in T
Read with a free account →14 February 18 · Opportunities
Radius Playwriting Competition 2018 has now been launched in tandem with the Radius YouTube Channel. Judges of the competition are Neil McPherson and Sue Healy, Artistic Director and Literary Manager of London’s Finborough Theatre, and the winning script is guaranteed a reading i
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Opportunities
KDC are looking for writers for this year’s “Full Stack” competition, to form an evening of short plays in June. In their words: “We are looking to choose 12 pieces around the theme “Future imperfect”, that are no longer than 4 sides of A4, and need no more than 3 actors. They sa
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Opportunities
Instinct Theatre and Loosely Based Theatre are holding an evening of short plays in response to the need for more roles for older female actors. To be held at Theatre N16, Styx, 5 Ashley Rd, London N17 9LJ, on Thursday, 5th April, 2018 What they are looking for: 10 – 15 minute sc
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Opportunities
Voices From Home, Broken Silence Theatre’s platform for emerging writers from the South East, is returning and submissions are now open to female writers only! Following a sellout run at the Old Red Lion Theatre in November, the second edition will be staged this Spring/Summer. S
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Education / Events
A full-day session on how theatre can be used to comment on the media. Looking at examples from NT productions Pravda, Great Britain and Network, and with contributions from academics, performers and theatre-makers. Chaired by Yasmeen Khan. Cost: £55 / £40 concessions / £7.50 stu
Read this article →13 February 18 · Opportunities
Second Circle Theatre presents: AN EVENING OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT READINGS with support from Paines Plough Are you a writer wanting to hear your new work read aloud for the first time? Try out your script in a friendly, supportive environment with the help from professional actors
Read with a free account →13 February 18 · Opportunities
The UK Centre of the International Theatre Institute (UNESCO), based in Morecambe, is launching with a new 10-Minute Play Competition. The theme is “Brexit?” Your play has to be a NEW play. It should contain from 1 to 4 characters. The competition is open to anyone who has ever t
Read with a free account →12 February 18 · Opportunities
Get Over It Productions is an all-female theatre company based in West London. They are currently seeking submissions for the 3rd edition of their female-centric scratch night The Scene (at the Tabard Theatre, 9th April 2018 8 April 2018). What they are looking for: new-writing p
Read with a free account →12 February 18 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
Submissions are now open for Live Theatre’s annual £2000 Live Lab Bursary to develop a new piece of theatre. Ideas should be outstanding, imaginative, theatrical and say something new and unexpected. Bursary winners receive dramaturgical and producing support, space for R&D and r
Read with a free account →08 February 18 · Opportunities
Small Things Theatre presents a very special Night Of Small Things in aid of UN Women’s #HeForShe campaign. Full of fun, frivolity and fearless talent, showcasing some of the best poets, playwrights, performers, musicians and comedians, A Night Of Small Things is ‘London’s finest
Read with a free account →08 February 18 · Opportunities
Curated by award winning writer & Hope Theatre producer Anthony Orme INK OR SWIM is a brand new play reading event designed to connect new and exciting theatre creatives and develop new writing. Over 2 dates (2 and 9 March), selected plays will be read aloud by professional actor
Read with a free account →08 February 18 · Opportunities
Tea-Powered-Theatre in Bristol is putting on a special version of their ‘Teatre’ afternoon tea-and-theatre events, this one called ‘Sheatre’. Sheatre is a scratch night/afternoon of short plays/extracts by female (or non-male) writers with all-female (or non-male) casts. They spe
Read with a free account →08 February 18 · Jobs
Nick Hern Books, specialist theatre publisher, is seeking a Publishing Assistant – an enthusiastic, adaptable new member of the team to contribute to all aspects of their publishing activity. This is an exciting opportunity to gain varied experience at a vibrant and dynamic indep
Read with a free account →06 February 18 · Opportunities
To kick off 2018, CultureClash Theatre is hosting a new writing night at Greenwich Theatre on Sunday 22nd April 2018, called ‘Voices in the Dark’. What to submit: They are on the search for new and established playwrights to submit work. They are looking for writers to submit sho
Read with a free account →06 February 18 · Original Content
We’re very excited to launch our latest initiative! London Playwrights’ Workshop is partnering with musical theatre writing team Barlow & Smith to create the Women’s Musical Theatre Initiative (WMTI), a new development programme for female musical theatre writers. We’ll be launch
Read this article →05 February 18 · Opportunities
Over 6 nights the LOST Theatre One Act Festival will to showcase a diverse and stimulating range of shows from some of the country’s best writers and directors. At the end of each evening the performers will receive an instant live critique from the Festival Adjudicator as well a
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