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01 February 18 · Opportunities
The Director’s Club present What is love? The Director’s Club Showcase, an evening of short plays about love, produced by Director’s Cut Theatre Company in partnership with Southwark Playhouse. The showcase is on Sunday 18th March at Southwark Playhouse. Prompt / What to submit:
Read with a free account →01 February 18 · Opportunities
Starbound Theatre is looking to produce a brand new play this year and continue its work exploring identity and promoting women’s voices and diversity on and off the stage. What to submit: Female led, 4 characters max. Diversity (in ethnicity, country of origin, languages/accents
Read with a free account →30 January 18 · Opportunities
The Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust’s Pitch Your Play scheme returns, inviting you to pitch a new play to a panel of industry professionals. What you get: Three successful pitches will be given space, admin and marketing support for 4 weeks at the Theatre Royal Haymarke
Read with a free account →29 January 18 · Original Content
Bored of seeing the same heterosexual narrative on stage? Read our Editor Jennifer Richards’ Q&A with Full Disclosure Theatre to find out how they’re working to correct that… As a LGBTQ+ theatre maker, getting to see queer characters on stage for the first time made my cry, as I
Read this article →27 January 18 · Jobs
The Scenic Route are currently seeking tutors to lead masterclasses in either playwriting, composition, or devised theatre to join a pool of tutors for upcoming projects to be rolled out later in the year. The Scenic Route develops projects to support a wide range of theatre make
Read with a free account →25 January 18 · Opportunities
Studio Firsts invites Black theatremakersto create a new piece of work in their Studio. Talawa Theatre Company is giving exclusive use of a Studio for one week of research and development during spring 2018 to 3 emerging artists or companies. The available slots are during weeks
Read with a free account →25 January 18 · Opportunities
If you’ve got a new idea you’d like to develop with the Yard Theatre Theatre, you can submit it to be part of Live Drafts. What they’re looking for: In their own words: ‘Our work bridges new writing and performance. What that means is that sometimes we make shows led by writers/d
Read with a free account →24 January 18 · Opportunities
The next Page to Stage event will takep lace Tues 20 Feb at The Horse & Stables, London SE1 7RW You are invited to submit a NEW 10-minute theatre script (or excerpt) to be rehearsed by actors and directors, then shared and given feedback by an industry panel. Page to Stage is a p
Read with a free account →23 January 18 · Opportunities
Applications are now open for the University of Bristol Theatre Collection 2018 Kevin Elyot Award – created in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer. The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre
Read with a free account →22 January 18 · Opportunities
Sky Blue choose five plays to be produced in a London venue. One of the winning plays will also be chosen to be made into a short film. This year’s performance will take place in October at the Lost Theatre. What you get: Given a full performance at the Lost Theatre, London Devel
Read with a free account →20 January 18 · Opportunities
June sees Bradford Playhouse‘s LGBT month. They are hoping to showcase some of the Best LGBT theatre in the country. Part of the month will include their New Writing Festival. What to submit: They are currently open to submissions of short plays between 15 minutes and half an hou
Read with a free account →20 January 18 · Opportunities
28 Plays Later is back for its fourth year, being run by Theatre Deli in association with The Space. Over the past three years (well, three months to be precise), 485 writers started the process, with 317 completing it. 10,676 plays were written in those months, and while some ma
Read with a free account →20 January 18 · Opportunities
In Good Company’s scratch nights continue, with its next event taking place on 3 March 2018. Taking place in Derby Theatre’s Studio, this is an opportunity for you to try out new ideas in front of an audience and get a bit of feedback to help you develop your work in the future a
Read with a free account →19 January 18 · Opportunities
Updated! The Theatre503 Playwriting Award is now open for submissions. The Theatre503 Playwriting award is made possible by the long term support of The Richard Carne Trust. Nick Hern Books are returning as Publishing Partners and Award Ceremony Sponsors for the third time. Eligi
Read with a free account →19 January 18 · Opportunities
Dundee Rep Theatre, Royal & Derngate Northampton, Theatre Royal Plymouth, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Northern Stage and Derby Theatre have partnered together to commission an individual to develop a brand new production that each venue will perform during Summer 2019. In previous
Read with a free account →19 January 18 · Opportunities
The Lotus Lee Foundation has announced the first year of its New Work Initiative Playwright Award, which is intended to be an annual event. Their primary goal is to bring the best theatre from the United States to China and vice versa, and to foster and encourage new voices and s
Read with a free account →18 January 18 · Opportunities
Chesil Theatre is inviting submissions of ten-minute plays based on the theme, HIDDEN WORLDS. Ten plays will be selected for performances at the 10×10 New Writing Festival to be held in October 2018. The aim of 10×10 is to discover, promote and produce the very best new writing o
Read with a free account →18 January 18 · Jobs
The Bush Theatre is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly organised Associate Dramaturg to lead the Bush’s literary team and play a key role in supporting the Artistic Director in new writer and new play development through commissioning and nurturing new plays and
Read with a free account →17 January 18 · Opportunities
This one’s a quickie! Soho Theatre will be running a £1 script sale on Saturday 20 January 2018 from 3-6pm. Come along to Soho Theatre and join them if you want to grab some bargains! Source: @JulesMHaworth via @Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →16 January 18 · Opportunities
Yellow Stockings theatre company is seeking play submissions to be produced in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. What to submit: Running time around 50-60 minutes For a cast of 2-5 actors, at least 50% of the cast will be made up of women They are particularly interest
Read with a free account →16 January 18 · Opportunities
Stockport Garrick Theatre is looking for 3 playwrights to help develop a 45-90 minute play that will get a rehearsed reading at their New Writing Festival. What you get: Initially, development opportunities will be on a peer basis and will be lead by what the playwright needs. Th
Read with a free account →14 January 18 · Opportunities
StageWrite is Bedford’s only annual new writing festival. 2018 dates now confirmed as Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May 2018. The Festival will partner with The Place Theatre, the home of StageWrite since 2013 StageWrite is designed as a platform for emerging and published writers
Read with a free account →13 January 18 · Writing Workshops
Taal Residency offers musicians, artists and theatre-makers a chance to work together to create a new project in Bhimtal, an idyllic lake town in the foothills of the Himalayas. The residency will take place April 9th – 16th 2018. Artists of any discipline are invited to apply th
Read this article →12 January 18 · Opportunities
PlayList, organised by WoLab, will take place at the King’s Head Theatre on 4 and 5 March 2018. After this, two pieces will be chosen to go into further development with WoLab during 2018, to be staged in 2019. No previous writing experience is necessary to submit, just a desire
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