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07 October 21 · Opportunities
Wild Duck Theatre is now accepting submissions for Season Three of its Short Plays for Short Journeys podcast format. Plays will be accepted on a profit share basis. Deadline cut off Sunday October 24th, midnight UK time One play only per playwright, please, any drama genre but w
Read with a free account →22 September 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are still open for full-length scripts (approx. 60-70mins), to be staged at our Festival of New Theatre in July 2022. Whether you’re a newbie writer or a seasoned pro – we want to hear from you! We’re particularly interested in championing playwrights & stories that r
Read with a free account →16 September 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in September 2021. 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 →16 September 21 · Opportunities
Open to writers in the UK who are aged 16 years and above: Submissions will open September 2021 and close 11:50pm on 30th November 2021. All plays are submitted anonymously to the competition and will be read by an expert panel of readers appointed by Titchfield Festival Theatre.
Read with a free account →16 September 21 · Opportunities
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting – which seeks scripts from established, emerging and debut writers to develop for the stage – returns in 2022. Our submissions will open in late January 2022 along with the announcement of the judging panel, before closing on 6th June. Establis
Read with a free account →08 September 21 · Opportunities
New Moon Monologues are a monthly platform established for emerging writers based around the lunar cycle. Launched by Erin Holland and Grace O’Keefe, aka the Queens of Cups, in the Autumn of 2020, the new writing nights have featured over 30 playwrights, poets, and writers from a
Read with a free account →18 August 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in August 2021. 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
Read with a free account →27 July 21 · Digital Resources / News
Fizzy Sherbet is currently accepting submissions of short plays by women writers for their fantastic podcast. We caught up with co-founder, Tamara von Werthern, to tell us how the project has evolved from a pre-pandemic live reading event in Hackney to an Arts Council funded podc
Read with a free account →15 July 21 · 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: Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions by
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for the 25th Alfred Fagon Award! The award is the leading award for Black British playwrights. The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English. Entrants must c
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
FIZZY SHERBET accepts short play submissions of 10-20 minutes length (maximum of 15 pages of script) for 1-4 characters by women writers* worldwide for their podcast. This is a paid opportunity, each chosen writer will receive a fee, an audio production of the play & inclusion on
Read with a free account →12 July 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in July 2021. 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 wh
Read with a free account →08 July 21 · Uncategorized
Please note: This is a profit share event. Anthroplay & Escape Bar have teamed up to bring you: Escape Through Words! A scratch night event held at Escape Bar in Dalston. Each night is different, bringing you a mix of fresh and innovative content. Submissions for Escape Through W
Read this article →07 July 21 · News
This is an opportunity to submit your play to Fifth Word, who work with new and fast rising playwrights, through commissions or open submissions. They were recently appointed associate artists at Oxford Playhouse and welcome unsolicited scripts submissions from the UK or Ireland
Read this article →01 July 21 · Opportunities
Please note: This is a profit share event. Anthroplay & Escape Bar have teamed up to bring you: Escape Through Words! A scratch night event held at Escape Bar in Dalston. Each night is different, bringing you a mix of fresh and innovative content. Submissions for Escape Through W
Read with a free account →24 June 21 · Opportunities
Call out for short play submissions (around 15 minutes) from emerging women writers with a firm connection with Greater Manchester. Bluestocking Theatre are curating a playful, exciting event over two nights at the end of September showcasing the brilliant diversity, talent and i
Read with a free account →09 June 21 · Opportunities
The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough is accepting script submissions from now until September 30, 2021. The SJT has a proud history of producing world-class new writing, the world premieres of Alan Ayckbourn’s plays and productions of new writing by playwrights including Tor
Read with a free account →02 June 21 · Opportunities
Proud Haddock are looking for playwrights from all ages and backgrounds to send scripts of plays with ONE or TWO characters only. They are seeking for bold, brilliant, relevant and innovative stories suitable to be filmed in a theatrical space and streamed online. How to apply: S
Read with a free account →27 May 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in June 2021. 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 wh
Read with a free account →10 May 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in May 2021. 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 →06 May 21 · 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: Submissions open for The Women’s Prize for Playwr
Read with a free account →10 April 21 · Opportunities
BOLD Playwrights apply! BOLD is dedicated to transforming empty buildings into creative performing arts spaces & BOLD Elephant – a space to create, is our first. As well as creating our own work, we want to champion & support the work of playwrights. We believe there are too few
Read with a free account →10 April 21 · Opportunities
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is an open invitation to all writers who identify as female in the UK and Ireland to create vivid, exciting, and brave new work for the stage. The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work fr
Read with a free account →07 April 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in April 2021. 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 w
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