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13 December 17 · Opportunities
The Space Theatre is a performing arts centre based in a converted church on the Isle of Dogs, East London. They seek to programme high quality theatre productions, with a balance of classics, revivals, new writing and devised work. Their commitment to supporting new, emerging an
Read with a free account →07 December 17 · Opportunities
Eurodram is currently seeking new full length plays originally written in English to promote to translators across Europe. Eurodram is a European theatre translation network covering European, Mediterranean and Central Asian languages. The network is organised into roughly 30 lan
Read with a free account →06 December 17 · 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: London Irish Green Curtain Theatre Company seekin
Read with a free account →30 November 17 · Original Content
How do you create theatre for people who are too often ignored in this industry? Read Editor Jennifer Richards’ Q&A with director Fauve Alice to find out… Spare Tyre are a theatre company that produce bold and powerful performances that not only includes, but are driven by those
Read this article →27 November 17 · Opportunities
Entries are invited for the 2018 Steyning Festival Theatre Trails. These should be one act plays with maximum performance length of 40 minutes, small casts, and simple production and staging requirements, suitable for staging in a variety of small venues, indoor or outside. Selec
Read with a free account →22 November 17 · Opportunities
The Script Room is an initiative from director Barry Edwards and Optik Theatre to give professional support and showings to new theatre scripts and writers. They are looking for original and unperformed scripts. They produce both one act plays and extracts from full length theatr
Read with a free account →10 November 17 · Opportunities
The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its seventeenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Arundel Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel. The Trail is f
Read with a free account →08 November 17 · Opportunities
An innovative writing competition using contemporary Irish art to inspire writers has been launched by London Irish Green Curtain Theatre Company. Entries are now invited for the Green Curtain Monologue/ Playlet Writing Competition. Entitled “Every Picture Tells a Story” writers
Read with a free account →08 November 17 · Opportunities
Reboot Theatre Company are accepting submissions for their next show at a Central London theatre in early Spring 2018 and they are offering a £50 fee to all writers that are selected. They are producing an evening of new writing, and will select and perform 4 – 6 short plays. The
Read with a free account →08 November 17 · 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: Talos II: Science Fiction Theatre Festival – Call
Read with a free account →07 November 17 · Opportunities
Last Word Theatre are seeking a LGBTQ identifying female playwright to develop a female LGBTQ focused piece of writing. In their words: “We are very open to ideas and keen this should be lead by a writer’s tastes. We aim to develop a funding application to R&D the idea or script
Read with a free account →03 November 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Playwrights are invited to join the 2017 season of new writing workshops at the Jack Studio Theatre. The Jack Writers’ Workshop is a dynamic hub for emerging contemporary theatre writing in south London. The group will meet at the Jack Studio Theatre on Monday evenings, (7.30pm –
Read with a free account →01 November 17 · Events
University Women in the Arts and Sphinx Theatre Company will offer free advice to female arts students and women wanting to work in the arts on how to deal with harassment and bullying in the arts industry, following the recent case involving film producer Harvey Weinstein. The a
Read this article →01 November 17 · 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: Jermyn Street Theatre seeking three female playwr
Read with a free account →30 October 17 · Opportunities
TALOS: the Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London returns on 22-25 March 2018 at the Bread & Roses Theatre. The festival is seeking submissions of plays with science fiction elements (related genres such as contemporary fantasy will also be considered). They are accepting sho
Read with a free account →26 October 17 · Original Content
What happens when you bring the creepy and the chilling to theatre? Or how you frighten an audience on a low-budget? Read Editor Jennifer Richards’ Q&A with the London Horror Festival to find out… Halloween – the perfect time for carving pumpkins, finding the best scary costume a
Read this article →25 October 17 · 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: The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award now
Read with a free account →24 October 17 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Applications for CNW 2018 are now open for three sets of 6 workshops – Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2018. Each set of 6 workshops will welcome 6 writers to the stage of the Criterion Theatre for a sequence of highly-focused script development sessions. Course content: There a
Read with a free account →24 October 17 · Opportunities
In late spring 2018, Jermyn Street Theatre is reviving Noel Coward’s great Tonight at 8.30. This is the first time in London since 1936 that all nine of Coward’s one-act plays will have been performed together. Tonight at 8.30 explores themes of loneliness, relationships, family,
Read with a free account →23 October 17 · Opportunities
Eva’s Echo Theatre Company is dedicated to promoting up and coming artists including writers. Their first show won the best emerging artists award from the Galway Fringe Festival this summer. They are currently seeking playwrights to send in scripts for their next production taki
Read with a free account →18 October 17 · Opportunities
Camden People’s Theatre, in association with Barrel Organ, presents Live 7, a scratch night for under-represented artists making experimental and non-traditional work that specifically acknowledges the presence of the audience and plays with the ‘liveness’ of theatre. As a compan
Read with a free account →18 October 17 · Opportunities
As part of Vibrant 2017 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, Finborough Theatre are looking for an unperformed short play or a twenty-page excerpt from an unperformed full-length script. The scripts submitted will be part of Introduce Yourself, an initiative that aims to offer
Read with a free account →12 October 17 · Opportunities
Wimbledon based Attic Theatre Company are seeking submissions for a Christmas scratch night as part of Bobblehat’s live advent calendar in Wimbledon this Christmas. (The location is TBC but it will be an unexpected pop up space.) In their words: “Plays should be no longer than 15
Read with a free account →09 October 17 · Opportunities
Newly formed all-female theatre company Paperclip is putting on its inaugural performance at the Betsy Trotwood on the 11th of November. The night will be made up of 7 different pieces all addressing the theme of ‘generations’. They are looking to audition for the following piece
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