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26 November 19 · News / Opportunities
We recently announced the launch of London Playwrights 2020, the new writer development programme for 2020 and we’re pleased to bring you a bit more information on this exciting new opportunity! 4 playwrights will be selected to develop their plays with us over the course of 2020
Read with a free account →26 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December 2019. 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 th
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Imaginary Advice is an experimental storytelling podcast, produced by Ross Sutherland. Starting in 2014, it won the British Podcast Award for Fiction and was listed as one of the “10 Fiction Podcasts That Shaped the Genre” by vulture.com. To date, Imaginary Advice has had over 70
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Dates 14 Feb – 3 Apr 2020 (8 weeks) Time Fridays evenings, 6.30-9.30pm Cost £400 Ages 18+ Location London, WC1 RADA has been offering Advances in Scriptwriting annually for over 20 years. The course provides original approaches to essential techniques such as making a scene, subt
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FlUX GYM writers workshop. All writers need is a 6 page scene (max), 3 character max and they will be teamed up with an exciting emerging director and a group of actors. As part of the FLUX GYM. Cost : £20 Date and time : THURS, 12th Dec (10-1pm) Writers can book here: https://cl
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Science Fiction Theatre Network & Workshop 2 December 2019 Cyborphic is excited to be hosting a networking event and two sci-fi workshops (the first on AI & Creativity, the second on Sci-Fi Theatre). These workshops will be of interest to anyone interested in science fiction scri
Read with a free account →22 November 19 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities
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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 Soho Theatre 2020 Verity Bargate Award – Subm
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CALLOUT FOR YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS AND DIRECTORS Are you aged 18-25? Passionate about pursuing a career in theatre? The North Wall in Oxford is on the lookout for early-career playwrights and directors aged 18-25 to join them for two weeks for their annual FREE Easter ArtsLab residenc
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30 Performers + ONE Location + ONE Vital Topic + ONE Minute Each What a year! I mean, really, what happened? Why? How? And what didn’t happen, that should have? SLAMinutes is back with a BUMPER edition in the New Year: a compilation of all the hits and the s**ts of 2019! Here are
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UGC Writers Campus by Series Mania is a week-long TV series writing workshop, conducted in English and open to 20 screenwriters. The 2020 edition will be held in Lille in northern France from March 20-27, 2020 under the supervision of Lorraine Sullivan. UGC, who sponsor the Write
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Following three sold out editions, Broken Silence Theatre will return with Volume 4 of Voices From Home in the first half of 2020 and are currently seeking writers. Voices From Home is a curated evening of short plays and spoken word theatre, exclusively from emerging writers bas
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BBC Writersroom’s annual window for unsolicited drama scripts will open between 10am on Monday 9th December 2019 and 5pm on Monday 6th January 2020 for Drama scripts (TV, film, radio, stage or online). You’ll need to submit an original drama script of at least 30 pages in length,
Read with a free account →21 November 19 · Original Content
It’s that time of year again! The nights are long, it’s cold outside and Christmas hits have been blasting out in shopping centres for what already seems like an eternity. With just a few weeks to go, you’re no doubt thinking about Christmas shopping and so as always, we’ve got y
Read this article →15 November 19 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
Want to support LPB? Become a member! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities
Read with a free account →12 November 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in November 2019. 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 th
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The VAULT Festival New Writers Programme offers a total introduction to writing for stage! Taking place at VAULT Festival 2020 (28 January – 22 March) this eight week practical course will start right at the beginning, guiding you through the basics of playwriting in a non-patron
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Make it Write Productions CIC is committed to promoting the work of new playwrights in the North West of England. Each year we run a 30 minute play competition and the prize is to have your play performed in The Hope Street Theatre as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival in June
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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 →12 November 19 · Events / Opportunities
A guide to playwriting competitions within the U.K. including how to make your script stands out with industry insider Naomi Sumner Chan. Date and time: Sat, 30 November 2019, 14:00 – 16:00 Location: Nexus Art Cafe (The Nook) 2 Dale Street Manchester M1 1JW How to book: here Cost
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LAMDA is thrilled to announce that April 2020 will see the first ever LAMDA MishMash Festival; a three-day event celebrating new writing and work created by LAMDA alumni and their contemporaries. MishMash is a platform to celebrate the variety of creative paths LAMDA trained arti
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Stitchin’ Fiction accepting submissions for their next event Next event: Monday 25th November (last one of 2019) Open to all levels and backgrounds – 10-15 minutes MAX can be extracts or standalone pieces to workshop with our resident directors and actors at Theatre Deli Studios,
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B3 Productions and Aside Theatre Company of Phoenix, Arizona, seek scripts for their Third Festival of Shorts in June 2020. These will be fully rehearsed shows. Performance dates are June 5-21. The final weekend, the audience will vote on their favourite play each night, and the
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2020 STAGE IT! 10-Minute Play Festival and Book Publication is open for submissions. Arts Center Bonita produces TEN 10-minute plays in full at our Festival in March, coinciding with their book publication of at least 20 plays. Additionally, they make offers to playwrights for ot
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