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08 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 →06 November 19 · 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: Take part in #WrAP2020 for the chance to win a pl
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Curatorial Call-Out 2019: John Thaw Initiative 2019 Latin American Season at The Actors Centre Are you a writer interested in performing your own work? Or perhaps you are an actor looking for an opportunity to mount your own show? For the debut edition of the 2020 John Thaw Initi
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre and New Venture Theatre are looking for submissions for their Short Play Night on 15th December 2019 in Brighton. The night will be a script-in-hand performance and they’re looking for new writing that is suitable to be staged in a ‘black box’. What they are loo
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2020 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its twentieth year. It will perform each day from 22nd to 29th August, on each of the Festival’s e
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
This autumn 2019 Soho Theatre is offering playwriting workshops to introduce new writers to their Verity Bargate Award. The workshops are timed to provide writers with the best opportunity to submit their new play for the Verity Bargate Award 2020. The Verity Bargate Award is our
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Women Are Funny 2020 Prize Send your full-length comedic script, and if it’s the funniest, you will receive USD$100 and confirmation that you are hilarious. Full-length comedic scripts (75-120 pages) Written in English within the last three years Female playwrights based anywhere
Read with a free account →05 November 19 · Opportunities
Calling all theatre makers & writers. The Pleasance are seeking 3 new London Associate Artists/Companies. Based in London? Would being an Artistic Associate enable you to take your work & craft to the next level? Find out more here Deadline 9 December 2019 Source: direct contact
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · Opportunities
SAfter Modern Times, Shorts @ The Canal 1 & 2, Shorts @ The Union, Love Shots and The Twilight Hour seasons 1, 2 & 3, Shorts @ The Canal are inviting all writers to submit a play no longer than 25-minute, for their next show: “Love Shots 2” The show will have a love theme … Short
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · Opportunities
The fourteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays, will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 12, 13 and 14, 2020. For electronic submission(s): https://www.kingstheatre.ca/kingweb/kings-shorts-info/ making certain to complete the reg
Read with a free account →04 November 19 · News / Opportunities
#WrAP2020 announcement! We promised this year’s #WrAP (write a play) challenge would be better than ever, and now we’re going to tell you why! This year, we’ll be inviting all #WrAP2020 participants to submit their work to us. Up to 4 writers will then be selected to take part in
Read with a free account →01 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 →25 October 19 · Opportunities
Fight Like A Girl! is bringing a new Play In A Day to Viaduct Theatre in Stockport on Saturday 16th November 2019 to raise even more money for Cancer Research UK! Six writers toil through the night to come up with six scripts and then, six directors and a gaggle of actors have ju
Read with a free account →25 October 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 →24 October 19 · Opportunities
Aged 16-25? Apply now to be part of Pleasance Future at the Young Pleasance, bursaries are available. For more information, visit their website: https://pleasance.co.uk/yp Deadline: 24 November 2019 Source: direct contact
Read with a free account →24 October 19 · Opportunities
RESIDENTIAL PLAY WRITING COURSE SIMON STEPHENS & ELLA HICKSON 22-29 MARCH 2020 The Priory, Pressigny, France “Join us in the heart of the French countryside with two leading British playwrights”. ‘Write. Read. Write again. Read again. Think. Write again. Read more. Write more. Ne
Read with a free account →21 October 19 · Opportunities
Are you aged 16-25? Are you interested in writing stories for the stage? Through a series of FREE workshops Pentabus Theatre will teach you the principles of great playwriting. You will learn about the basic rules of playwriting and creating work for the stage, tutored by profess
Read with a free account →21 October 19 · Opportunities
Orisun Productions are an emerging and ambitious theatre production company based in London, aimed at creating opportunities for African & African Caribbean talent.They will be hosting a scratch night on 21 November to showcase BLACK FEMALE WRITERS. If you’ve been waiting for a c
Read with a free account →18 October 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 →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Tanika Gupta and Maxine Peake are among the judges for a £12,000 prize for female playwrights. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is being launched by Paines Plough in partnership with Ellie Keel Productions. The winner will receive £12,000 towards a production of their play, with
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Entries are invited for the 2020 Steyning Festival Theatre Trails. These should be one act plays of around 40 minutes duration, small casts (up to 6), and simple production and staging requirements, suitable for staging in a variety of small informal venues, indoor or outside. Fo
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines October 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 the wh
Read with a free account →15 October 19 · News / Play Club
Last week, the final Play Club submission window closed for business, and we’re thrilled to now have our full line-up of short plays which will get receive readings in the final members meet-up of 2019. Play Club Winner #4 – Jo Spencely: If You See My Dad… Our fourth winner of Pl
Read this article →14 October 19 · Opportunities
Lisa Holdworth (Chair of the Writers Guild GB) and writer on ‘Call The Midwife’, ‘Ackley Bridge’, ‘Midsomer Murders’ and many more high end television shows on FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER in Manchester (Media City). Lisa will discuss how to protect your work, your rights and yourself in
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