14 October 19 · Opportunities
NO : INTERMISSION 2020, a one act play festival in Sydney, Australiais taking script submissions from emerging and established playwrights from around the world. All the details are available at www.theatretravels.org/submit and shows will be informed by Christmas if they have be
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Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (Houston, Texas) seeking submissions for its’ ten minute play festival in Houston, Texas, United States, which is now entering it’s 12th year. – The festival is open to any playwright – It’s run by Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company https://mild
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PODCAST Making It with Temi Wilkey Temi Wilkey is an actor & writer from North London. She studied English at Cambridge before training as an actor with the National Youth Theatre REP company in 2014. Her acting credits include Hamlet & Cymbeline (RSC), Jubilee (Manchester Royal
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A 2 hour writing for performance workshop aimed at playwrights, poets, performers and theatre-makers who want to make autobiographical work. When: 30 October 2019 Cost: £10 Location:Nexus Art Cafe (The Nook), 2 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 1JW How to book: here Source: Playwriting
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The International Youth Arts Festival is the UK’s largest multi-arts festival for and by people under 27, featuring some of the most exciting new work by emerging young talent. Creative Youth and IYAF supports work for and by young people between the ages 5 to 26. These may be pr
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The International Radio Playwriting Competition 2020 – from the BBC World Service and British Council in partnership with Commonwealth Writers – is an opportunity for writers from outside the UK to tell their stories. The competition runs from 1 October 2019 to midnight GMT 31 Ja
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BBC Comedy Commissioning in partnership with BBC Writersroom and BBC North are delighted to announce the Caroline Aherne Bursary 2019. The inaugural bursary scheme in the memory of the late Caroline Aherne was launched in 2017 at the Salford Sitcom Showcase. Aimed at writer/perfo
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Save the date and secure your ticket for the BBC Writersroom Wales Festival. Further details for the festival will be announced soon! WHEN: Monday 9th December 2019 from 9.30 – 19.00 WHERE: National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP Secure your free ticket now! Dead
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In their words: We are pleased to present the fourth installation of JW3’s seasonal scratch night. On 22 March 2020, 3 writers, theatre-makers or companies will perform 15-20 minutes of new material in a studio space at JW3. The performances will be followed by an informal chance
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Ok, so it may be only October, but with the nights getting longer and the air getting colder, we thought it was high time we announced #WrAP2020. If you thought January was all about broken resolutions and doom and gloom – think again! Here at London Playwrights we use the first
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Curious Monkey is recruiting a Freelance Script Writer (with facilitation skills) to work with our TROUPE group to co-create a new play to be performed in July 2020. TROUPE is a group of young people who have experience of the care system, who attend regular theatre trips and wor
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Applications are now open for Criterion New Writing 2020 and it’s free to apply and take part. How it works: There will be 3 sets of 6 workshops. Each will welcome 6 writers to the stage of the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, for a sequence of highly-focused script development se
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SHOOK is a relaxed evening of new work written and performed by millennials, melting into a dj set above The Arts Theatre West End in London. They have their next evening SHOOK: THE THIRD on the 1st December 2019 and are looking for submissions now. The evening is completely free
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The prize aims to encourage authors in the creation of bold and powerful plays for young audiences (12-21 years old) Rules (summary): . Open to all writers worldwide and there is no age or nationality limit for the entrants. . The play must cater for a performance time of 60-120
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Beginning September 1, PlayPenn will be accepting applications for its 2020 New Play Development Conference; we are pleased to request your full length, unproduced script for consideration. Please review the guidelines carefully and completely before making application. Your appl
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Hammond House Publishing accepting submissions for their International Writing Competitions 2019 on the theme of LEAVING. They are accepting poetry, short plays and screenplays. Find out more here. For Submission Guidelines, click here For Terms and Conditions, click here Entry F
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The search is on to find the next group of exciting artists to become The Old Vic 12. The Old Vic 12 is a group of 12 extraordinary developing artists ready to take the next step in their careers. The scheme provides access and insights into top-level theatre-making, mentoring fr
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The Space operate a rolling submissions window, so you can submit a show proposal at any time and will be considered for our next season. They are looking for high quality theatre productions to programme for 1, 2 or 3 week runs. They accept proposals from new, emerging and estab
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Do you live in or around Peterborough? Are you interested in screenplays, writing poetry or plays? Apply to the Eastern Angles Young Writers Group in Peterborough for 16-30 year olds. After a successful first year setting up the 2018 Young Writers Group, they are back for another
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