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20 July 22 · Opportunities
9 August 2022, 6pm-7.30pm BST Cost: 25.00 Workshop: Playwriting Duration: 90 mins Location: ONLINE If you are a playwright and you would like to know how to get your play successfully commissioned by a theatre, then join our intimate workshop with the Stephen Joseph Theatre Liter
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writer with 10 minutes of a new play that you’d like feedback on? Maybe you’re a director or actor who loves new writing and wants more experience? Or a theatre lover who’s curious about the theatre making process? Get your creative fix in an evening that’s part Q&A, part scratch
Read with a free account →20 July 22 · Opportunities
The Middle Child Writers’ Group offers a free introduction to playwriting, led by associate artist and Hull-based writer, Tom Wells. You don’t need to have written anything before, you just need to have a few good stories to tell – funny stories, sad stories, tough stories, tende
Read with a free account →20 July 22 · Opportunities
The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award is a competition for full length theatre plays that have not previously been produced or published and feature at least half of female, non-binary or gender neutral roles by UK and Europe based writers. The winning play will receive; Profession
Read with a free account →20 July 22 · Opportunities
Soho Theatre has played a unique and award-winning role in the development of new writing in Britain for more than 40 years. Applications for next Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab are now open. The Writers’ Lab programme is an entry-level course designed to support new writers to create
Read with a free account →20 July 22 · Opportunities
Empowering Voices, Exploring Worldviews 2021 – 2023 builds upon the solid foundation established by the REConnecting Lincolnshire project. With support from a suite of partners and funders, REConnecting Lincolnshire provided opportunities for children, young people and wider Linc
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The Royal Society of Literature is currently taking entries for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards, celebrating and nurturing British writers of colour at the beginnings of their careers. Five winners will receive ten mentoring sessions over the course of 12 months with an RSL Fello
Read with a free account →18 July 22 · Opportunities
If you’re looking to develop your writing from stage to screen and back again and understand the development process for screen, from pitches to treatments, and balance a multi-disciplinary career between theatre and film, then join us! Hear from and be inspired by playwrights Du
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Introducing @TheGlitch_SE1! The new café, bar & creative space from @vaultcreativearts, producers of @VAULTFestival. Located on Lower Marsh in the heart of Waterloo, this vibrant & artsy space has plenty of atmosphere and is open and inclusive to all. Live performance, local art,
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tiata fahodzi is looking for two artists that identify as Black British or British African heritage, one from Watford and the South-East and one from the Bristol and Bath area, to create an artist-led creative response to the workshops and conversations that are happening as part
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Sarah Grochala (author of The Contemporary Political Play) is running a week-long course on Writing for Theatre at Granada Concierge in Spain from 20-27 September for a small group of writers (max. 5 participants). The city of Granada is the city of Federico García Lorca, arguabl
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1. Goals and objectives The «Neem» award was created to support and identify underground dramatic waters. 2. Organizers Jenya Stashkov, Performance-troupe «Vibrating body» 3. Nominations Awarded one prize in the nomination «A play that no one will ever agree to stage» 4. Prizes T
Read with a free account →15 July 22 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU more than ever! Find out about 7 easy ways to support us here and help us to continue our work! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news!
Read with a free account →14 July 22 · Opportunities
CALL FOR WRITERS TO TAKE PART IN SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Midland Actors Theatre is looking for a group of writers, to develop ideas for a new play, loosely based on Homer’s Iliad. The Iliad is recognised as the first great book, and the first great book about the suffering a
Read with a free account →14 July 22 · Opportunities
Looking for a professional writers and comic writers to work on a paid pilot episode of animated series. The working title is Colonial Colonic, a revisionist look at the British Empire and it’s damaging legacy. The initial brief is to work on the pilot episode, more episodes woul
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£120 per day Part-time freelance role 2 days / 16 hours per week Core office hours are 10am-6pm, Monday to Thursday. It is expected that this role will be predominantly office based with flexibility to work from home when required. Box of Tricks is looking for a positive, passion
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Zoo Co are looking for a brilliant deaf writer who loves collaboration and creating bold characters with fun, highly engaging storylines to help them create Bossy, a brand new children’s show aimed at 5-9 year olds. Bossy follows Beth who is clever, confident and wants to become
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SLAMinutes is a cabaret with a conscience, taking the issues that most need shouting from the rooftops and doing so with writers, performers and creatives of all kinds. A social barometer for what is really going on. SLAM are looking for 30 writers who identify as male or have lo
Read with a free account →14 July 22 · Digital Resources
London Playwrights’ Co-founder and Director was recently interviewed by Russell Lucas for his 300 Thoughts for Theatremakers channel on Youtube. In the interview, Kimberley talks about London Playwrights – how it started, how it’s going, and what’s next! You can watch the intervi
Read this article →14 July 22 · Opportunities
INK is again welcoming new short plays for stage and radio. 50 of the best will be professionally produced and performed multiple times at the 4-day INK Festival in April 2023 There are multiple themes and categories including Short play, Environmental play, Youth Play (18 and un
Read with a free account →08 July 22 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU more than ever! Find out about 7 easy ways to support us here and help us to continue our work! *Make sure you never miss an opportunity. Sign up for our email list to get the weekly roundup direct to your inbox! * Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities and news!
Read with a free account →07 July 22 · 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: Play Club is back, join our online book club for
Read with a free account →07 July 22 · Opportunities
This Award is for playwrights from the North of England who are yet to have a play performed professionally. Past winners include Peter Straughan (BAFTA & Oscar-winner for ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’), Carina Rodney (Audible, BBC Radio 4, Live Theatre) and Alison Carr (National T
Read with a free account →07 July 22 · Opportunities
BUZZCUT Festival will return from 30 March – 2 April 2023, with an in-person Festival of experimental performance and Live Art across Glasgow! They are looking for artists to propose performance experiments to present in the Festival. They are looking for artists of all levels of
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