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01 December 16 · Opportunities
Essential Drama has been set up to connect secondary schools, higher education and theatre professionals. Phil Cleaves from Essential Drama writes on Facebook’s Playwriting UK : “Are you looking to get over 2016 by making theatre in unconventional spaces? Come and present your wo
Read with a free account →30 November 16 · Opportunities
The EU Collective Plays Playwriting competition is in memory of Matteo Latino, an Italian playwright, actor and director who acquired a solid reputation in the Italian theatre community for his innovative and unconventional exploration of the issues related to his generation. “Ma
Read with a free account →29 November 16 · Education / Opportunities
The Soho Theatre has been running its Theatremakers project for two years, working in partnership with Slap Haddock a Walthamstow-based theatre company. If you’re 11-16 years old, this 10 week Theatremakers course gives you the opportunity to meet and collaborate with other young
Read with a free account →29 November 16 · Opportunities
Optik and director Barry Edwards are running a new theatre writing event at the 2017 Richmond upon Thames Festival. They plan to feature three to four unperformed original scripts in a fully rehearsed staged reading with professional cast. In their own words: “The setting will be
Read with a free account →28 November 16 · Opportunities
FROM PAGE TO STAGE is a festival of new musical theatre dedicated to showcasing un-produced work and work in development to an audience to garner feedback and create new opportunities for the artistes involved. The fifth annual FROM PAGE TO STAGE festival has been invited to Andr
Read with a free account →28 November 16 · Opportunities
After last year’s success, Oxford’s new fringe festival Offbeat is heading into its second year. Taking place in June 2017, this fringe festival will feature theatre, dance, comedy, music and spoken word never before seen in Oxfordshire. Encouraging both upcoming and established
Read with a free account →24 November 16 · Opportunities
The Stückemarkt of the Berliner Theatertreffen is looking for innovative theatre languages and diverse forms of authorship. They invite theatre makers from all parts of Europe to apply by submitting their latest plays. Theatre texts and finished productions can be submitted, the
Read with a free account →23 November 16 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Playwrights’ Circle Monday 5 December from 7.30-9.30pm Bread & Roses Theatre The Playwrights Circle is a friendly and supportive circle in which playwrights can share their work and work-in-progress, run by The Bread & Roses Theatre on the last Monday every month. The Bread & Ros
Read with a free account →23 November 16 · 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: Writer in Residence at Theatre Clwyd Description:
Read with a free account →23 November 16 · Funding and Bursaries / Opportunities
The purpose of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award is, in particular, to help the development of emerging practitioners in the field of experimental theatre, and, in general, to encourage the new generation of creative artists. The award is for a company or individual t
Read with a free account →17 November 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
Edinburgh University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and the Traverse Theatre are delighted to announce their continued partnership in a Creative Fellowship for a playwright to be based within the University and affiliated to the theatre. What you get: IASH and the
Read with a free account →16 November 16 · Opportunities
In Motion Theatre Company presents the very first Winter Words, a new writing festival taking place in Glasgow 11th – 14th December. Winter Words will celebrate new writing at various stages in development as an alternative theatre offering over the Christmas season, and will tak
Read with a free account →14 November 16 · Opportunities
As part of a commitment to becoming a home for writers in Wales, Theatr Clwyd is offering playwrights the time and space to write within a community of fellow artists without the pressure of ‘showing’ or producing something. For the second year, they are offering further residenc
Read with a free account →14 November 16 · Opportunities
Sprint is London’s major annual festival of new and unusual theatre. It showcases work by the most exciting new artists and companies in the UK and beyond. With Sprint, CPT opens its doors widely to artists at the very start of their careers, artists who’ve never performed at CPT
Read with a free account →09 November 16 · Opportunities
The 3rd edition of the Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) Festival will take place between 10-12 March 2017. They are looking for contemporary music, dance, storytelling, poetry, and theatre performances as well as multimedia performance and films. For the last three years, AWAN has p
Read with a free account →09 November 16 · 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 Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel – this year, for exampl
Read with a free account →09 November 16 · Opportunities
Loquitur Theatre launched the first ‘Femage a Trois’ project earlier this year, with a four star, critically acclaimed, simply and beautifully crafted show. Previews at The Vaults, Waterloo and Hackney Showroom led to a week long run at the Edinburgh Festival. It featured three i
Read with a free account →09 November 16 · Opportunities
Blink. Theatre is a London-based company focused on the intimacy and ethics of human interaction. BLINK. AGAIN is a public call out for new, contemporary theatre voices for 2016/17. The winner of BLINK. AGAIN will be shown at a community arts festival in North London in February
Read with a free account →09 November 16 · Events
Future Writers: Nuts & Bolts – How to Get it Made Soho Theatre Thursday 10 November 2016 from 5-6pm Soho Theatre is running an event that offers chance to grab the attention of the big wigs and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. This autumn Soho Theatre hosts a series
Read this article →08 November 16 · Education / Opportunities
Ambassador’s Theatre Group invites you to join them Lyceum Theatre for a six session Writing for Theatre course held on the following dates: Monday 21st November Monday 28th November Monday 5th December Monday 12th December Monday 9th January Monday 16th January – performance on
Read with a free account →19 October 16 · 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: Pub Theatre Festival Seeking Submissions from Eme
Read with a free account →17 October 16 · Opportunities / Writing Workshops
Writers Lab respond to the refugee crisis in Homeland Festival. The two day creative writing workshop of Homeland Festival in Drayton Arms Theatre aims to explore creatively the experiences of refugees and to inspire participants to use storytelling and playwriting to address the
Read with a free account →12 October 16 · 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: Octagon Theatre Bolton Top Five Festival – accept
Read with a free account →10 October 16 · Jobs / Opportunities
MAT and Purbanat Theatre companies are looking for a playwright to work as co-writer on a new play, loosely based on The Interpreter of Desires by Ibn Arabi, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The play will be a collaboration with the playwright David Calcutt. The two writers will partic
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