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05 April 21 · Opportunities
Scriptwriters & Co’s next online Scratch Night will take place online at 7pm (UK time) on Monday 19 April 2021. Their submissions window is open to writers anywhere in the world. This month they’re looking for original plays, screenplays or audio plays of 6-10 pages, on the new t
Read with a free account →02 April 21 · Opportunities
Everyman & Playhouse’s Script Submission Window is now open until Friday 24th April New Works are committed to discovering, championing and supporting new writing from the North West. Our unsolicited script submission window opens twice a year and all scripts received that fit ou
Read with a free account →30 March 21 · News / Opportunities
Our submission window is open! This is a really exciting time for London Playwrights as we open our doors for our members to send us their plays! We’re really excited about reading your submissions, getting to know you as writers, and being able to offer feedback and development
Read with a free account →26 March 21 · Opportunities
Enter Stage Write UK is open for submissions The screenwriting and playwright competition is currently open, and will close April 30th 2021, midnight. The Enter Stage Write gala will be in summer 2021, although we are not sure if we can have a live event – but the performance (wh
Read with a free account →18 March 21 · Opportunities
As part of our 2021 submissions window we’re super excited to announce our brand new mentoring scheme! As well as other opportunities for those who submit their plays to us this time round, which will largely be determined by the plays we receive, we wanted to let you know we’ll
Read with a free account →13 March 21 · Opportunities
What We Are Looking For FIRST TIME playwrights. Of course, the more experienced you are, the more likely your writing will be of good quality and thus accepted. However, we strongly encourage you to be brave and send in your writing, even if you have never written a play in your
Read with a free account →11 March 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2021. 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 w
Read with a free account →25 February 21 · 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: London Playwrights’ Workshop: Member Submissions
Read with a free account →22 February 21 · Opportunities
We’re really excited to announce our new submissions window where we we’ll be inviting our members to send us their plays. Whether it’s the the play you worked on for WrAP2021 or something you’ve been developing for a while – we want to read it! We’ll be reading and providing fee
Read with a free account →22 February 21 · Opportunities
Synecdoche Works is pleased to announce: The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Monetary award to playwright: $3000 (USD) for full-length works, $1500 for one-acts. Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provi
Read with a free account →04 February 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 2021. 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
Read with a free account →27 January 21 · Opportunities
OOT is a project that will develop 7 new plays based on themes of Heritage and/or Working Class Identity. Each play will be read and explored by professional actors, with support from a director and dramaturg. WRITERS Please send: – Your script that focuses on themes of Heritage
Read with a free account →20 January 21 · Opportunities
Deadline: 29 January 2021 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook group
Read with a free account →19 January 21 · Opportunities
CYTO are looking for writers based in Croydon or South East London aged 16-30 to submit short plays for online performance. CYTO will rehearse and perform up to 4 plays of 15-30 minutes each with two groups, aged 6-12 and 13-18. Plays need to be suitable for these ages. Plays do
Read with a free account →18 January 21 · Opportunities
Sky Blue Theatre Company is accepting submissions for British Theatre Challenge 2021. The BTC is entering its ninth year and gives the opportunity for playwrights both new & seasoned to have their work professionally produced at the Jack Studio Theatre in London. – The opportunit
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2021. 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
Read with a free account →13 January 21 · Opportunities
Submissions are now open for monologues based on the timely theme of Past, Present, Future by writers with a connection to south east London. The Jack Studio wants to find bold and original voices from our community in this new writing event. You might be a playwright or a poet,
Read with a free account →07 January 21 · Opportunities
The Lyric Belfast is now accepting submissions for the New Playwrights Programme 2021! The programme is open to all new and emerging playwrights interested in developing a new full-length play with the guidance of the Lyric’s Literary Manager. They are also thrilled that, for the
Read with a free account →09 December 20 · Opportunities
SLACKLINE SLEEPOVER – OVERNIGHT AND ONLINE! Call for submissions Six playwrights, six directors, twelve (or so) actors… Six new short plays written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. SLACKLINE STORIES IS BACK… WITH YET ANOTHER TWIST! Slackline Productions is now accepting
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in December2020. 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
Read with a free account →30 November 20 · Opportunities
The Bush Theatre is committed to championing exciting new voices in theatre. If you’re a playwright who is not currently represented by an agent, and you have a play to share with them, they would love to receive it during their submissions window! What they are looking for: play
Read with a free account →19 November 20 · Opportunities
The Barn Theatre are pleased to announce a Playwriting Showcase in March 2021. Over three nights, we will stage three new works in The Barn Theatre (to a socially distanced audience) and simultaneously live stream these shows via our website. Audience members will be asked to rat
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING PLAYWRIGHTS/WRITERS/PERFORMERS/DIRECTORS Empower Her Voice are looking for submissions from female-identifying writers for our THIRD scratch night online. It will be a beautifully curated evening of different forms of theatre. The night
Read with a free account →18 November 20 · Opportunities
Calling all Audio Drama writers! Dark Unicorn Productions Ltd (UK-based) are currently planning their next few strands of online content as they work towards theatres viably reopening here in the UK and one area they are giving due consideration to, in collaboration with some fri
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