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12 May 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: WGGB New Play Commission Scheme Description: Desi
Read with a free account →06 May 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!
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Bridge the Gap is a year-long development programme that supports 10 emerging producers each year. Stage One created Bridge the Gap to address the lack of diversity in Theatre producing. They want to support people from an ethnically diverse background, who identify as working cl
Read this article →06 May 22 · Uncategorized
Horizon’s key objective is to catalyse international touring opportunities and international conversations for artists based in England. This will be achieved through carefully curated introductions between international presenters and delegates, and Horizon’s supported artists.
Read this article →06 May 22 · Uncategorized
The Prize is run by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, in partnership with the Manchester School of Theatre, and named in honour of Dave Murray, a writer and theatre blogger, and lover of flash fiction and non-fiction, who passed away in 2019. Th
Read this article →06 May 22 · Uncategorized
The BFI Film Academy has announced the return of their BFI Film Academy Labs Series for 2022/2023. BFI Film Academy Labs are all about helping 16- to 25-year-olds break into the screen industries. These monthly practical sessions are led by industry professionals, with a focus on
Read this article →06 May 22 · Uncategorized
EIFF invites Scotland-based writers from under-represented groups to apply for the second edition of Script Starter. Script Starter will provide writing talent in the early stages of their careers with a fantastic opportunity to develop their screenwriting skills, hone their crea
Read this article →05 May 22 · Opportunities
Rocket Box Theatre are producing an audio performance piece for release in Autumn 2022. Rocket Box are looking to work with one emerging writer who is interested in creating aural worlds and lively storytelling. With innovative binaural sound design, this experimental piece of au
Read with a free account →05 May 22 · Opportunities
Newcastle upon Tyne, the first BBC City of Comedy, hosts the BBC’s first Comedy Festival for indie producers, anyone with a new career in TV and comedy, and people looking to break into or advance their career in the industry. A series of events is taking place across three days
Read with a free account →29 April 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 →28 April 22 · Opportunities
Designed to respond to the decline in new theatre commissions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the NPCS will ensure 15 new commissions for playwrights across England in 2022. The scheme has been generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, by Society of London
Read with a free account →28 April 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: The Originals Playwriting Award Description: The
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
Hi there! We need talent of all types, but above all someone with an eye for wit, humour and entertainment, to help us mould and develop our script and story, which plays out over a few fun drinks as part of a ticketed experience. You should be interested in immersive theatre, en
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
Looking for 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 legacy. The lead narrator is female and so the preference is for a female BIPOC writer,
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
The Sunday Boys are a low voiced, open access LGBTQ+ choir based in the city of Manchester. We are looking for two early career writers to each create a 3-5 minute monologue for an upcoming gig at The Lowry in April 2023 exploring lived experiences of HIV. Working with HIV suppor
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
The Sunday Boys is a low voiced, open access LGBTQ+ choir based in the city of Manchester. We are looking for writer to work with the choir to help shape our annual Christmas gig, A Very Queer Christmas. Each year we present a wide array of music and readings that reflect on quee
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
Tribe Arts have 2 x £1000 commissions for 2 x South Asian writers for an upcoming programme of work marking 75 years since the Partition of India. Each commission will be for a 10-15 minute script for performance. The work will tour Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham and London thi
Read with a free account →28 April 22 · Opportunities
Now in its second year, the character development programme Scratch Me delivered by the BFI NETWORK talent team at Film Hub North is back with an innovative new partnership with production company Fulwell 73 to find and nurture Northern voices. Five fresh, bold and unique writers
Read with a free account →27 April 22 · Opportunities
White Noise Theatre are looking for Queer/LGBTQIA+ Writer-Performers to be involved in a new piece of theatre, “PlantGays”. The Project… R&D of a new play about plants, queerness, and relationships. Rehearsals twice weekly online, two days of in-person rehearsals in late May, cul
Read with a free account →27 April 22 · Opportunities
Original Theatre are excited to launch a brand-new award for early-career playwriters! The Originals Playwriting Award is the UK’s latest national competition for playwriting. It is a search for compellingly well-told stories capable of entertaining a wide audience. We’re looking
Read with a free account →25 April 22 · Opportunities
Excellence Theatre present Dear Black People Festival 2022! Emerging black Writers are invited to share fifteen minutes of their work to be showcased on The Pleasance Theatre, MainStage this coming Summer: How to submit: When submitting a play it should be no longer than 15 minut
Read with a free account →22 April 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 →21 April 22 · Opportunities
Workshop: Playwriting Duration: 90 mins Location: ONLINE If you are a playwright and you would like to know how best to establish a connection with a top theatre, then join our intimate workshop with Davina Moss (Literary Manager, Hampstead Theatre). In this 90 minute workshop yo
Read with a free account →21 April 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: London Playwrights Zoom Workshop: Making Work Usi
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