17 March 22 · Opportunities
Creative Associates, New Writing North Salary: £26,250 per annum pro-rata (final salary level pending pay review in April 2022) for 2.5 days per week, fixed term contract for 2 years Writers have a vital role in crafting the stories that shape us. At an exciting time for New Writ
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Have you written a play that you would like to have feedback on? The Sherman Theatre have submission windows in which they will accept unsolicited scripts. All of the plays they receive will be read by their Literary team who will give feedback and offer advice. This is an opport
Read with a free account →17 March 22 · Opportunities
Reel One Entertainment, A Digital Pen, is launching a competition to give emerging screenwriters worldwide the opportunity to have their screenplay produced in 2023. They want your fun, romantic and feel-good TV movie ideas for a love story audiences worldwide are sure to fall fo
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Set up in 2019 by Popcorn Group, the Popcorn Writing Award celebrates fearless work which playfully and artistically questions and addresses current affairs, societal trends and contributes positively to public debate. This year will mark the first year of a collaboration with BB
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The BBC Studios Writers’ Academy 2022 launches with new focus on original series development. Originally created to provide support and paid training for up-and-coming screenwriters by working closely with BBC Continuing Drama Series, this year’s course will broaden its remit to
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101 COLLECTIVE : OPEN CALL FOR PLAYS An open call for heart-stopping, menacing, challenging, conscientious, powerful plays. We are 101 Collective. A young theatre company with a focus on new writing and establishing a brazen collective of creatives. Our emphasis is on drama with
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APRIL 2nd and 3rd A weekend masterclass with theatre maker Russell Lucas. This two day workshop will focus on taking your theatrical idea and show you how to bring it to life. The first stages of an original show are always the most exciting and the most daunting. Join theatre ma
Read with a free account →11 March 22 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Radius is delighted to launch our Call for Plays 2022, which will culminate in a staged reading of the successful scripts at the Radius Festival of New Drama to be held in Cambridge on 15 October 2022. We are looking for 45-minute plays that deal with themes such as hope, redempt
Read with a free account →10 March 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: Playwriting Lab with Max Wilk
Read with a free account →10 March 22 · Opportunities
We are SO excited to announce that we are taking our Script Sessions to Latitude Festival! The search for new scripts begins… Written a play which needs developing? Need feedback to take it to the next step? Here’s your chance to have an extract performed at Latitude Festival and
Read with a free account →10 March 22 · Opportunities
Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in March 2022. 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 →10 March 22 · Opportunities
The Unity Open Call is back for 2022, providing another 20 Merseyside companies and artists with funding and the chance to be a part of their programme. They’re looking for a wide range of projects. Whether it’s a show you’d like to perform on the stage, a script you’d like test
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The Musical Theatre Darkroom is an artist development programme that supports the generation of original British musical theatre productions. The project brings together experienced musical theatre practitioners and writing teams / artists to collaboratively interrogate tradition
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RABBLE Theatre are a professional regional theatre company and charity based in Reading, producing new writing and site-specific theatre which amplifies the local stories and heritage of Reading. RABBLE are passionate about platforming often unheard voices and increasing a sense
Read with a free account →10 March 22 · Opportunities
After the success of helping working class writers, director and actor Tom Stocks brings the critically acclaimed company Actor Awareness, back to its home in the North. With various new writing nights having been performed at Spotlight Studios in the heart of the West End, Actor
Read with a free account →09 March 22 · News
When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre expands on the ideas laid out in Wong’s debut book and elaborates on how chance is a powerful and misunderstood force that directs the action, both on and off the stage. His vision of drama is one where risk is the dramatic fulcrum of t
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If you are a playwright and you would like to know how to get your play successfully accepted by a theatre, then join Proud Haddock’s intimate workshop with Literary Associate at the Orange Tree, and Creative Associate at Headlong, Guy Jones. In this 90 minute workshop you will l
Read with a free account →04 March 22 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
We need YOU! Become a member today for less than £4 and help us to continue our work! Find out more here! *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! G
Read with a free account →03 March 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: Bruntwood Prize 2022 – Open until 6 June! Plus FR
Read with a free account →03 March 22 · Opportunities
Rewriting Justice is a one-day training course for theatre-artists, early career playwrights and criminal justice professionals with a particular interest in how to facilitate playwriting workshops in criminal justice settings (including prisons), women’s centres and community se
Read with a free account →03 March 22 · Opportunities
Freehand Scripts offer a free script reading service, find out more and apply here: https://freehandscripts.co.uk/ Deadline: rolling Source: @Playwriting_UK
Read with a free account →03 March 22 · Opportunities
rinity College Cambridge invites applications for this new award to support a playwright at the beginning of their career. Funded by a generous donation from the Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation, it will enable the recipient to take up post for twelve months as ‘The Peter
Read with a free account →03 March 22 · Opportunities
Tickets are available as ‘Pay What You Can’ – the suggested price for this event is £5 – but there are a range of ticket prices so you can choose what you can afford from the options, including £0 Explore ways of unlocking your creativity and physical expression in this workshop.
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