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22 January 19 · Opportunities
The Short Film Fund will be Shore Scripts’ only Short screenplay contest this year, and as such they have made the prizes and opportunities better than ever. Alongside the max. $15,000 production grant they have writing software, and career networking prizes too. Plus, the top 15
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
They are looking for groundbreaking short science fiction plays, for writers coming from all walks of life, for daring and innovative creators, for new ideas, revolutionary dreams, crazy stories, for the bold, the daring, and the unique. Submission guidelines: Length: Up to 15 m
Read with a free account →08 January 19 · Opportunities
Jump Start is looking for submissions of new writing again! Their next scratch night performance will be at the Swan Theatre Studio, Worcester on Saturday 2nd March. If you’re interested in taking part, send your 10-15 minutes of new theatre. This can include written or devised w
Read with a free account →18 December 18 · Opportunities
Caspa Arts are seeking 5-15 minute plays for their acting school’s next scratch night in February at Phoenix Artist Club in London. They want to link their actors with upcoming playwrights and directors and present new work. They will stage your writing for you. Scripts should ha
Read with a free account →18 December 18 · Opportunities
Got something to scratch? Present a 15 minute extract of writing/work in development at the Everyman’s brunch date with a difference: New work from across the North West How to submit: if you wish to present something during Scratch morning, please email scratch@everymanplayhouse
Read with a free account →11 December 18 · Opportunities
ReWrite is a script development event for playwrights from Glasgow-based In Motion Theatre Company. They will select four short plays or script extracts (up to 15 pages in length) and give you space and guidance to develop your script, to grow your ideas and push your playwriting
Read with a free account →03 December 18 · Opportunities
Matchstick Theatre are a small independent theatre company, set up in late 2015 and based in South East London. They have produced new plays and adaptations in tunnel arches and festivals around London. They are now located in a new arts and theatre space, the Matchstick Piehouse
Read with a free account →28 November 18 · Opportunities
The competition is seeking plays from young writers and their are cash prizes available for the winners. Please read the rules and guidelines here before applying. Deadline: 15 December 2018 Source: Playwriting UK Facebook Group
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Opportunities
After Shorts @ The Canal – 1&2, Shorts @ The Union and The Twilight Hour season 1&2, Shorts @ The Canal is inviting all writers to submit a play no longer than 15-minute, for their next show: “Love Shots”. The show will have a love theme and will be performed at the award-winning
Read with a free account →20 November 18 · Original Content
**Announcement!** #WrAP is back for 2019! Last January, more than 150 of you kick-started 2018 by taking part in WrAP (Write a Play) – where you took on the challenge of writing a play in a month. Some of you managed to get a whole first draft finished, others wrote a few scenes,
Read this article →13 November 18 · Opportunities
The thirteenth King’s Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays,will be hosted by King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 14, 15 and 16, 2019. Entries for the Festival must be sent to the address below, with a non-refundable $15 entry fee per script, and be postm
Read with a free account →15 October 18 · Opportunities
Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen is a New Writing Scratch Night at London’s Drayton Arms Theatre on 2nd & 3rd December 2018. They are currently taking submissions of short (up to 15 minute) plays about the relationships that shape our lives. Successful writers will get to see their script
Read with a free account →15 October 18 · Opportunities
The prize aims to encourage authors in the creation of bold and powerful plays for young audiences (suggested age 15-25). Rules (summary): Open to all writers worldwide and there is no age or nationality limit for the entrants. They accept plays co-authored by more than one write
Read with a free account →15 October 18 · Opportunities
BBC Alba are looking for vibrant, compelling ideas from Gaelic writers for the 2019 EBU (European Broadcasting Union) children’s short drama scheme. Guidelines Theme: “Tell Me a Secret” Broadcast duration: 15 minutes Target audience: 6-9 year olds Casting: child actor/s at the he
Read with a free account →11 October 18 · Opportunities
Thunder Theatre are a micro performance production company and they need material for their prospective micro shows. They are currently gathering plays so that they can assign them to theatre companies or freelance directors and actors in order to produce their shows. What they a
Read with a free account →21 September 18 · Opportunities
You are invited to submit a NEW 10-15 minute script (or excerpt) to be performed as a directed rehearsed reading in front of an industry panel and audience. Scripts should have 2-4 characters, and be suitable for performance as a rehearsed reading in a small playing area with lim
Read with a free account →21 September 18 · Opportunities
Following four sold-out shows at the Bread and Roses Theatre, Unfolded, a new-writing night with a focus on current affairs, is doing a show at the Southwark Playhouse, on 3rd December 2018. They’re looking for eight, 10-15 minute pieces based on news from the most recent cycle o
Read with a free account →20 September 18 · Opportunities
After their successful runs of Shorts @ The Canal and The Twilight Hour at Canal Cafe Theatre, Union Theatre and Etcetera Theatre, writers are invited to submit a play no longer than 15-minutes for “The Twilight Hour” season 2. The show will be based on The Twilight Zone TV serie
Read with a free account →12 September 18 · Opportunities
Cast Iron Theatre‘s writing window is now open for their eleventh short play night in November. They are looking for short plays (between 10 – 15mins) with a soft theme of ‘Eleven’ – interpret as you wish. Preference will be given to playwrights from East Sussex although they wil
Read with a free account →05 September 18 · Opportunities
ReWrite is a script development event for playwrights from Glasgow-based In Motion Theatre Company. They will select four short plays or script extracts (up to 15 pages in length) and give you space and guidance to develop your script, to grow your ideas and push your playwriting
Read with a free account →28 August 18 · Opportunities
The Marlborough Theatre and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts are delighted to announce 2 new commissions for BAME LGBTQ+ artists to create a new 15 minute performance inspired by Audre Lorde Following on from 2017’s successful Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group, they are e
Read with a free account →06 August 18 · Opportunities
If you have a 10-15 minute standalone short you want to stick in front of an audience, new writing night Briefs is after some pieces for performance at London’s Waterloo East Theatre on 6th September. It’s super low-key, so easier to stage the better. Unpaid for all of us unfortu
Read with a free account →31 July 18 · Opportunities
Caspa Arts is seeking 10-15 minute scripts (1-4 handers) for a new writing night to be performed at the Phoenix Artist Club by thier students on Monday 15th October (matinee & evening) What to submit: A 10-15 minute play around any topic (they tend to lean towards female led and
Read with a free account →27 July 18 · Opportunities
Award nominated company Last Word Theatre are looking to curate Minerva – a short season of new writing at the White Bear in Kennington. They are looking for short plays which respond to the themes of the main show Eros by Kevin Mandry (Running 28th August – 15th September) which
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