21 August 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Kiln Theatre, London, are looking for the future generation of writers. Ten young people will be selected and paid to develop their writing skills for live performance. They will collaborate with industry experts and artists to create their own short piece which will be performed
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This contract is being offered by Brighton & Hove City Council as part of its support for the city’s recovery plan for the creative and cultural sector (the ABCD Plan for Cultural Recovery). It is being funded through the Welcome Back Fund and applications are being sought from o
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One of two exciting pre-festival FAK’UGESI LABS 2021. Join artist and creative technologist Ling Tan from Umbrellium (UK) in this supported laboratory focused on citizen empowerment & gender safety in urban environments. If you are 18 to 24 and interested in interpreting mapped d
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Spilt Ink Theatre are looking for a South West based dramaturg/writer who has lived experience of migration. We are in the process of writing an ACE funding application for a theatre show we started to develop with the help of a young audiences commission (ages 4-10) from Trinity
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The Rural Black History project is looking for Black and Global Majority identifying creatives, based in or with links to the Cotswolds or surrounding West Country areas, to take on a variety of freelance roles. We are looking for three writers, three performers, a filmmaker, and
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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in August 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 August 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →13 August 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 Horror Festival Playwriting Competition: C
Read with a free account →12 August 21 · Opportunities
CALLING SPOOKY WRITERS FAR AND WIDE! The London Horror Festival and Danse Macabre Productions are teaming up once more to host the LHF Playwriting Competition 2021! As part of the LHF’s continual commitment to championing new writing, this year we’re looking for 30 minute horror
Read with a free account →12 August 21 · Opportunities
BBC Children’s Animation is looking for fresh, bold, innovative new animation ideas for a fully funded development opportunity. You may be taking your first steps into animation, be a long-standing industry professional with something you’ve always wanted to explore or a producti
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‘Owdyado Theatre ‘Twisted Christmas’ Writing Competition ‘Owdyado Theatre (Associate Artists at Hall For Cornwall) are running a writing competition for mini stage plays (5-10 mins long) responding to the theme ‘Twisted Christmas’. There are 3 x £500 prizes available for winning
Read with a free account →12 August 21 · Opportunities
Following last year’s success, Scriptly Writing is back for a second year. Registration deadline 7 October, 2021 Scriptly Writing is a scriptwriting opportunity from The Literal Challenge – a small social enterprise that brings together a community of writers, wannabe writers and
Read with a free account →12 August 21 · Events / News
Who fancies coming to see a show with us?! LPW’s Emily Garside has a play coming up and we’d love you to join us in supporting her work and getting together for a long awaited social gathering in the bar afterwards! Don’t Send Flowers will be running at the White Bear Theatre Ken
Read this article →11 August 21 · Festival / News
We’re unbelievably excited to announce our first festival, which is coming to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre this December! The London Playwrights Festival will be a celebration of new writing and will showcase the work of some of the amazing writers we’ve been working with over the
Read this article →06 August 21 · Opportunities / Weekly Round-up
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Read with a free account →05 August 21 · Opportunities
World Productions (The Pembrokeshire Murders, Bodyguard, Line of Duty), BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama Commissioning are looking for the next generation of television writers who have bold and original stories to tell. To celebrate the launch of World’s new Cardiff office, World a
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Underscore Studios are pleased to announce their Screenwriting Workshop with Jon Barton. In this workshop, we’ll be exploring how to approach story structure for film. Whether you’re approaching a brand new project or already working on one, understanding story structure is a mus
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HADESTOWN: Working on a Song August 11th 8:00 – 9:30pm BST / 3:00 – 4:30pm EST / Noon – 1:30pm PST Dramaturg Ken Cerniglia and Tony Award-winner Anaïs Mitchell will do a deep-dive into the dramaturgical process and product of her musical Hadestown. They will cover various approac
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The 2022 Lancaster Playwriting Prize is now open to anyone from the North West of England who identifies as LGBTQAI+ aged 16 and up to and including the age of 30. The Lancaster Playwriting Prize, now in its third year, is run in partnership by the Department of English Literatur
Read with a free account →04 August 21 · Opportunities
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP WITH MIKE BARTLETT ‘Writing for Bigger Stages’ Spend two hours with Mike Bartlett, the writer of King Charles III , Cock and Albion, analysing the skills and considerations needed to tell stories on bigger stages to larger audiences. PLEASE NOTE this workshop
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Tamasha is looking for their next cohort of new and emerging talent in the field of playwriting for their Tamasha Playwrights programme. Tamasha Playwrights, founded by Artistic Director Fin Kennedy in 2014, is their flagship programme, a writer-led collective of emerging playwri
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