Month: October 2019

The Director’s Club are looking for scripts for The Director’s Club showcase – Crackers Christmas! Christmas stories, that are absolutely Crackers! The wild, the wacky and the wonderful – this Christmas show is all about those stories that make you snap, crackers and pop! Writers Brief  5-7 minute monologues, duologues, or plays withup to a …

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Tanika Gupta and Maxine Peake are among the judges for a £12,000 prize for female playwrights. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is being launched by Paines Plough in partnership with Ellie Keel Productions. The winner will receive £12,000 towards a production of their play, with EKP and Paines Plough owning the first option to co-produce …

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Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle- A Festive New Writing Scratch Night SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! This will be in aid of MIND Mental Health Charity. Sunday 8th December at Gentileza, Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1AZ. Writer’s Guidelines: – Theme must be based around the Festive season. – Pieces must be no longer …

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Warts and All Theatre are looking to commission a Writer who has experience of generating a new play With/By/For Children and Young People. The commission involves a period of research and development, in which the Writer will deliver a series of exploratory and development workshops with Looked After Children in Wellingborough. These workshops will involve …

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The First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition is a free-to-enter peer-to-peer competition aiming to help brand new writers get a foot in the door of the UK comedy industry. It’s for people with credits on two shows or fewer, so people with no credits at all can enter, which isn’t the case with a lot of competitions. …

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Entries are invited for the 2020 Steyning Festival Theatre Trails. These should be one act plays of around 40 minutes duration, small casts (up to 6), and simple production and staging requirements, suitable for staging in a variety of small informal venues, indoor or outside. Four chosen plays will be given rehearsed readings on May 23 …

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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines October 2019. 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 whole list of playwriting opportunities. Deadline: various throughout October 2019 …

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  Lisa Holdworth (Chair of the Writers Guild GB) and writer on ‘Call The Midwife’, ‘Ackley Bridge’, ‘Midsomer Murders’ and many more high end television shows on FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER in Manchester (Media City). Lisa will discuss how to protect your work, your rights and yourself in the industry. How much work you should be doing for free? How do …

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