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Observer Mondays Directors Scheme – Royal Exchange Theatre

The Royal Exchange Theatre are delighted to be re-introducing the Observer Mondays Directors Scheme. This Scheme allows one local theatre maker at an early stage in their career the opportunity to “observe” rehearsals for an in-house production. The participant is invited into rehearsals every Monday throughout the rehearsal period, tech and into previews. This enables …

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Bookmark magazine TYPE! Accepting submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations

Bookmark magazine TYPE! has a new website, a new newsletter, and is looking for submissions of flash fiction, poetry, six-word stories, micro-plays, micro-screenplays, and illustrations. Launched in January 2021, TYPE! has featured incredible new writing across eight action-packed issues. Our team is now preparing issue #9. Each issue of TYPE! is free to read and …

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London Playwrights Zoom Workshops: Creating Compelling Characters

Creating engaging characters who drive your story forward and help you to convey your ideas is essential when writing play; but what makes them engaging in the first place? How do we create empathy? How can we create 3 dimensional characters who feel believable? Join London Playwrights’ Kimberley Andrews in this 90 minute interactive Zoom …

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BEYOND – Graeae’s bespoke Artist Development programme

Graeae’s bespoke Artist Development programme is back! Starting in 2020 it has supported 48 Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists in developing their careers, taking on new challenges & building successful connections. Beyond is helping to develop greater access to regional opportunities across England ensuring Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists are at the forefront of new …

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Playwrights and Policy – Jane Woddis

  In this article, Jane Woddis, writer of Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-making and Civil Society (Palgrave) shares her thoughts on Playwrights and Policy.   Back in the 1990s, I was combining work as a theatre administrator with studying and researching in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at Warwick University. With the …

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The North East Playwriting Award – by the Live Theatre and the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust

The Live Theatre in Newcastle has announced the inaugural North East Playwriting Award in partnership with The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust. This brand new venture seeks to award commissions to two playwrights who are either from or based in the North East of England. The commissioned plays will then be produced for the Live Theatre …

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MAYK- I Like It. What Is It? – Opportunity for experimental live performance

I Like It. What Is It? will make space for up to four artists or companies making experimental live performance to explore ‘boomerang’ ideas – by this they mean the ones that won’t go away; that dance around your head, and haven’t had enough of a chance to see what they might want to be …

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‘Keep it Fringe’ Fund – Funding programme for Edinburgh Fringe led by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The Edinburgh Fringe society has announced the launch of the ‘Keep it Fringe’ fund, a new initiative to support Fringe artists, which is being led by Fringe Society President Phoebe Waller-Bridge. This fund, supported by the Fleabag for Charity campaign and funds donated to the Fringe Society, will distribute 50 bursaries of £2,000 to individual artists …

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The Eclipse Award 2023

The Eclipse Award aims to help UK Black artists and other artists who are also marginalised for their race, and who make boundary-pushing performance work, to undertake an Edinburgh Fringe run. The award is an initiative by Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall, and aims to support underrepresented artists presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Who can apply? Artists based in the …

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Durango Arts Centre – 10-Minute Play Festival

The 10-Minute Plays Festival in Durango, Colorado USA is taking international submissions of plays no longer than 10 minutes in length. The plays go through a tiered reading process (author names and hometowns are kept anonymous from the judges). The top 10 plays will be performed at a free reading in late spring where the …

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