The Living Record Festival is now live! Explore a festival of digital media designed specifically for streaming created by over 40 independent artists and theatre companies from across the world. Accessible from your living room at the click of a button, the Living Record Festival is a celebration of ground breaking grassroots digital art happening …
The Living Record Festival live from 17 January to 22 February! Read More »
Happy New Year everyone and hope you all had a great festive break! Whilst going into Lockdown (for our UK followers at least) hasn’t been quite the best way to kick off 2021, we’re still feeling optimistic about developing our work throughout the year and most of all, supporting new and emerging writers the best …
You can now watch this event on YouTube. Watch here: https://youtu.be/TFAyrVGjLv8 It’s free to watch but if you like what you see, donations are very welcome and help us to create more events like this! Over the bizarre year that 2020 has been, we’ve been running our annual Play Club project. Writers get a …
Congratulations to LPW members, Lekha Desai Morrison whose new play, Myles and Me is being performed on 9th and 10th December at The Space Theatre in London. It will be streamed live on the evening of the 10th. The link to book tickets is https://space.org.uk/event/myles-and-me/. Myles and Me is a one woman humorous show looking at being diagnosed …
Member News: Myles and Me by Lekha Desai Morrison to be streamed at The Space Read More »
Want to find your favourite playwriting books or plays and support independent booksellers? We’ve created our own store front with Bookshop (an online book store which supports independents!). It’s still very much work in progress but we plan to add to it as we go along. Please feel free to add your book recommendations in …
Some good news! LPW member Henry Dawe has just had his first book published, a six-part series of extended comedy sketches called ‘Play on Words’. To give a taster from the episode called ‘The Grand Tour of the British Isles’: ‘Well, don’t forget my cousin’s a seamstress if that helps. I know she’s busy …
LPW Member Henry Dawe has ‘Play On Words’ book published Read More »
We have some big news for you! We’re really pleased to announce we’ll be joining the Lion and Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company. This means we’ll have a physical space to call home – and is a huge step for us in being able to continue the work we do for developing the work …
London Playwrights joins the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company Read More »
**ALL EMAILS AVAILABLE ON THE MEMBERS’ SITE! IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO GET SOME INSPIRATION!** I think we can all agree that we’re done with 2020, right? With that in mind, we’re really excited to announce that WrAP (or, Write A Play) is back for 2021! For the 4th year running, we’ll be challenging you …
#WrAP is back for 2021! Write a play in January! Read More »
And that’s a wrap for Play Club 2020 submissions! We’re thrilled to now have our full line-up of short plays which will get receive readings in an event towards the end of 2020, or start of 2021 – COVID depending! Play Club Winner #6 – Rupert Mallin: Juno’s Swans Our fourth winner of Play Club …
Get Your Play on is a podcast for playwrights and theatre makers who want to know more about getting their play produced on the professional stage. In each episode, they talk to the people who decide what gets made: from artistic directors to producers, programmers, and theatre companies. The podcast is a fantastic resource for writers …
Get Your Play On Podcast with LPW’s Kimberley Andrews Read More »
