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Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline).
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Featured posts:
Five Years of London Playwrights’ Blog – and what’s next!
Has LPB impacted your writing? Share your story!
A writer’s guide to making the most out of VAULT Festival
#WrAP Diary Week 3 – When Life Gets In The Way
#WrAP Diary Week 2 – What Happens Next?
Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Brian Way Award 2018
Pursued By A Bear: “How can I get an agent without having produced plays?”
Opportunities with deadlines:
‘Tiny Shows’ seeking LGBTQ+ theatremakers – first come, first served
Play Submissions Helper: 33 Opportunities with January deadlines – various
Play Submissions Helper: 28 Opportunities with February deadlines – various
In Good Company seeking ideas to scratch at Derby Theatre (paid £250) – Deadline: 26 January 2018
28 Plays Later (£20.18 entry, finishers share profits) – Deadline: 28 January 2018
Page to Stage seeking 10 min submissions for February show – Deadline: 29 January 2018
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre seeking one-acts for ‘Play Write’ – Deadline: 31 January 2018
Kinkyfish seeking submissions for production at Edinburgh – Deadline: 31 January 2018
BBC World Service and British Council launch International Radio Playwriting Competition 2018 – Deadline: 31 January 2018
Arundel Festival Theatre Trail/Drip Action Theatre Company seek short play– Deadline: 31 January 2018
The Script Room Seeking Submissions for March 2018 Showcase – Deadline: 31 January 2018
‘Anything Goes’ scratch opportunity at VAULT Festival – Deadline: 31 January 2018
Yellow Stockings seeking 50-60 minute plays for London and Edinburgh runs – Deadline: 31 January 2018
Stagewrite Festival seeking submissions – Deadline: 31 January 2018
The Debbies TV New Voices Script Award (£10 fee) – Deadline: 1 February 2018
Test your idea at ‘A Pleasance Scratch’ – Deadline: 4 February 2018
Series Mania Writers’ Campus in Lille France (free accommodation) – Deadline: 5 February 2018
Bush Theatre seeking Associate Dramaturg – Deadline: 5 February 2018
Derby Theatre New Work Commission for young people (£7,500) – Deadline: 5 February 2018
Tender opportunity for large scale installations with SO Festival – Deadline: 5 February 2018
Red Planet Prize 2018 – Deadline: 9 February 2018
Underexposed Writing Festival seeking submissions – Deadline: 10 February 2018
Old Sorting Office seeking submissions for inaugural scratch night ‘Dispatches’ – Deadline: 10 February 2018
Poet in Residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital Arts (paid) – Deadline: 12 February 2018
Brainchild seeking submissions for Hatch #6 – Deadline: 12 February 2018
Talawa Studio Firsts offering space and support (Black theatremakers) – Deadline: 13 February 2018
Bradford Playhouse seeking short plays on LGBT themes – Deadline: 15 February 2018
Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries ($25,000 prize) – Deadline: 15 February 2018
Theatre Centre open call-out to playwrights: The Brian Way Award -Deadline: 16 February 2018
Theatr Clwyd announce third year of Writer In Residence Scheme – Deadline: 16 February 2018
Young Harts Writing Festival 2018 – Deadline: 16 February 2018
Taal Himalayan residency open to applications (£449) – Deadline: 16 February 2018
Lotus Lee Foundation New Work Initiative – Deadline: 18 February 2018
Yard Theatre seeking submissions for Live Drafts – Deadline: 26 February 2018
Stockport Garrick Theatre New Writing Festival seeking 45-90 min plays – Deadline: 26 February 2018
The Papatango New Writing Prize 2018 – Deadline: 28 February 2018
One Eyed Dog Films open submission window – 28 February 2018
Asphalt Jungle Shorts XIV seeking site-specific short plays (Canada) – Deadline: 1 March 2018
Has LPB impacted your writing? Share your story! – Deadline: 5 March 2018
Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing at Windsor Fringe (£500 prize) – Deadline: 5 March 2018
Chesil Theatre seeking plays on ‘Hidden Worlds’ for 10×10 Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 30 March 2018
Sky Blue seeking short plays for British Theatre Challenge 2018 (£16 fee) – Deadline: 30 March 2018
Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2018 – Deadline: 31 March 2018
Faversham Fringe 2018 open to applications – Deadline: 31 March 2018, but slots filled on rolling basis
Audiojam playscript competition (£2.99 fee) – Deadline: 31 March 2018
Waterloo Festival Publishing Competition – Deadline: 31 March 2018
Punk Monkey Productions seeking one-act plays for PL.A.Y Noir (Los Angeles) – Deadline: 31 May 2018
Kevin Elyot Award for Writer-in-Residence 2018 (£3,000) – Deadline: 20 April 2018
365 Women a Year Playwriting Project – Deadline: 31 December 2018
Events and workshops:
Write A Play (#WrAP2018) Online Writing Workshop – 1-31 January 2018
Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm
Papatango workshop on submitting for the prize – Wednesday 31 January 2018 from 10-11am
‘Starting a Performing Arts Company’ course with ITC (£90) – Thursday 1 February from 10.00am – 5.00pm
Papatango Workshop with 2017 winner Stewart Pringle – Saturday 3 February 2018 from 11am-1pm
‘How To Write a Play, Screenplay or Radio play’ workshop at the Hampstead – 17 February 2018
Papatango workshop on opening scenes with Sharon Clark – Monday 12 March 2018 from 2.30-4.30pm
Playwriting Workshop with John Burgess in Poitiers, France – 4-8 May 2018
Ongoing submissions:
Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing
Aurora Metro Books seeks British East Asian plays for publication – Deadline: Ongoing
TheatreLab seeking scripts for rehearsed reading – Deadline: None Posted
Target Theatre Company seeking new plays for development – Deadline: None posted
Middle Child Theatre seeking scripts to commission – Deadline: None posted
Ugly Duck offering cheap rehearsal space in Docklands – next few months for Edinburgh Fringe– Deadline: None posted
Three opportunities with Alphabetti Theatre and rolling deadlines– Deadline: None posted
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
London Poet seeking film makers to collaborate with – Deadline: none
Edgemar Center for the Arts (Santa Monica) seeking new work for 2017 season – Deadline: none
Batty Mama seeking writers/ artists – Deadline: none posted
Rich Gifts Theatre seeking writers – Deadline: rolling
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Classroom – Comedy writing resources for young people – Deadline: various
Online Masterclass with Aaron Sorkin on Screenwriting ($90) – Deadline: none posted
JW3 seeking submissions of pieces about Jewish culture – Deadline: rolling
BFI Postroom open to submissions of films and scripts from emerging filmmakers – Deadline: rolling
Opportunities to hear your play with Player Playwrights – Deadline: rolling
Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – Deadline: rolling
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)
The Institute of Other seeking creative practitioners – Deadline: none posted
White Hart Trust Studios seeking international and foreign language theatre – Deadline: none posted
Pokfulam Rd Productions looking for playwrights and creatives – Deadline: none posted
55 Kings Contemporary Theatre Productions looking for writers – Deadline: none posted
Plane Paper Theatre call out for plays – Deadline: none posted
Theatrelab seeking scripts to perform at ‘WordPlay’ at Bath Spa University – Deadline: none posted
Londonville Lit offering reading slots – Deadline: none posted
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – Deadline: none posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month.
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: none (open submissions)