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Digital Opportunities
We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, digital resources, and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops. (For a listing of online streams of theatre productions, click here).
With deadlines:
INK Festival & BBC Radio Suffolk – An INKy Christmas – Deadline: 6 November 2020
Fighting Words NI & Nerve Centre – Screenwriting Mini-Academy (Northern Ireland) – Deadline: 12 November 2020
SOS Theatre Fest: CALL FOR ENTRIES! – Deadline: 30 November 2020
Theatre West – Zooming Ahead – Deadline: various submission windows ending 28 February 2021
Rolling deadlines:
ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling
Call out for Audio Comedy & Comedy/Drama Scripts! – Deadline: rolling
Caravan Theatre accepting submissions for online reading group – Deadlines: various
Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project – Deadline: rolling
Director’s Cut – LockDown OpenUp – Deadline: rolling
Durham Student Theatre are looking for 5 minute monologues – Deadline: rolling
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre seeking audio scripts for podcast – Deadline: none posted
Fable Workshop is looking for writers to create social distancing plays – Deadline: rolling
Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions from womxn writers for new podcast – Deadline: rolling
Josef Weinberger Plays seeking 15 minute shorts for ISOPLAYTION – Deadline: rolling
LifeLogues – Series of monologues based on lived experiences – Deadline: none posted
Metal Rabbit Productions looking for scripts to be read out loud over Zoom – Deadline: rolling
Monday Playreaders are looking for new scripts to be read aloud via Zoom – Every Monday
Online New Writing Nights at Dapper Sandwich – Deadline: none posted
Table Spoon Theatre accepting submissions for online publication – Deadline: ongoing
The Creative Hub seeking submissions on theme of climate crisis – Deadline: none posted
Theatre Three Off-Stage/On-Line – accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Quarantine Quill – Creative writing podcast – Deadline: rolling
Up ‘Ere Productions new online play reading group ‘The Breakfast Club’ – Deadline: rolling until filled
Digital Resources:
300 Thoughts for Theatremakers by Russell Lucas
Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast
Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)
Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is a new script-reading service for musicals
Chippy Lane Productions open list of female writers
Uproar Theatre: Creative Outburst free writing program – Weekly from 19 October – 14 December 2020
Every week Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival showcasing a film of performance
Financial support for arts individuals and organisations from the government
FREE 7-Day Writing Coaching Programme from Pick up your Pen
Free Q&As from Actor Awareness
Free scripts to read or use from Smith Scripts
Inverness Playwrights Writing Workshops
James McDermott – writer for hire selling zoom playwriting classes and script reports
LPW Podcast with Temi Wilkey, One Fine Play & The Bush Theatre
New Diorama – North Star Project
New writing festival of 80 plays to help raise funds for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – Deadline: none specified
NHB Playgroup: read a play for free and take part in Q&A with the writer – Every Wednesday
Nick Hern Books launches Playscript Subscriptions
Nick Hern Books Still on the Page – offering 30% discount on play texts
Online readings with DG Footlights celebrating new dramatic works
Papatango Library & Arts Council Advice
Podcast with Winsome Pinnock and the reasons why her play Leave Taking continues to be revived
Press release for world’s first multimedia theatre discovery platform
Professor Dan Rebellato in discussion with playwrights on youtube
Regional Fundraisers for Theatre freelancers
Resources and events for writers & artists during quarantine from Part of the Main
Sharp Scratches presents Writing in Isolation (Facebook Group)
Sherman Theatre Interval Projects
Smithscripts online scripts available to read
Space Theatre Club – watch a play online and meet up each week to discuss on zoom –Every week
Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)
Stage Door Live – episode 8 on access and inclusion
Talawa- One on one Zoom meetings for Black British Writers
The Goats Theatre Company presents new short plays and poems in their podcast
Underscore Studios launch project to address class imbalance in the arts
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
Women & Theatre podcast series exploring women and work
Writers warm-up every Mon/Fri at 10:15am by Playwrights’ Workshop (not affiliated with LPW)
Writing Resources from The Bruntwood Prize
Online Courses and Workshops
Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
Poleroid: Play In – Series 2 (Brand new masterclass opportunities for students) – Dates: various
Dramatists Guild Silent Writing Sessions (Zoom) – Dates: Every Wednesday in October 2020
Chippy Lane Productions: Welsh Female Writers Group – FREE online sessions for Welsh Female Writers – Date: 26 October/ 22 November/ 8 December 2020
LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Audio (4 week introductory course) : Running again – Starts 2 November 2020
LPW Online Workshops: Focus on the 5 Act Structure – Date: 7 November 2020
LPW Online Workshops: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 14 November 2020
Part of the Grid July Workshops for Writers
An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia
New Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure -Live now
LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop)
LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops)
LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write – Available now
LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist
Black Lives, Black Words: Playwriting Fundamentals Course
Squint’s GET WRITING and KEEP WRITING online workshops now booking – Dates: various
Live playwriting Opportunities
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 35 Play Submissions Opps with November Deadlines – Deadline: various throughout November 2020
Book Writer/ Liberttist wanted for collaboration on new musical – Deadline: asap
New Writing North & Sky Writes – Writers in Residence – Deadline: 6 November 2020
Out of Joint – Stockroom: accepting applications for writers room for theatre (Head writer role)- Deadline: 19 November 2020
Out of Joint – Stockroom: accepting applications for writers room for theatre – Deadline: 16 November 2020
The Royal Exchange Theatre seeking a Young Company Writer (paid) – Deadline: 16 November 2020
British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT) – Write for Winter Competition – Deadline: 22 November 2020
Hope Mill Theatre Through the Mill Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 27 November 2020
Scranton Scratch accepting submissions – Deadline: 27 November 2020
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh – The Lyceum’s L20: Artist Attachment Programme – Deadline: 29 November 2020
Ashland New Plays Festival open for submissions ($20 entry fee/ $1500 prize) – Deadline: 1 December 2020 (or when 500 submissions are received, whichever is sooner)
Ardimages UK and Shudder Films with the support of Curzon and Charades – Mother Tongues Award – Deadline: 1 December 2020
Comedy Crowd Chorts – accepting submissions – Deadline: 4 December 2020
The Treason Show – Topical Comedy Writers – Deadlines: every 2 weeks until 7 December 2020
New plays required for performance at Mountview’s ‘Catalyst’ Festival – Deadline: 20 December 2020
Editorial DALYA accepting submissions for the V International Playwriting Contest – Deadline: 31 December 2020
BBC Writersroom announce window for Drama and Comedy Drama Scripts – Deadline: 6 January 2020
University of Chester & Storyhouse – The Cheshire Prize for Literature – Deadline: 31 January 2021
Edwin Wong presents the 3rd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 31 May 2021
Rolling deadlines (please note that some of these opportunities are currently on hold due to covid-19, please visit individual websites for up to date information).
The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable
London Pub Theatres seeking new reviewers – Deadline: none posted
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Sapphic Voices are looking for women playwrights for a radio slot – Deadline: none posted
StageLaunch a brand-new website connecting indie/unpublished playwrights – Deadline: not applicable
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre interested in developing a stable of writers -Deadline: ongoing
Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre – Deadline: ongoing
Write Protect looking for proven script consultants to work on paid submissions – Deadline: none posted
Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions – Deadline: ongoing
The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice
The Royal Court now accepting online submissions – Deadline: rolling
London Playwrights Workshop accepting rolling submissions from members – Deadline: rolling
John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly
Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling
Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window
Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling
Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable
Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing
Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing
Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
Events and workshops:
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)