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Opportunities Listings
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:
Reflex Theatre accepting submissions for short form scratch night at Norwich Fringe Festival – Deadline: 10 March 2021
BBC Radio 4 Extra – Newsjack – Deadlines: various until 16 March 2021
Moonbug Entertainment recruiting Writer for Digital Projects – Deadline: 16 March 2021
ThickSkin Commission for West Yorkshire-based Writer – Deadline: 16 March 2021
Rolling deadlines:The 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends seeking scripts based on Quaker History
Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund – Deadline: rolling
ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – 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
Off Book Productions seeking new work for scratch night – Deadline: none posted
Online New Writing Nights at Dapper Sandwich – Deadline: none posted
Obsydyan Theatre seeking Caribbean and African Writers – 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
Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie – 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
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
We Exist: Online LGBT+ Open Writing and Creative Space
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
Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday
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)
Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021 (we will also be including individual listings in the round-up)
LPW Playwrights’ Playground: A new online drop-in writing group – Date: 6 march 2021* last minute places still available!*
LPW Online Workshops: Writing Compelling Dialogue – Date: 6 March 2021 at 10am/ (runs again 15 May 2021 at 4pm)
LGBTQ+ Playwriting Course with James McDermott £108/£72 – Date: Starts 8 March 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Audio (4 week introductory course) – Date: starts 11 March 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Playwrighting for Everyone (A 6 Week Course) – Dates: starts Saturday 13th March 2021 for 6 weeks
LPW Online Workshops Writing for Audio – Developing Your Work for Pitching and Production (Next level course) – Date: Starts 26th March, Friday evenings 5pm-7pm for 4 weeks
LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing-Style and Structure – Date: 21 March 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Focus on the 5 Act Structure – Date: 27 March 2021 2021
LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing- Starting Writing! – Date: 28 March 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Starting a Company – Date: 29 March 2021 at 5pm-7pm
LPW Online Workshops: Playwrighting for Everyone – Write a Play! – Dates: Starts Saturday 1st May 2021 for 6 weeks
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:
The 18th Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing 2021 open for entries – Deadline: 5 March 2021
Young Writers Forge- Northern Broadsides – Deadline: 7 March 2021
Yorkshire-based Playwright / Poet / Spoken Word Artist, Cast – Deadline: 10 March 2021
The David Nobbs Memorial Trust – 4th Annual Comedy Writing Competition – Deadline: 12 March 2021
Theatre 503: Applications open for 503five playwriting residency – Deadline: 15 March 2021
Outside Edge Theatre Company recruiting for the Chair of the Board of Trustees – Deadline: 22 March 2021
Glasgow Caledonian University – Script based Phd Opportunity – Deadline: 23 March 2021
Cosmopolitan Short Film Festival – Deadline: 25 March 2021
Coventry City of Culture 2021: Call-out for Coventry or Warwickshire based Writer/Dramaturg – Deadline: 25 March 2021
KDC Theatre accepting short plays on the theme of obsession for new writing project – Deadline: 26 March 2021
The Arch 468 Hope Prize (£10k commission) – Deadline: 29 March 2021
Sky Blue Theatre: British Theatre Challenge 2021 – Deadline: 30 March 2021
Down Stage Write – Write Up! 2021 – Deadline: 30 March 2021
Rame Projects – Paid art writing opportunity – Deadline: 31 March 2021
The Alpine Fellowship – Theatre Prize 2021 – Deadline: 1 April 2021
London Playwrights’ Workshop: Member Submissions Window – Send us your Plays! – Deadline: 14 April 2021
The ETPEP Award 2021 – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Edwin Wong presents the 3rd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 31 May 2021
Rolling & Unspecified 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 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends seeking scripts based on Quaker History – Deadline: not specified
Coventry City of Culture 2021: Barriers To Bridges Artist Residency – Deadline: not specified
Think Shorts – Free Short film listing – Deadline: rolling
Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Association plans unveiled – Deadline: not applicable
Calling members of the Neurodivergent Theatre Community – Deadline: not applicable
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
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)
FREE Taster Days for the John Retallack Oxford Playwriting Course – Dates :15 May 2021 and 12 June 2021
Oxford Playwriting with John Retallack: Applications open for 2021/22 courses – Dates: courses start October 2021