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 now grouped into three sections: 1) Opportunities with Deadlines; 2) Ongoing opportunities (no deadline); and 3) Workshops and Events.
Opportunities with deadlines:
Proscenium Theatre Journal accepting play submissions – Deadline: 5 December 2014
Vertical Line accepting scripts for young audiences – Deadline: 5 December 2014
IdeasTap offering places on film development workshop with SAI/Working Title – Deadline: 11 December 2014
SCI-FEST LA accepting submissions of short plays – Deadline: 15 December 2014
Jessie Kesson Fellowship open for applications from writers with a production credit – Deadline: 15 December 2014 at 5pm
Berliner Festspiele seeking new plays – Deadline: 15 December 2014
Eclipse Theatre Company accepting submissions from Black British writers – Deadline: 15 December 2014 at 5pm
The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award (£32,000 grant) – Deadline: 19 December 2014
Heavy Weather call out for playwrights! – Deadline: 22 December 2014
Tron Theatre accepting submissions for scratch night – Deadline: 22 December 2014
Lost Theatre seeking plays for 5 Minute Festival (£10 entry fee, self-producing preferred, £100 prize) – Deadline: 28 December 2014
Fisher Taylor-Gaunt accepting musical theatre submissions – Deadline: 28 December 2014 at 6pm
East End Literary Salon seeking 10-20 minute submissions – Deadline: 31 December 2014
The North Wall (Oxford) accepting applications for writer residency – Deadline: 31 December 2014
Carabosse seeking 5-20 minute submissions for Pub Theatre night (Milton Keynes, open to London writers) – Deadline: 31 December 2014
Calling all film makers! IdeasTap £10K Film Fund accepting applications – Deadline: 19 January 2015
Constance Cox Playwriting Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£7 entry fee, £280 prize) – Deadline: 24 January 2015
Bruntwood Prize coming back soon, get your scripts ready! – Competition to be launched on 29 January 2015
Brockley Jack seeking full length plays for Write Now 6 (for playwrights with a connection to SE London) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
IdeasTap Quarterly Editor’s Brief: Family (£250 prize) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
Ten Minute Play Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£5 entry fee) – Deadline: 31 January 2015
Sky Arts – Scholarships of £30k available for emerging talent including playwrights! – Deadline: 26 February 2015
Giant Cherries LGBT Playwriting Competition 2015 (£20 entry fee) – Deadline: 28 February 2015
Saving Endangered Species (SES) International Playwriting Prize (California, $100 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2015
Ongoing submissions:
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Fractured Lines accepting scripts for new writing night – Deadline: rolling
Theatrelab accepting scripts – rolling submissions
Mind the Gap seeking plays by British Writers for performance in NYC ($5 fee) – Deadline: None posted. Plays to be produced in November 2014
Kings Head Theatre seeking work in development for Without Decor – Deadline: none posted
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Performance Platform Opportunity, University of Greenwich – Deadline: None posted
Quids In Theatre Co seeking 40-60 minute plays for lunchtime series – Deadline: Ongoing
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month through to June 2014.
ScriptSpace development workshop at The Space – Deadline: None
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Open Arts Cafe Call for Submissions – Deadline: None posted
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
Events and workshops:
Mike Bartlett speaking at Waterstones Hampstead – 28 November 2014 at 7pm
IdeasTap Spa hosting free Q&A with Louise Stephen & Henry Swindell – Workshop date: 29 November 2014 at 6.30pm
IdeasTap workshop – how to produce an evening of short plays – Workshop date: 3 December 2014 at 6.30pm
IdeasTap Workshop – Write Now 6: Synopsis Surgery (2) – Workshop date: 4 December 2014 at 4pm – 6pm
Vertical Lines holding a writer response event– 7 December 2014 at 3pm