Opportunities

Starting Blocks 2022 Call-Out Applications are now open for CPT’s unique artist support scheme Starting Blocks: a creative community for developing new theatre work. Starting Blocks invites artists to create innovative new projects, as part of a peer network encouraging collaboration between participants. Over ten weeks, participants meet weekly to share practice, ideas and their …

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Sprint 2022 Call-Out Sprint is London’s major annual festival of new and unusual theatre. CPT open their doors widely to artists at the very start of their careers, artists who’ve never performed at CPT before, or artists with brand new projects to perform. Applications are now open for Sprint 2022, which runs from March 8 …

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Barrel Organ presents the first event in the relaunch of their highly successful programme, LIVE LDN. LIVE is a scratch night of daring work, giving emerging, under-represented artists a chance to test new material before a live audience. They are looking for five artists/companies from across the country who will be commissioned to test up …

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BBC Writersroom at Celtic Media Festival Join a panel Q&A session at this year’s Celtic Media Festival to find out how BBC Writersroom works with writers and seeks out and develops new writing talent, with a strong emphasis on diversity and regionality. Members of the BBC Writersroom team will talk about what we are looking for from new …

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Global Jewish Voices is a uniquely curated theatre evening celebrating the diversity of Jewish voices around the world. Presented by Global Voices Theatre in partnership with Asylum Arts, GJV will showcase excerpts from 5 different plays/performance texts from the Jewish diaspora. These will be selected from a global callout by a team of international readers, …

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The Middle Child Writers’ Group offers a free introduction to playwriting, led by associate artist and Hull-based writer, Tom Wells. You don’t need to have written anything before, you just need to have a few good stories to tell – funny stories, sad stories, tough stories, tender stories – stories they’re eager to see on …

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This scholarship will award one talented writer of limited financial means a fully paid place on our three-month online Writing Your Memoir course. The Breakthrough Scholarship for Memoir Writers will award one talented writer of limited financial means a fully paid place on the Curtis Brown three-month online Writing Your Memoir course. This online course …

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