It’s that time of year again! Yes, we’re gearing up for our annual January playwriting challenge – WrAP (Write. A. Play)! With daily writing prompts to guide you through every step of the way, you can write a whole first draft in the month of January. This time, we’ll be ramping things up with weekly …
Find out about the selected writers here: https://www.writeaplay.co.uk/the-bruntwood-prize-for-playwriting-2022-shortlist/ Source: Write A Play
In celebration of Black History Month, this new play by Ayanna Serwaa will be shown at Chelsea Theatre on 15th October…This theatre piece, seeks to explore human rights and Justice using a very British Sport Rugby. Acting as a catalyst to explore the remnants of colonial rule and the links between colonialism and civil unrest, …
If Only My Breath Be Free – ( A Play in Research & Dev – Script in Hand) Read More »
We’re on the look out for an intern who can help us to source opportunities and maintain our popular blog The Opportunities and Blog Intern will source opportunities and be involved with creating blog posts. This is a great way to gain experience in blogging whilst keeping yourself up to date with the latest opportunities! …
London Playwrights – Opportunities and Blog Intern Read More »
We’re on the look out for an intern who can help us to support more writers by increasing our social media reach. The Social Media Intern will help us to run our social media channels and develop a new strategy to ensure we’re reaching as many emerging writers as possible. If you’re passionate about new …
We’re on the look out for an intern who can helps support our work whilst gaining some valuable, hands-on experience in a literary organisation. The Literary Intern will provide support for our popular submission window. The role will involve keeping track of scripts, providing administrative support, and communicating with our team of script readers and …
EDIE by Emma Dawson will be staged at Theatre503 on 23rd and 24th September. An earlier version of the play, titled MUM, was performed as part of the London Playwrights Festival last year so you can imagine our excitement to hear that the play has been developed further and is returning to the stage! We …
Interview with the writer and director of EDIE (coming soon to Theatre503!) Read More »
Play Club is our online book club for plays! Read plays, discuss them with the group and write a ten minute play in response to the text! Play Club – an online book club with a twist! As with last year’s Play Club, we’ll be featuring new writing from 3 incredible writers selected from our …
Play Club (our online book club for plays): X+Y+Z=? by Joanne Griffiths Read More »
We’re really excited to share an extract from the exciting new playwriting book by Jemma Kennedy, The Playwright’s Journey: From First Spark to First Night. In this extract, Jemma shares her thoughts on what playwrights can learn from working with actors. The book is available to buy now from Nick Hern Books (scroll down for …
Second Summer of Love was recently produced by Pants on Fire Theatre at the Omnibus Theatre. We interviewed writer; performer Emmy Happisburgh and Director, Peter Bramley who gave us an insight in to how the piece was created… Emmy Can you tell us about the inspiration behind the piece? I had seen a few TV shows …
Second Summer of Love: Interview with the Creative Team Read More »
