Opportunities

BBC Writersroom COMEDY Script Room 2017 open for submissions

BBC Writersroom’s regular window for unsolicited scripts is open between 10am on Monday 17thApril 2017 and 5pm on Monday 15th May 2017 for Comedy scripts (TV, film, radio, stage or online). “This year we are asking writers to tell us which 10 consecutive pages of their script to read first. Which 10 pages do you think …

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Sterts Theatre One Act Play Writing Competition 2017 (entry £7, prize £40)

  Sterts Theatre are looking for an original 25-35 minute one act play for up to four adult actors to be performed in a studio space  for their 2017 playwriting competition. Plays can be on any theme. Prizes: £100 first prize and your play performed in Sterts studio. Two runners up will each receive a …

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Masterclass: Re-writing your Play with Lisa Goldman

Led by Lisa Goldman, author of The No Rules Handbook for Writers, this intensive weekend masterclass will give you the skills, confidence and focus to sustain you through your next draft. You will scrutinise what is and isn’t working in your script, solve issues of craft and process and deepen your understanding of writing.  Packed …

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Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 14 April 2017

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Be inspired by music and write a movie in ten weeks with Screen Arts Institute (Fee: £1,496)

Write a movie in ten weeks flat with the The Screen Arts Institute Knock it Out course on Monday evenings 7-10pm at the BFI Southbank, London, from 8 May-10 July 2017. The SAI says the story development & speed writing course is inspired by “whatever music does it for you; Stormzy, Jamie XX, Gabriel Yared, …

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Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Tamasha seeks diverse shorts for comedy scratch night at Soho Theatre

Each week we look through our pile of writing opportunities to pick out one we think is particularly worth your time. It could be an innovative brief, great prize money, a high-profile company, or just plain fun. This week’s pick: Tamasha seeks diverse shorts for comedy scratch night at Soho Theatre Description: applications are open for …

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Full Circle Theatre launch new online radio playwriting festival for 2017

Following the success of their previously theatre based playwriting festivals, Full Circle Theatre have decided to move the festival online to reach a wider, international, audience. Winning entries will be recorded as ‘radio’ plays and launched on their website http://www.fullcircletheatre.net where they will remain available to download free of charge for a year. They will be …

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Player-Playwrights seek 15-minute plays on ‘them and us’ theme (£5 entry fee, £300 prize)

Player-Playwrights, London’s weekly forum for new stage writing, is holding an open competition for new short plays on the theme of ‘Them and Us’ for playwrights in London, Greater London or the Home Counties The finals of the competition will be held at the Player-Playwrights venue, upstairs at the North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road NW6 7QB on 10 July 2017, …

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BrightLights Theatre seeks new writing for development from workshop to production

The BrightLights Theatre Production and Development Company is looking for full length new scripts with the potential for production in London. BrightLights says it will also consider scripts that need workshopping or that would benefit from a rehearsed reading. “If you’re a playwright, an agent or hold the rights to an existing play and want …

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Ruislip Dramatic Society call out for shorts for Scratch Night

Ruislip Dramatic Society is hosting its first Scratch Night on  7 July 2017 at Uxbridge Library and is looking for 4 short 15 minute new plays, or parts of a new play on any topic by local writers. RDS says: “This is a fantastic opportunity for a writer to showcase their skills and ideas. “Scratch nights are …

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