The Significant Other Festival is an annual festival of 10, 10 minute plays created in just 10 days. The festival runs in London and Manchester. This year the 6th Significant Other Festival is at The Vaults Theatre in London with performances from 14-18 March 2017. Applications are now open for writers, actors and directors. 10 writers will create …
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The Writers Club is a unique club for playwrights, where writers come together to develop their scripts, learn, share and inspire. In association with Directors Cut Theatre Company. Workshops are run by artistic director Heather Ward who has an MA in Theatre Directing, studied playwriting in her BA degree and was the co-artistic director of …
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Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in February 2017. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but you can click through to peruse the whole list of playwriting opportunities. Deadline: Various throughout February Source: Play Submissions Helper
Omnibus are looking for submissions for the annual Omnibus Literary Festival. Taking as inspiration the site’s former life as the Old Library, Omnibus are looking for playwrights who have an adaptation of a novel to be part of an evening showcasing new work. What you get: Selected pieces will receive rehearsal time with professional actors …
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The Bruntwood Prize – the biggest playwriting competition in the UK, both in terms of number of submissions and prize money – has been launched, so time to get your scripts ready before the June deadline. The biennial Bruntwood Prize is organised by The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and property company Bruntwood. It is open to all playwrights aged 16 and …
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Brave New World is open for submissions for five minute pieces for a new writing night on the theme of Legacy on Friday 31 March at Slam in King’s Cross. Theme: Brave New World says after a year of high-profile deaths in 2016 Legacy will explore the aftermath. In their own words: “Having waved goodbye to Obama from …
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Playwriting The Art of Redrafting with Jemma Kennedy and Tanya Ronder Saturday 4 February and Sunday 5 February, 10.30am-4.30pm John Lyon Education Studio, National Theatre Studio, 83 -101 The Cut, London, SE1 8LL. About the course: This two-day course with playwrights Tanya Ronder and Jemma Kennedy will set out a practical approach to redrafting your play. …
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The Writers Avenue Theatre Company is open to writers aged 18-30 who would like the opportunity to develop work and showcase it in front of an audience including top industry professionals. It is looking for scripts on the theme: Six degrees: It’s a small world. The playwright, Frigyes Karinthy, was the first to bring forth the 6 …
Stichin’ Fiction has announced a new writing night where creatives are challenged to cast, rehearse, and perform in the course of a single evening in a free workshopping environment. Stitchin’ Fiction says: “Writers with words stuck in their laptops and notebooks are given a pool of performers, who want to work and stretch their collaborative muscles …
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