Kate Pettigrew

Skint Theatre is on the look-out for outstanding 10-15 minute performance pieces for its upcoming festival at The Island, Bristol, (28–30 April 2017). The theme for this year’s festival is “Stranger Tales”. Skint wants  eccentric stories of the odd, uncanny and surreal. Selected pieces will be performed for three days at Skint Theatre Festival April 2017. …

Uncanny and surreal ‘Stranger Tales’ sought for Skint Theatre Festival (Bristol) Read More »

TV, theatre and radio writers will get the chance to tap the experience of X-Files executive producer, Frank Spotnitz as part of a new Writers’ Room Scheme being launched by his UK based company Big Light Productions. Created in partnership with Creative Skillset’s High End TV Council through the HETV Levy, the paid shadow writer scheme enables …

Tap experience of X-Files producer in Big Light’s shadow writer scheme (paid) Read More »

The James Tait Black Prize for Drama is a £10,000 prize celebrating innovation in playwriting. The prize for the best original new play written in English, Scots or Gaelic is organised by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and the Traverse Theatre. Judges will award the accolade to a play which displays an …

£10,000 James Tait Black prize for drama with Edinburgh Festival tie in Read More »

The Octagon Theatre, Bolton, is launching the second year of its national prize, encouraging new and original writing for the stage. In celebration of the Octagon producing one of the most famous duologues in the theatrical canon Jim Cartwright’s TWO, entrants this year are invited to submit duologues of any theme or genre. The winning submissions will …

Duologues sought for Octagon theatre’s 50th anniversary Read More »

Tangled Feet is offering a year-long mentoring opportunity for four young and emerging theatre ensembles with the support of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. This is the third year of running the programme which grew out of the desire to support emerging ensembles in their formative years. What you get:  The programme will consist of four …

Tangled Feet and Lloyd Webber Foundation offers mentoring for young, emerging theatre ensembles Read More »

Les Enfants Terribles, a company that started from nothing 15 years ago, is aiming to inspire young theatre companies to do the same. LET, in collaboration with Greenwich Theatre, is offering two prizes; The LET Award and the Greenwich Partnership Award. They are: a performance slot in The Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, a cash injection of …

Last chance for spot on Edinburgh Fringe with Les Enfants Terribles Read More »

An £8,000 commission is on offer in  an inaugural prize that has been launched for new playwrights who work  in the theatre industry. Out of Joint and the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust have launched the Writers in Theatre – WiT Award. It is open to UK residents of any age who have not had …

£8,000 commission to be won in Writers in Theatre inaugural prize Read More »