If you’ve joined us in despairing the end of IdeasTap, you’ll be thrilled to hear their partnership with Hiive will enable them to continue offering opportunities to emerging creative over the coming months. Upcoming opportunities include continuing the IdeasTap Innovators Fund, opportunities to be a columnist, and a new initiative called the Old Vic 12 …
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The winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize has been announced! Playwright James Rushbrook has taken home the seventh annual prize for his play TOMCAT, which was chosen from over 600 entries. A little teaser of the play can be found on the Papatango website: “Oh, she’s dangerous. But not because of her genes. Because …
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The Bush Theatre has now opened its’ summer 2015 submission window. The Playwriting Department at the Bush Theatre is committed to discovering the best new plays from playwrights who may be unknown to us and therefore seek unsolicited submissions from playwrights throughout the year in dedicated script windows. We are proud to be a champion …
Like most emerging creatives, we were deeply saddened to hear IdeasTap would be closing, but today they’ve shared wonderful news that they will be postponing their closure until 8 July, and will carry on some of their work through a partnership with Hiive. Read the full update here.
After 7 successful years IdeasTap plans to close down this June due to a lack of funding. Read a statement from the Chairman here. Source: IdeasTap
If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably made new year’s resolutions that involve playwriting; whether it’s to make more time to write, to apply for more writing opportunities or to get that script finished! So, we thought it would be a good time to share with you the exciting stuff we have coming up in …
The BBC have announced the selected writers for the BBC Writersroom 10, an initiative that partners writers with theatres who will support them during the year-long development scheme, and gives them a £1000 seed commission to develop a new work. The selected writers are: Alice Birch – West Yorkshire Playhouse Carol Vine – Brockley Jack …
Papatango have announced the shortlist for their annual writing competition, run in association with the Finborough Theatre. The shortlisted plays are: Briar Rose City Melodies Come Home, Badger Gash Coolatully Harbour Stage Irish Stuff The Demolition The identities of the writers have not been announced, since they operate a blind submission policy. Good luck to …
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As reported in The Stage: Rory Mullarkey has won the 2014 Pinter Commission playwriting award, which sees a new work by the winner supported by London’s Royal Court Theatre. The prize is now in its third year and is given to any playwright, whether they be established or unpublished. Previous recipients of the prize – …
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The winners of the £12,000 Perfect Pitch Award have been announced! Chris Bush and Matthew Winkworth won with their pitch for the new musical ‘Odd’, which retells the story of the Odyssey through the eyes of a modern-day teenage girl. They were selected by a panel of industry experts, including: performers Michael Ball and Rosemary …
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