Competitions

Just Some Theatre’s Forward Dialogue initiative invites writers of any experience to submit their unperformed and original scripts for developmental online readings with actors and directors. They ask all applicants to submit a full (unperformed) theatre script. Their team will then select the top ten submissions and each shortlisted writer will be given a £70 …

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The Brighton Scratch Night is at the Rialto for ONE NIGHT ONLY this year. Six extracts, one play receiving a fully produced run at Brighton Fringe 2021 and always an absolutely cracking night, here are the 2020 guidelines: • Scripts can be on ANY subject (PDFs), from ANYONE – Although they do encourage applicants from …

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Calling all under 18s! The Questors Theatre have been setting young people a series of writing challenges over lockdown, and last week they launched their first competition. Write a soliloquy from the point of view of this character – winner will be produced for their Scenes in Solitude, posted on our YouTube & socials. Here’s …

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Master Class are a theatre education charity *usually* based in the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Their charitable objectives are to advance the education of young people aged 17 – 30 by promoting the study of drama and in particular the art and craft of theatre, and they are delighted to announce the return of their Pitch …

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Write Now Berlin are launching a 10-minute play competition. It’s time to write. Today sharing stories is more important than ever. Even though they are a Berlin based playwriting community they would like to make this competition accessible to anyone from anywhere around the world. Please check out the website about the details and how …

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OutStageUs is an annual LGBT+ new writing event run by Manchester based Hive North. Each year up to eight short plays, scenes or monologues are selected to be developed and brought to production at The Lowry, Salford. The successful script writers will receive a fee of £300 and be offered the opportunity to develop their script, working online …

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Entries are now open for writers to submit a short play of no more than 10 minutes in length on the theme of THE ROAD NOT TAKEN for the Chesil Theatre’s TakeTen fesitval. Ten plays will be selected from all the submissions and the PRIZE for the winning ten plays is that they will be performed four …

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Script6 and Nicholas McInerny are looking for five 10-minute scripts about life during the Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of identifying a producer to develop them for television broadcast. If the offer is accepted, the aim would be to have the scripts filmed and produced during lockdown. They are particularly interested in scripts that, alongside …

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Reflex Theatre based in Norwich – an Actor-Led Ensemble creating exciting and original content through Rehearsed Improvisation. They’re looking for submissions for their short form online scratch night that will take place on 1st July 2020. They have one rule – the writers must submit a synopsis, a first page and a last page of …

Reflex Theatre based in Norwich looking for submissions for an online scratch night of shorts Read More »

Aktualise is so excited to be taking its biannual scratch night online: cue CYBER-SCRATCH. Due to be hosted by Poplar Union in May, Aktualise Theatre are determined to continue to find, support and give new work a platform despite the current circumstances. The CYBER-SCRATCH will be a streamed evening of innovative new work showing around …

Aktualise are taking its biannual scratch night online and are looking for short pieces Read More »