Opportunities

Spontaneous Productions in association with Kirkdale Bookshop presents Love Bites Again: short plays about love and heartbreak by emerging playwrights. Following on from the first LOVE BITES show in 2014, Spontaneous Productions is back with more tales of love and heartbreak by emerging playwrights from SE London. Expect comedy, tragedy, romance, quirkiness and a soupçon …

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As part of their commitment to discovering and nurturing extraordinary playwrights of the future, applications for the Orange Tree Theatre Writers Collective will be open from 10am on Tuesday 2 January 2018 to 12 noon on Monday 15 January. The Collective is an opportunity for a group of establishing writers to share skills, techniques and obsessions, and to …

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Play Submissions Helper have published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 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 January Source: Play …

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Following a sellout run at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Spring 2016, UnderExposed is making its second outing. This production will run for four nights at The Old Red Lion Theatre in London in April, followed by one night at The Southwark Playhouse in July, and will be a series of short plays that challenge under-exposed stereotypes. These could be …

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The Old Sorting Office (OSO) in Barnes is looking for new, untested or developing pieces of theatre for Dispatches, their inaugural scratch writing night, taking place on Thursday 15 March 2018. Eligibility: This 56-seat black-box theatre is committed to providing an outlet for new or developing voices in British playwriting – comic or serious, experimental or classic, …

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Theatre Centre have launched their first open call to playwrights for their annual commission: The Brian Way Award. Named in memory of their founder Brian Way who established Theatre Centre in 1953, The Brian Way Award welcomes expressions of interest on the theme of ‘Treaty’ from professional UK-based playwrights. One winner will be selected for a …

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Harts Theatre Company in partnership with Lyric Hammersmith presents the Young Harts Writing Festival 2018. Young Harts Writing Festival is an inter-borough new writing festival, which merges the gap between emerging young artists and professionals. Through an online competition, six plays from emerging young writers will be chosen. They receive a £100 commission and a free writing …

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