Want to support LPB? Become a member! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline). …
BBC Wales is launching a brand-new initiative to find up to three new comedy programmes for BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer. Find Me Funny is a new comedy pilot initiative aimed at writers living or working full time in Wales, or those writers who can represent Welsh culture with authenticity, with the aim of …
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Persistent and Nasty is a platform for female-identified humans working, writing and performing in the stage and screen industry. It was born from the frustration and anger of four actresses/writers, fed-up with the treatment of women across the industry; from the lack of profile female writers get, to the way that women are treated in …
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Goblin Baby Co. are currently seeking short play and monologues submissions for their upcoming Breaking Loose Festival. The festival aims to explore intersectionality and solidarity and will be taking part at The Bread and Roses from 18-25 February 2018. In their words: “The battle for equality has been ongoing for centuries and diversity is much talked …
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The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its seventeenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Arundel Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel. The Trail is firmly established as one of the major components in the …
Arundel Festival Theatre Trail/Drip Action Theatre Company seek short plays Read More »
Want to support LPB? Become a member! Our weekly Friday round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline). …
An innovative writing competition using contemporary Irish art to inspire writers has been launched by London Irish Green Curtain Theatre Company. Entries are now invited for the Green Curtain Monologue/ Playlet Writing Competition. Entitled “Every Picture Tells a Story” writers are invited to create either short plays or monologues about life in the UK which …
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Reboot Theatre Company are accepting submissions for their next show at a Central London theatre in early Spring 2018 and they are offering a £50 fee to all writers that are selected. They are producing an evening of new writing, and will select and perform 4 – 6 short plays. There is no specific theme …
Reboot Theatre Company seeking new writing for 2018 Spring Season (£50 Prize) Read More »
Each week we look through our pile of writing opportunities to pick out one we think is particularly worth your time. It could be an innovative brief, great prize money, a high-profile company, or just plain fun. This week’s pick: Talos II: Science Fiction Theatre Festival – Call for Scripts Description: TALOS: the Science Fiction Theatre Festival …
Last Word Theatre are seeking a LGBTQ identifying female playwright to develop a female LGBTQ focused piece of writing. In their words: “We are very open to ideas and keen this should be lead by a writer’s tastes. We aim to develop a funding application to R&D the idea or script and then hopefully grow …
