Opportunities

Submissions Open For Blue Elephant Theatre 2015 Playwriting Competition

As part of its commitment to supporting emerging practitioners, the Blue Elephant announces that it is now receiving entries to its 2015 Playwriting Competition. What you get:  The Blue Elephant will mount rehearsed readings of the winning entries this summer. What to submit:  We are seeking new plays which have not been performed before. We …

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Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2015 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail (£250 prize)

The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its fifteenth year. It performs at the end of August, on each of the Festival’s eight days, eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel – this year, for example a community hall, a restaurant, a football club and Arundel …

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Story Friday with A Word In Your Ear (Bath) – Theme: Quilt of Stories

Story Fridays in March is on 13th March and the theme is Quilt of Stories.  Deadline for submissions is Monday 2nd March. They are looking for writer-performers for each event.  Any story or monologue – fictional or factual – will be considered.  They are looking for a wide variety of stories for the evening.  They do not …

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Ghost Dog productions seeking 10min plays for Playground – Theme: Survival

Ghost Dog Productions runs a regular new writing showcase called Playground. Once again they’re on the lookout for submissions of 10min plays based around various themes. Our next show dates and themes are: 23rd & 24th March – MIND GAMES 20th -22nd April – SURVIVAL Deadlines are: MARCH – 19/01/15 APRIL – 16/02/15 What to submit:  Please make sure …

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Ghost Dog productions seeking 10min plays for Playground – Theme: Mind Games

Ghost Dog Productions runs a regular new writing showcase called Playground. Once again they’re on the lookout for submissions of 10min plays based around various themes. Our next show dates and themes are: 23rd & 24th March – MIND GAMES 20th -22nd April – SURVIVAL Deadlines are: MARCH – 19/01/15 APRIL – 16/02/15 What to submit: …

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Sphinx are looking for submissions for Women Centre Stage

Sphinx are looking for theatre pieces of roughly 10 to 20 minutes to be part of our festival programme at the National Theatre Temporary Space on 28th March 2015. What to submit:  Pieces must be female centred and/or driven and will be presented either as scratch performances, works in progress, or excerpts from longer pieces, from groups …

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Funding opportunity for disabled artists through Unlimited

Disabled artists and arts organisations with a strong track record in their field can apply for funding from Unlimited to create and present new work, across all art forms. The work may still be at a very early stage of conception, or have already undergone some research and development. The Unlimited commission awards will range …

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Wellcome Trust Arts Awards funding opportunity

The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts.  Applications are invited for projects of up to £40,000 through their small grants programme. The aim of the awards is to support arts projects …

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Arts Council England Funding Opportunity: Artists’ International Development Programme

The Artists’ International Development Programme is a £750,000 fund, jointly funded by the British Council and Arts Council England. The programme offers early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self-employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country.  The deadline for Round eight of …

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Play Submissions Helper – 39 playwriting opportunities with January (and late December) deadlines

Play Submissions Helper has just published their monthly roundup of opportunities, featuring those with deadlines in January 2015 and late December 2014. As usual, we’ve already picked and posted the ones we’ve found most relevant (most of these are based in the US), but if you’d like to peruse the whole list you can find it here. Source:  Play Submissions …

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