Following the appointment of an Associate Director, the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, is now in a position to be able to accept script submissions again. In order to avoid a backlog of unread material they will only receive scripts during certain periods of the year. The first submission window will run until Friday 30th of September. …
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Write/Cycle has put out a call for short plays. The Brief: Write a 10 minute response to the classic text Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! This can be in absolutely any way you wish as long as the original kernel of your idea comes from this text- albeit style, narrative, character, setting, a prologue- or anything else …
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Perfect Pitch has announced a new £12,000 award for musical theatre writing, in association with Royal & Derngate Northampton. Selected writers will be asked to ‘pitch’ ten minutes of a brand new musical to a panel of experienced judges including Olivier award winning actors Michael Ball and Janie Dee, director Rachel Kavanaugh (Love Story, Sound of Music), …
Southbank Centre is looking for 10 up and coming writers to take part in Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair, a very exciting project with spoken word artist Simon Mole involving workshops and performances in two live shows at Southbank Centre: Simon Mole’s ground-breaking one man show is a spoken word adventure that takes …
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Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Collaborative Writing Masterclass with the Paper Tiger collective – applications open (fee) – Deadline: 13 September Radio 4 sketch series 2525 seeking submissions – Deadline: 13 September 2013 The Roundhouse accepting proposals for …
This Autumn, the Royal Court will be running two Introduction to Playwriting groups, one for writers aged 18 to 25 and the other for writers aged 26 and over. Both groups are intended to help playwrights at an early stage in their career to develop their skills. The groups will run for twelve weeks throughout the remainder …
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The Resident Theatre Company (RTC) at Fullerton College, California, is seeking submissions of original full-length plays and original full length musical theatre works of any genre for it’s annual Playwright’s Festival to be held during January 2014 in the Fullerton College Bronwyn Dodson Theatre. How to apply: plays should be sent by email to wmittler@fullcoll.edu. Deadline: Monday …
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After the success of “Executed for Sodomy: The Life Story of Caterina Linck” at the Edinburgh Fringe, SHIFT Productions are on the hunt for new writers and are hoping to stage three productions between November and August 2014. They are looking for work that is bold, exciting and has something to say about how we live …
The Space is seeking playwrights for a brand-new playwriting competition, Script6. Six up-and-coming playwrights will take part in a six month programme which will include workshops and script development, culminating in writing a brand-new full length play. The final scripts will be given rehearsed readings by professional actors in a three-day Script6 Festival. A special panel will …
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Paper Tiger are holding a one day masterclass which aims to introduce different ways to approach writing and editing collaboratively. As many writers work across theatre, opera, film and TV, they encounter multiple models of ‘collaboration’ at various stages in the writing process and this workshop will unpack ways to: Identify core stimuli to write …
