London Playwrights Blog is putting out a call for scripts! The Dark Horse Script Festival will take place as part of London Writers’ Week 2016 this July. It will be organised by London Playwrights Workshop, the non-profit company that manages LPB. We’re now looking for writers to work with on the Festival, and are opening …
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So you’ve won your first playwriting competition. Brilliant. Now what? In this guest post, new writer Sarah Tejal Hamilton shares her experience of winning her first short play competition and the challenge of putting on a full-length work. Last October I won London Horror Festival’s playwriting competition, a 10-minute piece called Chew, which was judged …
We’re very happy to announce we’ll be offering a range of new courses to support writers in Spring 2016, ranging from one-off workshops to term-long courses, and catering to writers at a variety of levels. Do keep an eye on on our Workshops listings, as we may add new courses for later in the spring. Please …
Since we set up the London Playwrights’ Blog in early 2013, we’ve been overwhelmed by the fantastic response we’d have from all of our play-writing readers. In the past two and a half years, we’ve truly loved getting to connect with all of you emerging writers, and have seen firsthand the amazing, vibrant community of …
In the fifth post in her series on producing your own show, Kimberley Andrews sheds some light on casting: how do you go about finding actors? What should you expect from them? What are the pitfalls of asking people to work for free? Firstly, lets assume you and your director have agreed you’ll have some …
In this guest post – an example of how committed writers can make the most of challenging circumstances – Tamara von Werthern explains how she managed to complete a play on a tight deadline on a family holiday. I put the phone down with a mixture of elation and dread. The good news was that the Arcola …
Competitions can be a great way to break into the industry as an emerging writer. Making a shortlist or winning a competition can be a huge step up in a writer’s career. And, most importantly, a competition deadline can be great motivation to write, regardless of the outcome. 2015 is a big year for playwriting …
Kimberley Andrews continues her series on producing her own show. In her fourth post, she talks about how to build your team, what to expect from a director and the benefits of bringing other people on board… So, by this point, I had material, a venue and I had figured out that putting my …
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If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably made new year’s resolutions that involve playwriting; whether it’s to make more time to write, to apply for more writing opportunities or to get that script finished! So, we thought it would be a good time to share with you the exciting stuff we have coming up in …
In the third post of the series about bringing her own writing to the stage, Kimberley Andrews talks money: can you produce a show without breaking the bank and should you dare to dream of making a profit? Producing my own show was many things: it was a small glimpse in to what it might be …
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