Live Writes
“A North East that writes its own story and fights for a more creative future” – Live Theatre vision
What is Live Writes? …it’s a Scratch Night, with a twist.
Live Theatre’s brand new writing showcase and development event with all creative positions filled from Open Calls for North East based Writers, Directors and Actors. A whole host of opportunities for theatre creatives of all experiences to flourish in a safe and supportive space, with live feedback, networking and championing of the amazing artists of our region.
Live Writes is all about the words on the page, for writers to experience their work in progress up on its feet and have a panel of theatre experts share their thoughts to help develop their script and future craft going forwards.
Each Live Writes event will see a handful of writers chosen from an open submission window to have their work performed in a scratch setting in our main theatre space in front of a panel of industry experts and a full house audience. Rehearsals, tech and performances all happen over one wild day, with no set and minimal props and tech.
Directors and Actors for each piece will also be selected from open windows, getting to choose which script they would like to be considered for from the synopses and character breakdowns of the four pieces.
Not only that, our open calls take place 4 times a year, and are only open to artists based in the North East.
These are all paid opportunities with every creative receiving the same day fee of £150. For writers, this is intended as a rights fee to perform your work and not a commission fee.
We can’t wait to see your creativity hit our stage!
Writer opportunities
Open to all North East writers of any level of experience. We are inviting you to submit 10 minutes of your work to be performed at our brand new writing showcase and feedback event on our main stage.
Whether you have a short play, a section of a larger piece you might be currently working on or something you wrote years ago, sat on a hard drive collecting digital dust that you’d like to go back to, this is your opportunity to see it on it’s feet in a nurturing, nourishing and supportive space.
You can also receive bespoke feedback from an invited panel of Theatre professionals of whom you can request the precise feedback you wish to receive.
This opportunity is only open to scripts that have had no previous performances or stagings.
Writing submission are now open! Deadline for submissions 5pm, Fri 9 May 2025 (for show on Tue 8 July 2025).
Director and Actor callouts open after selection of writers.
Deadline: 9 May 2025
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