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).
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Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Orange Tree Theatre Writers Collective
This Week in our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear (from the archive): “How do I find my dream writing partnership?”
London Writers’ Week Features on London Playwrights’ Blog:
Meet the Company of the Dark Horse Festival!
GRANTS FOR THE ARTS: TOP TIPS FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL FOR FUNDING YOUR WORK
Fin Kennedy and David Edgar Review the State of arts funding at London Writers’ Week
How to win The National Student Playwriting Awards
The best writing advice we heard at London Writers’ Week
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper – 52 playwriting competitions with late July & August deadlines
Instinct Theatre accepting full-length script submissions – Deadline: 21 August 2016 at 10pm
Aberdeen Performing Arts – Scratch Nights – Call for Script Submissions (North East Writers) – Deadline: 22 August 2016 at 5pm
Call out for Writer/Dramaturg for Puppetry/Theatre Commission (£4000 commission) – Deadline: 22 August 2016
Bush Theatre seeking Associate Dramaturg – Deadline: 26 August 2016 at noon
Free R&D space at Diorama for BAMER theatre companies – Deadline: 26 August 2016
Betty Box and Peter Rogers Comedy Writing Programme 2016 – Deadline: 26 August 2016
Old Vic 12 open for applications (£5,000 commission) – Deadline: 30 August 2016
VAULT Festival open to applications – Deadline: 31 August 2016
Dionysian Magazine seeking play submissions – Deadline: 31 August 2016
Shore Screenwriting Competition 2016 (up to £2,000 cash prize, £25-£35 entry fee) – Regular deadline: 31 July 2016; Late deadline: 31 August 2016
2016 Terence Rattigan Society Award (£10 entry fee, £2,500 prize) – Deadline: 31 August 2016
Directors Cut seeking 5-10 minute responses for Southwark Playhouse Showcase – Deadline: 31 August 2016
Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting 2016 – Deadline: 31 August 2016
Ignition Playwriting Competition from Ignite Theatre (£100 prize) -Deadline: 1 September 2016
Soho Young Company open to applications for 11-30 year olds interested in comedy, theatre, or playwriting – Deadline: 2 September 2016
Stitchin’ Fiction seeking submissions for September event – Deadline: 4 September 2016
Orange Tree Theatre accepting applications for Writers Collective – Deadline: 5 September 2016
Research & Development Residencies with artsdepot – Deadline: 5 September 2016
Little Pieces of Gold Seeking Ten Minute Plays on the Subject of ‘Brexit’ – Deadline: 7 September 2016
Park Theatre Script Accelerator Programme– Deadline: 7 September 2016
StageWrite 2017 playwriting competition (open to Bedfordshire students only)- Deadline: 30 September 2016
Adam Morley and Actor Awareness bursary for writers – Deadline: September 2016
Bush Theatre opens script window to accept new plays – Deadline: 30 September 2016
Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2016 – Deadline: 30 September 2016
Call for Proposals for The Space’s Spring Season – Deadline: 30 September 2016
Pint-Sized seeking 10-15 minute submissions – Deadline: 1 October 2016
Red Dragonfly New Writing Competition 2016 (Asian writers, £1000 prize) – Deadline: 1 October 2016
Write to Play Seeking D/deaf or disabled Midlands based Writers (Paid) – Deadline: 3 October 2016
Pub Theatre Festival Seeking Submissions from Emerging Theatre Makers – Deadline: Friday 28 October 2016
Constance Cox Playwriting Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£7 entry fee, £150 prize) – Deadline: 31 October 2016
Writers required for La Musa Sulla Nuvola – The Muse on the Cloud – Deadline: 20 December 2016
365 Women A Year Playwriting Project open to submissions throughout 2016 – Deadline: 31 December 2016
Polemic Theatre Company accepting submissions for festival – Deadline: 1 January 2017 at 12.01am
Events and workshops:
Two-day Script Supervision course at Pinewood Studios (£349) – 22-23 August 2016
September Playwriting Retreat in Kerala, India – 8-14 September 2016
Storylab Evening Class (£215 fee) – 15 September – 1 December 2016
Applications open to join the Writers Club of Directors Cut (£70/term) – Starts early October 2016
Arvon Course – Writing For Puppetry: Writing The Impossible – –
Free Theatre Making/Writing Workshop at Hackney Museum – 27 October 2016
Arvon Course – Musical Theatre: Using music and lyrics to tell the tale – –
Ongoing submissions:
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
BBC Comedy Classroom – Comedy writing resources for young people – various deadlines
Online Masterclass with Aaron Sorkin on Screenwriting ($90) – no deadline
JW3 seeking submissions of pieces about Jewish culture – rolling
BFI Postroom open to submissions of films and scripts from emerging filmmakers – rolling
Writers’ Mutual writing group – Wednesdays 11am-1pm
Opportunities to hear your play with Player Playwrights – Ongoing submissions
Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – rolling
Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Ongoing (monthly event)
The Institute of Other seeking creative practitioners – Deadline: none posted
White Hart Trust Studios seeking international and foreign language theatre – Deadline: none posted
Pokfulam Rd Productions looking for playwrights and creatives – Deadline: none posted
55 Kings Contemporary Theatre Productions looking for writers – Deadline: none posted
Plane Paper Theatre call out for plays – Deadline: none posted
Theatrelab seeking scripts to perform at ‘WordPlay’ at Bath Spa University – Deadline: none posted
Londonville Lit offering reading slots – Deadline: none posted
Madam Renards Mini Fringe Festival Swindon open for applications from writers and performers – Deadline: none posted (festival takes place in 2016)
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: Rolling
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: None posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: None posted
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month.
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
COG ARTSpace call out for playwrights! – Deadline: None