Opportunities – Weekly Round-up: 2 July 2021

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London Playwrights joins the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company

 

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Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project latest submission window opens 5 July

 

 


Opportunities Listings 

Grouped into digital opportunities, resources & workshops and live opportunities, resources & workshops.

Digital Opportunities

We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, digital resources, and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops.  (For a listing of online streams of theatre productions, click here). 

With deadlines:

The Young Vic Directors Program conducting research into innovative digital works created due to theatre closures – Deadline: 4 July 2021

Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project latest submission window – Deadline: 8 July 2021 (window opens on 5 July 2021)

Comedy Crowd – Euros Challenge – Deadline: 11 July 2021

Screen & Story Film Festival – Screenwriting Competition – Deadline: 11 July 2021

Ocean City Radio – Short script submission for Christmas plays – Deadline: 8 August 2021

Act Bedford – Script Submission – Deadline: 22 August 2021

The Festival of Fleeting Words – Writing Opportunity – Deadline: various

 

Rolling deadlines:

 

ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling

Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling

Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project – Deadline: rolling

Director’s Cut – LockDown OpenUp – Deadline: rolling

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre seeking audio scripts for podcast – Deadline: none posted

Fable Workshop is looking for writers to create social distancing plays – Deadline: rolling

Frequency Theatre Open to Unsolicited Script Submissions (Audio Plays Only) – Deadline: rolling

Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions from womxn writers for new podcast – Deadline: rolling

New writing project for Heckington Living Radio – Deadline: none posted

LifeLogues – Series of monologues based on lived experiences – Deadline: none posted

Metal Rabbit Productions looking for scripts to be read out loud over Zoom – Deadline: rolling

Monday Playreaders are looking for new scripts to be read aloud via Zoom – Every Monday

Online New Writing Nights at Dapper Sandwich – Deadline: none posted

Obsydyan Theatre seeking Caribbean and African Writers – Deadline: none posted

Playwright and former Space Theatre script reader Scott Younger is offering free feedback on all plays 10 pages and under in length – Deadline: not specified

Table Spoon Theatre accepting submissions for online publication – Deadline: ongoing

The Creative Hub seeking submissions on theme of climate crisis – Deadline: none posted

TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine – Deadline: rolling

Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie – Deadline: rolling

Quarantine Quill – Creative writing podcast – Deadline: rolling

 

Digital Resources:

300 Thoughts for Theatremakers by Russell Lucas

Access the Royal Court’s Playwrights’ Podcast

Bloomsbury Publishing: How to get your play published (view live stream of talk)

Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy is a new script-reading service for musicals

Chippy Lane Productions open list of female writers

Dramaturgs’ Network Contracts Package

Every week Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival showcasing a film of performance

Financial support for arts individuals and organisations from the government

FREE 7-Day Writing Coaching Programme from Pick up your Pen 

Free Q&As from Actor Awareness

Free scripts to read or use from Smith Scripts

Get Your Play On Podcast

Inverness Playwrights Writing Workshops

James McDermott – writer for hire selling zoom playwriting classes and script reports

Kindlepreneur Online Writing Courses and Resources

LPW Podcast with Temi Wilkey, One Fine Play & The Bush Theatre

Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre & playwriting coming soon!

Lemon House Theatre launches Lemon Lounge: A series of talks with queer artists and artists from the MENA diaspora about their experiences in theatre

Lost Souls Monologues Podcast

New Diorama – North Star Project

NHB Playgroup: read a play for free and take part in Q&A with the writer – Every Wednesday

NHB Playgroup Q&A Podcast with John O’Donovan

Nick Hern Books launches Playscript Subscriptions

Nick Hern Books Still on the Page – offering 30% discount on play texts

NHB Playgroup Podcast with Janice Okoh

Online readings with DG Footlights celebrating new dramatic works

Papatango Library & Arts Council Advice

Podcast with Winsome Pinnock and the reasons why her play Leave Taking continues to be revived

Press release for world’s first multimedia theatre discovery platform

Professor Dan Rebellato in discussion with playwrights on youtube

Regional Fundraisers for Theatre freelancers

Resources and events for writers & artists during quarantine from Part of the Main

Scene Sessions Online Forum

Sharp Scratches presents Writing in Isolation (Facebook Group)

Sherman Theatre Interval Projects

Smithscripts online scripts available to read

Space Theatre Club – watch a play online and meet up each week to discuss on zoom –Every week

Stagedoor App Podcast (Bridget Minamore and Chris Campbell of the Royal Court’s Literary Office)

Stage Door Live – episode 8 on access and inclusion

Talawa- One on one Zoom meetings for Black British Writers

The Arts Council publish Easy Read versions of the guidance for two of their Emergency Response Package funds

The Goats Theatre Company presents new short plays and poems in their podcast

Underscore Studios launch project to address class imbalance in the arts

WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit

We Exist: Online LGBT+ Open Writing and Creative Space

Women & Theatre podcast series exploring women and work

Writers warm-up every Mon/Fri at 10:15am by Playwrights’ Workshop (not affiliated with LPW)

Writing Resources from The Bruntwood Prize

 

Online Courses and Workshops

Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday

Part of the Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various

Bush Theatre Masterclasses  – Dates: various (available both in person and online)

Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021 (we will also be including individual listings in the round-up)

Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy: Writers of Hadestown, Six and Fun Home join workshop series – Dates: various between June and September 2021 5.30pm – 7.30pm

LPW Online Workshops: Crowdfunding your project with Grace O’Keefe from Greenlit – Date: 13 July 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 24 July 2021

BBC Academy – Production Unlocked – Date: July 2021

An Introduction to Screenwriting: free online course with FutureLearn & Uni. of East Anglia

New Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure  -Live now

LPW Summer Sessions: Overcoming writers’ block (online workshop)

LPW Summer Sessions: How to write a monologue (online workshop)

LPW Summer Sessions: Promoting yourself as a writer (online workshops)

LPW: The Redrafting Toolkit

LPW Members: Online Course – Writing in Dialect: How to Listen, What to Write –  Available now

LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist 

Black Lives, Black Words: Playwriting Fundamentals Course

Papatango Online Workshops

Squint’s GET WRITING and KEEP WRITING online workshops now booking – Dates: various

 


Live playwriting Opportunities

Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events. 

With deadlines:

Play Submissions Helper: 35 Play Submissions Opps with June deadlines – Deadline: various throughout June 2021

Sky Comedy REP Writers programme – Scriptwriting Competition – Deadline: 28 June 2021

Graeae Theatre – Script Submission Window – Deadline: 30 June 2021

Cimientos 2022 – Script Submission Window Open – Deadline: 30 June 2021

Writers and Artists Commissions, Bolton Library & Museum Services – Deadline: 2 July 2021

Performers for Choice – Callout for Writers/ Performers/ Artists – Deadline: 2 July 2021

Engine Room- Omnibus Theatre scratch night – Deadline: 2 July 2021

Tameside Creative Community- looking for a Manchester based playwright – Deadline: 5 July 2021

Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Script Starter Programme – Deadline: 7 July 2021

Element Pictures, BBC Writersroom and BBC Drama Commissioning – Element Pictures NI Writers Award 2021 – Deadline: 8 July 2021

Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation- funds for performing arts available – Deadline: 9 July 2021

Sustainability First 2021 Art and Writing Prizes are now open for applications – Deadline: 10 July 2021

Screen & Story Film Festival – Screenwriting Competition – Deadline: 11 July 2021

Submissions open for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 12 July 2021

Bluestocking Theatre – Short Play Submissions – Deadline: 16 July 2021

Anthroplay & Escape Bar – Escape Through Words! A Scratch Night – Writing Opportunity  – Deadline 17 July 2021

Shook – Writer Submissions – Deadline: 18 July 2021

GO CREATE! – Script Opportunity – Deadline: 19 July 2021

Applications for VAULT Festival 2022 now open! – Deadline: 19 July 2021 early bird/ 16 2021 August general

Pleasance: Popcorn New Writing Award 2021 – Deadline: 28 June 2021

Little Fish Theatre accepting scripts for short play competition – Deadline: 31 July 2021

Thornhill Theatre Space is seeking submissions for their 2nd Annual Award Winning World-Wide Fringe Festival – Deadline: none posted but the festival takes place in August

Optik Theatre callout for writers for Script Room – Deadline: 1 August 2021

Yale Drama Series 2022 open for entries from 1 June 2021 – Deadline: 15 August 2021

The University of Southampton: Green Stories Writing Competition – Deadline: 26 August 2021

Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy «Neem-2021. Turquoise edition» – Deadline: 5 September 2021

Stephen Joseph Theatre – Script Submissions Window now open – Deadline: 30 September 2021

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme – Deadline: not specified

Think Shorts – Free Short film listing – Deadline: rolling

Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts – Deadline: rolling

BBC Comedy Association plans unveiled – Deadline: not applicable

Calling members of the Neurodivergent Theatre Community – Deadline: not applicable

The Swiss Church London offering subsided space for artists – Deadline: not applicable

London Pub Theatres seeking new reviewers – Deadline: none posted

The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling

Sapphic Voices are looking for women playwrights for a radio slot – Deadline: none posted

StageLaunch a brand-new website connecting indie/unpublished playwrights – Deadline: not applicable

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre interested in developing a stable of writers -Deadline: ongoing

Work-in-Development Submissions for the John Thaw Studio at The Actors Centre – Deadline: ongoing

Write Protect looking for proven script consultants to work on paid submissions – Deadline: none posted

Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions – Deadline: ongoing

The BCG Pro Video Contest is looking for 2 minute scripted video sketches (prize £100) – Deadline: until further notice

The Royal Court now accepting online submissions – Deadline: rolling

John Byrne Award monthly competition for creative work (prize £250) – Deadline: monthly

Brush Stroke Order now offering bursaries for script reading services – Deadline: rolling

Hampstead Theatre announces year round submission window

Peggy Ramsay Foundation: Grant for writers – Deadline: rolling

Tutti Creative Space: cheap rehearsal space – Deadline: not applicable

Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing

Arvon Grants available for writing courses – Deadline: none posted/ various

Live events and in person workshops:

Bush Theatre Masterclasses  – Dates: various (available both in person and online)

Oxford Playwriting with John Retallack: Applications open for 2021/22 courses – Dates: courses start October 2021

BBC & NFTS – BBC Scholarships – Dates: various

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