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LPW News…
Coming up in 2021! Play Club back for 2021!
*Introducing our 3 Play Club Writers! Find out more*
London Playwrights joins the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as an Associate Company
LPW Play Club 2020: The Selections – watch the 
stream of our virtual play readings now!
Updated! Digital Theatre Listings – great things to watch from your sofa!
PODCAST: Making It with Temi Wilkey – London Playwrights’ Collaboration with the Bush Theatre & One Fine Play
London Playwrights’ Workshop: NEW Zoom Workshops
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Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure
The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download
Opportunities – Pick of the Week: Paines Plough open new submission window
Opportunities Listings
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:
Beyond Face: applications open for new writers programme ‘We are Here… to Write’ – Deadline: 23 April 2021
Gemma Arrowsmith – Free Sketch Comedy Online Crash Course -Deadline: 23 April 2021
Not Quite Ready seeking 5 minute pieces on ‘things you see in the rain’ – Deadline: 25 April 2021
New Earth Academy programme for British East and South East Asians (BESEA) aged 18+ – Deadline: 27 April 2021
The Queens of Cups: Submissions open for May’s New Moon Monologues on the theme of ‘Growing Together’ – Deadline: 27 April 2021
ChewBoy Productions – Submissions Open for Chewin’ the Fat Arts Magazine – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Make Em’ Laugh accepting comedy acts for online event – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Broken Silence Theatre accepting submissions for Voices from Home (South East England writers) – Deadline:
3 May 2021Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project (next window opens 3rd May) – Deadline: 6 May 2021
Down Stage Write: 4x Original Audio Commissions for Devon and Cornwall Based Playwrights! – Deadline: 9 May 2021
The Literal Challenge: Like the Prose – open for registration – Deadline: 28 May 2021
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
Table Spoon Theatre accepting submissions for online publication – Deadline: ongoing
The Creative Hub seeking submissions on theme of climate crisis – Deadline: none posted
Theatre Three Off-Stage/On-Line – accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
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
Up ‘Ere Productions new online play reading group ‘The Breakfast Club’ – Deadline: rolling until filled
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
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
Inverness Playwrights Writing Workshops
James McDermott – writer for hire selling zoom playwriting classes and script reports
LPW Podcast with Temi Wilkey, One Fine Play & The Bush Theatre
New Diorama – North Star Project
New writing festival of 80 plays to help raise funds for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – Deadline: none specified
NHB Playgroup: read a play for free and take part in Q&A with the writer – Every Wednesday
Nick Hern Books launches Playscript Subscriptions
Nick Hern Books Still on the Page – offering 30% discount on play texts
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
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 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)
Part of the Main: Adaptation, Translation, and Theatre Workshop – Date: 30 April 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Making Work Using Performance and Improvisation Techniques – Date: 30 April 2021
Framework Festival Free Workshops (3rd-7th May) – Deadline: none posted but first come first serve!
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 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
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: 36 Play Submissions Opps with April deadlines – Deadline: various throughout April 2021
Submissions open for BOLD Playwrights development programme – Deadline: 23 April 2021
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Accepting Submissions from Liverpool Based Writers – Deadline: 24 April 2021
The Wolfson Cystic Fibrosis Centre & City Arts looking for an experienced freelance writer or poet – Deadline: 26 April 2021
Sheffield Theatres and Cast: 4×4 Commissions for South Yorkshire based artists/companies/theatremakers/writers – Deadline: 26 April 2021
Voila! Europe Theatre Festival Call for Proposals – Deadline: 28 April 2021
Sky Studios and New Writing North – Sky Writes – Deadline: various and workshops up to 29 April 2021
Transition Stage Company – Enter Stage Write Competition (£13-£35 entry fee) – Deadline: 30 April 2021
MiniMusicals Writer and Composer Contest 2021 – Deadline: 30 April 2021
The ETPEP Award 2021 – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Sky Arts & Royal Society of Literature – Writers Awards – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Vogue Talent Contest 2021- 14-25 year olds – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Applications open for Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize for LGBTQ+ plays – Deadline: 30 April 2021
Applications opening for SHOOK Arts Comeback – Deadline: 1 May 2021
High-Rise Avenue Seeking Freelance Dramaturg (Deadline Extended) – Deadline: 1 May 2021
Immediate Theatre seeking Playwright for Summer Holiday project – Deadline: 3 May 2021
Theatre503: Right To Write playwrighting course – Deadline: 5 May 2021
Factory Theatre Workshop – Writers Call Out! – Deadline: 17 May 2021
Paines Plough open new submission window – Deadline: 26 May 2021
Edwin Wong presents the 3rd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 31 May 2021
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation- funds for performing arts available – Deadline: 9 June 2021
Submissions open for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting – Deadline: 12 July 2021
The University of Southampton: Green Stories Writing Competition – Deadline: 26 August 2021
Rolling & Unspecified deadlines:
The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme – Deadline: not specified
The 15th Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends seeking scripts based on Quaker History – 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
Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling
Events and workshops:
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
FREE Taster Days for the John Retallack Oxford Playwriting Course – Dates :15 May 2021 and 12 June 2021
Oxford Playwriting with John Retallack: Applications open for 2021/22 courses – Dates: courses start October 2021