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: Dionysian Magazine seeking play submissions
This Week in our Advice Column, Pursued By A Bear: “Should I limit scene changes to get my play produced?”
Coming up with London Playwrights’ Workshop:
Autumn 2016 Workshops from London Playwrights’ Blog
Creative Inspiration for Playwrights: A Practical Workshop – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 10am-12pm
Intro to Script Formatting: Tips & Tricks for a Professional-Looking Script – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 12-1pm
How To Write Short Plays That Win – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 2-5pm
Intensive Workshop: Mastering Microstructure – Thursday 6 October 7pm-9pm
Intensive Workshop: Writing Compelling Dialogue – Thursday 20 October 7pm-9pm
Intensive Workshop: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Thursday 3 November 2016 7pm-9pm
Your Self-Producing Toolkit: A day-long introduction – Saturday 12 November 2016 from 10.30am – 5pm
Opportunities with deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper – 50 playwriting competitions with September deadlines
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
60 minute slots available to showcase work at Studio Salford Development Week – Deadline: 26 August 2016
Actor Awareness seeking 15-minute plays on theme of ‘Identity’ (must self-produce, paid) – Deadline: 28 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
Monologues and short plays sought for charity event for NYC Foundling – 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
Applications open for Playwright/Playread at Actors’ Temple – 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
BBC seeking two Script Editors for EastEnders – Deadline: 2 September 2016
Stitchin’ Fiction seeking submissions for September event – Deadline: 4 September 2016
Brave New Word accepting short pieces for ‘Break-Up Britain’ – Deadline: 5 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
Live Lab Bursary 2016 seeking innovative approaches to text-based performance (£2000) – Deadline: 18 September 2016
StageWrite 2017 playwriting competition (open to Bedfordshire students only)- Deadline: 30 September 2016
Adam Morley and Actor Awareness bursary for writers – Deadline: 30September 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
MT Pockets Theatre seeking submissions for 10 Minute Play Festival 2017 (West Virginia) – 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:
Six Week Course on Comedy Writing Skills at Camden Comedy Club (£120) – 3 September – 8 October
September Playwriting Retreat in Kerala, India – 8-14 September 2016
Storylab Evening Class (£215 fee) – 15 September – 1 December 2016
LPB Workshop: Creative Inspiration for Playwrights: A Practical Workshop – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 10am-12pm
LPB Workshop: Intro to Script Formatting: Tips & Tricks for a Professional-Looking Script – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 12-1pm
LPB Workshop: How to Write Short Plays That Win – Saturday 24 September 2016 from 2-5pm
Writer’s Mutual Retreat in Bordeaux – 26 September – 2 October
LPB Workshop: Intensive Workshop: Mastering Microstructure – Thursday 6 October 7pm-9pm
Applications open to join the Writers Club of Directors Cut (£70/term) – Starts early October 2016
LPB Workshop: Intensive Workshop: Writing Compelling Dialogue – Thursday 20 October 7pm-9pm
Arvon Course – Writing For Puppetry: Writing The Impossible – –
Free Theatre Making/Writing Workshop at Hackney Museum – 27 October 2016
LPB Workshop: Intensive Workshop: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Thursday 3 November 2016 7pm-9pm
LPB Workshop: Your Self-Producing Toolkit: A Daylong Introduction – Saturday 12 November 2016 from 10.30am – 5pm
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