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 now grouped into three sections: 1) Opportunities with Deadlines; 2) Ongoing opportunities (no deadline); and 3) Workshops and Events.
Opportunities with deadlines:
Lost Theatre seeking plays for 5 Minute Festival (£10 entry fee, self-producing preferred, £100 prize) – Deadline: 28 December 2014
Fisher Taylor-Gaunt accepting musical theatre submissions – Deadline: 28 December 2014 at 6pm
Story Friday with A Word In Your Ear (Bath) – Theme: The 1980’s – Deadline: 29 December 2014 at 6pm
East End Literary Salon seeking 10-20 minute submissions – Deadline: 31 December 2014
The North Wall (Oxford) accepting applications for writer residency – Deadline: 31 December 2014
Carabosse seeking 5-20 minute submissions for Pub Theatre night (Milton Keynes, open to London writers) – Deadline: 31 December 2014
Play Submissions Helper – 39 playwriting opportunities with January (and late December) deadlines – Deadline: January (various)
Sphinx are looking for submissions for Women Centre Stage – Deadline: 1 January 2015
Whoop ‘n’ Wail seeking fifteen minute short plays about ‘Desire’ that pass the Bechdel Test for ‘Represents…’ – Deadline: 2 January 2015
Bare Fiction magazine open to submissions for March 2015 issue – Deadline: 11 January 2015
CBBC New Voices Initiative – Deadline: 12 January 2015
Arts Council England Funding Opportunity: Artists’ International Development Programme – Deadline: 16 January 2015
Calling all film makers! IdeasTap £10K Film Fund accepting applications – Deadline: 19 January 2015
Ghost Dog productions seeking 10min plays for Playground – Theme: Mind Games – Deadline: 19 January 2015
Constance Cox Playwriting Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£7 entry fee, £280 prize) – Deadline: 24 January 2015
Bruntwood Prize coming back soon, get your scripts ready! – Competition to be launched on 29 January 2015
Brockley Jack seeking full length plays for Write Now 6 (for playwrights with a connection to SE London) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
IdeasTap Quarterly Editor’s Brief: Family (£250 prize) – Deadline: 30 January 2015
Ten Minute Play Competition from Sussex Playwrights’ Club (£5 entry fee) – Deadline: 31 January 2015
Writers are invited to submit plays for the 2015 Arundel Festival Theatre Trail (£250 prize) – Deadline: 31 January 2015
Adrian Pagan Award 2015 – Deadline: 2 February 2015
Funding opportunity for disabled artists through Unlimited – Deadline: 2 February 2015
Submissions Open For Blue Elephant Theatre 2015 Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 6 February 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: PREJUDICE – Deadline: 12 February 2015
BBC Radio Drama accepting short story submissions for Opening Lines – Deadline: 13 February 2015 (note: submissions do not open until 5 January 2015)
Ghost Dog productions seeking 10min plays for Playground – Theme: Survival – Deadline: 16 February 2015
Sky Arts – Scholarships of £30k available for emerging talent including playwrights! – Deadline: 26 February 2015
Giant Cherries LGBT Playwriting Competition 2015 (£20 entry fee) – Deadline: 28 February 2015
Story Friday with A Word In Your Ear (Bath) – Theme: Quilt of Stories – Deadline: 2 March 2015
2015 Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Drama Writing Award (amateur playwrights only) – Deadline: 5 March 2015
2015 Papatango New Writing Prize – Deadline: 31 March 2015
Blackwell House seeking class-style radio plays (15-45 min) – Deadline: 31 March 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: SURVIVAL – Deadline: 2 April 2015
BBC Scriptroom dates for 2015 – Deadline: 2 April 2015 (submissions open 9 March 2015)
GRIT: Royal Court seeking plays about resistance that can fit in the palm of your hand – Deadline: 10 April 2015
Wellcome Trust Arts Awards funding opportunity – Deadline: 1 May 2015
Tron Theatre (Glasgow) accepting submissions for scratch night – Theme: BETRAYAL – Deadline: 7 May 2015
Saving Endangered Species (SES) International Playwriting Prize (California, $100 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2015
Ongoing submissions:
Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Fractured Lines accepting scripts for new writing night – Deadline: rolling
Theatrelab accepting scripts – rolling submissions
Kings Head Theatre seeking work in development for Without Decor – Deadline: none posted
Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Performance Platform Opportunity, University of Greenwich – Deadline: None posted
Quids In Theatre Co seeking 40-60 minute plays for lunchtime series – Deadline: Ongoing
The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – No deadline posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month through to June 2014.
ScriptSpace development workshop at The Space – Deadline: None
Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: None (open submissions)
Open Arts Cafe Call for Submissions – Deadline: None posted
Poppy Seed – accepting submissions of 5 minute scripts for blog – Deadline: None posted
Events and workshops:
Workshop with Simon Vinnicombe on Writing for Theatre (£35) – Dates: 31 January – 21 February (4 Saturdays)
More details coming soon – in the meantime, see the IdeasTap Spa for masterclasses coming up in early 2015!