Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 29 October 2021

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London Playwrights’ Latest News

London Playwrights Festival 2021 at the Lion & Unicorn: Line-up announced

 

Please support our Crowdfunding Campaign for the festival!

 

 

 

London Playwrights Social Gathering! DJ Bazzer’s Year 6 Disco by George Bailey at Riverside Studios

 

Advice from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – Writing Competition or Cut Price Commission?

 

Learn with London Playwrights -a new series of resources on theatre: first two sessions on ANGELS IN AMERICA and RENT available now!

 

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!

 

 

Member Productions

Before I Go Theatre Company Launch Event by Rupert Mallin

London Playwrights’ Latest Zoom Workshops

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Featured Blog Posts

 

Putting on your first show by Thomas Sparrow, writer of ‘blue bottles’

London Playwrights interview the creators of Rainer at the Arcola

Fizzy Sherbet – Live or Online? That is the Question: Platforming new writing during a global pandemic – and creating space for voices to be heard

 

SOPHIE the play by Emily Curtis & Sophie Potter

TYPE! Q&A with the creators of new bookmark magazine

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

 

 

 

Latest Members Content

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WrAP2021! All resources still available for members (write a play in a month)

Full 8 sessions available now! Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure 

The LPW Guide to Formatting your Stage Play – Available to download

 

 

 

 

 


Digital Listings 

Click the images for details of digital resources, online streams, podcasts, and more!


Opportunities – Pick of the Week:

LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Audio (4 week introductory course)

 

 

 


Opportunities Listings 


Digital & Audio & Screen Opportunities

We’ve listed digital opportunities divided into those with deadlines, rolling deadlines, , and online workshops. Scroll down for live performance opportunities and in person workshops.  

Join Lemon House Theatre for launch of their online scratch night on 16 November! – Deadline: not applicable

Bitter Pill Theatre – The Painkiller Project (£250 prize) – Deadline 4 November 2021

Mark Ravenhill’s 101 Notes on Playwriting (resource) – Deadline: not applicable

WGGB: Leading playwrights back new digital principles for theatre (resource) – Deadline: not applicable

Rolling deadlines:

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

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

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

TYPE! Accepting submissions for bookmark magazine (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie (unpaid)- Deadline: rolling

Scenesaver – digital performance platform – Deadline: rolling

Online Courses and Workshops

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

Big Fish Productions writing group – Dates: Every Friday

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

Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021

NT Playwriting Masterclasses – Dates: various

New! London Playwrights Monthly Zoom Drop-in for members (no extra cost!) – on the first Wednesday of each month, next one 3 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Audio (4 week introductory course) – Date: starts 8 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Adapting Shakespeare – Date: 10 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing-Style and Structure – Date: 10 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing- Starting Writing! – Date: 17 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing Historic Drama – Date: 25 November 2021

LPW Online Workshops: LGBTQ+ Theatre – Date: 2 December 2021

LPW Online Workshops: Writing the Abstract – Date: 14 & 17 December 2021

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

LPW Members Online Course: Mastering Dramatic Structure  – Available now

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

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

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

LPW: The Redrafting Toolkit – Available now

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

LPW Members: Online Course – The Submissions Checklist – Available now

 


Live playwriting Opportunities & Jobs

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

With deadlines:

Dramaturg, Royal Court Theatre – Deadline: 2 November 2021

Writer needed for “I am Dorothy” project in Cockermouth, Kirkgate Arts and Heritage (paid) – Deadline: 8 November 2021

Nouveau Riche- Associate Artist Programme – Deadline: 8 November 2021

Workplace Development Programme Writers and Facilitators, Open Clasp Theatre Company – Deadline: 8 November 2021

Putney Theatre New Writing Festival accepting scripts (unpaid) – Deadline: 25 November 2021

Titchfield Playwriting Competition (£1000 prize) – Deadline: 30 November 2021

Submissions Open for Questors Theatre Festival of New Theatre – Deadline: 17 December 2021

StageWrite accepting submissions for Bedford’s new writing festival – Deadline: 14 January 2021

Self-led Projects-Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland – Deadline: 31 January 2022

Off The Rails Theatre: 3-Minute Drama Scriptwriting Competition (Prizes) – Deadline: 30 April 2022

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting returns in 2022! – Deadline: 6 June 2022

Rolling & Unspecified deadlines: 

Fifth Word – Submit your Play (paid if produced) – Deadline: not specified

The Hope Theatre seeking plays for new programme (profit share) – Deadline: not specified

Think Shorts – Free Short film listing (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

Fearless: Danse Macabre Productions Free Script Reading for Horror Scripts (unpaid) – 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 (unpaid) – Deadline: none posted

The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions (unpaid) – Deadline: rolling

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

Concord Theatricals are accepting unsolicited submissions (paid) – 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

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers (paid) – Deadline: ongoing

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

Live events and in person workshops:

The Story Pilgrim: Free Storytelling Event at the Canal Cafe Theatre – Date: 19 July 2021

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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