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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:
Louder Than The Storm seeking writers/ artists – Deadline: 1 July 2020
Harpy Productions new online/interactive theatre event this August – Deadline: 6 July 2020
BBC New Creatives/ Screen South development scheme (16-30 year olds) – Deadline: 6 July 2020
Harpy Productions & Sophie Rivers call out for short pieces on theme of apocalypse – Deadline: 6 July 2020
Raze the Space Theatre LA seeking monologues on theme of ‘pandemic’ for international plays festival – Deadline: 10 July 2020
Playwrights wanted for new normal / new writing theatre festival – Deadline: none posted, takes place 17 July 2020
DaDaFest International 2020 and Artist Commissions – Deadline: 20 July 2020
Muck + Rumble call out for Telling Tales – Deadline: 21 July 2020
SLAMinutes – SLAMinutes does Mental Health through the pandemic – Deadline: 30 August 2020
Rolling deadlines:
ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling
Call out for Audio Comedy & Comedy/Drama Scripts! – Deadline: rolling
Cooped Up Creatives recruiting new contributors for poetry and art project – Deadline: rolling
Director’s Cut – LockDown OpenUp – Deadline: rolling
Durham Student Theatre are looking for 5 minute monologues – Deadline: rolling
Fable Workshop is looking for writers to create social distancing plays – Deadline: rolling
Josef Weinberger Plays seeking 15 minute shorts for ISOPLAYTION – Deadline: rolling
JustOut Theatre accepting submissions for 15 minute weekly radio plays – Deadline: rolling
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
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
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
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
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
Part of the Grid July Workshops for Writers
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
Live playwriting Opportunities
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 35 Opportunities with July Deadlines – Deadline: various throughout July 2020
Saw It Here First Productions seeking submissions (10-15 mins) for show case – Deadline: 10 July 2020
Flawstate calling out for submissions for charity scratch night – Deadline: 10 July 2020
Writer for Windrush 2020 Monologues Programme, cultural solutions UK – Deadline: 10 July 2020
BBC New Creatives talent development scheme for people based in the South West – Deadline: 12 & 17 July 2020
Strike A Light seeking Director/Writer/Theatre Maker – Deadline: 13 July 2020 at 9am
Two day theatre workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan (cost €200) – Deadline for applications: 28 March 2020 15 July 2020
Green Carnation Company: Queer All About It Script Call Out (Paid) – Deadline: 17 July 2020
Chesil Theatre – TakeTen Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 18 July 2020
Script Search – opportunity for writers to get their feature film idea into paid development – Deadline: 19 July 2020
Triforce Creative Network and Greenacre Films seeking feature film ideas – Deadline: 19 July 2020
5 scholarships available to study an MA in writing for T.V. – Deadline: 20 July 2020
BBC TV Drama Writers’ Programme open for applications – Deadline: 20 July 2020
BBC New Creatives talent development scheme for people based in the Midlands – Deadline: 31 July 2020
Middle Child inviting script submissions for full length plays – Deadline: 4 August 2020
The Yale Drama Series seeking submissions for 2021 playwriting competition – Deadline: 15 August 2020
Lonely Penguin looking for new writing for first scratch night (unpaid) – Deadline: 26 August 2020
The Brighton Scratch Night at the Rialto looking for play extracts – Deadline: 31 August 2020
Box of Tricks Theatre development programme for North-West England based playwrights – Deadline: 31 August 2020
Sohaya Visions looking for scripts promoting tolerance (prize £1,000) – Deadline: 1 November 2020
Hope Mill Theatre Through the Mill Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 27 November 2020
Rolling deadlines (please note that many of these opportunities are currently on hold due to covid-19).
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
London Playwrights Workshop accepting rolling submissions from members – 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:
Writing in the Sand full creative day event (costs £32.93) – Dates: monthly, next event 4 July 2020
LPW Workshop: Plan your Play in a Day – Date: 27 June 2020 postponed until later this year
LPW Workshop: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 1 August 2020 10am-1pm (if this cannot go ahead in person, we will run an online version)
LPW: The Redrafting Programme Course 2020 – Date: start 19 September 2020 (if this cannot go ahead in person, we will run an online version)
Writing for Radio day workshop for beginners with Fin Kennedy (cost £50) – Date: 19 September 2020