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).
Enterprise Theatre seeking 10-min plays on bullying (San Diego, CA) – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize launched (£20 entry fee) – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Theatre Royal Stratford East launches Musical Theatre Initiative – Deadline: 30 May 2014
BBC Writersroom/ IdeasTap writing workshop – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Stella Adler School of Acting seeking 10-min plays on gender equity/violence and/or global warming (New York, NY) – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Stella Adler School of Acting seeking full length ensemble play for actors 16-25 (New York, NY) – Deadline: 30 May 2014
Organised Chaos accepting submissions (£5 entry) – Deadline: 31 May 2014
Pint-sized Plays 2014 – open for submissions (entry fee)- Deadline: 31 May 2014
Shore Screenwriting Competition (cash prize, £25-£40) – Deadline: 31 May 2014 (Earlybird deadline); 31 August (final deadline)
9Thirty Theatre seeking works on environmental themes (New York) – Deadline: 31 May 2014
Next Act New Play Summit at Capital Theatre seeking submissions (Albany, NY) – Deadline: 1 June 2014
Ghost Dog Productions accepting 10 minute plays – Deadline: 2 June 2014
Time Zone Theatre Company seeking proposals for full-length plays inspired by Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind (£1000 fee for writer) – Deadline: 4 June 2014
MAC Birmingham Performing Arts Fellowship – call for Expressions of Interest – Deadline: 5 June 2014 at 10am
Cro Magnon Theatre accepting scripts on the theme ‘SCREAM’ – Deadline: 6 June 2014
The Scenic Route accepting submissions for musical theatre cabaret – Deadline: 6 June 2014
Live Theatre seeking playwrights for “10 Minutes To…” (Newcastle) – Deadline: 9 June 2014
Tron Theatre seeking 15 minute plays in response to the Commonwealth Games – Deadline: 9 June 2014
B3 Talentlab open for applications (BAME artists) – Deadline: 9 June 2014
Menagerie seeking submissions for One Page Play Competition at Hotbed 2014 – Deadline: 13 June 2014 at 5pm
IdeasTap accepting submissions on theme of ‘Apocalypse’ – Deadline: 13 June 2014 at 5pm
StoneCrabs Theatre company looking for short plays about Brazilian culture – Deadline: 16 June 2014
Newsboy seeking scripts for ‘Commonwealth Edition’ – Deadline: 20 June 2014
Nottingham Playhouse inviting writers to take part in ‘Time and Memory’ season – Deadline: 27 June 2014
Roundhouse seeking radio plays (age 16-25, paid) – Deadline: 27 June 2014
Arch and Bruce Foundation 2014 Playwriting Competition (LGBT Themes, $3,000 prize) – Deadline: 30 June 2014
The Newspeak Theatre Company seeks writer for their writers-room – Deadline: 30 June 2014
Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award (Pennsylvania USA, $1000 prize, $17 entry fee) – Deadline: 30 June 2014
2013 Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award– Deadline: 1 July 2014
The Peckham Pelicam seeking playwrights for ‘Etch’ Scratch Night – Deadline: 11 July 2014
2014 William Saroyan Prize for Human Rights / Social Justice ($10,000 prize, $20 entry fee) – Deadline: 15 July 2014
Alfred Fagon award 2014 open for applications from playwrights of Caribbean or African descent – Deadline: 1 August 2014
Mardibooks accepting one-act plays for e-book – Deadline: 1 August 2014 at 5pm
Yale Drama Series Competition 2014 – Deadline: 15 August 2014
London Horror Festival seeking radio drama submissions for Stage Fright Radio Horror Competition (£2 entry fee) – Deadline: 15 August 2014
Funny Women 2014 Comedy Writing Awards (women writers only) – Deadline: 31 August 2014
Shore Screenwriting Competition (cash prize, £25-£40) – Deadline: 31 May 2014 (Earlybird deadline); 31 August (final deadline)
Little Brother Productions offering a writer £1000 to develop television idea – Deadline: 3 October 2014
Gillian Hush Award – fully funded place on Arvon Course on writing for radio – Deadline: 13 October 2014
Ongoing submissions:
Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted
Ice & Fire/ Amnesty International UK – rolling submissions for plays with human rights theme – Deadline: Ongoing
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
BAREtruth Theatre looking for full length scripts – Deadline: None posted