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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:
Monologue Call out! – Deadline: 4 December 2020
London-based Chalk Roots Theatre are seeking 20-40 minutes play to be staged as audio dramas – Deadline: 6 December 2020
Empower Her Voice call out for female identifying writers for online scratch night – Deadline: 9 December 2020
Tablespoon Theatre call out for proposals for Pot Luck Festival – Deadline: 10 December 2020
Radius Call-Out for Short Scripts set in an online meeting – Deadline: 14 December 2020
Act Your Age: Call out for plays with roles for over 40’s – Deadline: 18 December 2020
Thick Skin Theatre seeking Greater Manchester based writer – Deadline: 18 December 2020
Commissions for new work about home, Unreal Estates – Deadline: 20 December 2020
The Barn Theatre accepting submissions of One Act Plays for Playwriting Showcase – Deadline: 31 December 2020
BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine – New Commissioning Strand to Support Disabled Artists – Deadline: 12 January 2020
Theatre West – Zooming Ahead – Deadline: various submission windows ending 28 February 2021
Rolling deadlines:
Bitter Pill Theatre accepting rolling submissions for the Painkiller Pool – Deadline: rolling
ŠITE Productions are looking for Living Room Plays -Deadline: rolling
Calling Creative Contributors – writers, dancers, photographers, The Creative Pandemic – Deadline: rolling
Caravan Theatre accepting submissions for online reading group – Deadlines: various
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
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre seeking audio scripts for podcast – Deadline: none posted
Fable Workshop is looking for writers to create social distancing plays – Deadline: rolling
Fizzy Sherbet accepting short play submissions from womxn writers for new podcast – Deadline: rolling
Josef Weinberger Plays seeking 15 minute shorts for ISOPLAYTION – 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
Table Spoon Theatre accepting submissions for online publication – Deadline: ongoing
The Creative Hub seeking submissions on theme of climate crisis – Deadline: none posted
Theatre Three Off-Stage/On-Line – accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
Add Your Shows and Theatre Resources to Thespie – Deadline: rolling
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
DaDaFest International Festival – FREE online events – 27 November 2020 -3 December 2020
Uproar Theatre: Creative Outburst free writing program – Weekly from 19 October – 14 December 2020
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
Inverness Playwrights Writing Workshops
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
Underscore Studios launch project to address class imbalance in the arts
WGGB launches FREE Musical Theatre Kit
We Exist: Online LGBT+ Open Writing and Creative Space
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 Main: Part of the Grid back with new online workshops – Dates: various
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)
Poleroid: Play In – Series 2 (Brand new masterclass opportunities for students) – Dates: various
Chippy Lane Productions: Welsh Female Writers Group – FREE online sessions for Welsh Female Writers – Date: 26 October/ 22 November/ 8 December 2020
LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing-Style and Structure – Date: Saturday 12 December 2020
LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing- Starting Writing! – Date: Saturday 19 December 2020
LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Screen – Starts: Wednesday 6th January 2021 for 4 weeks
LPW Playwrights’ Playground: A new online drop-in writing group – First session: Saturday 9th January 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Playwrighting for Everyone (A 6 Week Course) – Starts: Tuesday 5 January 2021 for 6 weeks
LPW Online Workshops: Writing for Audio (4 week introductory course): Starts: Tuesday 12 January 2021 for 4 weeks
LPW Online Workshops: Playwrighting for Everyone – Write a Play! – Date: Starts Thursday 14th January 2021 for weeks
LPW Online Workshops: Producing Your Own Play – Date: 23 January 2021
Writing for Audio – Developing Your Work for Pitching and Production (Next level course) – Date: Starts Wednesday 17 February 2021 for 4 weeks
LPW Online Workshops: Pitching Your Play (with confidence!) – Date: 20 February 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Making an Impact in Your Opening Scene – Date: 27 February 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Writing Compelling Dialogue – Date: 6 March 2021
Part of the Grid July Workshops for Writers
Paperwork Theatre- forthcoming events
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
Squint’s GET WRITING and KEEP WRITING online workshops now booking – Dates: various
Live playwriting Opportunities
Listed in order of deadline, followed those with deadlines, and workshops & events.
With deadlines:
Play Submissions Helper: 36 Play Submissions Opps with November Deadlines – Deadlines: various throughout December 2020
Comedy Crowd Chorts – accepting submissions – Deadline: 4 December 2020
Heads Bodies Legs Theatre Company: Molly’s Masquerade – free writing workshops – Deadline (workshop takes place): 4 December 2020
HighTide: School of HighTide accepting expressions of interest – Deadline: 6 December 2020
OMF Theatre – Comedy Sketch Opportunity – Deadline: 7 December 2020
Open Culture seeking proposals for Liverpool Light Night – Deadline: 6 & 17 December 2020
The Treason Show – Topical Comedy Writers – Deadlines: every 2 weeks until 7 December 2020
Selladoor- Opportunity for 10 Greenwich based writers – Deadline: 7 December 2020
The Maverick Award – Deadline: 7 December 2020
Frumpish Theatre accepting 30 minute plays from womxn writers for festival – Deadline: 13 December 2020
Bush Theatre: West London Playwrights’ Group Applications Open – Deadline: 13 December 2020
BBC Studios ScriptWorks & Thousand Films – A Thousand Stories – Deadline: 15 December 2020
New plays required for performance at Mountview’s ‘Catalyst’ Festival – Deadline: 20 December 2020
Editorial DALYA accepting submissions for the V International Playwriting Contest – Deadline: 31 December 2020
BBC Writersroom announce window for Drama and Comedy Drama Scripts – Deadline: 6 January 2021
The Bush Theatre Submission Window now open until 10th January – Deadline: 10 January 2021
UK Jewish Film – The Pears Short Film Fund – Deadline: 11 January 2021
University of Chester & Storyhouse – The Cheshire Prize for Literature – Deadline: 31 January 2021
The Papatango New Writing Prize is back! – Deadline: 7 February 2021
Northern Writers Awards 2021 – Deadline: 18 February 2021
Edwin Wong presents the 3rd annual Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 31 May 2021
Rolling deadlines (please note that some of these opportunities are currently on hold due to covid-19, please visit individual websites for up to date information).
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 – Deadline: none posted
The New Works Playhouse accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling
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:
Bush Theatre Masterclasses – Dates: various (available both in person and online)