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Opportunities Listings
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:
Pozzitive Comedy – Funny Dot Comp (Radio Comedy Script Development Competition) – Deadline: 10 January 2021
BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine – New Commissioning Strand to Support Disabled Artists – Deadline: 12 January 2020
ChewBoy Productions Seeking Isolation Inspired Works for online gallery – Quarantine Collective Wave 4 – Deadline: 12 January 2021
Call For Texts – James Banner + Stephanie Lamprea Duo, James Banner – Deadline: 15 January 2021
Red Hair Theatre seeking writing on the theme of ‘In Praise of…’ – Deadline: 15 January 2021
Orange Tree Theatre Writers’ Collective – Deadline: 22 January 2021
Beardance Theatre – Texts in Isolation – Deadline: 23 January 2021
The Literal Challenge: 28 Plays Later – registration now open – Deadline: 28 January 2021
Loud Voices Silent Streets – Writing Challenges – Deadline: 31 January 2021
Quintuple L Productions seeking submissions for podcast – Deadline: 31 January 2021
Theatre West – Zooming Ahead – Deadline: various submission windows ending 28 February 2021
Rolling deadlines:
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
Off Book Productions seeking new work for scratch night – Deadline: none posted
Online New Writing Nights at Dapper Sandwich – Deadline: none posted
Obsydyan Theatre seeking Caribbean and African Writers – 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
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)
Squint’s GET WRITING & KEEP WRITING workshops – bookings for 2021 now open – Dates: various in 2021 (we will also be including individual listings in the round-up)
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: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing-Style and Structure – Date: Saturday 16 January 2021
Online Sitcom Writing Workshop with Arron Bennett – Date: Starts 18 January 2021
Creative Check-In: Parents Under Pressure – Date: 19 January 2021
LPW Online Workshops: An Introduction to Musical Theatre Writing- Starting Writing! – Date: Saturday 23 January 2021
LPW Online Workshops: Producing Your Own Play – Date: 23 January 2021
The Actors Company: Dramaturging your own play – Date: 27 January 2021
Broken Silence Theatre accepting applications for new course, The Playwrights Hive – Date: Starts 30 January 2021
Squint Theatre Workshops: GET WRITING workshop – action – Date: 3 February 2021
LPW Online Workshops Writing for Audio – Developing Your Work for Pitching and Production (Next level course) – Date: Starts Wednesday 17 February 2021 for 4 weeks
Squint Theatre: KEEP WRITING workshop – Subtext – Date: 17 February 2021
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:
Open Call: Support for Research and Development of new outdoor work – Deadline: 8 January 2021
The Bush Theatre Submission Window now open until 10th January – Deadline: 10 January 2021
Greater Manchester Artists Hub- Orignate Fund – Deadline: 10 January 2021
The Lyric Theatre Belfast New Playwrights Programme 2021 accepting submissions – Deadline: 11 January 2021
UK Jewish Film – The Pears Short Film Fund – Deadline: 11 January 2021
The Tron accepting applications – Lab Week – Deadline: 11 January 2021
The Arcola call out for outdoor work- Today I’m Wiser – Deadline: 11 January 2021
Watersprite Film Festival – Screenplay Competition 2021 – Deadline: 14 January 2021
Stellify Media / Sony Pictures Television All-Ireland Screenwriting Prize – Deadline: 15 January 2021
Artist Residency – Newcastle Common Residency 2, Appetite, New Vic Theatre – Deadline: 22 January 2021
45 North- The Trans Commissioning Scheme – Deadline: 29 January 2021
University of Chester & Storyhouse – The Cheshire Prize for Literature – Deadline: 31 January 2021
Shows Wanted for UK’s First Zero-Waste Theatre, The Greenhouse Theatre C.I.C – Deadline: 5 February 2021
The Papatango New Writing Prize is back! – Deadline: 7 February 2021
Northern Writers Awards 2021 – Deadline: 18 February 2021
Green Curtain Theatre – Looking Back Across the Water – Deadline: 28 February 2021
The 18th Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing 2021 open for entries – Deadline: 5 March 2021
The ETPEP Award 2021 – Deadline: 30 April 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
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)