Opportunities Weekly Round-up: 9 February 2018

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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).  Opportunities are grouped into four sections: 1) Pick of the Week & featured posts; 2) Opportunities with Deadlines; 3) Workshops and Events; 4) Ongoing opportunities (No deadline).

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Featured posts:

Introducing the Women’s Musical Theatre Initiative

LPW Online Book Club – born bad

Five Years of London Playwrights’ Blog – and what’s next!

Has LPB impacted your writing? Share your story!

A writer’s guide to making the most out of VAULT Festival

#WrAP Diary Week 5 – And We’re Out!

Our latest opportunities Pick of the Week: Brainchild Hatch #6

Pursued By A Bear: “Is it a bad idea to write about my troubled relationship with my father?”

Opportunities with deadlines: 

Play Submissions Helper: 28 Opportunities with February deadlines – various

Newsjack seeking submissions of sketches and one-liners (paid) – Weekly until 13 March 2018

Underexposed Writing Festival seeking submissions – Deadline: 10 February 2018

Old Sorting Office seeking submissions for inaugural scratch night ‘Dispatches’ – Deadline: 10 February 2018

Bloom Emerging Talent Showcase – Deadline: 11 February 2018

Red Planet Prize 2018 – Deadline: 9 February 2018 12 February 2018

Poet in Residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital Arts (paid) – Deadline: 12 February 2018

Brainchild seeking submissions for Hatch #6 – Deadline: 12 February 2018

Talawa Studio Firsts offering space and support (Black theatremakers) –  Deadline: 13 February 2018

Bradford Playhouse seeking short plays on LGBT themes – Deadline: 15 February 2018

Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries ($25,000 prize) – Deadline: 15 February 2018

Theatre Centre open call-out to playwrights: The Brian Way Award -Deadline: 16 February 2018

Theatr Clwyd announce third year of Writer In Residence Scheme – Deadline: 16 February 2018

Young Harts Writing Festival 2018 – Deadline: 16 February 2018

Taal Himalayan residency open to applications (£449) – Deadline: 16 February 2018

Ink or Swim at the Hope Theatre – Deadline: 16 February 2018

Lotus Lee Foundation New Work Initiative – Deadline: 18 February 2018

Parallel Praxis Cross-Disciplinary Artist Discussion Group – Deadline: 19 February 2018

Director’s Cut seeking submissions on ‘What is love?’ – Deadline: 21 February 2018

Nick Hern Books seeking Publishing Assistant – Deadline: 22 February 2018

The Scenic Route seeking playwriting tutors – Deadline: 23 February 2018

Night of Small Things seeking 15 minute scripts responding to #HeForShe – Deadline: 23 February 2018

Yard Theatre seeking submissions for Live Drafts – Deadline: 26 February 2018

Stockport Garrick Theatre New Writing Festival seeking 45-90 min plays – Deadline: 26 February 2018

Starbound Theatre seeking female led plays with diverse casts – Deadline: 28 February 2018

Persistent and Nasty seeking submissions from female-identified voices – Deadline: 28 February 2018

Theatre Royal Haymarket Pitch Your Play 2018 – Deadline: 28 February 2018

The Papatango New Writing Prize 2018 – Deadline: 28 February 2018

One Eyed Dog Films open submission window – 28 February 2018

Asphalt Jungle Shorts XIV seeking site-specific short plays (Canada) – Deadline: 1 March 2018

Elicit Pictures seeking short screenplays – Deadline: 1 March 2018

CultureClash Theatre seeking 10-20 min submissions for Voices in the Dark – Deadline: 2 March 2018

Has LPB impacted your writing? Share your story! – Deadline: 5 March 2018

Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing at Windsor Fringe (£500 prize) – Deadline: 5 March 2018

Chesil Theatre seeking plays on ‘Hidden Worlds’ for 10×10 Playwriting Competition – Deadline: 30 March 2018

Sky Blue seeking short plays for British Theatre Challenge 2018 (£16 fee) – Deadline: 30 March 2018

Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2018 – Deadline: 31 March 2018

Faversham Fringe 2018 open to applications – Deadline: 31 March 2018, but slots filled on rolling basis

Audiojam playscript competition (£2.99 fee) – Deadline: 31 March 2018

Waterloo Festival Publishing Competition – Deadline: 31 March 2018

LOST Theatre One Act Festival at Stockwell Playhouse (£70 if selected, £500 prize) – Deadline: 1 April 2018

‘Sheatre’ seeking plays/extracts with all female/non-binary casts (non-male writers only) – Deadline: 29 April 2018

Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting 2018 – Deadline: 1 May 2018

Punk Monkey Productions seeking one-act plays for PL.A.Y Noir (Los Angeles) – Deadline: 31 May 2018

Kevin Elyot Award for Writer-in-Residence 2018 (£3,000) – Deadline: 20 April 2018

365 Women a Year Playwriting Project – Deadline: 31 December 2018

Events and workshops:

Writers’ Mutual writing group -currently taking place Wednesdays 11am- 1pm

Panel discussion on rural touring with Anonymous Is A Woman (£5) – 10 February 2018

Cabaret launch of the Women’s Musical Theatre Initiative with London Playwrights’ Workshop – Monday 12 February 2018, 8.30pm

Old Vic Workshop: Writing the (Im)perfect Character – Tuesday 13 February, 10.30am-12.30pm

Old Vic Workshop: First Time at the Edinburgh Fringe – Tuesday 13 February, 3.30pm-5.30pm

‘How To Write a Play, Screenplay or Radio play’ workshop at the Hampstead – 17 February 2018

Papatango workshop on opening scenes with Sharon Clark – Monday 12 March 2018 from 2.30-4.30pm

Playwriting Workshop with John Burgess in Poitiers, France – 4-8 May 2018

Workshop with Simon Stephens in Milan (£150) – 16-17 June 2018

CAMP writing workshop with John Burgess (£1,119 – bursaries available) – 8-12 August 2018

Ongoing submissions:

Out of Joint launches Writers Room for playwrights – Deadline: Rolling

Drama Notebook seeking short plays for kids and teens (paid) – Deadline: None posted

Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Play Production Programme – Deadline: Ongoing

Aurora Metro Books seeks British East Asian plays for publication – Deadline: Ongoing

TheatreLab seeking scripts for rehearsed reading – Deadline: None Posted

Target Theatre Company seeking new plays for development – Deadline: None posted

Middle Child Theatre seeking scripts to commission – Deadline: None posted

Ugly Duck offering cheap rehearsal space in Docklands – next few months for Edinburgh Fringe– Deadline: None posted

Three opportunities with Alphabetti Theatre and rolling deadlines– Deadline: None posted

Newsthump looking for spoof news writers – Deadline: ongoing

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

London Poet seeking film makers to collaborate with – Deadline: none

Edgemar Center for the Arts (Santa Monica) seeking new work for 2017 season – Deadline: none

Batty Mama seeking writers/ artists – Deadline: none posted

Rich Gifts Theatre seeking writers – Deadline: rolling

Paines Plough accepting ongoing submissions – Deadline: rolling

BBC Comedy Classroom – Comedy writing resources for young people –  Deadline: various

Online Masterclass with Aaron Sorkin on Screenwriting ($90) – Deadline: none posted

JW3 seeking submissions of pieces about Jewish culture – Deadline: rolling

BFI Postroom open to submissions of films and scripts from emerging filmmakers – Deadline: rolling

Opportunities to hear your play with Player Playwrights – Deadline: rolling

Online Playwriting Course with Live Theatre (£95-£495) – Deadline: rolling

Playwrights Circle at the Bread & Roses – Deadline: ongoing (monthly event)

The Institute of Other seeking creative practitioners – Deadline: none posted

White Hart Trust Studios seeking international and foreign language theatre – Deadline: none posted

Pokfulam Rd Productions looking for playwrights and creatives – Deadline: none posted

55 Kings Contemporary Theatre Productions looking for writers – Deadline: none posted

Plane Paper Theatre call out for plays – Deadline: none posted

Theatrelab seeking scripts to perform at ‘WordPlay’ at Bath Spa University – Deadline: none posted

Londonville Lit offering reading slots – Deadline: none posted

Orange Tea Theatre accepting submissions – Deadline: rolling

Funding available for students at Glasgow University MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy – Deadline: none posted

Everything Theatre accepting plays for podcast readings – Deadline: none posted

The Cockpit Theatre seeking work for scratch nights – Deadline: none  posted but performances take place on the first Monday of the month.

Shred Productions open to submissions – Deadline: none (open submissions)

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