Script This seeking 10 minute excerpts for rehearsed reading at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

Script This is the East Midlands’ playwriting initiative for new, emerging and established playwrights.  They are seeking 10 minute play extracts for performance at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre. (Note:  Although this opportunity is based in the East Midlands, they accept submissions from London-based writers – we contacted them to check!) How it works:  Up …

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Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough) accepting submissions

Following the appointment of an Associate Director, the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, is now in a position to be able to accept script submissions again. In order to avoid a backlog of unread material they will only receive scripts during certain periods of the year. The first submission window will run until Friday 30th of September. …

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Write/Cycle puts out call for 10 minute responses to ‘Frankenstein’

Write/Cycle has put out a call for short plays. The Brief:  Write a 10 minute response to the classic text Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! This can be in absolutely any way you wish as long as the original kernel of your idea comes from this text- albeit style, narrative, character, setting, a prologue- or anything else …

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‘Pitch Perfect’ £12,000 Musical Theatre Prize

Perfect Pitch has announced a new £12,000 award for musical theatre writing, in association with Royal & Derngate Northampton. Selected writers will be asked to ‘pitch’ ten minutes of a brand new musical to a panel of experienced judges including Olivier award winning actors Michael Ball and Janie Dee, director Rachel Kavanaugh (Love Story, Sound of Music), …

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1 day Masterclass in Collaborative Writing, Tamasha Theatre Company (fee)

Date: Saturday 28th September 2013, 10am – 6pm Venue: Bush Theatre (Attic), W12 see here> This 1 day masterclass will introduce different ways to approach writing and editing collaboratively. As many writers increasingly work across theatre, opera, film and TV, they encounter multiple models of ‘collaboration’ at various stages in the writing process: from feedback …

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Free Tax Talk for Freelancers (Ideastap Spa)

If you’ve started making some money from your writing and have no idea how to handle your tax responsibilities, here’s an opportunity for some free advice.  Ideastap will be running a Spa Event titled ‘The Business: Tax Talk for Freelancers‘ with Bambridge accountants on Tuesday 24 September from 6.00-7.30pm. Join creative industry financial advisors Bambridge …

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Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair: Spoken Word Workshops at Southbank Centre (age 18-25)

  Southbank Centre is looking for 10 up and coming writers to take part in Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair, a very exciting project with spoken word artist Simon Mole involving workshops and performances in two live shows at Southbank Centre: Simon Mole’s ground-breaking one man show is a spoken word adventure that takes …

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Opportunities Weekly Roundup: 13 September 2013

Our weekly round-up of opportunities listed on the blog that haven’t yet reached their closing date (listed in order of closing date). Collaborative Writing Masterclass with the Paper Tiger collective – applications open (fee) – Deadline: 13 September Radio 4 sketch series 2525 seeking submissions – Deadline: 13 September 2013 The Roundhouse accepting proposals for …

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The Royal Court accepting applications for playwriting groups

This Autumn, the Royal Court will be running two Introduction to Playwriting groups, one for writers aged 18 to 25 and the other for writers aged 26 and over. Both groups are intended to help playwrights at an early stage in their career to develop their skills. The groups will run for twelve weeks throughout the remainder …

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