The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust Supports the Whiting Award
This award is given to a play of relevance and importance to contemporary life that is judged to be of potential value to British Theatre. The award value is £6,000.
To be eligible to enter for the award the play must be:
- an original piece of writing (no adaptations or pieces of verbatim theatre).
- produced by a company in the subsidised sector (includes Trusts and Foundations).
- Performed for the first time between 1 August 2007 and 31 July 2008
Please send three printed scripts and a covering letter stating the production details to the address below.
The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust supports the Whiting Award
Everyman Theatre
13 Hope Street
Liverpool
L1 9BH
(Please note - only printed scripts, emailed scripts will not be accepted.)
Closing date for submissions: 18th August 2008
The Consortium: (Hampstead Theatre, The Royal Court London, Soho Theatre, Paines Plough, Tamasha Theatre Company, Clean Break, Nottingham Playhouse, Traverse Theatre, The Contemporary Theatre & New Writing Company, The Bush Theatre, Nuffield Southampton, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.)
Writer Required for Community Arts Project
Manchester, England
Application Deadline: 22 August 2008
Manchester Library Theatre Company are currently looking for an experienced writer to deliver an exciting new play writing project for older people which will take place here at Central Library in Manchester city centre.
Applicants must have experience of delivering play writing workshops and working with people with little or no experience of creative writing. If you are interested in this opportunity please send a copy of your CV in the first instance. Due to the nature of the project the company is looking for people who are based in Greater Manchester or within easy travelling distance from Manchester city centre.
For more information please contact Liz Postlethwaite of the Manchester Library Theatre Company at l.postlethwaite@manchester.gov.uk
Creative Writer & Mentor Wanted
Borough of Poole Arts Development Unit
Application Deadline: Wed 27 Aug 2008
Paid/Part time
Professional writer required to work with adults with physical health conditions who have anxiety and depression as a secondary diagnosis, part of Borough of Poole Arts Development Unit's Flourish Arts and Health Programme. The writer will be experienced in working with vulnerable adults. He/she will also mentor a mid-career writer throughout the project.
For further details and application information please contact Anna Shiels a.shiels@poole.gov.uk
4Talent Awards
Deadline: 29 August 2008
Channel 4 is scouring the country for the UK’s most exciting young creative talent for the 4Talent Awards 2008. Categories include:
• Dramatic Writing (stage and screen)
• Dramatic Performance (stage, film & TV)
• Directing (film & TV)
All entrants must be under 30 on 31/12/2008. The completed online form and any posted supporting materials must be received by 5pm on Friday 29 August 2008.
To find out more go to www.4talentmagazine.com/awards www.4talentmagazine.com/awards>
Celebrating ten successful years as a presence in British Theatre, the Award is dedicated to providing inspiration and validation for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent who are resident in the UK.
The Award of £5000 is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent,resident in the UK, for the best new stage play in English, which need not have been produced. Each entrant may submit only one play. (Television, radio and film scripts will not be considered.)
Applicants for the 2008 Award should send two copies of their play (plus a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for return of scripts), accompanied by a CV which includes the writer's Caribbean or African connection and a brief history of the play, to:
The Alfred Fagon Award
The Royal Court Theatre
Sloane Square
London SW1W 8AS.
The deadline is 31st August 2008.
For more information about the award visit the website:
www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/site
Submissions Wanted - Rattling Tongue Theatre Company
Deadline: 31 Aug 2008
Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd are seeking new full length plays for UK
premiere production.
Please send scripts to Daniel Wain, Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd, 44 Fairfield South, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 2UW. Please enclose an SAE for return if required.
For more information, see www.rattlingtongue.com
Naked Stage 2008—Submissions Now Open
England, UK
Submission Deadline: 8 September 2008
Naked Stage is WRiTEON's longest running, largest and best known series of staged readings. Its purpose is to provide a forum for new scriptwriting in the Cambridge region and beyond.
WRiTEON is looking for previously unperformed stage plays or sketches of up to one hour in length. There is an optional audience feedback session for the writer at the end of each evening's performance.
Please send submissions to news@writeon.org.uk
For full submission guidelines please visit the Writeon website www.writeon.org.uk/newsitems/newsitem1.html
Female Playwrights With New Scripts Wanted
Velvet Ensemble aims to facilitate the work of women playwrights, directors, actors, stage managers, set, costume, lighting and sound designers. They are interested in hearing from female playwrights with new scripts.
Deadline for submissions: Ongoing
For more information please e-mail V at:
velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk
Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting
This annual and unique play competition was established in 2007 to commemmorate the centenary of Robert McLellan's birth in celebration of his enormous contribution to Scottish Theatre. The prize for this competition is £1000, a 2 day development workshop with a professional director and actors, leading to a rehearsed reading on the Isle of Arran at the Arran Arts Festival , November 2008 and a full scale production of the play at Oran Mor, Glasgow in March 2009.
The competition asks for plays which have not been performed professionally as yet, are 50 minutes duration, are written for a maximum of 3 characters and are written in any living Scots dialect - urban or rural.
For more information and online entry go to: www.arranartsfestival.co.uk following the links to Play Competition or contact Heather Gough, Chairperson, Arran Theatre and Arts Trust at gough.carlo@virgin.net
Deadline for entries will be 30th September.
HighTide Festival
HighTide are looking for new full-length scripts from emerging writers. Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play. There is no restriction on subject matter. HighTide welcomes international scripts, written in English, on the basis that all selected writers are available in the UK for the dramaturgy, rehearsal and production period from January to May 2009.
The play should be sent to the address below, and must have a title page with author's name, address and telephone number. Scripts will not be returned.
HighTide Festival
24a St John Street
London EC1M 4AY
The play must also be emailed to scripts@hightidefestival.org Please enter your name and title of script in the subject line.
Submission deadline: 1st November 2008
Acid Theatre Playwright Competition
The Acid Theatre Playwright Competition is looking for 30-60 minute monologues or 2 handers based loosely around the theme of 'Freedom of Speech in the Theatre' but with special emphasis on religion and religious influences in society.
The winning entry will be performed / produced by AcidTheatre.
Entries to be received by email to theatreacid@yahoo.co.uk
Entry deadline: 5 January 2009.
STAGE International Script Competition
S T A G E = Scientists Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration.
The Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute will collaborate internationally with professional artists to create and develop multi-media theatre pieces in which science and technology play prominent roles in content and/or form.
The STAGE International Script Competition will now become a biennial competition. The next deadline for entries is December 15, 2009. Submissions will not be accepted earlier than June 15, 2009.
For current guidelines and all details please visit the STAGE website: www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage/guidelines/guidelines.html
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