Scottish Radio Lab
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: 17 July 2009
The Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland Radio Drama are now planning the next Radio Lab. This Lab is particularly aimed at emerging and established writers who are already working in other media. It is open to poets, prose writers, and dramatists.
The Lab will be run over five days and participants must be available to attend throughout the duration of the Lab. The Lab will include a mixture of practical workshops and projects and talks from experienced radio producers and writers. The Lab will also include a day during which writers will have the chance to hear their work being rehearsed and recorded by professional actors.
The Lab will be based in Glasgow and Edinburgh and will take place on the following days:
Thursday 10 September
Friday 11 September
Monday 14 September
Monday 28 September
Tuesday 6 October
This opportunity is only open to those living and working in Scotland who have been professionally published, or have had a professional production of their work.
Applicants will need to supply the following:
- A proposal for an original radio play
- An explanation of why you want to write it
- Two sample scenes of the play
- An extract from your published work
- A CV
Deadline: Friday 17 July 2009 4:00pm. To find out more and apply please visit the website: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/radio-lab-application-guidelines
Total Theatre Awards 2009
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2009
Total Theatre Awards are given to professional artists and companies presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Work registered for an Award can be new to this year's Fringe or previously presented/toured, work of artists/companies. The award is intended to honour work from professional artists and companies at various stages of their professional development from the UK and other places in the world. The award does not consider work by student companies.
Entries for the Awards 2009:
Registering a show for a Total Theatre Award is an open access process – anyone can register a show appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. Artists, companies, producers, programmers or venues can propose work they are presenting. Registrations should be made using the official entry form.
For more information or to register your show please email totaltheatreaward@btinternet.com
Entries close at 9am, Friday 31st July 2009.
Imaginate Sunday Social
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: 3 August 2009
The next Imaginate Sunday Social will take place at the Traverse Theatre on Sunday 13th September 2009.
The Sunday Social is a simple idea: artists are given 15 minutes each, basic technical support (approx. 30 mins get in and technical time) and an audience, to try out ideas for performances for children and young people. Artists and audiences will then be given the opportunity to share feedback, thoughts and opinions. Performances will take place in Traverse 2.
Imaginate is now inviting proposals for the September 09 Sunday Social, to submit an idea please send an email to Jennifer at Imaginate giving the details regarding about your idea: jennifer@imaginate.org.uk
McLellan Award 2009 for plays in living Scots.
Location: Scotland
Deadline: 15 August 2009
The McLellan Award Play Competition is now in its third year and going from strength to strength. The competition is open to all. Plays must be in a living Scots dialect – urban or rural – though they may be set in any period. The running time should be a minimum of 40 minutes and a maximum of 50 minutes and the play should be for up to 3 actors. The rules state that the play must not have had a previous professional production, though it need not be new and submissions will be accepted from previous competitions. The closing date for entries is 15th August 2009.
The winning playwright of the 2009 competition will receive prize money of £1000 as well as the McLellan Award 2009 created by sculptor, Marvin Elliot and, funding permitting, the opportunity to workshop their play with Nutshell Theatre Company culminating in a performance reading at the McLellan Festival 2009 and a further performance in Glasgow in 2010.
For further details please visit the website www.mclellanawards.co.uk or contact Heather Gough at gough.carlo@virgin.net
Writers Bursaries-Unplugged and Unleashed 2009/10
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: 30 September 2009
FST and the Scottish Arts Council are delighted to announce the launch of Unleashed and Unplugged 2009 – two bursaries for creative artists working in Scottish theatre. The bursaries, Unleashed(£25,000) and Unplugged(£5,000) offer a unique opportunity to support two theatre artists to develop their potential by exploring, evolving and experimenting in their practice.
The bursaries will enable two artists, currently working in Scottish theatre (whether freelance or employed) to disconnect from their regular routine or job and give them time to explore and consider new or alternative ways of approaching their thinking and practice. The awards are open to all Scottish-based theatre artists (directors, performers, designers, choreographers, technicians, writers, dramaturges, multi-media artists, producers) who have reached a point in their career where time out to re-evaluate their own process and practice would be of creative benefit. Unleashed is aimed at established practitioners, and Unplugged at mid-career.
Click below for more details about the bursaries
UNLEASHED 2009/10: A Creative Practice Bursary for Established Artists
UNPLUGGED 2009/10: A Short Creative Practice Bursary for Mid-Career Artists
For information regarding eligibility and application procedure please visit the FST website http://www.scottishtheatres.com/news.php?id=5
MA-Television Fiction Writing
Location: Glasgow, Uk
Start Date: September 2009
Glasgow Caledonian University is looking for raw talent and new voices. An exciting new partnership between the television industry and higher education is ready to produce the next generation of professional scriptwriters. This masters focuses solely on writing for the television sector - a key element of the Scottish, UK and global economies.
Please note a number of industry sponsored places are available. For more information please visit the website www.tvfictionwriting.com or email matv@gcal.ac.uk
Magnetic North Presents: Open Source
Location: Edinburgh, Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, UK
Deadline: Ongoin
Magnetic North are delighted to announce the launch of their new project Open Source. An online Audience Engagement Project supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Open Source will be a Scotland-based internet community. Invited members will get an exclusive, interactive insight into how Magnetic North shows are created, from initial idea to curtain up, and have the chance to contribute their own feedback.
Magnetic North are currently seeking members from Edinburgh, Fife (inc Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Glenrothes) and Dumfries and Galloway. They are hoping to keep Open Source as open as possible by bringing together an eclectic group of people- you don’t have to be involved in theatre or a digital whiz to take part!
Interested? Visit www.opensource.magneticnorth.org.uk to read more about the project and complete a simple survey.
Sussex Playwrights' Club Competition
Location: Sussex, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2009
Sussex Playwrigts' Club have launched their 2009 Full-Length Play Competition 2009, for stage plays of ninety minutes duration. The first prize is £250, plus a reading of the winning play at a meeting of the Playwrights' Club. Second and third prize winners will recieve £150 and £100 respectively. Entry fee of £5. For more information regarding competition rules and entry procedure please visit the website: www.sussexplaywrights.com
In Company Theatre-Writers Wanted
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2009
In Company Theatre presents The Off Cut Festival, a short play festival of new writing. Writers are invited to submit plays of no more than 15 minutes, with a maximum 4 actors. 24 shorts are chosen and performed over two weeks at The Old Red Lion Theatre. The audience vote to find the final 8.
These 8 will be presented in the finals week in front of a professional panel to win a one week production package at Old Red Lion Theatre.
For more information please visit the website www.theoffcutfestival.com or email Trudi Boatwright at incompany@ymail.com
The Alfred Fagon Award
Location: UK
Deadline: 1 August 2009
The Alfred Fagon Award is the pre-eminent Award for playwrights of African and Caribbean descent. It was established in 1996 in memory of the late Jamaican playwright and actor, Alfred Fagon.
In 2009 the winner will be awarded £5,000 in recognition of their outstanding achievement in the art of playwriting. Already an annual feature in the theatre calendar, this high profile Award will be presented to the recipient at the Cottesloe, National Theatre followed by a staged reading at the end of November 2009.
To enter, you will need to submit your play, a CV, a brief synopsis of your entry, and confirmation of Caribbean and/or African heritage as well as your residency in the UK.
For more information please visit the website: http://alfredfagonaward.co.uk/
HighTide Festival
Location: Suffolk, UK
Deadline: 1 August 2009
HighTide are looking to produce new scripts from emerging writers for the fourth HighTide Festival, which will take place in May 2010. Writers may submit one unproduced full-length play. The deadline for plays arriving is 1st August 2009.
All plays should be emailed to scripts@hightide.org.uk. Please enter your name and the title of the script in the subject line. For more information, please visit www.hightide.org.uk
Script Submissions Invited
Location: New York, USA
Deadline: postmarked by 1st September 2009
hotINK, an annual festival of plays, presented at the Tisch School of the Arts by the Department of Drama, is currently inviting script submissions from playwrights.
Submission Guidelines: Full-length plays that have not had productions in the U.S. are preferred but one-acts will be considered. The competition is currently unable to consider musicals. All scripts must be submitted in English. Due to the volume of plays received, one script submission per author will be considered; if more than one script is sent, neither will be considered.
In addition to the play, all submissions must include: contact information, a writing resume/CV, a brief synopsis of the play, a character list and brief description of roles.
Please note: Any submissions that do not include all the above materials will not be considered.
For more information regarding competition rules or submission procedure, please visit www.hotink.org or contact Festival Director Catherine Coray cc19@nyu.edu
Arad Goch Script Writing Competition
Location: Wales, UK
Deadline: 28 September 2009
2009 sees Arad Goch Theatre Company celebrate its 20th Birthday and an exciting programme of 20 events to celebrate 20 years has been devised. On April the 1st, the company’s ‘official birthday’ the Scriptwriting Competition was launched.
Here are the competition details :
Subject : Open
Length : Open
Competition Age: Open.
Prize: Training and a rehearsed reading of the play
As you can see it's a completely open competition! The only requirement is that the play is suitable for an audience of children or young people. If you have always wanted to write, then here’s the competition for you
For more information please visit the website
http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/adverts/adverts_details.asp?ad_ID=706 or email Carys@aradgoch.org
Wild Orchid Theatre Calls for Plays
Location: East/West Midlands, UK
Deadline: 30 September 2009
Dedicated to performing exciting new writing in unconventional theatre spaces, Wild Orchid Theatre is seeking new plays to stage in its December production at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, South Derbyshire.
Open to anyone living or working in the East or West Midlands, plays should have a light-hearted/humorous Christmas theme, require a maximum of four actors, and be no longer than fifteen minutes.
Further details are available by emailing: wildorchidtheatre@live.co.uk
Submit Your Script to the BBC
Location: UK
Deadline: Ongoing
BBC writersroom is always on the lookout for fresh, new, talented writers for a changing Britain. When we find them, we do everything we can to get their voice heard and their work produced for BBC film, TV and radio – for drama, comedy, and children’s programmes.
If you have talent, an original voice, and stories to tell, then BBC writersroom wants to know about you. For more information about submitting scripts to the BBC writersroom please visit the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/submissions.shtml
