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TENacity
Script
Location: Birmingham, UK
Dates: 12 June-14 August 2010

TENacity is a targeted development programme offering writers the chance to explore new ways of working in a creative, supportive environment.

With events ranging from workshops, readings, writer labs and networking, the programme offers a wide variety of opportunities for writers to hone their skills with input and support from dramaturgs and theatre practitioners.

For futher details, or to book, visit http://www.scriptonline.net/stage.html

Literary Officer Vacancy
Hampstead Theatre
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 19 July 2010

Hampstead Theatre seeks a Literary Officer to provide administrative support and liaison for new writing at Hampstead Theatre. In particular, the successful applicant will support the Associate Director in the development of a professional programme of work for Hampstead Downstairs in the Michael Frayn Space.

Professional theatre experience in a new writing context and strong administrative skills are essential.

For further information, or to apply, visit www.hampsteadtheatre.com/jobs

Theatre West - An Opportunity for Women Writers
Theatre West
Location: Bristol, UK
Deadline: 20 July 2010

Theatre West is a Bristol based theatre company with over ten years experience of developing new writing in the region. Due to the under-representation of women writers in previous years, they are ring-fencing a slot in their autumn season and are inviting submissions of scripts from women writers living and working in the South West.
The chosen script will be further developed with the support of Theatre West and be performed at the Alma in a two week run during the autumn season. The writer will receive a fee of £1,000.

For more information or to submit a script contact writers@theatre-west.co.uk

Free Workshops - Write Here and Now/Script Laboratory
Hampstead Theatre
Location: London, UK
Dates: 24 July 2010

Hampstead Theatre is taking part in the London 2012 Open Weekend, with two free participatory workshops

Write Here, Write Now:
A short, fun, practical introduction to playwriting, where participants are challenged to write a play in an hour. Includes tips and techniques passed on by our world class writers.

Script Laboratory:
Join the panel and give your support, views and verdict on a brand new play: Vichyssoise Hoo Ha by J. L. Roberts, directed by Clare Lizzimore.

To book a place, contact info@hampsteadtheatre.com

For more information visit www.hampsteadtheatre.com

Writers' Clinic at Soho Theatre
Soho Theatre
Location: London, UK
Dates: 24 - 25 July 2010

An intensive weekend workshop crammed with exercises, one-on-one feedback sessions, group writing intensives and script surgeries, led by Soho’s Writers’ Centre Director Nina Steiger and guest playwrights.

Designed for writers at every level to give you fresh perspectives on your work.

To book, telephone Alix Thorpe on 020 7478 0113.

For more information, visit http://www.sohotheatre.com/p21.html

The London Theatre Writing Award
The London Playwrights' Collective for London Fringe
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 25 July 2010

Run by the London Playwrights’ Collective for London Fringe and open to all writers, this new award gives a platform to the most promising piece of new writing or devised work to have arisen from a writer, group of writers, or theatre collective.

The top entries will have a showcased rehearsed reading to an invited audience of industry professionals in a central London venue (produced in collaboration with ScenePool). The winner will receive a £500 cash prize.

Plays of any length, written in English and original to the writer, will be accepted.

For more information, or to enter visit http://www.londonfestivalfringe.com/general/awards/theatrewriting/

New Works of Merit Playwrighting Competition
Merit Theatre and Film Group Inc.
Location: New York, America
Deadline: 31 July 2010

Now in its eighth year, New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts.

First Place wins $300, plus a rehearsed reading with a Question & Answer sesion –

This competiton accepts and encourages exciting new works that:

Support peace and social justice
Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization

For more information, visit http://www.newworksofmeritplaywritingcontest.com/

International Playwriting Festival 2010 - Call for Entries
Warehouse Theatre Company
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2010

The 25th Year International Playwriting Festival 2010 competition accepts entries from all over the world, and is judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners. The best selected plays will be showcased at the Festival weekend, held in March 2010, with a view to further production.

For further information, visit www.warehousetheatre.co.uk/ipf10.html or email Ted Craig at ted@warehousetheatre.co.uk

Little Pieces of Gold - Call for Submissions
Etcetera Theatre
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 16 August 2010

A fabulous opportunity for writers, directors and actors to flex their creative muscles on a London stage in an evening of bold, fresh drama.

Submissions invited from writers for an Autumn performance of four new short plays or extracts from full-length works at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden on 27 September 2010.

Directors will select a play from those submitted and be responsible for the casting and rehearsals. Writers will work with directors during rehearsals.

For more information about Etcetera Theatre, visit www.etceteratheatre.com/index.php

For submission details, visit www.littlepiecesofgold.com

The Whiting Award
The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust
Location: Nottingham, UK
Deadline: 20 August 2010

Awarded annually to the new play which best demonstrates an original and distinctive development in dramatic writing, The Whiting Award, worth £6,000, has been instrumental in the development of the careers of some of the best-known British dramatists in the last 45 years. Previous winners include Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Martin Crimp, Tanika Gupta and Sir Tom Stoppard

For more information on submission criteria, visit http://twp2009.wordpress.com/projects/whiting-award.

Write to Play with Jez Butterworth
In The Same Boat
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 1 September 2010

In The Same Boat presents Write to Play with Jez Butterworth. Listen to Jez in conversation with Ian Rickson, director of Jerusalem, about his life, career and work; listen to and/or participate in a reading from one of his plays; and join in a discussion with Jez about his themes, styles and methods of writing.

Write to Play events focus on a prolific playwright, changing venues each time and striving to give audiences the opportunity to engage with playwrights.

To book, please visit http://www.sohotheatre.com/pl1915.html or telephone 020 7478 0100.

The Script 2011 - New Writing Competition
MokitaGrit Productions
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 11 September 2010

Critically acclaimed MokitaGrit Productions, one of the most prolific independent production houses in the UK, is on the lookout for the best in new writing for its competition, The Script 2011.

Scripts with complex, engaging text and the potential for multi or mixed-media production are required. Submissions need to engage with contemporary society, either politically or culturally, and to give a voice to strong and diverse characters. The company is happy to accept scripts in development and develop them with the writers.

The full company will choose the top scripts. Performances of extracts will take place in front of an industry-led panel and a public audience in Spring 2011. Mokitagrit has funding in place and will take the winner of the festival into full production.

Please send hard copies only of scripts to MokitaGrit Literary Department, 33A Station Road, London RM3 0BS. Please include an email address for correspondence and a stamped, addressed envelope if you would like your script returned.

Fast Track Introduction to Playwriting
Euphoric Ink Ltd
Location: London, UK
Dates: 11 - 12 September 2010

A weekend of playwriting workshops for beginners led by Ola Animashawun, former head of the new writers programme at the Royal Court Theatre.

The course will include:

• All you need to know about how to write a play – in just two days.
• Finding out what all good playwrights know and do.
• Practical exercises - applying what you learn.

For further information, visit http://euphoricink.co.uk/playwriting_workshops

The Art of Playwriting 2010
Faber & Faber
Location: London, UK
Dates: 15 - 19 September 2010

This course is aimed at those who want to write a new play or develop an existing idea. It will consist of group work and one to one feedback. Within the three days you will discover and develop what you really want to write about, whilst refreshing your process with new techniques and detailed feedback.

The course is devised and directed by award-winning writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Nina Steiger, director of the Writers’ Centre at London’s Soho Theatre.

Cost: £375

To find out more, visit: http://www.faber.co.uk/article/2010/2/art-of-playwriting-2010-writing-new-plays-and-deve/

NALD Course: Writers and Commissioning
National Association for Literature and Development
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 22 September 2010

Whether you commission new work or are just thinking of doing so, this free event invites you to join colleagues and writers in a day of presentations and debates around the issue of commissioning: what does this term mean for producers and for writers and what could the field look like in the future?

It will look at what has worked well, what we can learn from other arts, and new ways of working including new media. What do producers and writers look for and need to generate successful and satisfying new work?

To book your place email a.caldwell@nawe.co.uk or telephone 07818 052108

For more information, visit http://www.literaturedevelopment.co.uk/cpd

We Are What We Do - Call for Submissions
Pentabus Theatre
Location: Bromfield, UK
Deadline: 29 October 2010

The award winning Pentabus Theatre would like to invite playwrights from around the UK to submit a play for their 2012 season. Pentabus has a history of making eclectic and innovative work, and they want to celebrate who they are and what they do best by opening up a slot in their 2012 programme for an as yet undiscovered play.

For more information, visit http://www.pentabus.co.uk/index.php/current-programme/we-are-here

Writing for Performance Residency
Ty Newydd
Location: Wales, UK
Dates: 1 - 6 November 2010

This is a dynamic and diverse residency for writers of performance keen to explore different source materials, processes, and dramatic structures, whilst seeding new work.

Daily workshops will include practical exercises exploring site, the senses, existing stories and memory as inspiration and source material. At the end of the week writers will leave with tools and approaches that can be used long after the course has finished. Evening sessions will include informal discussion, video screenings, and the opportunity to share work in progress in a relaxed environment.

For further details visit www.tynewydd.org or contact Ty Newydd by telephone 01766 522 811, or email post@tynewydd.org

The 35th International Student Playscript Competition
The World Student Drama Trust
Location: International
Deadline: 30 November 2010

The International Student Playscript Competition (ISPC) has been celebrating and promoting new writing in the theatre by students since 1976. It is an exciting opportunity spanning the globe.

The ISPC is unique -there are no restrictions on form, content, length, number of characters or locations; every entry receives helpful, encouraging but honest appraisal; and there is no limit to how many scripts any student can enter.

The successful submission receives a cash prize of £1,000, and a highly rated rehearsed reading at the National Student Drama Festival.

For entry details, visit www.isplayscript.org

Call for Monologue Submissions
The Good Ear Review
Deadline: 31 December 2010

The Good Ear Review—a dramatist's literary journal—is a website dedicated to publishing stand-alone monologues that share a moment in time with the reader (and, eventually, the audience). They are committed to posting original and quality writing from both established writers and emerging playwrights.

Please send monologue submissions, in the body of the email, to: submit@thegoodearreview.com

Please visit www.TheGoodEarReview.com to read posted monologues to get a sense of the layout and the work that The Good Ear Review publish.

For submission guidelines, visit http://thegoodearreview.com/submission-guidelines/

The First 20 Minutes - Scripts Wanted
Writer's Avenue
Location: London, UK

Are you a new writer? Do you have a play script you would like to test out in front of a supportive audience that will give honest feedback? The First 20 Minutes gives new writers a chance to do just that.

Every two months new writers can show their work in progress in a fringe venue in central London. Writer's Avenue will choose three contrasting plays. The first twenty minutes of each play will be performed in front of an audience that will give written feedback which will be given to the writer. The plays with positive feedback will go on to have a rehearsed reading.

In 2011 they will select up to six writers from the 2010 series of The First 20 Minutes to compete for the chance to have their full length play produced at a London fringe venue. This will be another chance for the writer to receive feedback from the audience and gain industry exposure.

Script submissions are accepted througout the year.

Send submissions to submissions@writersavenue.co.uk with your name and the name of your play in the subject heading.

For more information, visit http://www.writersavenue.co.uk/The-First-20-Minutes.php

Dublin Writers' Group - New Writers Welcome
Dublin Playwrights and Screenwriters Group
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Playwrights and Screenwriters Group meets every two weeks to discuss stage and screenwriting and what's going on in the writing world. Those who think a group would help their writing are invited to visit to see if they wish to join.

Contact the group at info@script.ie

For more information about the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Writers Groups, visit http://script.ie/members/writers-groups/

ScriptSpace - New Writing Workshops
Spaceworks
Location: London, UK

ScriptSpace is a new writing initiative brought to you by SpaceWorks, the resident theatre company at The Space, Mudchute. Writers are invited to submit their new work to be read by professional actors and receive valuable feedback from fellow writers and other industry professionals.

ScriptSpace offers an opportunity to hear your work out loud and network within the theatre community as well as accessing advice on how to proceed both on the page and in the practical world of theatre.

Interested parties should email their work to Lucy Fredrick at info@space.org.uk marked SCRIPTSPACE.

For more information about Spaceworks, visit http://space.org.uk/?page_id=37

Free Script Reading Service
Live Theatre
Location: Newcastle, UK

Live Theatre offers a free script reading service which provides an opportunity to get professional and objective feedback on your script prior to sending it out to theatres and agents for consideration.

For more information,contact Degna Stone at degna@live.org.uk or visit http://www.live.org.uk/newwriting/scriptreadingservice.php

E-BULLETIN: July 2010