Female Playwrights 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 email:velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk
Scripts needed by Word of Mouth Media Productions
Word of Mouth Media Productions is looking for scripts from up and coming writers which explore at least one of the following themes: Confinement, Mental Health, Identity, Injustice.
Scripts must be performable by a maxmum of four actors and should have at least one strong female role playing age 25-40. Word of Mouth offers royalties and good payment terms for existing scripts and will consider commissioning a piece if it offers a suitable idea.
Please send all scripts or treatments to:
Diana Thomas
Word of Mouth Productions
31 Anstey Road
London
SE15 4JX
Bursary for MA Writing for Performance University of Huddersfield
The MA Writing for Performance is a one calender year intensive course for people who want to develop their writing practice for live theatre/ performance.
A £2000 bursary is awarded each year.
For more information please contact the course leader Tim Moss at: t.moss@hud.ac.uk or 01484 478405
Contact Theatre Searching for Artists and Companies
Contact Theatre is searching for artists and companies with exciting new ideas for theatre - through spoken word, audio visuals, music, new media, movement, poetry, rap, installations etc. You could end up on the Artist in Residence programme, being commissioned for the new writing slam, Verbally Challaenged, or getting space and time to develop your work. Send ten pages of writing or 5min of DVD/CD and information on you and your idea to search@contact.org or post to:
Search Party
Contact Theatre
Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6JA
For further details visit: www.contact-theatre.org
Script Games
Visual art meets live drama as Script teams up with Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for a new project to celebrate the China Now Festival. Script, the regional development agency for dramatic writers in the West Midlands, is inviting writers to submit a short (10 minute) play in response to the "Beijing Map Games" exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Five plays will be selected and performed at the Museum, in front of the exhibition, on Saturday 22nd November 2008.
For details on how to apply, visit: www.scriptonline.net/stage.html
Deadline: Friday 24th October 2008, 5pm
Hampstead Theatre’s Start Night
Once every four to six weeks on Mondays, The Michael Frayn Space hosts Hampstead Theatre's fast and furious new writing initiative, Start Night.
Hampstead Theatre encourages the submission of new scripts by writers of all levels. Up to five short extracts are presented on the night with minimal set and props. The audience is asked to give written feedback on each extract which is then collated and given to the writers. The idea is that emerging and established writers have the chance to test a new, incomplete script on an audience and use the response they get to improve the play.
The submission deadline for the upcoming Start Night on Monday 17 November 2008 is 29 October 2008.
For more information and submission details please see the Hampstead Theatre website: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
The Brian Way Award 2009 &
The Adrienne Benham Award 2009
The Brian Way Award for Best New Play for young people awarded to a script which has been professionally produced between 1 September 2007 and 30 September 2008. Awarded as a cash prize of £6,000.
The Adrienne Benham Award for New Promise, presented to an emerging playwright who displays a talent and interest in writing for young audiences. Awarded as a £2,000 Seed Commission.
These Awards are funded and administered by Theatre Centre
Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2008. Full information, eligibility and submission details can be found at:www.theatre-centre.co.uk . Alternatively it is possible to email: admin@theatre-centre.co.uk .The Awards will be presented in April 2009.
Press contact: Cristina Raschi cristina@theatre-centre.co.uk
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
Days Like This
Days Like This is an exciting nationwide project run by Scottish Book Trust and BBC Radio Scotland aimed at encouraging people to write about a special day in their life. The project seeks to gather hundreds of extraordinary tales, from born-and-bred Scots to newly-arrived immigrants.
Anyone can send a story - content is what matters! Stories should be no longer than 1,000 words and can be about anything as long as it’s true. All stories will appear on the BBC website for everyone to read. The best ones will be recorded and discussed in a series of radio programmes and appear in a book to be published in late January 2009.
To submit a story or to read some of the 250 stories sent in so far, please visit the Scottish Book Trust website at (http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/node/23780)
Final deadline for stories is 1 November 2008
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Cryptic Nights
CCA, Glasgow
First Thursday of every month from February – December 2009
For 2009, Cryptic will create a pilot programme of regular monthly events at CCA titled ‘Cryptic Nights’ which explores contemporary cross art form work – from live performance to screen based work.
Cryptic are seeking emerging artists to be part of Cryptic Nights
Open call submission - deadline 6th November 2008
For guidelines and an application form visit: www.crypticnights.org.uk/
Future Perfect 2009
Paines Plough is looking for writers
Future Perfect is a once in a lifetime opportunity to grow and develop as a theatre writer. Paines Plough is looking for 6 of the most talented and thrilling writers between the ages of 18 and 30.
Channel 4 and Film Four have enabled Paines Plough to host this year long attachment which creates a space for writers to explore their individual voices and develop their vision through practical writing projects, working with professional practitioners and creators of inspirational work and watching exciting productions. Over the twelve month period each of the winning playwrights will work closely with Paines Plough's award-winning creative team to develop a full length play.
To become one of the Future Perfect writers please submit a play. Please send 2 unbound hard copies with a letter and CV including your name, address, telephone number, email address and date if birth to…
Future Perfect
Paines Plough
4th Floor
43 Aldwych
London
WC2B 4DN
Submissions by email or on disk WIll NOT be accepted. ALL submission must be recieved by 10th November 2008.
For more about Paines Plough visit www.painesplough.com if you have any queries please contact us on 020 7240 4533.
International Playwrighting Award
The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
The Foundation awards yearly grants to playwrights who submit full-length plays, screenplays, musicals or operas. All works submitted must present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and be based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art. Writing contests close on November 30th of each year. Grants are $1,000 and are not limited to a single winner.
Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2008
For more information please visit the website: www.aabbfoundation.org/
£1,000 Commission for Manchester-based Writers
The Moving Manchester Project will produce an academic study, but also has a number of creative outputs including a specially commissioned work, which will take the form of a short story, long poem, poem sequence or performance piece. The commissioned work will be showcased on the Lanchester University website and at conferences in Manchester in September 2009. The work should be a maximum of 5,000 words or should take up not more than 5 pages in the case of poetry and take as its theme one or more of the following: the experience of migration to Manchester from overseas; some form of significant migration or re-location within the city; Manchester as a multiculturally imagined city. The successful applicant will receive £1,000 for their work, including all expenses.
Applicants should submit the following in electronic form:
A CV detailing your writing experience
A publications list
A sample of creative work (3 pages max)
An outline proposal for the commission
These should be sent to Graham Mort at g.mort@lancs.ac.uk no later than
1 December 2008.
The application will be considered by a panel drawn from members of the Centre for Transcultural Writing & Research at Lancaster University . All applicants will be informed of our decision by 12 January 2009.
More details can be found at:www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/
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.
One Act Playwriting Competition 2009
The Drama Association of Wales in partnership with Ty Newydd Writers Centre for Wales are seeking submissions for the 2009 One Act Playwriting Competition. The competition aims to encourage the writing of plays for amateur theatre in English and Welsh.
Plays may be submitted to three catagories: open section, plays suitable for performance by a cast of 16-25 year olds, and scripts in the Welsh language. (Please note: plays written for radio or television will not be accepted.)
Playing time: 20-50 minutes
Minimum cast of two
Application Fee: £10 for each title
Closing Date for Submissions: 31 January 2009
For application forms, please contact Teresa at the Drama Association of Wales +44 (0) 29 2045 2200 or email Teresa at: aled.daw@virgin.net
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
