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Young Writing Course

Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in West Midlands, playwriting, young people | No Comments »

RoguePlay Theatre is offering 15 – 25 year olds the opportunity to take part in an eight week course for young creative writers with an extra two weeks (making 10 weeks in total) to rehearse and perform your piece of ...

Generating a Critical Mass of black and minority ethnic playwrights

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Posted in West Midlands, playwriting, workshops | No Comments »

Critical Mass is a free 11-week ‘Introduction to Playwriting’ course for black and minority ethnic writers aged 18+. Workshops will run from January – April 2010, one evening per week (7-9.30pm) at both The Drum Arts Centre in Birmingham ...

Young Writers Programme 2010

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in East Midlands, playwriting, young people | No Comments »

Ever thought about writing for live performance? Now is the time to make your words stand up! The young writers programme is looking for 12 talented writers aged 15 to 26 who live, work or study in the East Midlands. ...

Drop in Drama

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in London, playwriting, professional development, workshops, young people | No Comments »

DROP in DRAMA - Young people as playwrights In response to the increasing demand for their playwriting programmes, Theatre Royal Stratford East want to share how they write plays with young people and to get insight into how you approach ...

Writers for short plays

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 Posted in London, playwriting | No Comments »

An exciting new theatre company are now looking to receive short scripts for production in early 2010 (Unpaid). 360 will be looking to put on 3 performances in 60 minutes and are therefore looking for short plays with a running time ...

Inspiration day

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in North West, playwriting, young people | No Comments »

Action Transport Theatre is renowned for running hands-on, idea-to-production projects for people wanting to write. ‘Four For The Port’ is a project that takes writers of all ages from first ideas to finished play; and the company is running an ‘Inspiration ...

New Writers

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in London, playwriting, professional development | No Comments »

Writers Avenue are a new UK theatre company striving to produce exciting new plays whilst giving new writers a platform to develop their writing. They are running a monthly event called The First 20 Minutes. Once a month three new writers ...

Arcola Commission

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in London, playwriting, young people, youth theatre | No Comments »

Arcola Academy would like to invite submissions for a new commission as part of Arcola’s Green Futures project. We are looking for an experienced and dynamic playwright with a passion for the environment to work with a group 15 ...

Street Voices Part 2

Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Yorkshire, playwriting, young people | No Comments »

A playwright project for first and second generation born Black, Asian and minority ethnic emerging writers ages 17+ (no upper age limit), based in Yorkshire. A space to say it the way you see it, without borders, without fear and without ...

Creative Writing for English Learners (CWEL)

Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in North West, playwriting | No Comments »

The CWEL programme is for learners of any age, any level, any nationality, and any occupation, to improve creative writing skills in English. There is no language test for entry. All you need is the ambition to improve your writing skill ...