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Edmonds Driftwood Players (Edmonds | WA)

Edmonds Driftwood Players New Works

Edmonds Driftwood Players is committed to fostering new plays and supporting playwrights in our community. The New Works program has two interconnected components. Driftwood After Dark is a group of local playwrights who meet to share and develop new work. First Draft, which is curated by the members of Driftwood After Dark, presents six to eight staged and directed readings of nearly production-ready scripts for an audience each year. Although the majority of these public readings are sourced from the development pipeline of Driftwood After Dark, one or two plays each year are selected from scripts submitted by local writers who are not part of the group.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to playwrights local to Puget Sound
Submission Method: 
Email

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The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep (Berkeley | CA)

The Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab

The Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab invites artists to apply with projects that would benefit from a residency at Berkeley Rep for 1–4 weeks. Berkeley Rep will provide transportation and housing for out-of-town residents, rehearsal space, basic technical support, and a modest stipend. Applicants must be available for residency between Jul 9–Aug 4, 2024. Previous applicants may reapply. We do accept applications from international artists. Projects may be anywhere along their development path. Projects with a current draft of a script are invited to include an excerpt of up to 10 pages with the initial application.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to all playwrights
Submission Method: 
Online
Deadline: 
1 / 5 / 2024

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University of Chester (Chester | UK)

The Cheshire Prize for Literature

The 2023/24 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them. Winners will be announced at our awards evening in the summer and receive a cash prize. All entrants will be invited to attend. For the Scriptwriting category, submit a playscript suitable for radio, theatre or television, no more than 15 minutes in length.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to playwrights aged 18+ who live or have lived, work or have worked, or study or have studied in Cheshire, Wirral, Warrington or Halton.
Submission Method: 
Online
Deadline: 
1 / 31 / 2024

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Empowering Playwrights one Pixel at a Time: How Online Resources Can Fuel Your Playwriting Interests

What if you want to write a play? Where to start? And what if you have a few plays? What to do with them? And what if you want to learn more skills as a writer? Where to go next? If you’re here, you probably already have some ideas. But member to member, I’ll offer some tips and tricks, in what has become a daily habit: Read, Write, Send and Find. Let’s go!

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Exploring Character Through Environment

Environment dictates more than we give it credit for in our writing. Give environment its due and follow your impulses to explore all facets of your character. Hopefully, the result will be characters that feel molded from the earth they grew up in. In this article, readers are taken through a three-part exercise to explore how environment dictates character and character dictates environment. 

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The Playwright & Biography

Arguably, some of the most successful American plays are gripped by biography. So, how do we shape elements of biography into dramatic works?

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