Just a quick one this time, because we’re busy getting Attachment ready for you – but lots to draw your attention to:
- We’ve got two new shows coming up! Attachment (Everyman) begins previews tonight, and Suspicious Minds (Playhouse Studio) is on in a couple of weeks.
- Our next Freelancers’ Mixer is tomorrow. Still time to sign up and hear me wang on about how new work reaches our stages (you’ll need the free wine).
- Applications for the Directors’ Programme close soon! Deadline is Mon 15 – more info below.
- Applications for Seed Commissions open soon! Send in your ideas – also from Mon 15.
- The annual Open Script Submissions window is nearly here! Guess what – it open Mon 15 as well.
There’s also new Creative Check-in slots opened up if you fancy a digital cuppa and a natter in July.
Finally – two things of interest from the Arts Council: not only have we started hearing the first bits about what a post-Let’s Create strategy might look like (cue debates about what ‘excellence’ is and who decides), but DYCP is BACK after that weird interim R&D fund that no-one really understood. Good luck to all those submitting applications for this round.
Maybe see you at the Mixer tomorrow!
Tommo
New Works Associate
Attachment
Everyman
Thurs 4 – Sat 13 June
If you think artist development pipelines are important, look no further than our next Everyman show Attachment – written and directed by, and starring, three brilliant YEP alumnae: Julia Cranney, Kate Treadell and Paislie Reid!
That’s gotta be worth celebrating and supporting, right?
Oh and by the by, it also happens to be a gorgeous piece of writing about the risks we take when we let love into our lives.
Suspicious Minds
Playhouse Studio
Thurs 18 – Sat 20 June
This is the second show we selected through Supported Studio last year, written by Ella Greenhill and directed by Chris Tomlinson. It’s a funny, tender and ultimately hopeful piece about the way losing a parent ripples through the decades.
As part of our mission to nurture a vibrant, rigorous and ambitious creative culture in Liverpool, our new Directors’ Programme gives two emerging theatre directors the opportunity to develop their craft and understanding of working at the mid-scale, and encourage
This year-long attachment with us offers a mixture of professional masterclasses, paid workshopping, production observation and more.
If that sounds good to you, take a look at everything that’s on offer!
Our annual Seed Commissions invite playwrights to pitch us ideas for an exhilarating, ambitious new play, and give support to develop their ideas and begin the writing process.
We got the beginnings of three brilliant new plays from last year’s Seed Commissions, written by Harry Machray, Jess Green and Samantha O’Rourke – so we’re offering £1,000 to three new writers with ideas to develop for our main stage.
Check out our website for all the details, including eligibility and guidelines both on our artistic ambitions and the production parameters.
Applications open at 10am on Monday 15 June, and close 10am on Monday 13 July.
Any questions? Book an online Q&A.
Our annual Open Script Submissions window is coming up again, this time to coincide with the Seed Commissions – so that you only have to remember one deadline!
Whereas Seed Commissions are about proposing a new play, Open Script Submissions are a way to send us a script you’ve already written and get feedback from our Artistic team and panel of readers.
You can find more information here.
The submission window opens at 10am on Monday 15 June, and closes 10am on Monday 13 July.
Any questions? Book an online Q&A.
Our regular mixers are attached to each in-house production at the Everyman. They’re a chance for local theatre-makers to meet and chat with each other, members of the Artistic Team and – if we can wrangle them – members of the show’s creative team.
There’s free drinks, and you can see the show that night for £10 using the code MIXER10. What’s not to like?!
Our next mixer is for Julia Cranney’s gorgeous new play Attachment, on Friday 5 June.
We’ll kick off with a structured Q&A about Everyman programming and how new work reaches our stage, before moving to more free-form conversations.
Everyone’s busy, and it can be hard to get a meeting in theatres.
So I (Tommo, New Works Associate – hi 👋) have set up bookable 30min video check-ins as a way to make that process a bit easier and more transparent.
They’re around lunchtime, most Thursdays when I’m available – and you can book about 3 months in advance.
It’s early days for me using this system, so let’s see how it goes…!
This is just a selection – make sure you’re signed up to mailing lists like OpenHire, ArtsJobs and London Playwrights, or checking local websites like Uncover Liverpool, to stay fully up to date.
(At the moment they’re all for writers, I’m afraid…!)
Jerwood Writer in Residence 2027
Pentabus Theatre
Deadline: 10am, Mon 29 June
There’s £12k on offer for a professional playwright in the early stage of their career, with the opportunity to spend up to a year at the Pentabus base in Ludlow.
The Writer in Residence will be the working artist at the core of the company. writing at least one full length play with dramaturgical support from the Artistic Director. They will take part in all day -to-day activity from Artistic Planning meetings to meeting rural communities and audiences, as well as working with the Young Company and Young Writers.
Alfed Fagon & Mustapha Matura Awards
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 31 July
Two awards for writers of Caribbean or African descent, both for original new plays. The Alfred Fagon comes with a £6k prize, and the Mustapha Matura awards £3k plus mentoring
Mainstage Prize
Deadline: 11 pm, Sat 1 August
A new playwriting prize, which this year is asking for plays on the theme of horror – whether psychological, political, supernatural or social. There’s £10k on offer, so one to look at if you’ve got a super-scary play just waiting for its chance to leap out and grab us.
Climate Prize
Opens: June
Deadline: 1 September
Yet another playwriting prize to think about! This time it’s for plays that engage meaningfully with the climate crisis – which can take a number of forms. There’s loads of information – including resources on climate theatre – on the Globe’s website.
I think this is such a galvanising, necessary initiative – so do take a look. (And, if you’re a director or producer, make sure you check out the long- and shortlists when they become public – there’ll be loads of great climate plays around crying out for you to stage them!)
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