We’re delighted to announce that our 2022 Unsolicited Script Window is now open, and we’d love for you help us spread the word! 

We’re currently inviting writers either from or based in the Liverpool City Region (Liverpool, Halton, Wirral, St Helens, Sefton and Knowsley) to send in their scripts, and guarantee feedback on all the eligible ones we receive!

Following last year’s window, we:

• Had 15+ face to face New Works meetings with writers, offering dramaturgical support, rehearsal space and advice on development
• Welcomed 5 writers onto our Playwrights and Young Writer’s programs
• Workshopped 2 new plays and held a rehearsed reading
• Gave out 2 seed commissions

We’re keen to diversify the talent that we are working with and access to opportunities and resources. We’d love it if you could share our call out with some of the brilliant writers and artists in your network, and please do send us your words!

To submit a script, all writers have to do is:

•    Read the criteria  on our website  to see if you are eligible and what we are looking for
•    Complete this short submission form
•    Email their script to newworks@everymanplayhouse.com

The deadline for submissions is Sun 29 May.

We will also be holding two in person drop-in sessions next week where our New works Associate Frank will be around to answer any questions. There is no need to book in, just turn up and have a chat!

• Tue 17 May, 3 – 5pm in The Writers Room at the Everyman
• Wed 18 May, 10:30am – 1pm at Toxteth TV café.

• Freelance Futures is a new, free online event with workshops, panel discussions, self-organising spaces and virtual gatherings that will aim to help everyone play their role in building equitable conditions for freelancers. The programme is split into three phases:

- 16 May - 10 June: Getting informed, resourced and connected
- 13 - 17 June: Online gathering, working together and creating change
- 20 June - 5 July: Continuing the work, embedding shifts and defining next actions

You can choose to engage with as many resources and sessions as you’d like and are able to, and freelancers who aren’t supported by an organisation to attend can apply for a bursary of £250. There are 40 bursaries available and applications are now open now. 
More details HERE

• The Donmar Warehouse are recruiting for the next set of CATALYST assistants, Lighting, Sound and Design, who will work on the Donmar's production of The Band's Visit. They are looking for people who are underrepresented and have limited access to opportunities and experiences that bridge the gap from working on small-scale productions, and people who don't realise they have the skills or aren't aware that these roles are a viable career path for them. Since the pilot on the leading London theatre have employed 8 creative trainees who have received training and mentoring from leading industry artists - working across, set and costume design, movement direction, lighting design and sound design.
More details and apply HERE

• Dramaturg and Playwright David Lane has launched a new website full of resources for emerging writers, and is offering a discounted sign up rate to his monthly newsletter of playwrights’ opportunities: Lane’s list. 
You can currently sign up at £3 a month or £30 a year on the new website for Lane's list  HERE

• Reminder that the deadline for applications for the Bruntwood Prize is less than a month away. The 2022 Prize is split across four categories. They are The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting – £16,000 and The Judges Award – £8,000. 
Submissions for the 2022 Prize are open until 6th June 2022 via this site only.