Tamsin Rees

Such a fun night yesterday hosting the Channel 4 screenwriting course drinks introducing this year's 12 brilliant writers to potential employers from the TV Drama industry #4screenwriting

Channel 4 announce the brilliant writers and script editors on this year's #4screenwriting and #4screenwriting mentoring scheme www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

We have just a handful of £11 tickets left for each of the preview performances of #DogsOnTheMetro - opening tonight!
Snap them up before they go for either tonight Thu 1, Fri 2 or Sat 3 May, 7.30pm (on until 17 May)!
Book now at www.live.org.uk/whats-on/dog...

Live Writes Spring Live Writes

Our next #LiveWrites showcase of 4 short new plays takes place tomorrow Tue 1 Apr, 7.30pm. The panel giving feedback for this event is @edsamuelcole.bsky.social Christina Berriman Dawson & Roxy McKenna. Tickets £8-£6. Find out more & book at www.live.org.uk/whats-on/liv...

SPRING 2025 AT ALPHABETTI THEATRE 👍🏵️

Here is a sneak e-preview of our brochure - available to take home from Alphabetti. It even folds out into a nice A3 poster if you want to stick it on your wall if ya want to.

Stay tuned for more new announcements all week.

My second play, Shit Life Crisis, has 3 nights at Alphabetti this June 🎉

Back on the road! DRIFTWOOD is in Stockton-on-Tees tonight. @thickskintheatre.bsky.social

Get yourself to the Arc, I spy TWO tickets left for tonight (and Pay What You Can, incredible)

Gender euphoria is anxiously standing in front of the flowers in Asda with all the other lads the day before Valentine’s Day

writing a rom com so am obviously listening to the most bruno mars I ever have since 2010

The BFI NETWORK England's Short Film Fund is now open for applications! It supports Northern filmmaking teams working on fiction shorts: awards of up to £25k are available. Apply by 25 March 2025: bit.ly/fhn-sff #NationalLottery 🎬💰

RSC announce Summer 2025 Season RSC’s Summer 2025 season is announced and will include five new Shakespeare productions plus festive family show, The BFG adapted by Tom Wells

RSC’s Summer 2025 season is announced and will include five new Shakespeare productions plus festive family show, The BFG adapted by Tom Wells

This is such big friendly news!! I can’t wait to see it ! ✨

i TV tonight TV tonight: Aubrey Gordon's candid look at the way society treats 'fatness'

Storyville: Your Fat Friend 10pm, BBC Four Aubrey Gordon was the popular anonymous blogger and activist Your Fat Friend, who revealed her identity in 2020 with the release of her first book. She is on a mission to make people rethink "fat" by sharing her journey and examining the way society - including her own parents - continues to treat "fatness". Director Jeanie Finlay followed Gordon for six years to make this candid, thoughtful and funny documentary. Hollie Richardson

Thanks @theguardian.com

@yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social is on tv tonight on BBC Storyville. 10pm
BBC four

Excited to finally have this in my hands. Published and available tomorrow Thursday January 23rd

A woman walks across a a sundrenched landscape. Text on the image, in orange lettering, reads A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Job opportunity - Assistant Director for A Thousand Splendid Suns📣

A co-production between Birmingham Rep, Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse, this powerful production is a retelling of Khaled Hosseini’s novel.

Deadline: Thu 30 Jan

Apply today: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/about-us/job...

On a yellow background, the graphic reads: Submissions now open until 5pm on Tuesday 22nd April.

The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025 is now open for submissions until Tuesday 22nd April!🎉 @painesplough.bsky.social @concordukshows.bsky.social @ekpshows.bsky.social

The First Prize is £20,000: our biggest prize fund yet.👀

Enter via our website: womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/how-to-enter/

Ask a Literary Agent: Q&A and Discussion Session A Q&A Session for Playwrights & Screenwriters with agents Camilla Young from Curtis Brown and Jessica Jones from Independent Talent.

Playwrights & Screenwriters! Do you have questions you would like to ask a LITERARY AGENT?
90 Min Q&A with Camilla Young from Curtis Brown & Jessica Jones from Independent Talent. Only£5. (Free tickets available see link) On Zoom. Pls share #SupportPlaywrights

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ask-a-lite...

The BBC Comedy Collective Bursary is back!

This supercharged bursary scheme offers 10 places to emerging writers, producers, directors and editors from across the UK who’d like to develop their careers in scripted comedy.
Submissions are open from 13-31 January.

bbc.co.uk/commissioning/…

We had a power cut for 14 hours on Saturday so my girlfriend crocheted me a balaclava. I’m very in love !

Hello! I remember on The Old App there was a a great thread about resources for devising/writing plays with young people. Can anyone remember or pass on any resources? Much appreciated!

ROLLING RESIDENCIES WINDOW 5

Final reminder!

£4,000 of funding available for artists local to Sheffield Theatres to develop new ideas with support.

Short application form!

Deadline: midnight on Friday 10th January.

shorturl.at/d9mLz

You are both SO HANDSOME

Vinay Patel’s New-Year-taking-stock-hope-injection… sort of New Years Day 2014. It’s a few minutes after midnight. I’m in a cool bar in Berlin. I don’t feel cool enough to be in any bar in Berlin let alone this one. I’m 27 years old. I’ve not had a full-length...

Been reminded of this old blog, which turned out to be grimly funny as a hope experiment cause my beloved grandmother died two months after I wrote it.

But! It’s the 11th anniversary of the 1st New Years Note I wrote to myself (forgot the 10th) and that’s nice
www.bushtheatre.co.uk/bushgreen/vi...

Screenwriting Screenwriting - The Craft and The Career; The authoritative, practical guide to screenwriting, laying out everything you need to be a successful screenwriter for film and television. Written by one of...

Now available for pre-order, published on Jan 23rd. A (late) Christmas present for the screenwriter in your life. www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/screenwriting

Hello! For a writing project - I’m looking to speak to folk about their experiences of Durham Uni in the 80s, or queer culture/experiences in County Durham/Durham in the 80s. All confidential! Thank you !

Underpaid and overlooked: what it’s really like to be a script reader Freelance readers form an invisible but vital workforce across the industry – so why are they so badly paid?

Do you read me? In our latest free-to-all piece, editor Holly Williams (@hollywilliams.bsky.social) investigates the working conditions of script readers. An unseen but critical part of the theatre industry, why are these freelancers often working for less than minimum wage? And why do it at all?

The poster for BBC comedy series Smoggie Queens featuring the lead characters all crammed on an armchair.

In love with the stratospheric gag rate in Smoggie Queens. Queer Nighty Night on deadpan acid.

The Women’s Prize For Playwriting Returns For 2025 With First Prize Of £20,000 The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, today announces its return for 2025

The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, today announces its return for 2025