Lee Phillips

IT'S COMING!!!
13th - 27th December 🚀
www.guiseleytheatre.org/boxoffice

Sorry, and David who?

The youngest man in my life is 21 and he just falls back on Lynx shower gel 😳

Opportunity Tuesday | Linda J Bloomfield | Substack The weekly list of exciting PAID opportunities for UK artists, creatives & freelancers! Click to read Opportunity Tuesday, by Linda J Bloomfield, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Trying this out... give it a go, see if you like it...

Opportunity Tuesday
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Another great seminar! Seriously brilliant that they put these on for nowt... thank you!
Writers... get y'sen signed up at Papatango Studio 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks to @papatangotc.bsky.social for putting on these awesome sessions, and thanks to Imogen from @casarottoramsay.bsky.social for sharing her wisdom, and very evident passion in advocating for writers...
More excellent sessions ahead... get signed up to the 'Playwrights' Studio' now!!

Jenrick was also the man who ordered the painting over of Disney murals in a children's asylum centre. A real peach.

Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’ Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds

Good for Paul Testar and Channel 5.
The possibility in today's climate that doors can actually be *opened* rather than slammed shut on writers and creatives is a weird and unfamiliar feeling...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Thames Water says new Abingdon reservoir could cost bill-payers up to £7.5bn Price rise to three times original budget is a blow to government’s reservoir expansion plans

It shouldn't cost bill-payers a penny. The cost of the reservoir should come out of profits before any payouts to shareholders, board members or executives are made;

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I aspire to be one of those 🤫📢 PENSIONERS!

Exciting news!

Writer Duet joins Scribe Lounge Live as official partner 🤝

Free copies will be given away in our raffle on the day as well as 20% discount for all attendees 🔥

Lineup & Tickets here👇
community.scribelounge.com/c/scribe-lou...

Cast announcement for Red Ladder and Wrongsemble’s festive theatre double bill - Red Ladder Theatre Company We are delighted to introduce our cast for the Christmas shows we’re taking on tour across the UK later this year with our friends from Wrongsemble. Our brand-new dark comedy, A Proper Merry Christmes...

We know, it's the summer and you don't want to think about C time yet. But...
Our new show, A Proper Merry #Christmess, hits the road with Wrongsemble’s A Town Called Christmas in Nov. And we're beyond excited to announce the brilliant actors performing in both...
www.redladder.co.uk/cast-announc...

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival begins in a week.

I’ve some recommendations (which I share with no reviews, just links) but invite folk to add to them… who knows who sees what on here.

Please share and add…

Many people don’t realize that Big Box retailers (Amazon, Barnes and Noble) take a large percentage of what would otherwise go to small independent presses, literally leaving them with pennies.

Consider supporting small presses by buying from them directly.

#books #booksky #writingcommunity

Script Yorkshire Page to Stage 2026 call out for scripts. Submission deadline: noon Friday September 26th. We’re looking for 5 short scripts to perform at our next Page to Stage event which will be on Saturday January 10th at Seven Arts in Leeds. You need to be a Script Yorkshire member to enter.

Good luck to all those involved with #SlungLowShorts tonight... 🎭🤓
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lee...

We have written one of the short plays for the amazing people at Slung Low - would you like to come see it?

Slung Low Shorts - 25th-27th July

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lee...

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

Please share. We need community now more than ever.

Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.

Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.

Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.

#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial

Slung Low Shorts 5 | Leeds Inspired The best night of short theatre in West Yorkshire is back. Making a much-anticipated return, Slung Low Shorts returns with five new plays from both established and first-time writers along with a tale...

Leeds Peeps! Do you fancy a genuinely entertaining night of theatre. A chance to see 5 cracking plays with a huge cats of amazing actors? I can help you with that.
www.leedsinspired.co.uk/events/slung...

It feels inappropriate to do a like to the comment when what I really feel is 😩

🤬 it's like reliving brexit lies all over again... next it'll plastered on the side of a bus...
It all feels so helpless 😞

Facing up by Jacky Burton A burnt out call-centre advisor reaches her moment of reckoning

Listen here to one of Script Yorkshire's winning plays from our 2024 Radio Drama Competition. More recordings to follow. Produced, directed and edited by Leslie Bruce Sharp.
soundcloud.com/user-8030612...

We'll be launching our 2025 competition soon - you need to be a member to enter.

This was really insightful - thank you.
I'd encourage every emerging writer to register on the website to access future fabulous resources... 🎭✍🏼🤓

Not long now...
www.riseandhowl.co.uk/whatson

A group of women stand in an old building wearing green, white and purple sashes

A greeting card with an illustration of a woman chained to a railing, with the words 'She who dares, wins'

Today women MPs wore Suffragette sashes to celebrate Votes for Women–won by civil disobedience & celebrated in Parliament's gift shop.

And yet now the government is asking us to vote to proscribe Palestine Action–a modern civil disobedience group–as terrorists

Well, with that kind of endorsement I shall dive in once again 😜

I struggled with season 1 so never followed it up. Is it worth revisiting and sticking with?

/ ... episodes 8&9, an absolute must watch for holding up a mirror to the playbook which is being enacted in countries across the world today that are on a fast track to fascism 😳

Finally finished watching Andor on Disney+. I really struggled. Great story, but so many drawn out scenes which completely undermined the pace - something that's happening a lot in TV these days. Thank goodness for the skip forward function! BUT... /