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🎭 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT 🎭 @YorkTheatre Royal has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of Debbie Isitt’s Military Wives - The Musical, which plays at the venue from 10-27 September. westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/cast-crea…

@mdebenham1 Congratulations 🎉👏🏿🥳

Delighted to announce that I will soon be the Executive Producer at Interplay Theatre, Leeds! Really excited to get stuck back into producing and programming a small venue, especially one focussed on families and learning disabled people!

Say hello to Antony Jardine as Seebohm Rowntree in His Last Report! 🎭 Don’t miss our Opening Night on Sat 19 Jul - it’s a Pay What You Can performance to make sure everyone has a chance to experience this powerful show. 🎟️ ow.ly/NL1450WbLQg 📸David Kessel

Get involved behind the scenes at York Theatre Royal! We’re looking for volunteers (18+) to join the team working on His Last Report 🎭 Roles include: 💄 Hair & Makeup 🎭 Stage Management 🎨 Props 💡 Technical 👉 Sign up now: ow.ly/1YxL50VXWU2 📸Natasha Sinton

On Thursday we were delighted to announce our Longlist for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025!💛 A huge congratulations and thank you to every writer who wrote and submitted a play this year. You can check out our Longlist here writeaplay.co.uk/the-2025-prize…

✍️🎶 The Musical Theatre Writing Challenge returns for its fifth year, encouraging writers to keep writing #ComeWhatMay Run by our resident composer Gus Gowland, the @MTWriChallenge is suitable for participants at any stage of their writing journey & is completely free

✍️Calling All Playwrights! ✍️ Visit our free Writer’s Café , and spend the day writing, networking, or simply soaking up the creative energy. Hot drinks and mince pies on us!🫖 📅Thu 19 Dec @ 12-5pm RSVP to artistdevelopment@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk 📸Kirkpatrick Photography

Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero involvement in the selection. For more details, follow @RSLiterature, visit their website, and check out this Guardian article. Sadly, due to ongoing attacks, I have to state that this is a philanthropic gesture, I am offering the cottage for free & further supporting the prize & I am, therefore, of course, in no way earning any income from it. (I know, go figure) I have set up several literature inclusion projects over the decades (look under 'Community' on my website) & this one shares the Booker Bounty! theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

The response to this poem across all platforms has blown me away. Thank you to everyone for sharing and for your kind words. The fact it has resonated with so many people is incredibly moving. So much love ❤️❤️❤️

@riomatchett Congratulations 🎉

Crikey

Doing this :)

Very exciting news @YorkTheatre 🎉

Sheffield / SY writers under 30 I'm thinking of organising a writers cafe / mutual script exchange to get writers in our region ready for this exciting new opportunity Is there an appetite? Who wants in? Feel free to DM! X

Expect the unexpected 😉

@GusGowland 😉

YOU ARE NOT READY 👀

@LindaRay_Ndlovu @LeedsPlayhouse @riomatchett @amycleach Congrats 🎉

Super excited to announce this week I started at @LeedsPlayhouse as their Furnace Facilitator✨ Excited to be supporting @riomatchett @amycleach and the whole team - whilst been passed down alot of amazing knowledge! But mainly ARTISTS reach outttt! & letsss do this! 🎭

@dermot_daly You got this! Got all my fingers and toes crossed 🤞🏿

@MishaDBarry Second time lucky?

Honoured to have received this @theBBTAs nomination; a massive recognition of not just me but the whole team that brought ‘Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz’ to the stage (@NQDWorld, @AimeNeeme, @EKPshows, @painesplough and so many more) See it on tour… painesplough.com/productions/bu…

I'm running a FREE playwrighting course over 5 weeks @YorkTheatre come along and get writing ✍🏿

🍂Our FREE Autumn Playwriting Workshop is here... Join our Resident Artist, Misha Duncan-Barry, in drawing inspiration from both contemporary and historical figures to generate new works. Open to writers of all backgrounds! ✍️More info and sign up: ow.ly/EUUR50TjPzE