Description
This brief is for US-based playwrights only. Applications for UK-based directors, producers and actors will open in April 2012. Please read this PDF for more information.
Do you want to showcase your talent, develop new creative contacts and broaden your artistic horizons? Are you an American writer with a play that would be just perfect on the British stage? Do you want to come to London to seek your fortune? Then the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange is for you.
This year Old Vic New Voices will complete a three-year search to find the very best American and UK talent by showcasing six new American plays in London for the first time.
Old Vic New Voices wants to find exciting, ambitious plays by American-based playwrights that would benefit from having a showcase in London. These plays must also have the potential to make it big in British theatres.
The successful plays will be performed, produced and directed by our OVNV Talent pool as part of a two-week London showcase in June 2012.
OVNV will cover flight costs to London for the second week of the showcase so that you can meet agents, programmers and other industry professionals who may be interested in taking your work elsewhere in the UK.
For full information of what we're offering, read the What We’re Offering PDF.
This brief closes on Friday 16 March 2012 at 5pm and is open to American-based IdeasTap members aged 18 - 30.
If you have any technical queries, email info@ideastap.com. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.
Download the application form
How to respond
This brief is for US-based playwrights aged 18 – 30 on Friday 16 March 2012.
For full information on what we're offering, download the PDF.
1. Apply by clicking Follow this brief in the left-hand column. You’ll only see this option if you’re signed in to IdeasTap.
2. Download the application form, fill it in and save it as a Word doc or Adobe PDF.
3. Once you’ve got your application form ready, click Apply now in the yellow box on the left. This will take you to a page headed Submit your response.
4. State the name of your play.
5. Tell us why you want to join the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange, in 100 words or less.
6. Upload your completed application form and press Submit.
Please note: you MUST wait for your application form to upload before you hit Submit or we won't get it. You'll know it has uploaded when you see a grey box with Download file underneath it. Once you see this, hit Submit.
One final thing – please make sure you have a photo on your profile page. It doesn't need to be a headshot and you won't be judged on the quality of this picture – but as with all the briefs on IdeasTap you have to have a profile picture to be eligible.
This brief will close on Friday 16 March at 5pm and is open to American-based IdeasTap members aged 18 to 30.
If you have any technical queries, email info@ideastap.com. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.
Download the application form.