Dream Up Writers

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Writers are the lifeblood of theatre and New Perspectives has an enviable track record of finding and nurturing the very best regional writing talent, as well as providing early career opportunities for writers to see their work performed.

This year we're running another DREAM UP writing competition, and for 2011/2012 we're inviting East Midlands based writers to submit short scripts in response to the following questions, posed by Tyrone Huggins in his play The Honey Man which we're co-producing with Derby LIVE in Spring 2012.

'How can I remember things I never knew?'

We're looking for scripts that are 10-15 mins long, feature max 3 characters, and are suitable for performance by recent graduates/early career actors.

We're offering cash prizes of

£500 for the winning script

£100 each for five runners-up

Plus a selection of the best entries will be performed as part of a summer 2012 touring production by our new Training Ensemble, and/or as one of a series of audio recordings which we will publish on our website.

DREAM UP is open to anyone aged 14 or over, and the deadline for applications is 31.1.12.

To hear audio recordings of selected scripts from the last DREAM UP competition, please visit our Vimeo page.

Download further information and an application form below.