Omni-Wright is back! I love running this course Omnibus Theatre, it's so fun getting to know new people whilst exploring plays we like (or don't like) and workshopping our own writing! Submissions close 10am on 2nd Sep Info here:forms.gle/H7U9552kUPMMrm…

Deadline approaching ⌛️ Applications for one of seven paid writing commissions to be performed at Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2025 close on Tue 10 Sep ➡️ bit.ly/3QH2eUv

I didn’t know that Florian Zeller was also a novelist. Currently reading his Fascination of Evil which includes a delicious roman a clef depiction of Michel Houellbecq. Well worth a read.

Two members of my university cohort will be playing Scrooge this year in separate productions of Christmas Carol. It’s nature’s way of telling us that the bus pass is on its way.

Sunday exercise has landed, playwrights! I just wrote 'EXERCISE 44'. buttondown.com/MarkRavenhill/…

Applications for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship are now open 🎉 We are providing a Creative Fellowship that commissions, develops and supports a playwright in the creation of a new piece of work ✍ 📅 Deadline: Fri 27 Sep Find out more: iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse-c…

Just two weeks to left to apply for ORIGINS! 📣 Our brand new 18-month development programme for playwrights, theatremakers, & other artists who want to create a piece of theatre. If you're aged 18+ & a theatremaker in the West Midlands, apply today 👉 bit.ly/3RrxLLb

Where it began ! Before I started my 101 Exercises project, I posted these 101 notes on playwriting You can catch up with them here I hope to offer some encouragement and inspiration for your plays writeaplay.co.uk/mark-ravenhill…

The deadline for this short play festival has been extended! Writing a short play and submitting it is a great way to go for emerging playwrights inkfestival.org/submssions-202…

Currently free to view. A perfect film imho. I’ve seen it dozens of times and it’s flawless bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Excited to be seeing this on Friday with German Husband who will soon be quoting it like a Brit ! stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all-s…

101 Exercises for Playwrights. Join the 3,000 subscribers for my FREE twice weekly newsletter of playwriting exercises. I just wrote 'Exercise 45'. buttondown.com/MarkRavenhill/…

Applications for the BBC Writers Open Call opportunity will open from 12 noon on Tuesday 5th November 2024 until 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December 2024. Time to get polishing those scripts!   You can find the terms and conditions of entry on our website, and make sure to have a

When Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse was asked why he’d stopped writing plays, he replied ‘Because I’ve worked out how it’s done’. This resonates for me. Write plays while you’re still working out how it’s done. Happily I’m still figuring it out ..

Good studies of pantomime history are surprisingly rare so I was delighted to discover this. It’s detailed and evocative.

🖋 Letting all writers know our unsolicited script portal is open for eligible full-length scripts this weekend (Sat 7 & Sun 8 September)! 📨 buff.ly/3XgcYw2

I would love to see a production of this. A cast of two but multiple pathways for the play to take at any performance so the actors need to learn 16 hours of text ! It’s achingly hilarious on the impossibly of love. Revival now please !