Mega Meet + ScriptEM Bursary

  • Contract
  • Remote

Script East Midlands


  • Job Title: Mega Meet + ScriptEM Bursary
  • Salary: Unpaid
  • Hours:
    Full time
  • Artform: Theatre
  • Role: Creative
  • Contract: Temporary
  • Closing date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025

  • Location:

    Remote

Job Summary

Online event linking theatre directors from around the UK to untapped playwriting talent from the East Midlands. Expand your creative network, build new connections, and be in the mix to win a ScriptEM Bursary (£250).

Job Description

Mega Meet + ScriptEM Bursary

Have you hit a brick wall in your theatre career? Want to meet that next great collaborator?

Introducing MEGA MEET, an online networking event linking hungry directors around the UK to untapped playwriting talent from the East Midlands.

Aimed at creatives who feel stuck between “emerging” and “professional”, Mega Meet is a space to feed future collaboration, experimentation and community. Expand your creative network, build new connections, and be in the mix to win a £250 bursary.

Applications for directors and writers will open on Monday 27th October, 9am.
Applications close on Monday 24th November, 5pm.

For application criteria and more information about the Mega Meet event, visit:
http://www.scripteastmids.co.uk/mega-meet – www.scripteastmids.co.uk/mega-meet

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Project partners: the Core at Corby Cube, Curve Theatre and Theatre503.

Job Requirements

  • Writers must be currently based in the East Midlands of England

  • Directors must be based in the UK

  • This opportunity is for creatives who are working to a professional standard, but find themselves stuck between “emerging” and “professional”

How to Apply

Submit personal statement via ScriptEM website

Apply now
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