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📝 PlayMakers! Join us for Off Roading - a Masterclass exploring rural touring to village halls, libraries, pubs and community spaces.

📆 Leeds Playhouse | Tues 28 April, 6:30pm

🎟️ PWYD (from £1) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/luputpzcqb

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🐣 PlayMakers! Step into Spring with our Easter Coffee Morning at HOME Mcr! Join us for a relaxed and friendly get-together for Northern writers and theatremakers.

📅 2 April, 10:30am at HOME Mcr

🎟️ Book Now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/ametljlbao

📚 PlayMakers! Join us for a FREE practical workshop on building a strong creative community.

📆  Sat 28 March at 11am at @unitytheatre.bsky.social 

🎟️ Book Now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/ipksgbtenh

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🚨 PlayMakers - one week to go! Our first Script Surgeries window closes on Friday 27 February 6pm. So if you're a Northern playwright and would like dramaturgical feedback and a one-on-one script session, apply this week.

📑 Apply Now >>>  https://f.mtr.cool/zhdigbpgif

A still from Doppelgänger short film - identical women sit in a cafe with a waitress taking their order.

Check out Doppelgänger, a brilliant @bbcwriters.bsky.social Long Story Short film by @alisoncarr.bsky.social. A 13-minute comedy/drama about a woman facing her lifelong rivalry with her doppelgänger.

Watch now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/slngbevtfv

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⭕ PlayMakers Circle is back in a couple of weeks! Join fellow writers on Zoom for a check-in, catch-up and time to write. 

📆 Wednesday 4 March at 10:30am 

🔗 Sign up today (PWYD) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/jdjwfhgpce

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✏️PlayMakers! Join us at @livetheatre.bsky.social or via Zoom for a practical Masterclass on the playwright’s role in the development process.

Tickets PWYD from £1.

🎟️ Book now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/bjfcajvtbv

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📣 Our PlayMakers Season 2026 is here! A mix of opportunities for Northern talent:
📑 Script Surgeries
📙 Masterclasses
✏️ Workshops
⭕️ PlayMakers Circle
☕ Easter Coffee Morning
🌍 Pen Pals International Showcase

📲 https://f.mtr.cool/yixjgpyyhh

🥳 Happy Birthday TMS! What a cake! 🎂

An actor dressed in Santa get-up has a microphone singing Christmas karaoke with an actress dancing in the background. Box of Tricks' logo and text that reads: "Festive Missive 2025".

☃️ Festive Missive 2025! As we clock off for Christmas, have a read of what we've been up to this year and a little look ahead to what 2026 has in store. We wish you a Merry Tricksmas!

📲 Read our Festive Missive >>> https://f.mtr.cool/lgdrzzhqar

🎄☕ One week until our annual PlayMakers Christmas Coffee Morning! Join us next Wednesday at The Yard Mcr for a festive get-together of local playwrights and theatremakers!

🎟️ Book Now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/ymkzwqvxko

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🎅 PlayMakers! It's time to step into Christmas at our annual Christmas Coffee Morning at The Yard Mcr! Join us for a relaxed and friendly get-together for Northern writers and theatremakers.

☕ Book Now >>> https://f.mtr.cool/nmiwbxelgo

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🎧 It's International Podcast Day! Have you tuned into our PlayMakers Podcast platforming creative conversations with theatremakers? If not, you've got two seasons to catch up on - get it in your ears (or eyes)!

📲 Check it out >>> https://f.mtr.cool/tancgmqnrc

Us too - it's soundtracked our summer holidays!

4. @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social

Open to new plays from Northern playwrights. They do a phenomenal job of supporting Northern talent through the Playmakers Network

Full details - www.bbc.co.uk/writershttps...

🌈 Check out these brilliant snaps from our Blood Beats' First Press Zine Launch at The Yard Mcr last week! Exploring the theme of the zine - HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT TO BE? - artists performed pieces and extracts and hosted an LGBTQ+ Creative Jam. 

📸 @oscar.jack_ (except final one: @this_is_joseph_btw)

Script Submissions - Royal Court

A quick recap for #writers of theatres accepting submissions.

1. @royalcourt.bsky.social

Open to full length theatre plays.

Can only accept 1 play per writer at a time. Please don't send biopics or historical pieces.

Full sub details - royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting/...

📣 FINAL MASTERCLASS OF THE SEASON! Join us for Spoken Words and an exploration of poetry in theatre with multi-hyphenate, multi-talented Testament at Leeds Playhouse.

📲 Book Now (PWYD) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/krmxgtgwku

📣 Upcoming PlayMakers Masterclass at @livetheatre.bsky.social! Our Adam heads to Newcastle to explore the playwright and director/dramaturg collaborative process and joins the panel for Live Writes.

📆 Tues 8 July 5pm, Live Theatre

🎟️ Book Now (PWYD) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/wmsgyypves

The front page of the First Press Zine - pink and black with lots of esoteric sketches and an anthropomorphised heart with a megaphone shouting: HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT TO BE?

📣 A sneak peek of the front page of our First Press Zine! We're so proud of this awesome zine. Join us at the Zine Launch & Creative Jam at The Yard Mcr this Thursday!

📲 Book Now (PWYC) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/micczwjsow

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📝 We're back at Leeds Playhouse for our Masterclass with Testament - Spoken Words: Poetry in Theatre. Write spoken word and use it as part of  your storytelling.

🎟️ Book Now (PWYD) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/hflqegszgj

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📝 Bookings for our next Masterclass at @livetheatre.bsky.social are now LIVE! Join Box of Tricks' AD Adam Quayle for a practical session exploring Path Finding : The Playwright's Relationship with a Director/Dramaturg. 

🎟️ Book Now (PWYD) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/xksgtyfiog

Blood Beats artist puts up a First Press Zine Launch poster in a public space in Manchester.

A First Press Zine Launch poster in a public space in Manchester.

A First Press Zine Launch poster in a public space in Manchester.

A First Press Zine Launch poster in a public space in Manchester.

🏳️‍🌈 So our Blood Beats' First Press Zine Launch posters are out in the wild! Can you spot these locations across Manchester? 

📆 Join us on Thurs 3 July at The Yard Mcr for the First Press Zine Launch & Creative Jam!  

🎟️ Book Now (PWYC) >>> https://f.mtr.cool/vfmgvqsmre

Thank you @dermotdaly.bsky.social and @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social for an inspiring session this evening on writing plays for two people. Duologue and Dialogue... discuss.
Always come away from sessions like this buzzin' I tell you, buzzin' with ideas 🎭 ✍🏼

Lots of talented folks worked really hard on this, including our lead writer @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social, if you’re near #Manchester you should definitely check this out! #lgbtq #writing #queerart #zine

I contributed to this zine! If you'd like to read about curses and transgender magic definitely get involved. There's a bunch of other great stuff like comics and photographs included so any creatives in Manchester (UK) get yourself a place ASAP
#LGBT #Writing #Magic #Manchester #Zines

A colourful collage-style marketing image with the following text in cut-out letters: "First Press Zine Launch" with "+ Creative Jam" underneath. Think vibrant pinks, mint, blues, greens and purples. Top left hand corner has the Blood Beats LGBTQ+ Writers Group logo (pomegranate/heart). At the bottom, event details ("The Yard Mcr, Thurs 3 July 7pm") and The Yard Mcr logo.

🏳️‍🌈 📔 Join us for the Launch of Blood Beats: First Press - a brand new LGBTQ+ Zine. Celebrate with extracts of their work and join our Creative Jam!

📆 Thurs 3 July @ The Yard Mcr

🎟️ Book PWYC Tickets >>> boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk/playmakers/blood-beats/

Very excited about this - the aim is to have the stub of a new piece of work by the end of the session… let’s get it - together.

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📣 PlayMakers! Our next Masterclass is Two's company: Writing for two characters with theatrical polymath @dermotdaly.bsky.social. 

📆 Tues 17 June 6PM at Leeds Playhouse

📲 PWYD (from £1) >>> www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclass-twos-compa...

come hang out and think about how plays can be small but also big!