Laurel Marks and Toby Hampton, the new Joint Artistic Directors of The Hope Theatre, are excited to announce WRITE CLUB, a new writing festival which will take place at the multi-award winning venue from 7 January to 1 February 2025.
This Festival of new work will highlight bold new stories with BIG ideas and is open to anyone with a piece of writing just waiting for that debut performance or a theatre maker with a new idea.
Pieces can be any length between forty five to sixty minutes with no limit on cast size. The only criteria is that the piece should not have been previously professionally staged for more than two performances.
Writers and theatre makers looking to stage their work as part of the WRITE CLUB Festival can apply via email to writeclub.hopetheatre@gmail.com attaching the script or outline treatment (if a devised or work in progress piece) and include a brief cover email letting The Hope know a little bit more about themselves and why they’d like to stage the piece at The Hope. Submission deadline is 3 November 2024.
Up to thirty shows will be selected by The Hope Theatre’s Literary Team and each show successfully selected for the Festival will be given a run of two to four shows. In addition, each writer will be given support from the venue and invited to regular socials with other companies involved in the festival.
Joint Artistic Directors Laurel Marks and Toby Hampton said “We’re both so excited about the launch of this festival. It will bring some light and joy to Upper Street in what is usually a dark and gloomy January! We love working with new writers and cannot wait to see what scripts you all have tucked up your sleeves. We’re looking for BIG & BOLD theatre making to showcase the brilliant talent that is teeming through the London fringe”
For more information on the Festival and how to apply contact writeclub.hopetheatre@gmail.com
About The Hope Theatre
The Hope Theatre is a place for audiences and theatre-makers to explore big ideas. An award-winning 50-seater black box theatre above the world-famous Hope and Anchor pub on Upper Street. The Hope tells stories that are dramatic, surprising, and have something to say about the world we are living in now.
Opening in 2013, The Hope achieved success and prominence on the Off West End theatre scene under the previous Artistic Directors, and many productions won awards and the in-house productions of LOVESONG OF THE ELECTRIC BEAR and USHERS THE MUSICAL transferred into the West End.
