Submitting a Play to Fishamble
Fishamble welcomes submissions of new, original, dramatic work, and appreciates the imagination, time, and effort that goes into writing a play!
Script submissions are now CLOSED.
PLEASE NOTE
Script submissions are now CLOSED.
PLEASE NOTE
- To submit work to Fishamble you must be an adult resident on the island of Ireland or an adult Irish citizen living abroad.
- Your play must be an unproduced work.
- Please limit your submissions to two plays per submission window.
- Scripts that don't fulfil the above criteria will not be read by our panel, and no feedback or further correspondence will be sent.
- We aim to reply to all submissions within 6 months.
Fishamble's Aims
In 2021, Fishamble moved its script submissions system online. We hope, by doing this, to:
Fishamble seeks to tell stories of Ireland, and to engage with a wide range of communities, through discovering, developing and producing plays by Irish writers, and writers living on the island of Ireland. It aims to explore contemporary Ireland through bringing a diverse range of voices to the stage.
Fishamble is committed to gender equality and produces an equal number of plays by men and women, as well as with works by non-binary writers.
Fishamble is committed to inclusion and diversity in supporting and commissioning artists without regard to race, religion, colour, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, neurodiversity, physical disability, linguistic background, socio-economic status.
Finally, Fishamble aims to facilitate the development of new plays in the Irish language. Fishamble welcomes work written either entirely in Irish, or that engages meaningfully with the language.
You can read Fishamble's Gender Equality & Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policies here.
- discover new voices;
- allow greater accessibility;
- offer some thoughts and guidance as to how best develop your play;
- where appropriate, offer some thoughts as to how you might pursue your writing/project further.
Fishamble seeks to tell stories of Ireland, and to engage with a wide range of communities, through discovering, developing and producing plays by Irish writers, and writers living on the island of Ireland. It aims to explore contemporary Ireland through bringing a diverse range of voices to the stage.
Fishamble is committed to gender equality and produces an equal number of plays by men and women, as well as with works by non-binary writers.
Fishamble is committed to inclusion and diversity in supporting and commissioning artists without regard to race, religion, colour, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, neurodiversity, physical disability, linguistic background, socio-economic status.
Finally, Fishamble aims to facilitate the development of new plays in the Irish language. Fishamble welcomes work written either entirely in Irish, or that engages meaningfully with the language.
You can read Fishamble's Gender Equality & Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policies here.
For further information on Fishamble’s various dramaturgical and artist support programmes, please visit our Artists Supports page, or email Gavin at [email protected].
If you encounter problems with the online submission system, please email Eimear at [email protected] for assistance.
If you encounter problems with the online submission system, please email Eimear at [email protected] for assistance.
