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Thomas Bellinck & Said Reza Adib - The Voice of Fingers

Thomas Bellinck is a Brussels-based artist whose documentary practice branches out into theatre, installation art, TV, ...
Said Reza Adib is a journalist based in Finland.

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Mokhallad Rasem - Diary of an empty bed

Mokhallad Rasem (1981, Iraq) became a director and an actor in Baghdad. Since 2005, he has been living and working in Belgium. His theatrical work is flashy and physical, associative and fragmentary.

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Natalka Vorozhbyt - Bad Roads

Natalka Vorozhbyt is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and сurator of social theater projects, born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1975. Most of her works are devoted to dramatic events in Ukraine.

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Ella Hickson - The Writer

Ella Hickson (born 1985) is a British playwright and theatrical director, living in London.

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Uma Nada-Rajah - Exodus

Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland.

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Peer Wittenbols - Trojan Wars

Peer Wittenbols (Bergen op Zoom, 1965) is a writer. He wrote more than sixty plays, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, several radio plays, many song lyrics and several film scripts.

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Anoek Nuyens & Rebekka de Wit - Shell Case

Rebekka de Wit (1985) studied drama at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and is a writer and theatre maker. Anoek Nuyens (1984) studied Theatre, Film and Television Studies in Utrecht and Berlin. In addition to her socially engaged, documentary theatre work, she does journalistic research.

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Annelies Verbeke - Here We Go Again (White Male Privilege)

Annelies Verbeke (Belgium, 1976) writes mainly prose and theatre texts.

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Magne van den Berg - Love Declaration (forever)

Magne van den Berg (Enschede, 1967) graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (Mime programme) in 1994, made collaborative performances until 1999, and directed some of her own writing. From 2006, she focused mainly on writing.

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Jibbe Willems - Age of Rage

Jibbe Willems is a theatre author, adaptor and translator for various companies in the Dutch-speaking world and sometimes abroad.

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Femke Van der Steen - Mater

Femke Van der Steen (1999) grew up in Friesland and moved to Belgium when she was thirteen. She is an actress, theatre maker and writer.

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Esther Duysker & Floor Houwink ten Cate - Sea of Silence

Esther Duysker (1985) is a screenwriter, playwright and radio play writer.
Director and writer Floor Houwink ten Cate (1987) creates performances at the intersection of musical theatre, opera and film.

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Tine Van Aerschot - I have no thoughts and this is one of them

Tine Van Aerschot (Mechelen, 1961) started working in the theatre field in 1987. Her work took various forms as a playwright, designer, producer and writer.

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Paula Thielecke - Judith Shakespeare - Rape and Revenge

Paula Thielecke, born in Berlin Lichtenberg in 1990, is a director and playwright.

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Kaveh Ayreek - The Empty Suitcase

Kaveh Ayreek is a performance artist, photographer, screenwriter, theater, and film director living in Norway, who was born as an Afghan refugee in Iran.

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Thomas Depryck - Macadam Circus

Thomas Depryck (1979) is a Belgian playwright. He works mainly, but not exclusively, with the De Facto company, directed by Antoine Laubin.

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Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas - Wounds of the City

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas is a playwright and director born in Lima, Perú.

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Sami Ibrahim - Two Palestinians go dogging

Sami Ibrahim is a writer from London, UK.

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Amir Gudarzi - Wonderwomb

Amir Gudarzi (born 1986, Tehran) is an Austrian author and playwright.

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Tena Štivičić - Three Winters

Tena Štivičić (1977, Zagreb, Croatia) is a playwright, screenwriter and columnist. She writes in English and Croatian.

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deBuren

A Flemish-Dutch house for culture and debate, located in the heart of Brussels.

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Femke Van der Steen - JUDIT ZKT.

Femke Van der Steen (°1999) is a Belgian actress, theatre-maker, and writer. In 2022, she graduated with a Master’s degree in Drama from LUCA School of Arts. Within her artistic practice, she explores how theatre, as a form of shamanism, can offer healing within the Anthropocene.

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Nana Lind - The Human Gaze & The 6/9 Problem

Nana Lind is an actress, artistic director, and transdisciplinary performing artist. Her training includes acting studies at The Acting Studio and the T. Schreiber Studio in New York, Goldsmiths College in London, and the Danish National School of Performing Arts.

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Toneelschrijfhuis

Toneelschrijfhuis is a house by and for writers, intended to provide maximum support for the writing of new plays.

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Theatre Bellevue

Theatre Bellevue supports Dutch-speaking playwrights and new writing talent, among other things through 'Bellevue Schrijvers'. Through 'Bellevue Lunchtheater', which focuses on playwriting, Theater Bellevue develops and presents new theatre repertoire.

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Het nieuwstedelijk

Het nieuwstedelijk makes theatre, music, audio and debate, writes its own theatre texts and is the city theatre of Leuven, Hasselt and Genk. Het nieuwstedelijk is also the initiator of Shakespeare is dead.

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Creatief Schrijven

Creatief Schrijven (‘Creative Writing’) offers advice, training, publication and performance opportunities for (aspiring) (theatre) writers. The non-profit organisation among other things organizes courses on how to write theatrical texts and adaptations.

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WISPER

WISPER organises artistic courses in Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp and during the summer also abroad. As far as theatre is concerned, WISPER offers both acting and writing courses.

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Arad Dabiri - LEBENLIFEHAYAT!

Arad Dabiri was born in Vienna in 1997 and has no intention of leaving. His debut novel “DRAMA” was nominated for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize and was awarded the Austrian Book Prize 2023 for best debut. His second novel, “GLORIA!”, was published in 2024.

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Lisa Horvath - ZOE

Lisa Horvath is a Vienna-based artist working at the intersections of scenography, visual art, media art, performance and text. She studied Stage and Costume Design at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University Gießen, and Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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Liuba Ilnytska - CYBORG ORGY

Liuba Ilnytska is a theater curator and dramaturge, she has been working at the Jam Factory Art Center since 2019 and has been developing the art center’s performing arts program since 2022. She collaborates with various theatres, art institutions, and art communities in Ukraine and abroad.

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Jeton Neziraj - PRISHTINA. The Premeditated Killing of a Dream

For years, Jeton Neziraj led the National Theatre of Kosovo as artistic director and also founded Qendra Multimedia, a leading production house in Pristina of which he remains director today. His impressive oeuvre includes over 25 plays that travel the world – from Europe to the United States – and have been translated into numerous languages.

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Espen Hjort - Landschap met radioactieve honden

Espen Hjort was born and raised in Oslo, Norway. In 2016, he moved to Amsterdam to complete his directing studies at the theater school, and since then he has been working in the Netherlands, Norway, and Ireland. His work is produced by Stichting Skorpetind, and he frequently collaborates with Het Huis Utrecht and Theater Utrecht.

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fABULEUS

fABULEUS is a production house for dance and theatre in Leuven, which focuses on artistic cooperation between young talent and more experienced makers.

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Kunstenpunt

Kunstenpunt supports organisations and people who are professionally active in the visual arts, performing arts or classical music in Flanders or Brussels.

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Flanders Literature

Flanders Literature supports the literary sector in Flanders - from author to reader - by order of the Flemish Government and the Flemish Minister of Culture. It does so by providing subsidies for authors, translators, publishers and organisers.

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The Performing Arts Fund NL

The Performing Arts Fund NL is the national fund for professional music, (music) theatre, dance and festivals in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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LUCA Drama

LUCA Drama is an academic programme in Drama that can be followed in Leuven. Among other things, they offer a programme Writing for Performance.

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KU Leuven

KU Leuven is a Catholic research and teaching institution with its main campus in Leuven. SID has a partnership with, among others, the translation sciences research unit.

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30CC

As Leuven's cultural centre, 30CC offers a wide range of theatre, music, literature and circus.

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Leuven Leest

Leuven Leest wants to give literature lovers in Leuven an overview of all the literary events, nice places to read and literary players in Leuven and also wants to give them a large supply of reading tips.

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City of Leuven

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OPENDOEK

OPENDOEK is the umbrella organisation for amateur theatre in Flanders and Brussels that aims, among other things, to promote and renew amateur theatre.

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Passa Porta

The International House of Literature Passa Porta organises literary encounters in Brussels, international writing residencies, various creative projects for authors and translators and a biennial, international, literary festival.

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KVS

A Brussels-based theatre company that works with its own text material and collaborates with an open ensemble of makers, actors, directors, choreographers and authors.

De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek

De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek is a publishing company of theatre texts that aims to stimulate and preserve contemporary Dutch drama, provide translations of foreign plays and accommodate the discourse on theatre in Belgium and The Netherlands. DNTB realizes this by publishing theatre texts and by offering an online theatre library.

Flemish playwrights

PTa wants to offer authors who are not connected to a company a place for their autonomous development by awarding grants, organising events about playwriting, publishing plays and organising competitions.

Theatre Antigone

Besides performing classical repertoire, Theatre Antigone focuses on developing and stimulating contemporary dramaturgy through writing assignments and developing new repertoire.

Residency Amsterdam City of Refuge

Since 1997, Amsterdam offers temporary shelter to a writer, poet or journalist who is being persecuted, threatened or prevented from writing in his or her country. This residency is located in Amsterdam, in the former home of Anne Frank.

Platform Onafhankelijke Theaterauteurs (PTa)

PTa wants to offer authors who are not connected to a company a place for their autonomous development by awarding grants, organising events about playwriting, publishing plays and organising competitions.

Tekstsmederij

The mission of Tekstsmederij is to make new playwriting talent visible and to forge partnerships between new generations of playwrights, directors, companies and producers.

VAV Vlaamse auteursvereniging

VAV Vlaamse auteursvereniging (Flemish Author Association) promotes the interests of Flemish translators and authors, defends the individual and collective rights of its members and conducts negotiations with all the major players in the field of literature in Flanders.

VIA ZUID

VIA ZUID is a talent development organisation for the professional performing arts. They support starting artists, such as playwrights, on their way to an independent professional practice.

Dramaastricht

Dramaastricht organises professional meetings between established and beginning playwrights from Belgium and the Netherlands.

deAuteurs

DeAuteurs distributes copyrights on behalf of Dutch-speaking authors who are active in audiovisual arts, literature, comics, illustration and performing arts.

De HOE

DE HOE is a intergenerational, intercommunal theatre play- and workspace with a home base in Antwerp and Ghent. DE HOE is a fusion of former Compagnie de KOE and Hof van Eede.

Toneelgroep Maastricht

All the productions of Toneelgroep Maastricht are written, translated or adapted by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Jibbe Willems or Frans Pollux. The theatre house contributes to the renewal of the theatre repertoire.

Keesen&Co

Keesen&Co is a Dutch theatre company known for its remarkable versions of classics (e.g. Chekhov and Shakespeare) and its new plays written by Paul Pourveur, Joeri Vos, Jeroen van den Berg, Esther Gerritsen and Rob de Graaf, among others.

Dood Paard

Dood Paard is a Dutch theatre company which performs both classic plays and unknown or undiscovered repertoire. Moreover, Dood Paard itself develops new Dutch repertoire by working together with young and older playwrights.

Het Zuidelijk Toneel

Het Zuidelijk Toneel is a Dutch theatre company, based in Tilburg, which works with a number of regular makers. Their two in-house playwrights are Marcel Osterop and Elly Scheele.

KOPERGIETERY

The creators of the KOPERGIETERY plays rarely use existing text material; they create and write themselves, in search of their own words, their own images and their own language.

Bebuquin

Bebuquin is a small publishing house that wants to give high quality theatre texts a longer life. The main focus of Bebuquin lies on Dutch plays written by playwrights who work in Flanders.

De Toneelcentrale

De Toneelcentrale is a publishing house with a large and diversified range of texts of musicals and plays for children, young people and adults.

Dutch playwrights

A list of contemporary Dutch playwrights.

Theaterboek

Theaterboek is a publishing house based in Amsterdam that specialises in publishing theatre texts written by contemporary playwrights.

Crea

Crea is a cultural centre for students in Amsterdam that, among other things, offers playwriting courses for beginners and advanced students.

Parnassos Cultural Centre

Parnassos Cultural Centre is the cultural centre of the University of Utrecht and offers courses in various art disciplines, including theatre.

De Nwe Tijd

De Nwe Tijd is a theatre house led by Freek Vielen, Suzanne Grotenhuis and Rebekka de Wit that turns language into theatre and focuses on its own text material.

Abattoir Fermé

Abattoir Fermé is a theatre company that works with various playwrights who are part of the permanent team, including Stef Lernous and Maja Westerveld.

De Kolonie

Johnny MUS, formerly known as Music theatre De Kolonie, produces plays for both adults and children. This theatre house consciously opts for new (live)music and new texts.

MartHa!tentatief

MartHa!tentative is an Antwerp-based theatre company that works on urban themes with original text material.

Het Nationale Theater

The National Theatre is the largest touring theatre company in the Netherlands and works with regular actors and directors and with its own texts.

The Expertise Centre for Literary Translation

The Expertise Centre for Literary Translation organizes an online course in Dutch-French drama translation this autumn.

NIAS

The NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies) in Amsterdam offers a residency for playwrights to realise a project that contributes to promoting the cross-pollination between art and science.

Scènes

Scènes is a Dutch magazine for theatre enthusiasts that keeps readers informed of everything happening in the world of theatre, dance, musical theatre, cabaret and musical.

Het Spui

On Het Spui, a picturesque square in Amsterdam, there is a residency where playwrights can develop their texts. The flat is open to authors of all literary genres.

Deltaworkers

Deltaworkers offers a residency for Dutch playwrights in New Orleans.

Van Doesburghuis

Located in Meudon, France, the Van Doesburghuis is a residency for playwrights whose work breaks boundaries and experiments with different art forms within an international context.

Passa Porta

In Brussels, Flemish playwrights can become a writer-in-residency in the multilingual Passa Porta literature house. Two workrooms are available for writers of all literary genres.

Het Lijsternest

In Ingooigem, a village in the West of Flanders, the Letterenhuis offers the former home and workplace of writer Stijn Streuvels as a residency to Belgian and Dutch writers of all genres, including playwrights.

Zuidpool

In Antwerp, Zuidpool offers a residency for authors of all literary genres, including playwrights. With this residency, Zuidpool wants to invite authors to explore writing for theatre today.

The Poet's House

Since 2018, the former vicarage of Watou also serves as the writing residency 'The Poet's House', where authors of all genres from Flanders, the Netherlands and South Africa can stay.

Beauvoorde Castle

Beauvoorde Castle is a writing residency in Wulveringem that welcomes writers whose work has a link with the region, with (immovable) heritage and the castle site or with Arthur Merghelynck.

The LAB

The LAB is a residential artistic workplace in Hasselt where artists and makers who work for children and families can research and rehearse.

De Grote Post

With the residency of De Grote Post, Ostend offers a place for musicians as well as performing artists and playwrights who want to create in a peaceful environment.

deBuren

Every summer, deBuren takes young creators to the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation in Paris. In this residency, they get the chance to work on new material and develop as artists.

deFENIKS

deFENIKS is WALPURGIS' residency in Antwerp. deFENIKS is a sanctuary for the development, research, experimentation, creation and presentation of music theatre.

Monty

In Antwerp, the writers' residency of Monty can be found. Monty is an arts centre at the crossroads of presentation, production and development of performing arts.

Literarisches Colloquium

In Germany, Literarisches Colloquium offers residencies for writers and translators, where they can work on their own project and interact with each other in a quiet country house for a month.

Academia Belgica

Academia Belgica offers a residency for Flemish playwrights in Rome. The Academia's mission is to improve Italo-Belgian relations both scientifically and culturally and welcomes both Belgian researchers and artists.

National Centre for Writing

In Norwich (United Kingdom), the National Centre for Writing welcomes Flemish (theatre) writers and translators for a residency.

Paulet House

Paulet House, a house for writers owned by the Jakes Gerwel Foundation in South Africa, offers a residency for Flemish playwrights. In addition to South African authors, the foundation also welcomes two Flemish authors.

Theater Malpertuis

Theatre Malpertuis wants to provide qualitative theatre, organises guest performances and reading clubs, supports the talent development of creators and offers technical infrastructure to amateur companies and other organisations.

Arts centre BUDA

Arts centre BUDA helps to develop the Buda district of Kortrijk into a fertile place where the artist's desire to create has a central place. BUDA also hosts around 75 residencies a year.

Rataplan

Rataplan is a cultural organisation in Borgerhout that focuses on children, young people and new and established talent in the performing arts. In this arts centre, (emerging) artists can experiment and present their work. Rataplan also organises arts-educational workshops.

The Reading Club

The Reading Club organises reading evenings, both live and online, where participants read interesting plays together and can get to know the author, director, or dramaturge of the play in question.

The Fence

The Fence is a non-profit organization based in Sweden and an international network for playwrights and people who make playwriting happen across Europe and beyond. The network comprises 262 members from 57 countries.

Eurodram

Eurodram is a European network for drama in translation, comprising about 300 members. Its main objective is to promote new drama in translation from Europe, Central Asia and the Mediterranean, making it available both to theatre professionals and audiences in the region.

Drama Forum / UniT Graz

Drama Forum (Austria) promotes the production of contemporary dramatic texts by making them audible, visible and tangible.

Drei Masken Verlag

Drei Masken Verlag is one of the oldest theatre publishers in Germany and is one of the most renowned representatives in its field.

Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber is one of the largest independent publishing houses in London, United Kingdom. It publishes authors of all literary genres, including playwrights.

Beletrina

Beletrina is a Slovenian publishing house that publishes classics as well as contemporary literary voices of all literary genres, including theatre. Beletrina publishes the work of Simona Semenic, among others.

KUD AAC Zrakogled

KUD AAC Zrakogled is a Slovenian platform for writers and translators working in the Histrian cultural space. Its activities include publishing, translating and organising literary events. KUD Zrakogled publishes the plays of Simona Semenič, among others.

Malpertuis Studio

Theatre Malpertuis (Tielt) organises post-academic learning initiatives for theatre actors, directors and writers. Besides workshops, Malpertuis Studio also offers masterclasses and shorter study sessions for both professionals and enthusiasts.

Malpertuis Studio residency

With Malpertuis Studio, Theatre Malpertuis (Tielt) offers a residency, where a theatre maker can stay to do research in his/her path as a maker.

The house of Herman Teirlinck

The house of Herman Teirlinck is a non-profit organisation that organises literary and cultural activities and offers a place of residence for writers from Belgium and abroad.

Moussem Repertoire

With Moussem Repertoire, the organisation Moussem translates plays in Arabic to the Dutch language and also publishes them in Dutch.

Publishers of drama in the UK

An overview of different publishing houses in the UK that focus on the publication of theatre texts.

Publishers of drama in France

An overview of different publishing houses in France that focus on the publication of theatre texts.

Publishers of drama in Germany

An overview of different publishing houses in Germany that focus on the publication of theatre texts.

Isola Comacina

Several villa's on Isola Comacina (Italy) can be used by the Flemish Community as artist residencies. Earlier this year, Jessa Wildemeersch stayed in this residency to work on Paradise Blues.

Radar Sofia

Radar Sofia is located in the capital of Bulgaria and offers a free living and working space as well as many networking and presentation opportunities. Simona Semenič was one of the residents at Radar Sofia in 2019.

Circolo Scandinavo

Circolo Scandinavo in Rome offers a writing residency in an inspiring environment for Nordic artists who need a place to focus on their work and find inspiration. One of the residents at Circolo Scandinavo has been Pipsa Lonka.

TheaterTekstTalent Stipendium

TheaterTekstTalent is a prize for playwrights awarded by the Prince Bernard Culture Fund that was set up by Fonds De Versterking. Every year, this foundation sets aside 35,000 euros for playwrights who are going to write a new play.

Toneelschrijfprijs

The Toneelschrijfprijs (‘Playwriting Award’) is awarded annually by the Union for the Dutch Language to an author of a play that is originally written in Dutch. The winner receives a sum of 10,000 euros.

PTa Verse Tekst

Since 2005, Verse Tekst has been the open submission round of PTa for theatre texts not yet staged. A jury reads all the plays and selects the most noteworthy ones.

Dutch-German authors' award for youth theatre

Within the framework of the Dutch-German festival Kaas & Kappes, the city of Duisburg awards the Dutch-German authors' award for youth theatre. This award amounts to 7,500 euros in total.

Charlotte Köhler Stipendium

The Charlotte Köhler Prize is a triennial award for an author who has written outstanding prose, poetry or drama. The award comes with a sum of 15,000 euros.

Heijermans Fonds Stipendium

The Heijermans Fund regularly awards a stipend to a female author who has written an outstanding work of prose, poetry or theatre that is socially engaged and/or emancipatory.

Boyer Trophy

The Boyer Trophy is a prize that is awarded irregularly to someone who plays a significant role in Dutch playwriting. The prize is an initiative of the Platform for Theatre Authors (Platform Theaterauteurs).

Sabam Young Playwriting Award

Sabam awards its Young Playwriting Award of 7,500 euros to a young, talented playwright and thereby wishes to give up-and-coming talent and the theatre world in general a boost.

Award from KANTL for theatre texts

Every four years, KANTL, the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature, awards the prize for theatre texts, which amounts to 5,000 euros.

Het Kwartier

Het Kwartier is a theatre company that plays with the 'text' in text theatre, using new forms to bring socially relevant content to a wide audience. The artistic core consists of Freek and Ruth Mariën and Carl von Winckelmann.

Competitions of Heidelberger Stückemarkt

The Heidelberger Stückemarkt (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) organises among other things an annual theatre festival and playwriting competitions for emerging writers.

Molière Awards

The Molière Awards are the national theatre awards of France. They are presented at an annual ceremony, called the Nuit des Molières ("Night of the Molières") in Paris. One of the awards is for the best playwright of the year.

Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is a biennial British competition for playwriting, the largest of its kind in Europe. The prize of £40,000 is awarded to scripts that are original and unperformed. Each winner enters into a developing process to bring their work to production.

Documenta

Documenta is a forum for the study of theatre in Flanders and the Netherlands. It is a journal with thorough, scholarly contributions on all aspects of theatre, as well as essays and critical reflections.

DeClaus

DeClaus is an online dossier within Theaterkrant.nl with reviews of new theatre texts. New reviews are regularly published about Dutch texts performed in the current season and about interesting international repertoire that has not yet been performed in the Netherlands.

rekto:verso

rekto:verso is an online culture magazine that also publishes four print issues a year and wants to offer culture lovers an in-depth look at film, stage, music, literature, visual arts and cultural policy.

Etcetera

Etcetera is a Belgian quarterly magazine for the performing arts, focusing on theatre, dance, performance, music theatre, circus and youth theatre. The emphasis is on creators and their work, but also on policy, organisations and structures.

Theaterkrant Magazine

Theaterkrant Magazine is an independent magazine about the Dutch performing arts, offering an up-to-date overview of developments in theatre, dance, opera, cabaret, music theatre and youth theatre six times a year.

Theater heute

Theatre heute is a German, monthly magazine with a special focus on theatre. It not only follows theatre from the German-speaking world, but also international theatre.

Théâtre Ouvert

Théâtre Ouvert is the national centre for contemporary dramaturgy. Based in Paris, it is dedicated to the discovery, promotion and distribution of contemporary theatre texts by living playwrights.

Bloet

Bloet is the Brussels-based theatre company from the artists Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks, which often works with its own text material and produces performances both in Belgium and abroad.

Tristero

Tristero is a Brussels-based theatre company that often works with new or unknown theatre texts. They also often create their own texts or adapt existing material.

BOG.

BOG. is a Flemish-Dutch collection of theatremakers who make theatre performances about the essential themes in the human life and who often work with their own texts.

STAN

STAN is the theatre collective around Jolente De Keersmaeker, Damiaan De Schrijver and Frank Vercruyssen. The company stands for text theatre and often draws on the oeuvre of classical playwrights, which it then adapts to create new texts. STAN also often chooses the work of contemporary playwrights.

Theatre Group Oostpool

Toneelgroep Oostpool is a theatre company from Arnhem that works with freelancers as well as with a permanent team of makers and writers. They often make theatre productions with original texts.

Maison d’Europe et d’Orient

Maison d'Europe et d'Orient (Paris) is dedicated to the cultures of Europe, Central Asia and the Mediterranean. The non-profit organisation includes the European translation network Eurodram, the Christiane-Montécot library, the publishing house L'Espace d'un instant and the Théâtre & Galerie du Viaduc, a multi-purpose space that can host residencies, meetings, concerts, exhibitions and theatre performances.

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial West End theatre in London that has a strong focus on writing and is notable for its contributions to contemporary theatre.

Traverse Theatre

Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh that commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary playwrights. It also presents many productions from visiting companies from across the UK.

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is a theatre house in London that focuses on the translation of foreign-language texts into English and on international, cultural exchange and collaboration.

Theatre Royal Plymouth

Theatre Royal Plymouth is a theatre venue in Devon that specialises in the production of new plays of contemporary playwrights. The Playwrights’ Forum is a monthly meet-up at Theatre Royal Plymouth for local playwrights to network and discuss new work.

Schauspielhaus Graz

Schauspielhaus Graz is the biggest theatre in Styria (Austria) and often works with own playwrights and texts.

wpZimmer

wpZimmer is an international workplace that offers artists support tailored to their specific needs and desires. The open residency programme includes artistic dialogue, financial and production management and network support.

De Toneelmakerij

De Toneelmakerij is a Dutch theatre house that produces youth theatre, focusing on language, interdisciplinary experimentation and social commitment. De Toneelmakerij is also committed to developing a new generation of youth theatre makers.

State Theatre Saarbrücken

Theatre Saarbrücken is the state theatre of Saarland, Germany. It has several divisions (opera, drama, dance, concert) and offers annually around 30 new productions.

De Theaterbib (OPENDOEK)

De Theaterbib is the theatre library from OPENDOEK, the umbrella organisation for amateur theatre in Belgium, and has about 17,000 plays in stock.

Buitenkunst

Buitenkunst organises workshops, performances, studios, concerts, talks and more, in the fields of theatre, dance, music, writing, visual arts, photography and video.

Buitenkunst - TheaterTalentLab

TheaterTalentLab is the place to be at Buitenkunst for everyone between 16 and 25 years old who wants to develop their skills in theatre. During the summer, young people work intensively for a short period under the guidance of professionals from the theatre world.

TRILL

TRILL is the result of the merger of Artforum and Urban Woorden and brings children and young people into contact with art through workshops and other activities in cooperation with professional artists.

Schrijversvakschool

De Schrijversvakschool (‘School of Writing’) in Amsterdam offers various writing courses, including a course for playwriting that is taught by an experienced and professional writer.

Huis van Puck

Huis van Puck is a performing arts centre in Gelderland that offers various courses, including two playwriting courses (basic and advanced).

Trubar Literature House Ljubljana

Trubar Literature House Ljubljana is a cultural and intellectual centre in Slovenia, where, among others, Simona Semenič teaches playwriting.

Ritcs Drama - Directing & Writing

The Bachelor and Master programme of Directing & Writing at Ritcs in Brussels is a three-year theatre maker's programme where students develop themselves into playwrights.

AP University College Antwerp - Spoken Word

The academic Bachelor's and Master's programme in Drama with a specialisation in Spoken Word at the AP University College in Antwerp is a four-year programme that focuses on playwriting.

INSAS - Master Theatre and Communication techniques - Writing

The Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion (INSAS) is a school of the French Community located in Brussels. Their bachelor and masters degrees offer a learning ground for those who want to write for theatre or film.

KASK Drama

The drama programme at Kask in Ghent is not divided into different majors based on specific functions within the creative process of a theatre production. The programme does focus on different forms and functions, so that students can gradually determine their personal practice as theatre-makers, actors, writers, directors, etc.

Gerrit Rietveld Academy - Image and Language

At the Gerrit Rietvald Academy, Image & Language department, several great playwrights have graduated. The programme starts from visual art and, from there, evolves towards language.

HKU - Writing for Performance

The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) offers a four-year bachelor's programme in Writing for Performance, which trains students to become professional playwrights.

ArtEZ University - Creative Writing

The Creative Writing programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem is a full-time higher professional education programme for writing and presenting drama, prose, poetry, documentary and literary non-fiction.

Schrijversvakschool

The Schrijversvakschool (School of Writing) in Amsterdam offers a four-year part-time programme for aspiring writers who want to develop into independent authors. The course comprises five literary genres (prose, poetry, drama, screenplay and essay) from which each student chooses one as his or her main subject.

Dutch language selection 2024

‘The state of’ a playwright, Lot Vekemans

Platform online

Vondel was a woman

The what, why and how of De Leesclub: a dialogue

Eurodram 2021 selection

Thomas Bellinck & Said Reza Adib - The Voice of Fingers

Mokhallad Rasem - Diary of an empty bed

Natalka Vorozhbyt - Bad Roads

Ella Hickson - The Writer

Uma Nada-Rajah - Exodus

Peer Wittenbols - Trojan Wars

Anoek Nuyens & Rebekka de Wit - Shell Case

Annelies Verbeke - Here We Go Again (White Male Privilege)

Magne van den Berg - Love Declaration (forever)

Jibbe Willems - Age of Rage

Femke Van der Steen - Mater

Esther Duysker & Floor Houwink ten Cate - Sea of Silence

Tine Van Aerschot - I have no thoughts and this is one of them

Paula Thielecke - Judith Shakespeare - Rape and Revenge

Kaveh Ayreek - The Empty Suitcase

Thomas Depryck - Macadam Circus

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas - Wounds of the City

Sami Ibrahim - Two Palestinians go dogging

Amir Gudarzi - Wonderwomb

Tena Štivičić - Three Winters

deBuren

Femke Van der Steen - JUDIT ZKT.

Nana Lind - The Human Gaze & The 6/9 Problem

Toneelschrijfhuis

Theatre Bellevue

Het nieuwstedelijk

Creatief Schrijven

WISPER

Arad Dabiri - LEBENLIFEHAYAT!

Lisa Horvath - ZOE

Liuba Ilnytska - CYBORG ORGY

Jeton Neziraj - PRISHTINA. The Premeditated Killing of a Dream

Espen Hjort - Landschap met radioactieve honden

fABULEUS

Kunstenpunt

Flanders Literature

The Performing Arts Fund NL

LUCA Drama

KU Leuven

30CC

Leuven Leest

City of Leuven

OPENDOEK

Passa Porta

KVS

De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek

Flemish playwrights

Theatre Antigone

Residency Amsterdam City of Refuge

Platform Onafhankelijke Theaterauteurs (PTa)

Tekstsmederij

VAV Vlaamse auteursvereniging

VIA ZUID

Dramaastricht

deAuteurs

De HOE

Toneelgroep Maastricht

Keesen&Co

Dood Paard

Het Zuidelijk Toneel

KOPERGIETERY

Bebuquin

De Toneelcentrale

Dutch playwrights

Theaterboek

Crea

Parnassos Cultural Centre

De Nwe Tijd

Abattoir Fermé

De Kolonie

MartHa!tentatief

Het Nationale Theater

The Expertise Centre for Literary Translation

NIAS