deBuren

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

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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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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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Dutch Performing Arts

Dutch Performing Arts promotes Dutch music, theatre and dance abroad. It's part of the Performing Arts Fund NL and aims to stimulate the international ambitions of Dutch companies and artists.

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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

A list of contemporary Flemish playwrights.

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 KOE

Compagnie De KOE is a Flemish theatre house that, for the most part, performs its own texts. The artistic core team consists of Natali Broods, Peter Van den Eede and Willem de Wolf.

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.

Nieuw-West

Nieuw-West is a theatre company that works mainly with its own text material. Rob de Graaf is the in-house playwright.

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

Music theatre De Kolonie produces plays for both adults and children. This theatre house consciously opts for new (live)music and new texts.

Hof van Eede

Hof van Eede is a theatre company based around Wannes Gyselinck and Ans Van den Eede that relies heavily on self-written 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.

Integrali

The Integrali Cultural Association is a NGO in Ljubljana whose main activities include publishing contemporary drama texts, stage production, educational activities and playwriting workshops. Its production is closely intertwined with the work of Simona Semenič.

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.

European Drama Award

Schauspiel Stuttgart, the drama division of the Stuttgart State Theaters, has introduced a new prize for European playwrights. The European Drama Award is endowed with 75,000 euros and honors the outstanding dramatic oeuvre of a European dramatist.

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.

Simona Semenič

Simona Semenič (1975) is a Slovenian playwright and performer. In February 2021, she participated in one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Pipsa Lonka

Pipsa Lonka (1977) is a Finnish playwright and dramaturg. In March 2021, she participated in one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Freek Mariën

Freek Mariën (1988) is a Flemish theatre maker and playwright. In April 2021, we read one of his plays at the Shakespeare is dead Reading club.

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. This Master offers 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.

Theatre translators in Flanders and the Netherlands

An overview of translators in Flanders and the Netherlands that focus on drama.

David McKay

David McKay is an American freelance Dutch-to-English translator. He translated, among other things, ‘The Wetsuitman’, a play by the Flemish playwright Freek Mariën that was read at one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Barbara Buri

Barbara Buri (1939) is a Swiss translator. She made, among other things, the German translation of ‘The Wetsuitman’, a Dutch play by Belgian playwright Freek Mariën that was read at one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Kristian London

Kristian London is a Finnish-to-English translator. He translated, among other things, ‘These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away’, a play by the Finnish playwright Pipsa Lonka that was read at one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Fredrik Brattberg

Fredrik Brattberg (1978) is a Norwegian playwright and composer. In May 2021, he took part in one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs.

Si’An Chen

Si’An Chen is a Mongolian playwright, director, poet and translator who took part in one of the Shakespeare is dead Reading clubs in May 2021.

Sebes & Bisseling

Sebes & Bisseling is a literary agency in Amsterdam that represents local and foreign authors, publishers and agencies in the trade of book, film and digital rights.

Het Contractenbureau

Het Contractenbureau, based in Amsterdam, is an agency that safeguards the business interests of individual scriptwriters and playwrights.

LNVT

LNVT represents writers on a business level. Writers can call on LNVT for their booking or agenda management, advice on negotiating contracts and/or guidance in launching a new literary project.

ALMO

ALMO is an authors' agency in Flanders that has both a classical music repertoire and a theatre repertoire under its wings.

Zeitgeist Agency

Zeitgeist Agency is an international literary, screen, theatre and talent management bureau in Brussels that represents the interests of stage and screen writers with original works.

Henneman Agency

Henneman Agency is an agency in Amsterdam that represents actors, screenwriters, directors and composers. Playwrights too can call on them for guidance and advice in the creative and business process.

Sayle Screen

Sayle Screen is one of London’s leading independent agencies representing writers, directors and producers for film, television and theatre.

The Agency London

The Agency represents both beginning and more established writers and directors working in film, television and theatre.

United Agents

United Agents is a British agency that works across all areas of film, television and theatre representing playwrights, screenwriters, directors, composers and producers.

Knight Hall Agency

Knight Hall Agency, based in London, represents playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels.

Micheline Steinberg Associates

Micheline Steinberg Associates represents writers for stage, television, film, radio and animation, as well as writer-directors, translators and librettists.

Agency North

Agency North is Finland’s leading literary agency in the fields of performing arts and film, as well as the country’s most important exporter of Finnish drama. Pipsa Lonka is one of the playwrights represented by Agency North.

Paris, Septembre

Paris, Septembre is a French literary agency that represents various types of authors, including playwrights, and supports them in the management of their work.

L’Agence Drama

L'Agence Drama is a French literary agency that manages and represents the rights of French and foreign authors, including playwrights. They also export the work of French authors worldwide.