Circusful is excited to announce that applications for the Mike Moloney Award for young people in circus are now open!

This award aims to support young people, based in Northern Ireland, aged 16-30 who want to develop their Circus Arts/Street Theatre performance and/or related circus practice. Additional Support will be provided to those who have disabilities.

This award is designed to help you to change and/or improve your Circus/Street Theatre practice and/or performance. 

For instance, an award could be used to help you to: 

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Submissions are now open for The Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize!

The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities.

The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.

PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23 December 2024 at 12pm

See FAQs for more details on our criteria.

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