Scriptwriting opportunity: The Sitcom Trials

The Sitcom Trials is looking for short sitcom scripts with a Halloween or horror theme
The Sitcom Trials is a comedy show where new sitcoms compete and the audience votes for a winner. Shows have been performed in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cardiff, and had runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and an 8-part series on ITV.
Scripts for the Halloween Sitcom Trials should be in the Sitcom Trials format: a ten-minute sitcom ending in a cliffhanger with a three-minute payoff scene, to be performed by no more than four actors.
Selected scripts will be performed at the Halloween Sitcom Trials at the Kings Arms, Salford, on 25 October.
The deadline for entries is 10 October.

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