For writers, producers, directors, actors and anyone with a passion for plays.

We promote new writing for stage, screen, radio, audio and pod-cast.
Our purpose is to encourage new work from writers throughout the English speaking world.

(Sussex just happens to be where we started, in 1935)

Created by a group of professional writers in 1935 (in the bar at The Theatre Royal in Brighton, Sussex) The Sussex Playwrights Club (styled Sussex Playwrights or SPC) has operated continuously with only two breaks (World War Two and Covid Lock-down )

Created in the golden age of theatre BTV (Before Television) when professional writers could place plays regularly on tour and in the West End. With the rise of Television opportunities in commercial theatre became less available and Television writing became more prominent. Then came the Edinburgh Fringe and the spread of fringe festivals throughout the UK.
With the rise of the internet, pod-casting and  self publishing using print on demand have opened up new opportunities.

Sussex Playwrights helps writers support writers.