What is the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition
The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition is a unique opportunity for anyone, aged 18 or over, to enter their original, full-length stageplay in a competition which aims to reward the best plays by writers across the country.
You can be anyone, of any experience, living anywhere in the UK and Ireland. You might never have written a play before. Or, you might have written lots. The key thing is, that entry is totally anonymous, so the competition is absolutely fair and inclusive to everyone.
The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition will offer awards of £15,000 as a First Prize and a following Second Prize of £10,000 and third prize of £7,500. There will also be a special Bruntwood prize of £5,000. This competition represents one the world’s biggest awards for playwriting.
We are delighted to announce that our judges will be; Brenda Blethyn (OBE, actor), Greg Hersov (Artistic Director, Royal Exchange Theatre), Roger Michell (theatre and film director), Michael Oglesby (DL Bruntwood, Sponsor), Michael Sheen (actor), Roy Williams (playwright), and Richard Wilson (actor and director) who will also chair the panel.
In addition to the prize money, it is our intention to produce the winning play or plays, and Nick Hern Books have agreed to publish the produced plays.
Nick Hern Books is one of the UK’s leading independent theatre publishers and performing rights licensors. It was founded as an imprint by Nick Hern in 1988 and became fully independent in 1993. It now has over 500 plays and theatrebooks in print, with authors including Caryl Churchill, Declan Donnellan, David Edgar, Tony Kushner, Conor McPherson, Stephen Sondheim and Kenneth Tynan. Nick Hern Books is proud to support work by new and upcoming playwrights including Debbie Tucker Green, Fin Kennedy, Chloe Moss, Ben Musgrave and Jack Thorne.
The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition is a unique opportunity for anyone, aged 18 or over, to enter their original, full-length stageplay in a competition which aims to reward the best plays by writers across the country.
You can be anyone, of any experience, living anywhere in the UK and Ireland. You might never have written a play before. Or, you might have written lots. The key thing is, that entry is totally anonymous, so the competition is absolutely fair and inclusive to everyone.
The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition will offer awards of £15,000 as a First Prize and a following Second Prize of £10,000 and third prize of £7,500. There will also be a special Bruntwood prize of £5,000. This competition represents one the world’s biggest awards for playwriting.
We are delighted to announce that our judges will be; Brenda Blethyn (OBE, actor), Greg Hersov (Artistic Director, Royal Exchange Theatre), Roger Michell (theatre and film director), Michael Oglesby (DL Bruntwood, Sponsor), Michael Sheen (actor), Roy Williams (playwright), and Richard Wilson (actor and director) who will also chair the panel.
In addition to the prize money, it is our intention to produce the winning play or plays, and Nick Hern Books have agreed to publish the produced plays.
Nick Hern Books is one of the UK’s leading independent theatre publishers and performing rights licensors. It was founded as an imprint by Nick Hern in 1988 and became fully independent in 1993. It now has over 500 plays and theatrebooks in print, with authors including Caryl Churchill, Declan Donnellan, David Edgar, Tony Kushner, Conor McPherson, Stephen Sondheim and Kenneth Tynan. Nick Hern Books is proud to support work by new and upcoming playwrights including Debbie Tucker Green, Fin Kennedy, Chloe Moss, Ben Musgrave and Jack Thorne.
