Bruntwood Prize Rules

Entry

  1. The competition is open to anyone resident in the UK and Ireland. *
  2. Entrants must be sixteen or over. There is no upper age limit.
  3. Scripts must be submitted anonymously under a pseudonym.
  4. We can only accept one entry per person.
  5. The deadline for entry is 6pm on Monday 6th June 2011. Any entries received after this time will not be read.
  6. We are only able to accept entries submitted online. No paper entries will be considered within the judging process. Please do not submit any supporting materials including CDs, photographs, reviews or any audiovisual material.
  7. Scripts must be submitted by the writer themselves and not by an agent or any other third party.

Scripts

  1. The play must be a stage play. It should be an original, unperformed and unproduced piece of work, in theatre or in any medium. ∞
  2. The play must be an hour long or more in playing time.
  3. We do not accept translations, adaptations of other pieces of work, musicals or radio plays. We also do not accept plays written exclusively for younger audiences.
  4. The entrant must exclusively own and control all copyright and all other related rights to the submitted script.
  5. The submitted play must be available for production and unattached to any other theatre or company. Any scripts that have been professionally optioned, produced or published will be disqualified.
  6. We do accept plays co-authored by more than one writer. Please ensure that only one entry is submitted with one set of contact details.
  7. If you have won a prize in the previous Bruntwood competition, you may not enter a script. However, you may enter if you have been shortlisted or longlisted in the past.

Judging/Prizes

  1. All scripts awarded prizes are automatically under option to the Royal Exchange for a period of eighteen months after the announcement of the awards.
  2. If a winning script is produced by the Royal Exchange, the prize money will replace all first production or development fees. However, the standard percentage of box office receipts and rehearsal attendance fees will still be paid to the writer.
  3. We regret that no correspondence can be entered into regarding any part of the judging process.
  4. The Royal Exchange reserves the right to make any final judgement about entry criteria and awards, including any amendments to the above rules.

 

* We define resident through your ability to produce, if asked, proof of main address on a driving license, appropriate Inland Revenue document, or if not in possession of these, a phone bill with proof of UK or Irish home address.

∞ Amateur performances do not apply. Unproduced means the play cannot have received a professional production in any form, anywhere in the world, apart from one rehearsed reading only.