The 33rd Arts & Business Awards shortlist is now announced and pits blockbuster partnerships against small budget collaborations with huge impact. The 33rd Arts & Business Awards shortlist demonstrates that despite tricky times businesses are still investing in culture to boost their brand and contribute to the community. These awards…
Manchester-born playwright Miriam Battye is to see her Bruntwood Prize shortlisted play – I STARTED A FIRE – receive its first public reading in The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre on Friday 9 March 2012. I STARTED A FIRE focuses on school girl Alice, who has a crush on…
2012 brings another chance to see last year’s huge Bruntwood critical success MOGADISHU by Vivienne Franzmann after it’s runs in London and Manchester. This debut play earnt Vivienne Franzmann a host of awards and nominations, including a George Devine Award and nominations for Best New Play at the Theatre Awards UK 2011, Most…
After the excitement of yesterday, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to our Bruntwood Prize winners and shortlist for 2011. Four very different writers who have created four completely unique worlds that captured the imaginations of our judging panel. Our first prize winner, Janice Okoh, used…
Janice Okoh has today been announced as the winner of the £16,000 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her play Three Birds. Set in South East London, Three Birds is a play about the real and imaginary lives of three siblings who are home alone and left to protect their world against the…
It’s a few days now until the announcement of the winners of the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and preparations for the announcement are underway here at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Our judging panel for the competition meets at the Exchange on Monday to discuss and deliberate the fate…
An update for all of those writers who featured on the 90 strong longlist for the prize this year. We are currently working through the process of sending out feedback reports and detailed reponses to each writer at the email address with which they entered the competition. Do bear with…
Bruntwood winning writer Ben Musgrave has just opened a new play, HIS TEETH, in a production by Only Connect Creative Arts Company. The play is a bold and ambitious portrait of London through the eyes of an illegal immigrant and is performed by five of OC’s ex-offender members. Ben…
Viv Franzmann, Bruntwood winner in 2008 and author of MOGADISHU, writes today in The Times about her experience of being shortlisted for the prize and the journey that she’s been on since she won. MOGADISHU won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2010 and saw the…
After a summer of reading, re-reading and discussion, we are now able to announce the shortlist for the Bruntwood Prize. The ten plays below now go forward to our judging panel who will meet on Monday 14th November to award a first prize of £16,000 and three awards of…
Chair of the judges and playwright Simon Stephens speaks at the Bruntwood Prize Ceremony:
Meet our other shortlisted writers and find out about their plays:
