The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is the UK’s biggest national competition for playwriting. It is the search for great new plays and great writers. We look for scripts that are original and unperformed, by writers of any experience.


Lorna French- Hello fellow writer…

Hello fellow writer, I include below three things I’ve come to learn as a Black writer. I hope that these points will be helpful to…

Oladipo Agboluaje-A Letter to my Fellow Writer

My dear colleague, Sorry that I’m only just getting back to you. When you introduced yourself to me at the press night aftershow party and…

Hassan Abdulrazzak- Letter to exiled theatre makers

This letter is addressed to a specific group of writers and theatre makers, namely those who have arrived to the UK as refugees.   Dear…

Catherine Love- Digital workshop ‘Togetherness’

Together. It seems like a simple word. Or it did. It’s at the core of how most of us understand theatre, I’d suggest. Theatre is…
I love this play, it’s a such radical mix of ancient and modern, old traditions colliding with brand new technology. And for a piece which could sound experimental – it’s got a robot nun! – the writing is actually tender, honest and insightful. It’s a beautiful examination of faith, no matter what you believe in. Judge Russell T. Davies- ELECTRIC ROSARY
At the Exchange we have always championed new writing so we cannot wait to bring Tim Foley’s Bruntwood play about robots and nuns to the stage...This programme is about everyone finding something for themselves, it smashes together the old and the new so that we make something fresh that is reflective and relevant to our world today Bryony Shanahan, Roy Alexander Weise
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