Entering - The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

Entering: Stage 1

Pseudonym*
This can be anything you like, just nothing like your real name. It helps keep every writer anonymous so all plays can be judged equally.
Contact email*
Re-enter email*

You may want to open a new email account to disguise your real name, but please remember to check it regularly if you do for any updates about your play.
Telephone number*
Secondary number
Address*
Postcode*
Country*
International Code
Unfortunately, we can only accept entries from outside the United Kingdom if that have a code from one of our International Partners.

Here are the prize rules, please make sure you’ve read these and agree to them at the bottom.

Remember your submission MUST follow the below guidelines. Any invalid submissions will not be considered for the Bruntwood Prize.
1. The Bruntwood Prize Award, Judges Award and Original New Voice Award are open to anyone residing in the UK or Republic of Ireland or British Overseas Territory or with a British Forces Post Office address.
2. The Bruntwood Prize International Award is open to international playwrights invited to anonymously apply via our named international partners; The BANFF Centre in Canada, Belvoir Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia and Berkeley Rep and Playwrights Horizons in the USA. We are afraid that no other international submissions can be considered at this time.
3. The Original New Voice Award will be awarded to a playwright who self declares on submission they have not had full-length play professionally produced for 12 performances or more in a professional venue. All scripts entered by these playwrights are also eligible for the Bruntwood Prize, and Judges Award.
4. Entrants must be sixteen or over. There is no upper age limit.
5. Scripts must be submitted anonymously under a pseudonym with no other identifying information on the script
6. We can only accept one entry per person.
7. The play must be an original, unperformed and unproduced piece of work.
8. The play must be an hour long or more in playing time.
9. We do not accept translations, adaptations of other pieces of work, musicals or pantomimes. We also do not accept plays written exclusively for younger audiences.
10. The entrant must exclusively own and control all copyright and all other related rights to the submitted script.
11. 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.
* 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 address. A full list of British Overseas Territories can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories

∞ 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.

Should you need to get in touch or ask us any questions, please email bruntwood.prize@royalexchange.co.uk
Prize rules*
- I have read and agree to the Bruntwood Prize Rules

Upload your play

Please enter the title of your play and upload it below.
- ONLY the play title should appear on the title page. Please do not include any potentially identifying information, including your pseudonym.
- Your real name, personal details or any contact information should appear NOWHERE in the document. If any identifying information is included in the document your entry will be disqualified.
- The document doesn’t have to be saved with a particular title.
- Accepted file types are PDF, RTF, DOC and DOCX.
- The maximum upload size is 20MB. Please be patient when uploading large files - it may take several minutes.
Once you’ve browsed for the play within your files, click next below.
Play title*
File*
Accepted file types: pdf, rtf, doc, docx.
Have you had a full-length play professionally produced for 12 performances or more in a professional venue/s?*
- Yes
- No
This question will let us identify writers eligible for The Original New Voice Award.
We define a professional production via the following criteria;
- Have tickets been sold to a paying audience?
- Have you been paid for the play or actors and other collaborators have been paid for their work?
- Has the production received promotion and marketing to sell tickets?
- Was a professional producer attached to the production?
- If you answer no to these questions the production will be defined as amateur.

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Pseudonym - {Pseudonym:1}
Contact email - {Contact email:2}
Telephone number - {Telephone number:4}
Secondary number - {Secondary number:5}
Address -
{Address:6}
Postcode - {Postcode:7}
Play title - {Play title:13}
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Entering: Stage 1

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