https://www.georgedevineaward.org/about daily 0.75 2022-10-31 https://www.georgedevineaward.org/about-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-31 https://www.georgedevineaward.org/home-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b66cd656-7f7d-430f-b0c8-9d09ffa0404a/Emily_White-0405_10x8.jpg Award - Emily White for Atlantis 'I cannot express how honoured and grateful I am to receive this award after being shortlisted alongside such incredible talent, I did not expect to win and to say I feel overwhelmed is an understatement. The list of previous winners is full of writers I admire and to see my name sit alongside them is a surreal experience’. Emily trained as an actor at RADA, was part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting course, BBC Wales Writersroom and ETT’s Nationwide Voices. Her play Pavilion premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2019. She also has a television series in development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/565b4c54-ddcc-4dec-a3c1-704eab6692e4/Gareth+farr.jpg Award - Gareth Farr Gareth’s plays include Britannia Waves the Rules, winner of Bruntwood Prize 2011. The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre) and is currently taking part in the BBC Studios Writers’ Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e173b76c-60a0-4aed-905d-d7e0e81bc766/Sami.Ibrahim1__Credit+Richard+Davenport+%281%29.jpg Award - Sami Ibrahim Sami is a writer from London. Work includes two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court, 2022), Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2021), Fledgling (Radio 4, 2020), Wonder Winterland (Oxford School of Drama, 2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e340a031-0b0d-4734-8f40-ca936f2124e0/Travis+-+The+Gathering.jpg Award - Travis Alabanza Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Bristol. Their writing, performance and public discourse centres on trans and Black identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/876f9102-f3fc-4737-b3af-fe49074355cf/Lulu_1718.jpg Award - Lulu Raczka Lulu Raczka has written for theatre, screen and radio. She started writing with the company Barrel Organ, and has since written for The Gate, The Unicorn and New Diorama Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/1338c337-5db9-4a36-82db-d76263a9214c/Zodwa+Nyoni-1.jpg Award - Zodwa Nyoni Zodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born writer and director. Her plays have toured across the UK, USA, France and South Africa. She won the Channel 4 Playwright's Scheme in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b23347f5-861e-4202-8c11-a45deed23e26/Caroline+Bird+headshot+2020.jpg Award - Caroline Bird Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She’s been shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize, The Ted Hughes Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and The Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards. Her most recent poetry collection, The Air Year, won The Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/4a232d6b-6c6c-4a83-87f3-ac466a4eb7fb/Tom+Stuart+headshot.jpg Award - Tom Stuart Tom has written two other plays – ‘I Am Not Myself These Days’ (produced by Fuel) & ‘After Edward’ (Shakespeare’s Globe). His first film ‘Mainstream’ premiered at the Venice Film Festival, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2e9100da-25b6-4ede-a166-2e49bc28767a/Skellig+REH-135.jpg Award - Lisa Blair Lisa has been working as a freelance theatre director for the past ten years. Directing credits include: Napoli, Brooklyn (The Park and UK tour), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Jerusalem, Faust x2 (Watermill Theatre) Colder Than Here, Herons, The Man of Mode (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), The Country Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre), Spamalot (The English Theatre Frankfurt), Contractions (Sheffield Crucible), Love Story (Royal Academy of Music), I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough Theatre) and Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse). She was Chairwoman of Equity’s ‘Directors and Designers Committee’ from 2015-2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/0a187551-1ba6-4ee5-a910-9a6b0c919bd4/Headshot.jpg Award - Kate O’Flynn Recent Theatre credits include: The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); All of it, the end of history..., Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court), [BLANK] Donmar, Pinter One (Pinter Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of Yorks), A Taste of Honey, Port (National Theatre) Recent Screen credits include: Bridget Jones Baby, No Offence, Wanderlust and the forthcoming Landscapers (HBO/SKY). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/8fdde6c1-84af-4558-bbba-606d68b4d6d9/Luke-Barnes.jpg Award - Luke Barnes Luke Barnes is an award winning playwright. Highlights include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic), Sad Club (National Theatre), No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre, Paines Plough Roundabout with Middle Child), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Weekend Rockstars & Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child), The Saints (Nuffield Theatre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/cc2418cc-48a6-4135-8cf8-2eb2d0461e86/GetImage.aspx.jpg Award - Justin Audibert Justin is Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre. Directing for the Unicorn includes: Anansi The Spider (also at Open Air Theatre Regents Park); The Canterville Ghost; Aesop’s Fables; Beowulf and My Mother Medea. Other recent theatre directing credits include: The Child In The Snow; The Box Of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Taming Of The Shrew; Snow in Midsummer; The Jew of Malta (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth; The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b239bdd2-9e53-4bdf-92ac-3ff024443cb5/square.jpg Award - James Graham James is an award-winning writer. His plays include Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre, and West End) which was adapted for television in 2020; Ink (Almeida and Broadway), nominated for Best Play at the Tony awards 2020; Labour of Love (West End) winner of Best Comedy at the Oliviers, 2019; This House (National Theatre and West End). His other screen work includes Brexit: The Uncivil War and Coalition for Channel 4 and The Crown for Netflix. He is currently working on a musical with Jake Shears and Elton John, a new six part BBC1 drama, and a Working Title feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/39f9e55a-ecbf-4106-839b-2188ce95c543/IMG_0017.JPG Award - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti Gurpreet is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been performed across the UK and internationally and includes A Kind of People, Royal Court; Behzti, Birmingham Rep; Khandan, Royal Court/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho Theatre/Coventry Belgrade; Dead Meat, Channel 4; Everywhere and Nowhere; Stealth Films. Her Plays One is published by Oberon. https://www.georgedevineaward.org/news daily 0.75 2022-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/10400b04-9e8e-49a1-9d41-b70874b3317a/Screenshot+2022-10-13+at+16.03.25.jpg https://www.georgedevineaward.org/awards-2021 daily 0.75 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b66cd656-7f7d-430f-b0c8-9d09ffa0404a/Emily_White-0405_10x8.jpg Award 2021 - Emily White for Atlantis 'I cannot express how honoured and grateful I am to receive this award after being shortlisted alongside such incredible talent, I did not expect to win and to say I feel overwhelmed is an understatement. The list of previous winners is full of writers I admire and to see my name sit alongside them is a surreal experience’. Emily trained as an actor at RADA, was part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting course, BBC Wales Writersroom and ETT’s Nationwide Voices. Her play Pavilion premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2019. She also has a television series in development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b23347f5-861e-4202-8c11-a45deed23e26/Caroline+Bird+headshot+2020.jpg Award 2021 - Caroline Bird Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She’s been shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize, The Ted Hughes Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and The Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards. Her most recent poetry collection, The Air Year, won The Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/4a232d6b-6c6c-4a83-87f3-ac466a4eb7fb/Tom+Stuart+headshot.jpg Award 2021 - Tom Stuart Tom has written two other plays – ‘I Am Not Myself These Days’ (produced by Fuel) & ‘After Edward’ (Shakespeare’s Globe). His first film ‘Mainstream’ premiered at the Venice Film Festival, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/565b4c54-ddcc-4dec-a3c1-704eab6692e4/Gareth+farr.jpg Award 2021 - Gareth Farr Gareth’s plays include Britannia Waves the Rules, winner of Bruntwood Prize 2011. The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre) and is currently taking part in the BBC Studios Writers’ Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/876f9102-f3fc-4737-b3af-fe49074355cf/Lulu_1718.jpg Award 2021 - Lulu Raczka Lulu Raczka has written for theatre, screen and radio. She started writing with the company Barrel Organ, and has since written for The Gate, The Unicorn and New Diorama Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e340a031-0b0d-4734-8f40-ca936f2124e0/Travis+-+The+Gathering.jpg Award 2021 - Travis Alabanza Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Bristol. Their writing, performance and public discourse centres on trans and Black identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e173b76c-60a0-4aed-905d-d7e0e81bc766/Sami.Ibrahim1__Credit+Richard+Davenport+%281%29.jpg Award 2021 - Sami Ibrahim Sami is a writer from London. Work includes two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court, 2022), Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2021), Fledgling (Radio 4, 2020), Wonder Winterland (Oxford School of Drama, 2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/1338c337-5db9-4a36-82db-d76263a9214c/Zodwa+Nyoni-1.jpg Award 2021 - Zodwa Nyoni Zodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born writer and director. Her plays have toured across the UK, USA, France and South Africa. She won the Channel 4 Playwright's Scheme in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/cc2418cc-48a6-4135-8cf8-2eb2d0461e86/GetImage.aspx.jpg Award 2021 - Justin Audibert Justin is Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre. Directing for the Unicorn includes: Anansi The Spider (also at Open Air Theatre Regents Park); The Canterville Ghost; Aesop’s Fables; Beowulf and My Mother Medea. Other recent theatre directing credits include: The Child In The Snow; The Box Of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Taming Of The Shrew; Snow in Midsummer; The Jew of Malta (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth; The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/8fdde6c1-84af-4558-bbba-606d68b4d6d9/Luke-Barnes.jpg Award 2021 - Luke Barnes Luke Barnes is an award winning playwright. Highlights include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic), Sad Club (National Theatre), No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre, Paines Plough Roundabout with Middle Child), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Weekend Rockstars & Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child), The Saints (Nuffield Theatre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/39f9e55a-ecbf-4106-839b-2188ce95c543/IMG_0017.JPG Award 2021 - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti Gurpreet is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been performed across the UK and internationally and includes A Kind of People, Royal Court; Behzti, Birmingham Rep; Khandan, Royal Court/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho Theatre/Coventry Belgrade; Dead Meat, Channel 4; Everywhere and Nowhere; Stealth Films. Her Plays One is published by Oberon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2e9100da-25b6-4ede-a166-2e49bc28767a/Skellig+REH-135.jpg Award 2021 - Lisa Blair Lisa has been working as a freelance theatre director for the past ten years. Directing credits include: Napoli, Brooklyn (The Park and UK tour), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Jerusalem, Faust x2 (Watermill Theatre) Colder Than Here, Herons, The Man of Mode (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), The Country Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre), Spamalot (The English Theatre Frankfurt), Contractions (Sheffield Crucible), Love Story (Royal Academy of Music), I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough Theatre) and Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse). She was Chairwoman of Equity’s ‘Directors and Designers Committee’ from 2015-2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b239bdd2-9e53-4bdf-92ac-3ff024443cb5/square.jpg Award 2021 - James Graham James is an award-winning writer. His plays include Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre, and West End) which was adapted for television in 2020; Ink (Almeida and Broadway), nominated for Best Play at the Tony awards 2020; Labour of Love (West End) winner of Best Comedy at the Oliviers, 2019; This House (National Theatre and West End). His other screen work includes Brexit: The Uncivil War and Coalition for Channel 4 and The Crown for Netflix. He is currently working on a musical with Jake Shears and Elton John, a new six part BBC1 drama, and a Working Title feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/0a187551-1ba6-4ee5-a910-9a6b0c919bd4/Headshot.jpg Award 2021 - Kate O’Flynn Recent Theatre credits include: The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); All of it, the end of history..., Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court), [BLANK] Donmar, Pinter One (Pinter Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of Yorks), A Taste of Honey, Port (National Theatre) Recent Screen credits include: Bridget Jones Baby, No Offence, Wanderlust and the forthcoming Landscapers (HBO/SKY). https://www.georgedevineaward.org/award-2022 daily 0.75 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/a859d95d-7557-43c1-94f7-4d43c06b2f40/Tyrell+Williams.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e69e6e91-f818-49e9-a8a4-63159dc0a34e/Francesca+Martinez.jpg Award 2022 - FRANCESCA MARTINEZ Francesca Martinez is an award-winning wobbly comedian, actress and writer. Her debut play, 'All of Us', was directed by Ian Rickson, and opened at the National Theatre this summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/634f8e70-34f1-4707-9b69-14bbee2adf4a/Mojisola+Adebayo+credit+Bettina+Adela.jpg Award 2022 - MOJISOLA ADEBAYO Mojisola Adebayo’s plays include Moj of the Antarctic, Muhammad Ali and Me, I Stand Corrected, The Interrogation of Sandra Bland, Wind / Rush Generation(s) and Nothello. Family Tree won the 2021 Alfred Fagon Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/5681c056-7de7-4235-a6f4-bca997fd5046/Nathaniel+Brimmer-Beller%2C+April+2021.jpg Award 2022 - NATHANIEL BRIMMER-BELLER Nathaniel is a dual-national, mixed-race and Jewish playwright and director. His plays have been performed at the Almeida, the Old Red Lion, and six times at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/0c766698-fa20-42dc-a5d7-cf98ab4560f1/Karim+Kahn.jpg Award 2022 - KARIM KHAN NFTS Screenwriting graduate and Pillars Artist Fellow, Karim Khan wrote on All Creatures, and is working on several BBC shows. His sell-out, Fringe-First winning ‘Brown Boys Swim’ premiered at Edinburgh before transferring to Soho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/389efa5b-76b3-4246-a1f9-6456d49da517/Iman+Qureshi+-+Credit+Bessell+Photography.jpg Award 2022 - IMAN QURESHI Iman is a writer for stage and screen. Her work includes The Funeral Director (Papatango/ETT) and The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre/Damsel). She is currently working on several TV and theatre commissions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/50f29de7-b0fe-4de9-a8c9-410f6e4ec1aa/babirye+bukilwa+-+credit+Jennie+Scott.jpg Award 2022 - babirye bukilwa babirye is an actor, model, poet and writer for theatre and television. They have been shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and the Alfred Fagon Award. Their work seeks to amplify the Black British working-class Queer experience, and explores how mental health impacts relationships and behaviour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f349c997-71eb-47b1-930e-6ec18a241d00/Joel+Tan+headshot+low.jpg Award 2022 - JOEL TAN Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright based between London and Singapore. Recent work includes THE BUTTERFLY LOVERS (Victorian Opera/Wildrice, 2022), NO PARTICULAR ORDER (Ellandar Productions/Theatre 503) and INSIDE/OUTSIDE (Orange Tree Theatre, 2021). Upcoming work includes commissions with the Royal Court, the Almeida, and Headlong Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2bd8ea94-2e69-4e78-a19b-945b889de5ba/Ruby+Thomas.jpg Award 2022 - RUBY THOMAS Ruby is a writer and actor. Plays include: EITHER (2019) and THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (2022) for Hampstead Theatre. She is currently writing theatre and TV for the BBC and Starz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/228055b8-4b19-4c1a-924e-0aef741c35be/JenTangRRHighRes-21.jpg Award 2022 - JENNIFER TANG Jennifer is a stage director and theatremaker, specialising in directing new writing and making work that fuses theatre with music. She is the 2020-2022 Genesis Fellow and Associate Director at the Young Vic theatre in London and was recently listed in the ELLE 2020 hotlist. For more information go to jennifertang.co.uk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/8475bcb5-7854-455c-b052-dc61e43fd106/image002+Mike+Bartlett.jpg Award 2022 - MIKE BARTLETT Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. Recent theatre credits include Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); The 47th (The Old Vic); Cock (The Ambassadors’ Theatre/Royal Court); Mrs Delgado (Arts at the Old Fire Station/Theatre Royal Bath/Oxford Playhouse); Albion (Almeida) and for screen, Life (Drama Republic / BBC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d3955a91-d142-426c-a5f2-ae2080bae6e5/Erica+Whyman+2022+-+approved+headshot.jpg Award 2022 - ERICA WHYMAN Erica is Acting Artistic Director of the RSC and Chair of Theatre 503. Previously, she was Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Northern Stage, after stints as AD of The Gate and Southwark Playhouse. She is a celebrated theatre director and experienced dramaturg credited with revitalising new work at RSC, including most recently ‘My Neighbour Totoro’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b4d841ee-9449-43db-852b-f29f1bbd7397/Juliet+Gilkes+Romero+2.jpg Award 2022 - JULIET GILKES ROMERO Juliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning playwright. She is currently Writer in Residence at the National Theatre’s New Work Department. Highlights include The Whip (RSC) winner Alfred Fagon Best Play 2020. Soon Gone; A Windrush Chronicle co-produced by BBC and Douglas Road Productions (2019). At The Gates of Gaza (Birmingham Rep) WGGB Best Play 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d5495786-90db-4afb-b944-1656472cff61/April+de+Angelis+-+credit+Johan+Persson.jpg Award 2022 - APRIL DE ANGELIS April De Angelis is an acclaimed playwright who has worked in stage, radio and television. Her work ranges from the domestic to the epic and is both brilliantly funny and dark and incisive. April’s plays are distinguished by their robust vivacity. Her newest play KERRY JACKSON will premiere at the National Theatre in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/08903ccc-409f-4199-9738-6147d4eb876f/image0+Leah+Harvey.jpg Award 2022 - LEAH HARVEY Leah Harvey is an actor who grew up in Newham. They trained at LAMDA, graduating in 2016. Since then, Leah has appeared in new writing projects such as "Emilia" at the Globe theatre, "Small Island" at The Royal National Theatre, among others. Leah can often be found longboarding around their local park https://www.georgedevineaward.org/award-2023 daily 0.75 2023-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/e756a5e2-9518-4a63-9c64-0b71fb1a4d78/Tife+Kusoro+%28photo+by+Andy+McCredie%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2d52cb03-dc47-44e7-a59c-0a168b883f64/Sami+Ibrahim.jpg Award 2023 - SAMI IBRAHIM Sami is a playwright from London. Credits include A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Paines Plough / Gate Theatre); two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court), Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe / Seattle Rep), 50 Berkeley Square (Radio 4). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/176722cb-2d3b-4e4d-b525-d8ebf204fe31/GEORGIA+BRUCE+Headshot.jpg Award 2023 - GEORGIA BRUCE Georgia Bruce is a writer and actor from London. Time, Like the Sea was their debut play. They are currently developing work at Theatre503 and at the Almeida Theatre as part of the Genesis New Writers Programme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/216b5a72-f12a-409c-bc6c-3742b38859e1/Shahid+Iqbal+Khan+%28photo+by+Tom+Barker+Photography%29.jpg Award 2023 - SHAHID IQBAL KHAN Shahid Iqbal Khan’s work includes: Love Across The Ages (BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Drama) and 10 Nights (Bush Theatre). He is on the Almeida Theatre Genesis New Writers Programme and is also a recipient of the National Theatre’s Peter Shaffer commission with the Octagon Theatre, Bolton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/be076d04-98e2-4341-a1ab-c24feb946b81/Ava+Pickett+Headshot.jpg Award 2023 - AVA PICKETT / SPECIAL MENTION Ava Pickett's work is for Stage and Screen. She was staff writer on Hulu's The Great (series 3), has written for Sky's Brassic and is currently writing on Lisa McGee's new comedy thriller for Channel 4. She was part of the Almeida Genesis Emerging Playwright's programme for 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/5cf774c4-4e1f-4fb1-a84f-c9a5fec9259f/Bea+Roberts+headshot.jpg Award 2023 - BEA ROBERTS Bea Roberts is a multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter from Devon. Plays include And Then Come The Nightjars, Infinity Pool and Ivy Tiller; Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer for the RSC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/5fc8a1bb-e92f-4506-96a6-7697b7fac31b/Cordelia+Lynn+%28photo+by+Helen+Murray%29.jpg Award 2023 - CORDELIA LYNN Cordelia received the Berwin Lee Award 2020 and the Pinter Commission 2017. Like Flesh, her opera with Sivan Eldar, won the Fedora Opera Prize 2021. She is currently on attachment at the National Theatre, and under commission to Headlong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/93e67a28-2955-45e1-ad39-3b344cfb1b69/Somebody+Jones.jpg Award 2023 - SOMEBODY JONES Somebody Jones is a playwright and dramaturg, whose work celebrates and champions Black culture. In 2023, she won the Tony Craze Award for her play, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/c02b6db4-8d0d-47cb-b9f0-4fdf2572bc24/Sam+Ward+Headshot.jpg Award 2023 - SAM WARD Sam Ward is a playwright and founder of theatre company YESYESNONO. In 2022 he was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and is currently under commission to the Soho Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/cec18a66-f42a-41cc-8023-6b44002085f3/Nick+Payne.jpg Award 2023 - NICK PAYNE Nick is a playwright and screenwriter. His theatre work has played in London’s West End and Broadway garnering sell out audiences and multiple awards. His film We Live in Time, directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh will be released in 2024. He is working on film, television and theatre projects in the UK and US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d4291436-6fb2-4ea3-88c9-525e5e124bef/Roxana+Silbert.jpg Award 2023 - ROXANA SILBERT Roxana Silbert directs for stage, screen and audio. She works mainly on original drama. She is currently Artistic Associate at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Previously, she has held the posts of Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre; Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Artistic Director of Paines Plough Theatre Company; Literary Director at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Associate Director of the Royal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/fbb0c9ff-ed3a-4e7a-b9d4-6a64d80db073/Johnny+Flynn+-+Photocredit+Autumn+De+Wilde.jpg Award 2023 - JOHNNY FLYNN Johnny is a musician, playwright, composer and actor. New writing has been central to his work in theatre with credits including The Low Road, The Heretic and the multi award-winning original productions of Jerusalem and Hangmen (all Royal Court). He appeared as Richard Burton in Sam Mendes’ critically-acclaimed production of The Motive and the Cue which opens in the West End this Winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/0f5f3a4e-f11e-4624-a0db-beffca62df15/Justin+Audibert.jpg Award 2023 - JUSTIN AUDIBERT Justin is the Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre. Recent directing credits include: Anansi The Spider; The Canterville Ghost; Aesop’s Fables; Beowulf and My Mother Medea (Unicorn Theatre); The Child In The Snow (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Box of Delights; The Taming Of The Shrew; Snow in Midsummer; The Jew of Malta (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth; The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/80535df9-599b-4d1b-ac54-fa1b03ca603a/Nimmo+Ismail+-+photo+by+Johan+Personn.jpg Award 2023 - NIMMO ISMAIL Nimmo is a theatre director who specialises in new work and co-creation. She is Sky Arts Artistic Associate at Theatre Royal Stratford East 2022/2023 and was named one of The Stage 25 in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/9388d9dd-b206-499f-8dc1-a1e73a34b516/Rebekah+Murrell.jpg Award 2023 - REBEKAH MURRELL Rebekah is an actor and director from London. She is passionate about new writing, and has appeared in the premieres of celebrated contemporary plays including Nine Night (National Theatre), Whitewash (Soho), Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp and Scenes with Girls (Royal Court). She directed Carnival epic J’Ouvert at Theatre 503 which transferred to the West End in 2021. https://www.georgedevineaward.org/award-2025 daily 1.0 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d0325dd9-738c-4a2a-b5cf-1ffb9f5cdb05/Martha+Loader.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/07dace42-a376-4e97-81e4-8b14666e5b57/YJ.png Award 2025 - YASMIN JOSEPH Yasmin Joseph is a London based writer for stage and screen. Her Debut play J’ouvert (Theatre503, Harold Pinter) won the James Tait Black Prize for Drama, she was also nominated for the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award and the Stage Debut Awards for Best Creative West End Debut. On Screen Yasmin has written for shows with Disney+, Apple, Netflix and has various original projects in development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/6a6b48c3-cc80-4f5b-b10a-9cc52fdd72fa/Isla+van+Tricht.jpg Award 2025 - ISLA VAN TRICHT Isla van Tricht is a playwright and screenwriter. Her recent theatre work includes THE SEX ED MUSICAL (UK schools tour) and MONEY (co-production of Southwark Playhouse and represent. Theatre). Her plays have been longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize (2017) and the Verity Bargate Award (2017, 2024). She currently has four original TV and two feature film projects in development in the UK Europe and the US. Isla is also a trained youth worker and sex educator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d0325dd9-738c-4a2a-b5cf-1ffb9f5cdb05/Martha+Loader.jpeg Award 2025 - MARTHA LOADER Martha is an award-winning writer, actor and producer. Her work has been performed across the UK and internationally. She won the Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, 2022. She is currently working on commissions with the Almeida Theatre, Mercury Theatre (National Theatre Peter Shaffer Commission 2025) and Menagerie Theatre Company, and recently undertook the prestigious 4Screenwriting and BBC Voices programmes. She was nominated at The Stage Debut Awards 2024 for her play Bindweed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/53be588d-7569-41dd-b441-fac8237a8648/ASMARA+%28Asmara+Gabrielle%29.jpg Award 2025 - ASMARA GABRIELLE Asmara is a British-Pakistani, working class actress and writer from east London - having taken the plunge into both after a perfectly stable career (in media). Her first venture into screenwriting won her a place on BBC Writersroom and BBC New Talent Hotlist. While a partial draft of her first venture into playwriting made the final rounds of both Papatango and Women's Prize for Playwriting. Asmara writes from truth, valuing authenticity and honesty above all else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f179c40f-44ca-45a3-8bfb-86f9eb258868/Martina+Laird.jpg Award 2025 - MARTINA LAIRD As an actor, Martina’s stage work includes credits at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and Donmar Warehouse. She has most recently been seen on ITV’s Unforgotten, Sky’s Dreamland and the Disney live animation of The Little Mermaid. Her debut play Driftwood premieres at the Royal Shakespeare Company in April 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/1372a95b-056f-4d73-aab9-3b3b06f5867f/Sabrina+Mahfouz.jpeg Award 2025 - SABRINA MAHFOUZ Sabrina Mahfouz is a playwright, screenwriter, and poet. She was a writer and producer on Netflix’s upcoming Will Ferrell comedy series, GOLF, a writer/producer on BEEF S2 for A24/Netflix, and she wrote and co-produced on Ramy Youssef's series #1 Happy Family USA for A24/Amazon. Sabrina wrote and performed the hit show A History of Water in the Middle East at the Royal Court. She is developing TV and theatre projects in the UK and US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/dcc70444-eb0a-4caf-9371-67e44764a3c6/Ed+Madden.jpg Award 2025 - ED MADDEN Ed is a director and dramaturg, working primarily with new writing. His work has included the premieres of plays by Jack Bradfield, Sophia Chetin-Leuner, Marek Horn, and Sam Steiner. He is currently Associate Dramaturg at the National Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/a85a9311-11e5-4e06-8454-bdeee0abe586/Tanika+Gupta+Headshot.jpg Award 2025 - TANIKA GUPTA Over the past 20 years, Tanika has written over 20 stage plays for major theatres across the UK as well as writing several original television dramas for the BBC and contributing scripts for some of the BBC's longest running series. Her recent work for the stage includes A TUPPERWARE OF ASHES (National Theatre), LIONS AND TIGERS (Shakespeare’s Globe - Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama), and THE EMPRESS (RSC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/c52e5fd4-6763-4f3a-87b3-1b78d55b995e/Georgia+Pritchett+headshot+2021.jpg Award 2025 - GEORGIA PRITCHETT Georgia Pritchett is a multi-award-winning writer. She was the showrunner on Apple TV’s The Shrink Next Door, a writer and co-executive producer on all seasons of HBO’s Succession and was the co-executive producer and writer on the multi-Emmy award winning HBO comedy Veep. Her other TV credits include a plethora of much-loved British comedy shows, including for Miranda Hart & Tracey Ullman. She is co-writing Practical Magic 2, starring Sandra Bullock, releasing 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/ac20c91b-44ab-4bae-899c-a8da1f7ce6f5/big-Barney-Norris_photo-by-Robert-Day_Standard.jpg Award 2025 - BARNEY NORRIS Barney’s work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics’ Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors and the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards and been translated into nine languages. His plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Wellspring, We Started to Sing, The Band Back Together and adaptations of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Second Best by David Foenkinos. Novels include Undercurrent and Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/cdcef88d-3e28-4d92-a6b5-d36e04d2ef2d/Ria+Zmitrowicz.jpg Award 2025 - RIA ZMITROWICZ Ria has performed in new plays by both established and emerging playwrights in some of the country’s leading new writing venues. Theatre credits include The Glow, Gundog, Bad Roads, X (Royal Court); The Doctor, Three Sisters, Dance Nation (Almeida); The Welkin (National). Screen credits include Sherwood, Three Girls (BBC); The Power (Amazon). https://www.georgedevineaward.org/award-2024-1-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d30401a9-5ab2-4635-adf7-03811a001ac0/Benjamin+Kuffuor+4.3.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/5924cfd5-e667-4d7b-8f78-039c1611f9b4/Temi+Majekodunmi+%28Photo+credit+-+Helen+Murray%29+4.3.JPG Award 2024 - TEMI MAJEKODUNMI / SPECIAL MENTION Temi, a graduate of East15 Acting School, debuted with The Life of Olu at Soho Theatre's Rising Festival 2022. His second play, Thicker Than Water, was long-listed for the Alfred Fagon: Mustapha Matura Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Adopt A Playwright Award. His third play, Positive, was shortlisted for the 2023 Alfred Fagon Award and the 2024 New Diorama Edinburgh Untapped Award. Writing groups include Kiln, Almeida, Soho, Bush, The London Library, and The Royal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2c6bf831-cc0d-4446-b87d-a1c534552860/Stella+Green+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - STELLA GREEN Stella Green is a writer and theatre maker, most recently working with New Diorama and Orange Tree Theatre. Her debut play was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Stella is currently a member of the Royal Court Writer’s Group 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/14ed1c37-c142-462a-b0de-d87e3e988f10/Christopher+Adams+%28Photo+credit+-+Joanne+Williams%29+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - CHRISTOPHER ADAMS Christopher Adams is a British-American playwright and screenwriter. Plays include Tumulus (Soho Theatre), Antigone (Actors of Dionysus), and Finding Mr Hart (BeingHuman Festival). His screen adaptation of the 1950s queer novel Finistère is in development with Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f7d13f13-aed7-4056-9501-79b238b91c2a/Isabella+Waldron+%28Photo+credit+-+Alexa+Laur%29+4.3.png Award 2024 - ISABELLA WALDRON Isabella is an Oregon-born, London-based writer. Her play how to build a wax figure (Assembly/November Theatre) premiered at Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. Plays Jawbone, Things I Never Told The Stars & Chatter were selected as semi-finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival. She is currently under commission with Nottingham Playhouse and is a part of Southwark Theatre's 2024 Forge Residency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/23bf0aab-af5c-4f26-a054-7db2d4d33746/Mark+Gatiss+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - MARK GATISS Mark is an award-winning writer, actor and director. He is best known as a member of The League of Gentlemen and as the co-creator of Dracula and Sherlock. He wrote and appeared in the modern revival of Doctor Who and has written and directed several BBC ghost stories. He recently directed The Unfriend for Chichester Theatre, which transferred twice to the West End, and received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Motive and the Cue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/af1f57dc-5f42-41bb-abb0-7a8ab42a5a5c/Jon+Brittain+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - JON BRITTAIN Jon is a double Olivier Award-winning writer and director. Theatre credits include Rotterdam, Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder!, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) and Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. Directing credits include shows for Tom Allen, John Kearns, Janine Harouni, Tom Rosenthal and the original stage production of Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer. TV credits include The Amazing World of Gumball, The Crown and The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b3d8ad83-c4f3-4052-930b-07afb81cd2f8/THERESA+IKOKO+4.3.jpeg Award 2024 - THERESA IKOKO Theresa Ikoko's debut film, ROCKS, released in 2020, garnered 7 BAFTA nominations, including Best Original Screenplay and Best British Film. Theresa’s show GRIME KIDS aired on BBC Three in 2023, and her next series, WAHALA, will shoot for BBC One in 2024. She won the George Devine Award and Alfred Fagon Award for her debut play GIRLS, and is currently commissioned by the National Theatre and Royal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2c7bb3a6-73f4-48ae-a838-3be045dfdddd/Vinay+Patel+Headshot+Small+%28c%29+Helen+Murray+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - VINAY PATEL Vinay is a scriptwriter and Associate Playwright at the Royal Court. For television, his work includes the BAFTA-winning Murdered By My Father as well as episodes of Good Karma Hospital, Doctor Who and One Day. For theatre, he has written a romantic epic (An Adventure) for the Bush Theatre, an office satire about language and offence (Sticks & Stones) for Paines Plough and a South Asian sci-fi adaptation of The Cherry Orchard for the Yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f833c280-9c6e-4234-a803-93b7cb7b76ac/Diana+Nneka+Atuona+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - DIANA NNEKA ATUONA Diana Nneka Atuona is a Nigerian-British playwright from Peckham. Her first play Liberian Girl won the Alfred Fagon Award (2013) and opened at the Royal Court Theatre (2015). Atuona was also nominated for the Evening Standard Award (Most Promising Playwright) and the Writer's Guild award (Best New Play). Her last play, Trouble in Butetown, won the George Devine Award (2020) and premiered at London’s Donmar Warehouse (2023). Currently, she is developing projects for TV and film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/1731b1f2-a800-43b1-872c-c10c525373af/Abi+Morgan+Headshot+4.3.jpg Award 2024 - ABI MORGAN Abi Morgan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, Tender, Fugee, 27, Love Song and The Mistress Contract. Television includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami – The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River, The Split, Eric. Film credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, Suffragette. Her first book, This Is Not A Pity Memoir, is a Sunday Times Bestseller. https://www.georgedevineaward.org/award-2024-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/d30401a9-5ab2-4635-adf7-03811a001ac0/Benjamin+Kuffuor+4.3.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/14ed1c37-c142-462a-b0de-d87e3e988f10/Christopher+Adams+%28Photo+credit+-+Joanne+Williams%29+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - CHRISTOPHER ADAMS Christopher Adams is a British-American playwright and screenwriter. Plays include Tumulus (Soho Theatre), Antigone (Actors of Dionysus), and Finding Mr Hart (BeingHuman Festival). His screen adaptation of the 1950s queer novel Finistère is in development with Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/5924cfd5-e667-4d7b-8f78-039c1611f9b4/Temi+Majekodunmi+%28Photo+credit+-+Helen+Murray%29+4.3.JPG Award 2024 (Copy) - TEMI MAJEKODUNMI / SPECIAL MENTION Temi, a graduate of East15 Acting School, debuted with The Life of Olu at Soho Theatre's Rising Festival 2022. His second play, Thicker Than Water, was long-listed for the Alfred Fagon: Mustapha Matura Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Adopt A Playwright Award. His third play, Positive, was shortlisted for the 2023 Alfred Fagon Award and the 2024 New Diorama Edinburgh Untapped Award. Writing groups include Kiln, Almeida, Soho, Bush, The London Library, and The Royal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2c6bf831-cc0d-4446-b87d-a1c534552860/Stella+Green+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - STELLA GREEN Stella Green is a writer and theatre maker, most recently working with New Diorama and Orange Tree Theatre. Her debut play was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Stella is currently a member of the Royal Court Writer’s Group 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f7d13f13-aed7-4056-9501-79b238b91c2a/Isabella+Waldron+%28Photo+credit+-+Alexa+Laur%29+4.3.png Award 2024 (Copy) - ISABELLA WALDRON Isabella is an Oregon-born, London-based writer. Her play how to build a wax figure (Assembly/November Theatre) premiered at Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. Plays Jawbone, Things I Never Told The Stars & Chatter were selected as semi-finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival. She is currently under commission with Nottingham Playhouse and is a part of Southwark Theatre's 2024 Forge Residency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/b3d8ad83-c4f3-4052-930b-07afb81cd2f8/THERESA+IKOKO+4.3.jpeg Award 2024 (Copy) - THERESA IKOKO Theresa Ikoko's debut film, ROCKS, released in 2020, garnered 7 BAFTA nominations, including Best Original Screenplay and Best British Film. Theresa’s show GRIME KIDS aired on BBC Three in 2023, and her next series, WAHALA, will shoot for BBC One in 2024. She won the George Devine Award and Alfred Fagon Award for her debut play GIRLS, and is currently commissioned by the National Theatre and Royal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/1731b1f2-a800-43b1-872c-c10c525373af/Abi+Morgan+Headshot+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - ABI MORGAN Abi Morgan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, Tender, Fugee, 27, Love Song and The Mistress Contract. Television includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami – The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River, The Split, Eric. Film credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, Suffragette. Her first book, This Is Not A Pity Memoir, is a Sunday Times Bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/f833c280-9c6e-4234-a803-93b7cb7b76ac/Diana+Nneka+Atuona+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - DIANA NNEKA ATUONA Diana Nneka Atuona is a Nigerian-British playwright from Peckham. Her first play Liberian Girl won the Alfred Fagon Award (2013) and opened at the Royal Court Theatre (2015). Atuona was also nominated for the Evening Standard Award (Most Promising Playwright) and the Writer's Guild award (Best New Play). Her last play, Trouble in Butetown, won the George Devine Award (2020) and premiered at London’s Donmar Warehouse (2023). Currently, she is developing projects for TV and film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/23bf0aab-af5c-4f26-a054-7db2d4d33746/Mark+Gatiss+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - MARK GATISS Mark is an award-winning writer, actor and director. He is best known as a member of The League of Gentlemen and as the co-creator of Dracula and Sherlock. He wrote and appeared in the modern revival of Doctor Who and has written and directed several BBC ghost stories. He recently directed The Unfriend for Chichester Theatre, which transferred twice to the West End, and received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Motive and the Cue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/2c7bb3a6-73f4-48ae-a838-3be045dfdddd/Vinay+Patel+Headshot+Small+%28c%29+Helen+Murray+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - VINAY PATEL Vinay is a scriptwriter and Associate Playwright at the Royal Court. For television, his work includes the BAFTA-winning Murdered By My Father as well as episodes of Good Karma Hospital, Doctor Who and One Day. For theatre, he has written a romantic epic (An Adventure) for the Bush Theatre, an office satire about language and offence (Sticks & Stones) for Paines Plough and a South Asian sci-fi adaptation of The Cherry Orchard for the Yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9100cb0dbda3c3b03cfccd/af1f57dc-5f42-41bb-abb0-7a8ab42a5a5c/Jon+Brittain+4.3.jpg Award 2024 (Copy) - JON BRITTAIN Jon is a double Olivier Award-winning writer and director. Theatre credits include Rotterdam, Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder!, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) and Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. Directing credits include shows for Tom Allen, John Kearns, Janine Harouni, Tom Rosenthal and the original stage production of Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer. 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