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From 1002 submissions, we’re thrilled to present our Final Five plays.
BELLRINGERS by Daisy Hall
LUMIN by Emma Gibson
INTELLIGENCE by Sarah Grochala
THE ANGELS WERE WORMS by Shaan Sahota
KING TROLL (THE FAWN) by Sonali Bhattacharyya
The £12,000 prize will be awarded on 19th Jan
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To celebrate the announcement of our 7 finalists yesterday, we’re running our first ever giveaway with the publishing partners of the Prize,
@ConcordUKShows
. To be in with a chance of winning these 7 incredible plays by women, simply like and retweet this tweet!
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We're also delighted to say today that submissions will open for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021 on Wednesday 7th April, with full information and details on how to enter your play available on that date. 😁
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We are honoured and delighted to present the seven Finalist writers and their plays for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020.
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Today we are delighted to announce the 2021 longlist for the
#WomensPrizeforPlaywriting
. These 62 plays were selected by our reading team on the basis of their ambition, imagination, scope, and craft.
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We’re delighted to share the names of our longlisted writers with you, selected by our expert team of readers from 1,169 submissions.
We’re grateful to all writers who sent us their plays - we were overwhelmed by their quality and brilliance.
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After much deliberation, our judges decided to award the inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting to two finalists. Both will receive the £12,000 prize. Congratulations to Ahlam and
@AmyTrigg
for their plays ‘YOU BURY ME’ and ‘REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME’.
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With the writers’ consent, we will be compiling profiles of all the longlisted plays from this year and cataloguing them on the Women’s Prize website to act as a resource for programmers, producers, directors and other creatives.
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We're thrilled to announce that submissions for the 2023 Women's Prize for Playwriting will open on Monday 16th January. Submissions will be open for four months, closing on Monday 17th April.
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There are now only two weeks to go until submissions close for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
Two reminders:
- scripts and covering letters do NOT need to be submitted anonymously
- you can submit more than one play if you wish.
✍️✍️✍️
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Today, we're so happy to announce the Finalist plays for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021. These 8 extraordinary, very different plays will be considered by our judging panel next week. Congratulations!
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Good morning! Submissions for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting open one week from today, on Monday 11 November. From that day details of how to submit your script, full terms and conditions, guidelines, and FAQs for the Prize will be available on the website. 📝
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We are extremely excited to announce that we will be releasing the names of the longlisted writers for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 tomorrow afternoon.
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Today we are delighted to announce that submissions are officially open for the 2021 Women's Prize for Playwriting.
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A message re:
#ImposterSyndrome
to those writing today:
You are not an imposter. You are a writer. We founded this prize to form a community, to celebrate its work, & to raise it up for greater recognition. Send us your play & send it proudly. We will read it with equal pride.
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And we are live! 🎉
Welcome to the official Twitter account for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020.
Submissions open on 11 November!
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Submissions for the 2023 Women's Prize for Playwriting are now OPEN! Submit your full-length play before 5pm on Monday 17th April for the opportunity to win £12,000 and a production of your play. Good luck!
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Submissions to The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021 close 3 weeks today, on Monday 12 July at 5pm. We accept scripts at *any stage* of development and you can tell us where you're at with them in your cover letter.
@painesplough
@forty_fivenorth
@ConcordUKShows
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We are delighted to announce the 35 shortlisted plays for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
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Sunday morning.
Finish that play.
Hit send.
It doesn't have to be perfect or even a final draft. Tell us about where you're at with it in your cover letter.
submissions
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk
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Hello! After a period of adjustment to our new circumstances, we are pleased to be able to give you an update today about The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020.
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We are delighted to say that submissions to The Women’s Prize for Playwriting will open at 5pm tomorrow (Monday 11 November). Full prize guidelines, terms and conditions and FAQs will also be available from 5pm. Submissions will close on Monday 2 March.
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It's here! After nearly 5 months of reading, we're thrilled to publish the shortlist of 30 plays (by 31 writers!) for
#TheWomensPrizeforPlaywriting
2021. Congratulations to our shortlisted writers and thank you to all who submitted to the prize this year.
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...blackbird hour by
@babiryebukilwa
. A call to arms to loving oneself when love has evaporated from the body.
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Congratulations to our 2023 winner👏
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PARADISE STREET by
@Chino100percent
. A story that takes in the shifts of both attitudes and violence, in a new folklore style, confounding any ideas of Black British presence, and follows the hopes, dreams, and fears of generations of Black women starting with a girl called Gabe.
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This years winner is CONSUMED by Karis Kelly.
Four generations of Northern Irish Women: a house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet.
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RED SKY AT NIGHT by
@EevLee
. Red Sky at Night is about living as an immigrant in London, capitalism, aliens, and other things that are probably going to kill us.
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Following our longlist announcement last week, we’re very happy to say that a shortlist of approximately 30 plays will be released next Tuesday afternoon (11th August). This will be followed by a list of up to 8 ‘finalists’ in the week commencing 17th August. Stay tuned!
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We are delighted to hear the news that our Chair of Judges, Indhu Rubasingham, has been appointed as the next Director of the National Theatre: the first woman to take on the role.
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We're delighted to present the Longlist for the 2023 Women's Prize for Playwriting: 50 exceptional scripts which embody our mission to showcase vivid, expansive and exquisitely crafted new plays by female and non-binary writers in the UK and Ireland.
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Submissions to The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 are now closed. Thank you for each and every one of your plays.
Now it’s our turn to do the hard work (and we can’t wait).
@painesplough
@SFP_London
@EllieKeelProd
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REASONS YOU SHOULD(N'T) LOVE ME by
@AmyTrigg
.
Juno was born with Spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers, love, loneliness and the feeling of being an unfinished project.
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We're very happy & excited to say that the awards ceremony for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 will take place one week from today, at 7pm on Tuesday 1st December. The ceremony will be online & is open to all. Do join us to celebrate all our finalist and winning writers.
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LITTLE SISTER by
#AliceFlynn
A missing girl. An old wound reopened. A fairy tale whispered in the dark after lights out.
LITTLE SISTER is a folk horror about grief, the stories we tell ourselves, & how far we will go to keep those stories straight.
#WPPshortlist
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THE VIRGINS by
@hellomiriam
. Over one evening, four virgins and two non-virgins try to answer the question that has been repeatedly asked of them, 'What do you want?’
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And that's it - submissions to the 2021 Women's Prize for Playwriting are now CLOSED. Thank you to all who have sent us their plays. We can't wait to get reading!
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We’re so proud of each and every one of the playwrights who submitted the 1,002 scripts we received this year. Our reading team is already hard at work, and we can’t wait to share more news soon…
@painesplough
@ConcordUKShows
@FieryAngelHQ
@EKPshows
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If you feel trepidatious about submitting this afternoon, please remember that we are accepting full drafts at all stages of development. We don't expect the finished product. As trite as it sounds - be bold. We believe in you.😎
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COLOSTRUM by Liv Hennessy. Set during calving season on a West Midlands farm, three people navigate their pastoral duty to the land, to the animals, and to each other.
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Here it is: the Shortlist for the 2023 Women's Prize for Playwriting. 20 exceptional plays, selected from 1002 submissions.
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We're now approaching the end of our reading process and looking forward to contacting writers this week ahead of our 2021 longlist announcement on Monday 15th November. Stay tuned! 💫🎉
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YOU BURY ME by Ahlam. A play about love and resistance in Cairo.
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FURIES by
@IsleyLynn
.
Sick of tweets and vigils, two young women take retribution into their own hands.
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The mission statement of The Women's Prize for Playwriting is to find the best new plays by women and produce them on national stages in the UK and Ireland. Today, we're exceptionally proud to announce a major tour of
#YouBuryMe
by Ahlam, Joint Winner of the prize in 2020.
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Today we're celebrating the amazing
@Chino100percent
and her play PARADISE STREET.
Don't forget to join our Awards Ceremony at 7pm tomorrow.
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MOUNTAIN WARFARE by
@Abi_Zakarian
Exploring the denial of the Armenian Genocide & how blood binds you to a place, MOUNTAIN WARFARE asks what you’d be prepared to do to keep your home, heritage & history alive.
#WPPshortlist
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Thank you to our wonderful, diligent team of freelance readers, co-ordinated by the brilliant
@phillippe_phlop
from
@painesplough
, who read with care and dedication throughout lockdown.
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MOUNTAIN WARFARE by
@Abi_Zakarian
.
When the horrors of the past are denied, who decides which histories are remembered?
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A year ago today The Women’s Prize for Playwriting was launched
@nationaltheatre
. What a year it has been.
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Tonight is the first performance (at
@KilnTheatre
) of REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME: one of the two winners of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020. We’re so proud of
@AmyTrigg
&
@charrrbennett
and of everyone who has helped the Prize get to this point. 🥰
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Last night we marked the official launch of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting with a special event
@NationalTheatre
. Thank you to all who came! Submissions are now open for the 2020 Prize and will close on Monday 2 March.
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We are delighted to announce that
@AmyTrigg
's First Prize-winning play REASONS YOU SHOULD(N'T) LOVE ME will premiere
@KilnTheatre
in May, directed by
@charrrbennett
. A
@WomensPlayPrize
,
@painesplough
,
@forty_fivenorth
and
@KilnTheatre
co-production.
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We are delighted to formally welcome Saxon Mudge (
@SaxonMudge
) as Development Producer at The Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
Saxon is working part-time with
@elliekeel1
& the team
@painesplough
on fundraising, communications, & general development of the prize.
Welcome Saxon!
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Happy New Year from the Women’s Prize for Playwriting team!
A quick reminder that submissions close on 2nd March 2020 and should be emailed to submissions
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk. All enquiries to info
@womensprizeforplaywriring
.co.uk please!
#getwriting
#newyearnewplay
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We are also delighted to announce the 2021 Judging Panel: Arifa Akbar, Lucy Kirkwood, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Winsome Pinnock, Indhu Rubasingham, Jenny Sealey, Nina Steiger, Nicola Walker and Jodie Whittaker. Mel Kenyon returns as Chair.
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Ahead of announcing our shortlist for this year's prize, we'd like to take the time to say a huge thank you to
@IanMcKellen
for his generosity, enabling us to continue supporting & championing female & non-binary theatre makers.👏❤️
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And finally: we look forward to releasing our catalogue of profiles of the 70 plays that were longlisted, shortlisted and finalists of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020. Each profile will include a synopsis, cast breakdown, and other useful production details.
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For all of you still writing and submitting - we salute you.
19 hours to go! 🕰 🖊
Remember, your play doesn’t have to be a final draft. You can tell us what stage it’s at in your cover letter.
More info at
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Last week, our judges met at the National Theatre to decide the winner of the £12,000 First Prize of this year’s Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Chaired by Indhu Rubasingham, the panel debated at length the extremely strong field of Finalist plays before coming to a decision.
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We're also delighted to announce the full Judging Panel for 2023, chaired by
@IRubasingham
.
Our panel is made up of
@SamiraAhmedUK
,
@aprildeangelis
,
@ChrisBushWrites
, Noma Dumezweni, Mel Kenyon,
@anya_ryan
, Nina Steiger and
@KathViner
.
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With just over two hours to go before submissions close, we want to say thank you to all the writers who have already sent us their play - and to those who're still writing, or getting ready to send. It's a big thing. It's a hard thing. A labour of love and sweat. Keep going.
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6.5 hours to go until submissions close for this year’s Prize!
Remember, your script doesn’t have to be at final draft stage.
The cover letter is optional and should be included as the final page of your script.
✍️✍️✍️
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We will be announcing the seven Finalist writers and plays for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 at 2pm. Stay tuned.
@EllieKeelProd
@painesplough
@forty_fivenorth
@SFP_London
@ConcordUKShows
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HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM by
@JonesSomebody
.
A coming-of-adulthood play that explores Black people’s relationship to water, while finally answering the question: Are there really sharks in the deep end of the pool?
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This is a gratitude tweet for the amazing
@phillippe_phlop
, who leaves
@painesplough
today. PC devised + managed the reading process for
@WomensPlayPrize
as well as contributing to the development of the winning plays + many other aspects of the prize. We are so grateful to him.
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Submissions to this year's prize close in just over a month's time on 12 July! Send your full draft to submissions
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk. It can be at any stage of development - just tell us about it in your cover letter. Guidelines here:
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We’re delighted to announce that the official publishing & licensing partner of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is
@SamuelFrenchLtd
, a Concord Theatricals company. We’re thrilled to work with Samuel French to publish & promote the winning writers & grow the reach of the Prize!
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It’s fever pitch in the submissions inbox. 26.5 hours to go! submissions
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk. Hit send with confidence - we can’t wait to read your work. 😀
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We are proud and delighted to be kicking off this year with a Producer Grant of £25,000 from
@IanMcKellen
’s charitable foundation, administrated by
@ATGTICKETS
. This grant supports our co-production of 2020 prize-winning play YOU BURY ME by Ahlam, directed by
@katieposner
.
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We are delighted to announce that The Women's Prize for Playwriting is now working in association with Sonia Friedman Productions (
@SFP_London
). We look forward to collaborating with SFP over the coming months.
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With just under a week to go until submissions close, we're releasing footage of our launch event
@NationalTheatre
- featuring some insights from our judges,
@painesplough
's
@katieposner
&
@charrrbennett
, & founder
@elliekeel1
about what they're looking for in scripts this year.
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We are further delighted to announce a new partnership with
@forty_fivenorth
, a production company whose practice and ethos aligns closely with WPP and our goals.
@forty_fivenorth
joins our current partnership group:
@EllieKeelProd
,
@painesplough
,
@ConcordShows
, &
@SFP_London
.
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We're very happy to share this profile of the second of our Finalist writers and plays:
@babiryebukilwa
and ...blackbird hour. And just a reminder that next Tuesday's Awards Ceremony is open to all - access details available next week.
Photo by Dylema.
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We are extremely proud of all seven writers and look forward to putting their plays before our judging panel. We'd also like to congratulate again the 1000+ writers who submitted plays to the Prize: it was an honour to read your work.
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We're holding an open Zoom session with
@charrrbennett
&
@elliekeel1
to talk about this year's Prize & answer your questions, next Wednesday 25th Jan, 6.30pm. No need to sign up in advance – a link will be posted here on the day. Everyone welcome!
@painesplough
@ConcordUKShows
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BIRDIE by
@AlisonCarr_
In this dark drama, a family fractured by an unforgivable crime are reunited and no one emerges unscathed.
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We’re looking for a paid Stage Manager to work with us on 4 days of R&D
@NationalTheatre
Studio, 1st-4th November. Please share and email ellie
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk if you’re interested.
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AWARENESS by
@bethbwestbrook
When does awareness become exploitation? Aurora is autistic and has had her entire life shared online by her vlogger mum. What’s the cost of raising awareness?
#WPPshortlist
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We're delighted with the reviews for
@AmyTrigg
's Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me
@KilnTheatre
😍
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@guardian
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@Independent
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@Telegraph
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@standardnews
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@TheStage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@BroadwayWorld
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@WhatsOnStage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@theatre_weekly
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upright enuf by
@_lydialuke
Micaela is hardworking, nurturing and can push thru severe pain, but what happens when it hurts too much and no one is listening?
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Read more about all of the incredible plays that have made our longlist! Congratulations to all of the playwrights who made it to our top 50 plays. We're looking forward to sharing our shortlist with you very soon.⭐️
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Tune in at 1pm today for our 2021 Longlist announcement… 🎉
@painesplough
@EKPshows
@forty_fivenorth
@ConcordUKShows
@SFP_London
@KMorleyPR
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Today we’re celebrating our brilliant Finalist
@EevLee
and her play RED SKY AT NIGHT.
Don’t forget to join us for our Awards Ceremony on 1st December at 7pm!
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Founder Director, Ellie Keel, shared her thoughts on this year's winning play, Sarah Grochala's Intelligence.💛
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We can’t wait to share the names of our longlisted writers with you in 20 minutes’ time.
Thank you to
@painesplough
,
@forty_fivenorth
,
@SFP_London
,
@EllieKeelProd
&
@ConcordUKShows
for joining us on the WPP journey so far.
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Submissions to the inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting open today at 5pm. Full guidelines to the Prize will be available on the website at that time!
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We look forward to sharing further updates with you in the coming weeks and months, including about our plans for the next iteration of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Watch this space.
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We can’t wait to share the shortlist with you at 2pm today. Stay tuned!
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You’ve got just over a month to start, continue, and/or finish a play for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
Submissions close on Monday 2 March at 5pm.
Questions? Email info
@womensprizeforplaywriting
.co.uk
#onemonthtogo
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Perhaps we’re a little biased, but a HUGE congratulations to our founder and director
@elliekeel1
– Producer of the Year! 🔥
Congratulations to Ellie Keel Productions (
@EKPshows
), winner of the Producer of the Year Award!
🏆
#TheStageAwards
in association with
@TysersEnt
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Huge congratulations to
@IsleyLynn
who won the Charles Wintour for Most Promising Playwright Evening Standard Theatre Award for their play, The Swell, last night.👏
The Swell was shortlisted for the 2020 prize & co-produced by us at
@OrangeTreeThtr
in 2023.🌊
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(1/2) A statement from the Chair of our judging panel, Mel Kenyon:
‘At this juncture in history it is of paramount importance that women support other talented women to excel and I hope this prize will do just that. For everyone’s sake we need to level the playing field. [...]
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THE MIDDLE by
#MandiChivasa
THE MIDDLE is a dramatic, psychological exploration into a young woman's journey towards making a major life changing decision as she finds herself stuck deliberating her moral choices.
#WPPshortlist
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CONSUMED by Karis Kelly.
Four generations of Northern Irish Women: a house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet.
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