2021 Shortlist announced
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EKP, Paines Plough, 45North in association with Sonia Friedman Productions
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2021
Founding sponsor: PER People | Principal Partner 45North
Official publishing and licensing partner: Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals company
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is an open invitation to all writers who identify as female in the UK and Ireland to create vivid, exciting, and brave new work for the stage.
The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work from writers at all levels of experience. We are interested in plays that rejoice in the depth and range of your imagination, that feast on dramatic possibility and are ambitious on all scales and subjects. We’ve designed the criteria of the Prize to allow you to write exactly the play you want, unhampered by restrictions or limitations.
Whoever you are and however much or little you have written in the past, the team at The Women’s Prize for Playwriting wants to read your work. Good luck! View Dates
Dates
Submissions open
Wednesday 7th April 2021
We're ready and waiting in the wings.
More details about the 2022 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, including dates, will be announced in early 2022.
Also incoming Director of LAMDA
Celebrating and inspiring
women playwrights,
in the UK and Ireland
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting was founded in 2019 by Ellie Keel in partnership with Paines Plough.
”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. And I hope that whomever is the first recipient of this award will be given the confidence and the opportunity to go on to great things. There should be no turning back.
Mel KenyonChair of the Judges