2021 Longlist
Congratulations to all writers on our 2021 Longlist. These exceptional plays were selected by our reading team from 850 entries.
MOUNTAIN WARFARE by Abi Zakarian
The Lampy by Áine King
Little Sister by Alice Flynn
Birdie by Alison Carr
Mountain by Amy Conway
Scum by Ava Wong Davies
Like.Share.Kill by Bella Enahoro
Sorry did I wake you by Beth Collins & Nina Georgieff
Awareness by Beth Westbrook
Foreign by Carmen Harris
Never Quiet, Always Echoes by Catherine Lucie
PIONEER by Clare Slater
YELLOW TEETH by Dina Nayeri
Of Silent Words by Diya Sengupta Amy Brian
REWILD by Gemma Lawrence
Time, Like the Sea by Georgia Bruce
After the Cold by Georgie Murphy
A Very Odd Birthday Party by Hannah Donelon
A Bouffon Play About Hong Kong by Isabella Leung
The Rescue by Isabelle Kassam
FURIES by Isley Lynn
Baghdaddy by Jasmine Naziha Jones
This Little Earth by Jessica Norman
The Great Floating Island of Brigid by Jo Cattell
Consumed by Karis Kelly
Void by Laura Waldren
Hope and Her Children by Lauren Morley
Not by Lisa Parry
Jockstrap by Lucy Davidson
The Light Trail by Lydia Sabatini
Upright Enuf by lydia luke
The Middle by Mandi Chivasa
And Tomorrow I’ll Dance With You by Méábh de Brún
Behind the Veil by Melina Namdar
Why Be Good by Melissa Bubnic
Kissing by Miriam Battye
The Water Clan by Morna Young
Dollars and Sense by Naomi Sumner
I Can’t Hear You by Natasha Brotherdale Smith
With Striplights Hung From the Stars by Natasha Collie
Sankofa by Nicole Acquah
Blessed Spirits by Nicole Joseph
Some of Us Exist in the Future by Nkenna Akunna
4 Decades by Paula B Stanic
She’s Just Something That’s Happening by Penelope Saward
These Demons by Rachel Bellman
Torque by Rebecca Hill
Queen Mab by Rebecca Wilcox
SAMUEL TAKES A BREAK IN MALE DUNGEON NO. 5 AFTER A LONG BUT GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL DAY OF TOURS by Rhianna Kemi Ilube
Stars by Rhiannon Brace
A Woman Walks Into a Bank by Roxy Cook
For The Culture by Safaa Benson-Effiom
Mandrake by Sarah Power
Rojava by Sharon Farrell
Aftercare by SJ Wong
HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM by Somebody Jones
Til it Stops by Sophie Max
The Kilburn Muhammad Ali by Tam J Miller
G by Tife Kusoro
Imposter Syndrome by Tolu Fagbayi
Ripe by Trudie Shutler
Say it with Sequins by Victoria Buse