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2021 Longlist

The longlist of writers for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Playwriting.

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

Well done.