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