Sapling
Georgina Duncan
Belfast, 1990. 16 year old Gerry Flynn strives for normality during the last gasps of The Troubles but the events of one day shatter everything. His brother’s memorial garden is destroyed, his killer released from prison, and the arrival of an enigmatic stranger, Ryan, forces Gerry to confront the haunting dilemma: is Ryan the solution to his problems or the reason they exist in the first place?
ABOUT OUR WINNER
Georgina is a working class writer and actor from East Lancashire, now based in London. She graduated from LAMDA’s BA Acting programme in 2018 where she was a recipient of the Elizabeth May Florence Mills Scholarship.
As a playwright, her work has been both shortlisted and longlisted for various playwriting competitions including BOLD Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Papatango, Theatre503 International Prize and Druid Theatre. Her plays have also been highly commended by both The National Theatre’s, Bush Theatre’s and The Royal Court Theatre’s reading teams and she has been a member of The Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab and Theatre503’s Wandsworth Writes groups. In 2024 she was commissioned to write a new play, Penalty for Improper Use, for LAMDA’s MishMash Festival. The play was then subsequently selected to have a rehearsed reading at Theatre503.
Georgina debuted and performed her one woman show ASBO BOZO at Riverside Studios with her theatre company Crafted by Fools earlier this year.