About
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting
Founder and Director: Ellie Keel
Associate Producer: Gabrielle Leadbeater
Development Producer: Saxon Mudge
Paines Plough
Paines Plough is the UK’s national theatre of new plays. The company commissions and produces the best playwrights and tours their plays far and wide. Whether you’re in Liverpool or Lyme Regis, Scarborough or Southampton, a Paines Plough show is coming to a theatre near you soon.
Paines Plough was formed in 1974 over a pint of Paines bitter in the Plough pub. Since then they’ve produced more than 150 new productions by world-renowned playwrights like Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Dennis Kelly, Mike Bartlett, Kate Tempest and Vinay Patel.
Paines Plough Limited is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.
Registered Company no: 1165130
Registered Charity no: 267523
www.painesplough.com
@PainesPlough
www.facebook.com/painesploughHQ
Company Structure
Joint Artistic Directors and CEOs
Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner
Executive Producer
Holly Gladwell
Producer
Matt Maltby
Finance and Administration Manager
Svetlana Karadimova
Technical Director
Colin Everitt
Associate Producer
Christabel Holmes
Marketing and Audience Development Manager
Jo Langdon
Administrator
Daniella Finch
Literary and Production Assistant
Phillippe Cato
Marketing Assistant
Adam Poland
The Big Room Playwright Fellow
Vickie Donoghue
The Big Room Playwright Bursary recipient
Ric Renton
Trainee Director
Kaleya Baxe
Board of Directors
Ankur Bahl
Corey Campbell
Kim Grant (Chair)
Asma Hussain
Tarek Iskander
Matthew Littleford
Sarah Mansell
Christopher Millard
Cindy Polemis
Carolyn Saunders
Wojtek Trzcinski
Laura Wade
The partners of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 are:
45North
45North champions, develops, and produces outstanding work by femxle-identifying and non-binary artists. Founded in October 2019 and led by the very best creative teams from a variety of performing and producing backgrounds, 45North continues to reinvest in emerging artists who are beginning and expanding their practices. We commit to maintaining creative teams of no less than 75% femxle-identifying or non-binary people, working to bring inclusive and exciting new theatre and events to London, Edinburgh, across the UK and internationally. Selected credits include Post-Mortem by Iskandar Sharazuddin (Edinburgh, The Blue Room, and Holden Street Theatre), (un)written (un)heard devised by the company and directed by Jessica Rose McVay (FRINGE WORLD-Winner of the Physical Theatre and Dance Award), and MEAT by Gillian Greer (Theatre503).
Creative Director and CEO: Jessica Rose McVay
Creative Producer for Theatre: Emily Carewe
Creative Producer for Events: Gabrielle Leadbeater