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Note that this award is the British award for the writing of plays.

For the American award for writers, see Whiting Writers' Award

The John Whiting Award (from 2007 renamed the Peter Wolff Trust Supports the John Whiting Award) is awarded annually to a British or Commonwealth playwright who, in the opinion of a consortium of UK theatres (until 2006, the drama panel of the Arts Council England), shows a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing with particular relevance to contemporary society. Until 2006, the play did not need to have been staged, but from 2007 only plays which have been performed in the subsidised sector will be eligible. The award was established in 1965 to commemorate John Whiting and his distinctive contribution to post-war British theatre. The award was initially worth £1000, but is currently worth £6000 per year.

2007 Award

The closing date for the 2007 award is 30 September 2007. To be eligible, plays to be submitted must have been first performed between 1 April 2006 and 31 July 2007.

The award will be presented during November 2007 at the Hampstead Theatre, London.

2008 Award

The conditions for the 2008 award will be placed here when they are known.

The award will be presented at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse as part of the city's European Capital of Culture celebrations.

From 2007, the award is supplied by the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust and is administered by a consortium of UK theatres which specialise in new writing. The theatres currently involved are:

- - Birmingham Repertory Theatre
  - Bush Theatre, London
  - Cleanbreak, London
  - Hampstead Theatre, London
  - Liverpool Everyman
  - Liverpool Playhouse
  - Nottingham Playhouse
  - Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
  - Paines Plough, London (touring)
  - Royal Court Theatre, London
  - Sgript Cymru, Cardiff
  - Soho Theatre, London
  - Tamasha Theatre Company, London
  - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

**Past winners of the John Whiting Award**
Year	Playwright	Play

1967	Tom Stoppard	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
1967	Wole Soyinka	The Interpreters
1967	Peter Nichols	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1968	Peter Barnes	The Ruling Class
1968	Edward Bond	Saved
1969	Howard Brenton	Christie in Love
1970	Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint)	Freehold on Antigone
1971	Mustapha Matura	As Time Goes By
1972	Heathcote Williams	AC/DC
1973	John Arden
1974	David Rudkin
1975	David Edgar	Destiny
1976	David Lan	The Winter Dancers
1977
1978	David Halliwell
1978	Snoo Wilson	The Glad Hand
1979	Stephen Bill	The Old Order
1980
1981	David Pownall	Beef
1982	Karim Alrawi	Before Dawn
1983	Peter Flannery	Our Friends in the North
1984	Ron Hutchinson	The Rat in the Skull
1985	Guy Hibbert	On the Edge
1985	Heidi Thomas	Shamrocks & Crocodiles
1986	Nick Dear	The Art of Success
1987
1988	Iain Heggie	American Bagpipes
1989	Billy Roche	A Handful of Stars
1990	Tony Kushner
1990	Lucy Gannon	Keeping Tom Nice
1991	Terry Johnson	Imagine Drowning
1992	Rod Wooden	Your Home in the West
1993	Martin Crimp	The Treatment
1993	Helen Edmundson	The Clearing
1994	Jonathan Harvey	Beautiful Thing
1995	Joe Penhall	Some Voices
1996	Ayub Khan-Din	East is East
1997	Ann Coburn	Get up and Tie your Fingers
1998/9	Roy Williams	Starstruck
1999
2000	David Greig	The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union
2000	Tanika Gupta	The Waiting Room
2001	Zinnie Harris	Further than the Furthest Thing
2002	Peter Rumney	Jumping on my Shadow
2003	Rona Munro	Iron
2004	Owen McCafferty	Scenes from the Big Picture
2005	Fin Kennedy	How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
2006	James Philips	Rubenstein Kiss
2006	Fraser Grace	Breakfast with Mugabe

External links

Arts Council England

Peter Wolff Theatre Trust

The Stage

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 The '''John Whiting Award''' (from 2007 renamed the '''Peter Wolff Trust Supports the John Whiting Award''') is awarded annually to a British or Commonwealth [[playwright]] who, in the opinion of a consortium of UK theatres (until 2006, the drama panel of the [[Arts Council England]]), shows a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing with particular relevance to contemporary society. Until 2006, the play did not need to have been staged, but from 2007 only plays which have been performed in the subsidised sector will be eligible. The award was established in 1965 to commemorate [[John Whiting]] and his distinctive contribution to post-war British theatre. The award was initially worth £1000, but is currently worth £6000 per year.
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 The conditions for the 2008 award will be placed here when they are known.
-The award will be presented at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhoise as part of the city's European Capital of Culture celebrations.
+The award will be presented at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse as part of the city's European Capital of Culture celebrations.
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 From 2007, the award is supplied by the [[Peter Wolff Theatre Trust]] and is administered by a consortium of UK theatres which specialise in new writing. The theatres currently involved are:
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 ***[[Cleanbreak]], London
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+*[http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk Birmingham Repertory Theatre]
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