Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
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The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is a British national competition for playwriting, the largest of its kind in Europe.[citation needed] The prize was instituted in 2006, and is limited to scripts that are original and unperformed.[1] The award is a joint venture between the property company Bruntwood and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Since its inception, more than 7000 scripts have been submitted.[when?] There have been 15 prizewinners, with combined prize money of £160,000, and eight winning productions have been staged till date.[when?]
Winners and nominees
Pre-2011
- Monster by Duncan Macmillan
- Pretend You Have Big Buildings by Ben Musgrave
- Mogadishu by Vivienne Franzmann
- Winterlong by Andrew Sheridan
2011
- THREE BIRDS by Janice Okoh (Winner)
- BRILLIANT ADVENTURES by Alistair McDowall (Judges' Award)
- BRITANNIA WAVES THE RULES by Gareth Farr (Judges' Award)
- SHADOW PLAY by Louise Monaghan (Judges' Award)
- A MAP OF THE REGION by Tim Luscombe
- CLIMBING SNAKES by Curtis Cole
- I AND THE VILLAGE by Silva Semerciyan
- I STARTED A FIRE by Miriam Battye
- ONE LOOK by Cornell S John
- WHITE by Kenneth Emson
2013
- YEN by Anna Jordan (Winner)
- SO HERE WE ARE by Luke Norris (Judges' Prize)
- THE ROLLING STONE by Chris Urch (Judges' Prize)
- BIRD by Katherine Chandler (Judges' Prize)
- DECEMBER by Alice Birch
- DORM by Lynda Radley
- IMAM (Faith) by Toby Clarke
- P’YONGYANG by In-Sook Chappell
- RUSSIAN DOLLS by Kate Lock
- WASTE by David Kantounas
2015
- WISH LIST by Katherine Soper (Winner)
- THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES by Kendall Feaver (Judges' Award)
- SOUND OF SILENCE by Chloe Todd Fordham (Judges' Award)
- PARLIAMENT SQUARE by James Fritz (Judges' Award)
- HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT by Alan Harris (Judges' Award)
- RAILS by Simon Longman
- TABS by Ellie Kendrick
- WILD IS DE WIND by Chino Odimba
- MADRA by Frances Poet
- JONESTOWN by Kellie Smith