Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is a British national competition for playwriting, the largest of its kind in Europe. 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. There have been 15 prizewinners, with combined prize money of £160,000, and eight winning productions have been staged till date.

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

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