The Bruntwood Prize For Playwriting

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is Europe’s biggest national competition for playwriting. It is the search for great new plays and great writers. They look for scripts that are original and unperformed, by writers of any experience.

It closed for entries on 5th June and 1,938 entries have been carefully wittled down by an army of over 80 readers to a shortlist of 10. Now the panel of judges chaired by Nicholas Hytner and including journalist Miranda Sawyer, actor Meera Syal, and former Bruntwood Prize winner Vivienne Franzmann are reading the final 10 and deciding the winners.

Writers of all levels of experience were invited to enter plays, which must be original, unperformed and unproduced. The winner will receive a prize of £16,000 and a production of their play.

The competition, which runs every two years, is a unique partnership between the Royal Exchange Theatre and property company Bruntwood.

The Bruntwood Prize is a partnership between Bruntwood and the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Please visit www.writeaplay.co.uk/ for more information.