Want to advertise here? Contact 17th Meyer-Whitworth Award
date added:08 January 2008
Nominations now being accepted : deadline for entries is 28 February 2008
We are d elighted to announce details of the 17th Meyer-Whitworth Award, funded by the Royal National Theatre Foundation and managed by the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland in association with the UK Playwrights Network.
With a prize fund of £10,000, the Meyer-Whitworth Award is the largest annual monetary prize for playwriting in the UK. It is intended to help further the careers of UK playwrights who are not yet established.
The award is made to the writer whose play, in the judges’ opinion, most satisfies the following description:
a play which embodies Geoffrey Whitworth’s dictum that “drama is important in so far as it reveals the truth about the relationships of human beings with each other and the world at large”
a play which shows promise of a developing new talent
a play in which the writing is of individual quality
The judges reserve the right to advise that no script meets the required standards of the award and that therefore the award should not be made.
Nominations MUST be made by directors of professional theatre companies.
Plays nominated must be in the English language and have been produced professionally in the UK for the first time between 1 November 2006 and 30 November 2007.
Candidates will have had no more than two of their plays professionally produced, including the play submitted.
How to nominate a Play
Contact Playwrights' Studio, Scotland on info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk or +44 141 3324403 to request an application form.
The deadline for entries is 28 February 2008
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
T: + 44 (0) 141 332 4403
F: + 44 (0) 141 332 6352
E: info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk
company:
contact : Claire Dow
email:
info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk
web:
www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk
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