To promote and celebrate the achievements of playwrights who write for young audiences
Prize: £6,000
Deadline: 31 May 2013 at 12 noon
To promote and celebrate the achievements of playwrights who write for young audiences, Theatre Centre runs the Brian Way Award for the best new play for children and young people.
The prize money is intended to give the winner the time and space to develop a new play without the pressure of deadlines or a commissioning brief.
This year’s award is for a new play which was professionally produced between 1 October 2011 and 31 January 2013. The winner of the award will be expected to undertake an ambassadorial role for Theatre Centre.
Applications may come from the writer, the writer’s representative or the producing company.
Further information:
- Download and read the award criteria
- Download and complete the application form
- Submit (by post) all of the requested materials in advance of the 31 May deadline
If you require further information, please don't hesitate to
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Previous winners of the Brian Way Award*
- 2012 Evan Placey for Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Company)
- 2011 Keith Saha for Ghost Boy (20 Stories High)
- 2010 Laurence Wilson for Blackberry Trout Face (20 Stories High)
- 2009 Douglas Maxwell for The Mothership (Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
- 2008 David Greig for Yellow Moon (TAG)
- 2008 Fin Kennedy (runner-up) for Locked In (Half Moon Theatre Company)
- 2007 Tim Crouch for Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre Education Department)
- 2007 Deborah Gearing (runner-up) for Burn (Shell Connections)
- 2006 Neil Duffield for The Lost Warrior (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster)
- 2005 Abi Bown for Hey There Boy with the Bebop (Polka Theatre)
- 2004 Charles Way for Red Red Shoes (Unicorn Theatre)
- 2003 Phil Porter for Smashed Eggs (Pentabus Theatre)
- 2002 Brendan Murray for Eliza’s House (Royal Exchange)
- 2001 Mike Kenny for Stepping Stones (Interplay)
*funded by Arts Council England 2001-2007