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Guide to submitting

Now your play is ready to submit to the Bruntwood Prize what’s next? Watch over the embedded video to see the submission process and click…


2017 Workshop Round-up

The 2017 Bruntwood Prize live-stream workshops have wrapped up, but why not re-watch this year’s brilliant writers again to prep your Bruntwood Prize entry? April de…


James Fritz- ‘One of the best decisions I ever made’

Deciding to enter the Bruntwood Prize in 2015 was one of the best decisions I ever made. I wasn’t going to. I’d entered twice before:…


Rehearsal blogs- How My Light is Spent

Kitty my hands have disappeared Pardon? Every Wednesday evening, Jimmy calls Kitty. For precisely nine minutes. At £1.20 a minute. Jimmy is 34, lives with…


Anonymity and your entry

Here’s why you need to make sure any identifying details DO NOT appear anywhere on your submission… On its launch in 2005 the Bruntwood Prize…


We chat with How My Light is Spent writer Alan Harris

It’s taken me a long time to write HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT. I’m talking years here; it’s has been a mixture of persistence and…


Anna Jordan on script readers: Make their hearts sing, not sink.

Script readers are the unsung heroes of playwriting competitions. Bruntwood has three phases of reading before the longlist of 100 plays is chosen. In 2015…


The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting International Workshop- Delhi

Join us for the first of our three exciting international workshops on Saturday 8th April at 1.30pm BST with playwright and theatre director Abhishek Majumdar. As…