Part Two: Female playwrights nominated by UK theatres
The Women in Theatre Lab and Jermyn Street Theatre have announced the theatre partners who will be nominating female playwrights for part two of the Women in Theatre Lab, the new UK version of America’s Women’s Project (WP) Lab and Australia’s Women in Theatre programme.
Following the open call for female playwrights which sought to find and support the UK’s most talented emerging and mid-career female playwrights, part two offers a chance for theatres across the UK to nominate female playwrights they’d like to support to take part in the Women in Theatre Lab as well, helping to support gender equality in UK theatre by creating a new model to provide more support and commissions for female playwrights than would otherwise be possible.
The leading theatre partners being announced, who will also help develop the new model, are Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Theatr Clwyd, Tamasha and Fuel. The theatre partners will each nominate one female playwright they’d like to support to take part in the Women in Theatre Lab, with funding for these places and seed commissions provided jointly by the theatres and by the Women in Theatre Lab.
The writers being nominated for part two of the Women in Theatre Lab will be Melanie Pennant, nominated by Tamasha, Racheal Ofori, nominated by Fuel, Ginni Manning, nominated by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Lucie Lovatt, nominated by Theatr Clwyd.
An event for the nearly 1000 applicants who applied to the Women in Theatre Lab will also be announced shortly in order to provide some support for all female playwrights who applied.
