First female playwrights announced for inaugural Women in TheatreLab
The first female playwrights for the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab have been announced from an open call which received hundreds of applications.
The 10 selected female playwrights are:
Rafaella Marcus, Sumerah Srivastav, Naomi Sumner Chan, Charlotte Small, Elle Van Lil, Millie Bloom, Nina Berry, Titilola Dawudu, Karis Kelly, and Emma Baim.
Shortlisted writers
The shortlisted writers for the Women in Theatre Lab 2024 are:
Mwansa Phiri, Rachel O’Regan, Kyo Choi, Morna Young, Kim Millar, Ming Ho, Sarah Grochala, Laura Tansley, Ginni Manning, Rosie Pierce, Julie Tsang, Zoe Bullock, Tracy Harris, Debris Stevenson, Annabel Wigoder, Caroline Topouzoglou, Laurie Ogden, Priscilla Krahn, R.K. Chui, Somebody Jones, Sophie Huggins
Polly Tisdall, Alison Carr, Emma-Louise Howell, Hazel Fattorusso, Sarah Fielding, Siofra Dromgoole, Isabel Dixon, Charlotte Eilenberg, Kate Bowen and Debbie Hannan.
Longlisted writers
The longlisted writers are:
Beth Mullen, Bella Enahoro, Anna Linstrum, Zakiyyah Deen, Mei Leng Yew, Helen East, Naomi Westerman, Victoria Taylor Roberts, Natasha Holmes, Tiffany Black, Rosaleen Cox, Kayleigh Mai Hinsley, Lydia Sabatini, Eva Edo, Katherine Senior, Nilgin Yusuf, Katy Schutte, Alli Smith, Josie Taylor and Jemma Morphet, Abigail Weinstock, Anna Morris, Caitlin Clough, Genna Gardini ,Kate Barton, Lucy Foster, Sadie Miller, Suzanne Batty, Vivian Xie, Antonia Cooper, Lily Bevan, Yaz Nin, Masha Kevinovna, Alice Flynn, Alison Stanley, Juliet Knight, Karen Forbes, Molly Anne Sweeney, Raminder Kaur, Afsaneh Gray, Kathrine Smith.
Congratulations to everyone selected and we hope those not selected this year will apply again in future years – we received hundreds of applications (double the amount of previous one-off projects) and it was extremely difficult to make the final decisions and we’d like to thank everyone who applied and we look forward to reading your future work. We also plan to organise an event for everyone who applied in order to provide some form of support and advice to all applicants and we will be in touch with all applicants shortly to share the details on this event.
