The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2024

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

Awarded for the best playwriting response on the theme of ‘Language’.

Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2024

Congratulations to the winning playwrights:

Winner: Lucy Singer

Runners up: Sadie Pearson and Eloise Pennycott

Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize

Shortlist

Congratulations to the following writers:

Imogen Bole

Louis Catliff

Sara Cemin

Gabriel Chanan

Alice Charles

Gabriel Clark

Roxanna Francombe

Lemonia Gianniri

Charlotte Giles

Debbie Hannan

Rikki Lea

Carley Magee

Euan Mumford

Shivam Pallana

Sadie Pearson

Prizes:

The winner of the Theatre Prize will receive a cash prize to support the writing of their proposed play. The winner and the runners-up will also be invited to attend our annual symposium and we will offer up to £500 travel expenses to help with travel. Meals and accommodation during the symposium are also covered.

The symposium will take place from Sat 6th - Tue 9th July 2024 in Tuscany, Italy.

First place: £3,000

Second place: £1,000

Third place: £1,000

Rules:

• Open to all nationalities.

• Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.

• All entries must be written in English.

• Travel expenses can be used for economy travel costs only and are not exchangeable for cash, any leftover travel budget will not be redeemed as cash.

• Travel expenses can be used for transport only and cannot be used towards accommodation outside of the dates of our symposium.
  

Submission:

To apply you will be asked to submit the following:

1. A 500-word synopsis of your proposed play, including story and characters.

2. A 500-word explanation of how your idea responds to our theme.

3. A 250-word summary of your previous theatre experience.

4. A sample of previous work of at least 10 pages. This can be the play you’re proposing or it can be something completely different, we just want to get a sense of your voice, style, and tone.

About your proposed play:

• Final plays must be no more than 45 minutes in length.

• Final plays must require no more than three actors.

• The winning proposal will be written between March and July, and will be performed at our symposium.

• The winning play will be performed as a rehearsed reading so simplicity in staging is preferred.

• Plays can already be written, but must not have previously been performed, including as a reading or workshop production.

• Submissions will be judged anonymously so please ensure your name does not appear anywhere on your submission materials.

Key dates*:

Applications open: 1st January 2024
Applications close: 1st March 2024 at 23:59 (UK time)

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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we wish.

Judges

Nick Blood - Lead judge

Nick is an actor who has appeared in many film, TV and theatre productions in both in the UK and US. After reading Politics at Bristol University he attended LAMDA where he studied classical acting. Upon graduating he won the Old Vic New Voices Award for his play ‘Inches Apart’ and was nominated for the spotlight prize and a finalist in the Alan Bates Award. He made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court followed by performances at the National Theatre and in the West End. His screen credits include include HBO’s EUPHORIA; Danny Boyle's BABYLON; Star Wars spin-off Andor, MISFITS (Channel 4); HIM & HER (BBC); and Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

Kieran Lynn - Dramaturg

Kieran Lynn is an award-winning writer for theatre and musical theatre. He has had plays produced at most of the UKs best-known theatres including the Hampstead Theatre, the Finborough Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, Theatre 503 and Trafalgar Studios in the West End. He has been a writer in residence at the Theatr Clywd, the Gladstone Library, the Hampstead Theatre and completed the BBC Radio 4 Sparks residential programme; and has worked extensively with the Old Vic Theatre, including on the 24 Hour Plays, the Time Warner Ignite project and he was awarded one of the prestigious T.S. Eliot Commissions.

He has had two plays commissioned by BBC Radio 4, including the recent The Call of the Rewild, a new radio drama about rewilding in the Highlands of Scotland; he was also a writer on the BBC Radio Sounds micro-plays project, That Moment When. He has won the Nick Darke Award for environmental writing, the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, the Peter Brook Empty Space Award, as well as development and project-specific grants from the Arts Trust Scotland, the Tom McGrath Trust, and the Peggy Ramsey Foundation; he has also been awarded with an Ideastap Innovators Grant and was the winner of an Arts Council International Development Award. His plays are published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama (formerly Oberon Books).

Previous winners

2023 - On Flourishing

Winner: Fintan Dineen

Runners up: Kate Roche and Amy Lever

2022 - On Freedom

Winner: Carla Grauls

Runners up: SEVAN, Mallory Weiss, Ellie Taylor and Duncan Pflaster

2021 - Untamed: On Civilisation and Wilderness

Winner: Isla Cowan

Second Place: Monique Giroux

Third Place: Andrew Thompson

2020 - On Forgiveness and Retribution

Winner: Sue Bevan

Second Place: Tabitha Mortiboy

Third Place: Phoebe Taylor

2019 - Identity

Winner: Lucy Foster

Second Place: Zoe Bullock

2018 - Childhood

Winner: Kieran Lynn

Second Place: Josephine Sartre

Third Place: Toby Parker Rees

2017 - Landscape

Winner: Phil Ormerod