The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2025
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
Awarded for the best playwriting response on the theme of Fear.
The winner and runners-up will receive financial support in the following amounts:
Prizes
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.
You can enter multiple prizes.
Plays must not have been professionally produced (this means a run of more than a week for which the audience must buy tickets, it does not include rehearsed readings or workshops.)
Submissions are judged anonymously so please do not include your name on your script.
Submission
To apply you will be asked to submit the following:
A completed play that responds to the theme of Fear. The response is up to you and if you think your work is a response, then you are eligible to submit. Plays must be longer than 30 minutes (which is likely around 30-pages)
A short statement about how your work responds to the theme.
A brief summary of your past work and writing experience.
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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.
Judge
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.
Previous winners
2025 - On Fear
Winner: Mo Holmes
Mo Holmes is a black queer Southern playwright and librettist, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. Her writing has been developed and/or presented by the Playwrights’ Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, Vertigo Theatre, Climate Action New Play Collective, and Columbia University School of the Arts. Some of her other recognitions include the Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award (winner); and the Jane Chambers Prize (finalist). As a dramaturg and teaching artist, she has supported new play development at Good Apples Collective, the Playwrights’ Center, Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Horizon Theatre Company and Columbia. She is an MFA Candidate in Playwriting and Undergraduate Writing Program Teaching Fellow at Columbia.
Runner up: Rachel Causer
Rachel Causer trained as an actor at Mountview, before honing her writing with The Arcola and The Criterion New Writing & Development groups. Her plays include: Lippy (Fringe Tour – Finalist Best Newcomer at Brighton Fringe), When It Happens (Tristan Bates – Offie Finalist) and Please, Feel Free to Share (Theatre503 & The Pleasance Courtyard), which was an Offie and Popcorn Award Finalist and is published by Methuen Drama.
Rachel trained in screenwriting on the Channel 4Screenwriting Scheme 2023 and is one of eight writers on the Dancing Ledge/ScreenSkills Scheme 2025. She studied filmmaking at Met Film, where she wrote and directed her debut short Stalemate, and is now developing projects across TV, film and radio.
She is also the founder of Scatterjam, creating female-led work that is socially and politically engaged while being structurally bold and always unashamedly entertaining.
Runner up: Eliana Ostro
Eliana is a writer, director and script editor working across theatre, TV and film. Her play Anything With a Pulse sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to London’s Park Theatre for two further sell-out runs. It was described as “a witty, hang-on-to-your-hormones tour of modern dating” ★★★★ The Times, and “punchy and warm. As endearing as any Richard Curtis rom-com” ★★★★ The Stage. Eliana has adapted the play into her debut novel (of the same name), due for release as an Audible Original next summer and in print the following year. Alongside her own writing, she works as a Development Editor at Origin Pictures and is currently script editing Yomi Adegoke’s TV adaptation of The List.
2024 - On Language
Winner: Lucy Singer
Lucy is a writer and student from Manchester. In between her Modern Languages and Cultures studies at the University of Sheffield, she has written multiple short and full-length plays that have been performed across the UK. Her short play ‘My Work Friend’s Boyfriend‘ made the final of OFFCUT at 53Two Theatre in Manchester and has also been performed in Sheffield and London. She is looking forward to developing her writing career as much as possible both during and post university.
Runner up: Sadie Pearson
Sadie Pearson is a writer, director, theatre maker and co-founder of Full Frontal Theatre Ltd. Her playwrighting debut 'To Watch a Man Eat' has earned critical acclaim and a plethora of five-star-spangled reviews across the UK, performing in Bristol, the Edinburgh Fringe, Shakespeare North Playhouse and The Old Red Lion, London.
Her latest play 'Rodney Black, Who Cares? It's Working' will be performed in London December 2024.
Runner up: Eloise Pennycott
Eloise is a writer, actor, and fight director. She made her writing debut at the National Theatre, with award winning play Barrier(s). Since then, she has continued to make work championing deaf and queer perspectives, working with Deafinitely Theatre, HighTide, CRIPtic Arts. As an actor, Eloise is best known for playing Daisy in BBC’s Phoenix Rise. Other credits include Lord of the Flies (Leeds Playhouse) and The Power (Prime Video). Fight directing credits include Galatea (Brighton Festival) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (NYMT).
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