Sue Bevan

Theatre Prize Winner

After a long career teaching and lecturing Economics & Politics, Sue quit to write and perform. Her solo show An Audience With Shurl received 4* reviews at Edinburgh, was nominated for the Outstanding Performance Award at Prague Fringe and was awarded Best of Fringe in San Francisco. Mum’s The Word won the Drama Association of Wales International One Act Play Competition, and her poetry and prose appears in Dwell Time on the Penistone Railway Line. She's currently working on a play about the women's criminal in/justice system. Having recently completed her artist residency on the Isle of Wight, Sue is now a workshop leader and impoverished writer-performer looking for an agent. 

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Tabitha Mortiboy

Theatre Prize Runner Up

Tabitha’s first play Billy Through the Window premiered at The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol and transferred to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it was shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Excellence Award. Her second play Beacons was produced at The Park Theatre, London, where it was nominated for three Off West End Awards including Best New Play and Most Promising New Playwright. Her recent play The Amber Trap premiered with Damsel Productions at Theatre503 in 2019 and this year her script Daffy Grod and the Shaking Lights was shortlisted for the Papatango Prize and longlisted for the Bruntwood Award. She is currently developing an original television series with Mam Tor Productions. 

Phoebe Taylor

Theatre Prize Runner Up

Phoebe Anne Taylor is an actor, writer and photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in Creative Writing (University of Melbourne) and Theatre Performance (Monash University), and was a member of the inaugural Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia Full Time Ensemble in 2012. In 2019, she became an alumni of the Arteles Creative Centre, having been welcomed into the Silence Awareness Existence residency programme. As a writer, her work has been selected by Baggage Productions for their Madwomen Monologues seasons, and her debut work the art of f**king was performed at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, and became a cult success. She is currently a writer for Season 3 for the international award-winning and critically acclaimed webseries, Shakespeare Republic, of which she is also an ensemble member. Her full-length work A Fish is a Terrible Friend, completed in Finland at Arteles, was scheduled for performance in 2020, but due to global unforeseen circumstances it has been postponed until theatres reopen.