NWN wins Writers' Guild of Great Britain Theatre Committee New Writing Encouragement Award
New Writing North director Claire Malcolm and deputy director Anna Summerford have received an award for the encouragement of new writing from the Theatre Committee of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
The award will be presented on Friday 29
September, at the Old Vic Theatre, London in an intimate presentation luncheon.
Claire and Anna were nominated by writer Carina Rodney. "Claire commissioned my
play and has been instrumental in developing it from a pre first draft
stage with supportive and creative mentoring. She will be producing the
play and has organised a tour which involves regional theatres acting
as co-producers rather than hosts, putting individual packages in place
to benefit amateur writers and actors associated with these companies.
In response to a lack of opportunities and funding for new playwrights
in the region, Claire has also launched the EMERGE scheme. Anna has
worked tirelessly to raise funding for the new playwrights project as
well as working on the production side of my play."
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