Athena Stevens

Last Chance to Vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 29, 2025

This is the last chance to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Final Weeks to Vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards
by BWW Awards - Dec 22, 2025

We're in the final weeks to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 15, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards
by BWW Awards - Dec 8, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favourite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards!
by BWW Awards - Dec 1, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favourite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Review: DIAGNOSIS, Finborough Theatre
by Clementine Scott - May 27, 2025

You may not know Athena Stevens’s name, but you may remember her legal troubles: her allegations against Shakespeare's Globe of sexual abuse by a fellow actor and disability discrimination were widely reported in March this year. Now, after a period of what she terms “creative exile”, the Finborough playwright in residence is back with a stiflingly claustrophobic look at the disabled community’s relationship with the police, set entirely in a prison cell.

OperaUpClose Reveals Their New Programme of Reinventions
by Stephi Wild - Jun 20, 2024

OperaUpClose has announced its new programme of reinventions; a series of one-act operas by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss reimagined for the modern world.

BELLY OF THE BEAST Premieres at the Finborough Theatre in April
by Stephi Wild - Mar 31, 2023

The world premiere staged reading of Belly of the Beast by Saana Sze, winner of the 2022 ETPEP Award, plays for one night at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre on Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 7.30pm.  

Vital Xposure Launches Second Season Of Wellspring
by Stephi Wild - Mar 6, 2023

Vital Xposure has announced the launch of a second round of Wellspring, a professional development programme for London-based disabled, d/Deaf and Neurodivergent playwrights and script writers, supported by City Bridge Trust.

National Youth Theatre Announces UP ALL NIGHT An All Night Takeover At The Duke Of York's Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 19, 2023

Join National Youth Theatre and some of Britain's leading voices for a world-first all-night West End youth takeover at the iconic Duke of York's Theatre on 10 February 2023. 

Finborough Theatre Becomes First Foreign Theatre To Perform In Ukraine Since The Invasion
by Stephi Wild - Dec 15, 2022

The Finborough Theatre has become the first foreign theatre to perform in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in a unique collaboration between the Finborough Theatre and the Pro-English Theatre, Kyiv.

Saana Sze Wins the ETPEP Award 2022
by Stephi Wild - Oct 25, 2022

The ETPEP Award 2022 has been won by first time playwright by Saana Sze for their play Belly of the Beast.

Shortlist Announced For The ETPEP Award 2022
by Stephi Wild - Oct 18, 2022

The ETPEP Award is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work or have worked in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP). 

ETPEP Award 2022 Longlist Announced
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2022

ETPEP and the Finborough Theatre have announced the longlist for the ETPEP Award 2022.

Fizzy Sherbet Podcast Plays Announced
by Stephi Wild - Jan 5, 2022

A new play by a female or female identifying writer will be showcased every fortnight. Plays include themes such as female friends finding queer love together later in life, motherhood and knife crime in the black British community, a poetic piece about swimming the channel, and the story of a flight of an unaccompanied refugee boy from a war zone.

Nina Millns Wins ETPEP Award For SERVICE
by Stephi Wild - Oct 18, 2021

Millns will receive a prize of £6,000, a development relationship with the Finborough Theatre including one-to-one dramaturgy with Finborough Theatre Artistic Director and playwright Neil McPherson; a rehearsal workshop with actors and a director to develop the play; and a staged reading performance of the winning play either at the Finborough Theatre, London, pandemic permitting, or online; and publication by Salamander Street, independent publisher of theatre, performance and live art.

Shortlisted Candidates For ETPEP Award 2021 Announced
by Stephi Wild - Oct 7, 2021

The ETPEP Award has announced its three final shortlist candidates for the 2021 Award. They are Nicole Joseph, Wela Mbusi and Nina Millns.

ETPEP Award 2022 Open For Submissions and Longlist For 2021 Announced
by Stephi Wild - Aug 2, 2021

The judges for the 2022 Award will include Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre and playwright Neil McPherson; Literary Manager of the Finborough Theatre and playwright Sue Healy; producer Ameena Hamid; actor, playwright and activist Athena Stevens; and Clive Webster of the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust, which founded the award.

Listen: Paapa Essiedu and More Join Latest Episodes of THAT PODCAST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2021

The series features more than 100 artists, commentators and thought leaders, with 23 commissions, performances from some of the UK’s most exciting names in contemporary arts and entertainment, and testimonies from the public.

Finborough Theatre Presents PLAYFIGHT Online
by Stephi Wild - Apr 2, 2021

A rehearsed reading of the Finborough Theatre's 2020 ETPEP Award-winning play, Playfight by Julia Grogan, directed by acclaimed director Blanche McIntyre is now available on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel for one week as part of #FinboroughForFree.