Neil McPherson News

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

The Finborough's previously announced production of Field, Awakening from 29 November to 21 December has had to be postponed. All ticketholders will be fully reimbursed. In its place, the theatre is  now presenting the world premiere of 12:37 by multi-award-winning playwright Julia Pascal.

Madison Clare and Lucy Roslyn will star as sisters Daphne and Christine, whose relationship starts to shift once Daphne is diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) in the world premiere of Pennyroyal at the Finborough theatre.

Developed over lockdown, it was originally programmed to premiere at VAULT Festival 2022, and now makes its debut at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre.

Due to popular demand, Bacon has extended its run at the Finborough Theatre for an extra week, and will now perform until Saturday, 2 April 2022.

This production was originally commissioned by the Finborough Theatre to celebrate its 40th anniversary as the play was written in 1980, the year the Finborough Theatre opened. It played to sold out audiences and gained eleven four star reviews during its run in March 2020 which was cut short by the national lockdown.

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.

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

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.

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.

Finborough Theatre and ETPEP Award 2021 announce that entries are open for this year's playwriting prize until Friday, 30 April 2021 at 11pm.

The Finborough Theatre today announces the winner for the ETPEP Award 2020. The winner is Julia Grogan for Playfight.

I WISH TO DIE SINGING - VOICES FROM THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE will be presented as part of #FinboroughForFree.

The Finborough Theatre today announces the longlist for the ETPEP Award 2020.

SCROUNGER will get its world premiere in a strictly limited online release. Scrounger is by Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre Athena Stevens.

Following its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre in 2016, the world premiere production of It Is Easy To Be Dead becomes the first Finborough Theatre production to be made available for free viewing online.

The ETPEP Award, run by Finborough Theatre, is a playwriting prize for people who work in the theatre industry who are new to writing. Due to these challenging times, we have extended the deadline for this year to Tuesday 30 June 2020 (originally Sunday, 31 March), so anyone who hasn't written a play yet, but feels they would like to, now has time to enter.

The ETPEP Award 2020 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP).

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Finborough Theatre has postponed two of its forthcoming productions.

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