Playwright Molly Davies Receives Pinter Commission

Playwright Molly Davies received the 2015 Pinter Commission yesterday (Tuesday 24 March) - an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter's widow, to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre.

The Pinter Commission is now in its fourth year and is given each year to support a playwright to write a new play for the Royal Court Theatre. There are no restrictions on the award, which can be given to any playwright from a first time, unpublished writer to one already established.

Molly Davies' first play, A Miracle, was produced in 2009 at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Young Writers' Festival after Molly took part in several writing groups at the Royal Court. She was subsequently commissioned by the Royal Court, writing God Bless The Child, which looked at government schemes and their place in the education system. The play, produced in 2014 with a cast of eight 8 year olds, was inspired from years of working in the schools system as a Teaching Assistant.

Molly's other credits include Shooting Truth for National Theatre Connections and Orpheus & Eurydice for National Youth Theatre and Old Vic Tunnels.

God Bless the Child was part of the Royal Court's Jerwood New Playwrights programme, which aims to discover and support the next generation of world class playwrights, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Molly Davies, Playwright said: "Receiving the Pinter Commission is very humbling as Harold Pinter has always been a great inspiration to me. I'm so grateful to Lady Antonia Fraser and the Royal Court for the opportunity and encouragement."