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29 October 2025

The Royal Academy of Arts has announced the next two curators joining the Genesis Future Curators Programme.  Chosen from over 750 applicants, Emily Pryke and Jada McMillian will begin 2-year full-time paid positions at the Royal Academy this week, with Emily working in the Exhibitions team and Jada in Collections.  Emily finished her Masters in Art,…

28 October 2025

John Studzinski & David Byrne (c) The AMI Collection Today the Genesis Foundation announces its return to the Royal Court Theatre with a major new multi-year partnership investing in play commissioning and development. The partnership will include underwriting a suite…

12 September 2025

The Jewish Literary Foundation has announced the new cohort for the Genesis Emerging Writers Programme, which returns for its fifth anniversary in 2025/26. Helping launch the careers of 50 authors to date, the celebrated programme supports writers across fiction, non-fiction…

26 August 2025

Genesis Sixteen alumnus James Newby has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Leicester.  James is a former baritone from the fifth cohort of the Genesis Sixteen programme and has since received the 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust…

14 August 2025

Jessica Cale, Bethany Horak-Hallett & Matthew McKinney Three alumni from the Genesis Sixteen programme, run in partnership between the Genesis Foundation and The Sixteen, will appear in the world premiere of Glyndebourne’s The Railway Children. The new opera is a…

4 August 2025

The Genesis Theatre Design Programme is now accepting applications for its second cohort of eight new trainee theatre designers. This initiative aims to address under-representation in theatre design, by providing free, comprehensive training and mentorship to global majority adults from…

10 July 2025

The Sixteen is pleased to reveal the names of the 22 young singers who will join the 15th cohort of Genesis Sixteen this autumn, as well as announcing Florence Price as the Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar. Over 300 singers have…

20 March 2025

The Genesis Foundation is delighted to announce that highly acclaimed British stage director Joe Hill-Gibbins, has been awarded the £25,000 Genesis Foundation Prize 2025. The prestigious award recognises an exceptional mentor in the arts whose work has profoundly impacted the…

7 March 2025

Taio Lawson, the Genesis Foundation’s current Genesis Fellow and associate director at the Young Vic, has been appointed artistic director and co-chief executive of the Bush Theatre.  Taio will join the organisation and oversee the final season of plays programmed…

4 March 2025

(c) Andy Paradise The Genesis Foundation is pleased to announce a new programme of commissions being premiered in both London and Cumnock by The Sixteen this May. Alongside Harry Christophers, the renowned choir will present two “Voices of Angels” concerts…

17 February 2025

The Almeida Theatre has announced its casting for Genesis Almeida playwright Ava Pickett’s 1536. Written as part of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme and winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the play will star Liv Hill (Alma…

8 January 2025

John Studzinski’s 12-point plan on how to strengthen and expand philanthropy in the UK was published by Bloomberg UK on 25 December. Bloomberg UK article 12.24Download

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