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1 August 2024

The Young Vic Theatre has announced its casting for Girl in the Machine directed by Annie Kershaw, the 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient. Written by award-winning playwright Stef Smith (The Outrun, Nora: A Doll’s House), it will run in the Young Vic’s Clare Theatre from Wednesday 16 – Saturday…

24 July 2024

The Jewish Literary Foundation today announces this year’s Genesis Emerging Writers cohort, with the successful fiction, non-fiction and poetry projects taking us to Lithuania, the American South, Belfast and beyond. The programme, a partnership between the Genesis Foundation and the…

21 June 2024

Ground-breaking partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation has now supported over 300 young singers  The Sixteen is pleased to reveal the names of the 22 young singers who will join Genesis Sixteen’s 14th cohort this autumn, as well…

29 April 2024

On Tuesday 14 May the Almeida Theatre will host the latest Genesis Conversation, Playwriting Today: The Hard Questions, a live panel discussion asking the tough questions facing playwrights both present and future. Genesis Conversations is a series of free discussions,…

16 April 2024

The 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient Annie Kershaw will direct Girl in the Machine by award-winning playwright Stef Smith at the Young Vic this Autumn.   “The gap is getting smaller between the human and the hardware.”    A story of…

27 March 2024

https://youtu.be/ohEBWxp6p4U Nancy Medina, Artistic Director at Bristol Old Vic, has been awarded the 2024 Genesis Foundation Prize. The Genesis Foundation Prize recognises an outstanding mentor of artistic talent whose work has effected real change in the practice and careers of…

12 March 2024

Credit: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Instagram Genesis Almeida writer Ava Pickett has won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a prestigious playwriting award for women+ playwrights. Ava won with 1536, the play she wrote during the 2021/22 Genesis Almeida New Playwrights,…

29 February 2024

(c) Daniel Sutka, Ruth Crafer, YellowBaby The Young Vic Theatre has announced its casting for The Earthworks directed by Andrea Ling, the 2023 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient. Written by Olivier Award winner Tom Morton-Smith (My Neighbour Totoro, Oppenheimer at…

13 February 2024

https://youtu.be/siAojzWD3RY Genesis Almeida Playwright Kendall Feaver’s Alma Mater has been announced as part of the Almeida Theatre’s 2024 season. This new play directed by Polly Findlay (Assassins, Chichester Festival theatre; Beginning, National Theatre) and starring Phoebe Campbell (House of the…

8 February 2024

(c) Giorgia Young Annie Kershaw is the recipient of the Young Vic's 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award, a highly sought after professional training opportunity that enables early-career artists to direct a production at the theatre.  Annie is currently the Carne…

10 October 2023

George Turvey, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Papatango Theatre Company and winner of the 2022 Genesis Foundation Prize, is using part of his Genesis prize money to commission a short film to celebrate 15 years of the Papatango New Writing…

25 September 2023

The Royal Academy of Arts has announced the first two curators joining the Genesis Future Curators Programme. Chosen from over 450 applicants, Natasha Fyffe and Gabriel Jamroz will begin 2-year full-time paid positions at the RA this week, with Natasha working in the…

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