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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

27 November 2024

After 11 years at the helm of the Genesis Foundation's partner the Almeida Theatre, Rupert Goold will begin a new venture at the Old Vic Theatre. The Foundation's Founder and Chairman John Studzinski said: “Rupert Goold embodies artistic innovative leadership,…

26 September 2024

(c) Matt Roberts Bristol Old Vic today announces Winsome Pinnock as the first Legacy Writer as part of its Five-Year Commitment residency programme.  The first year of the programme was launched with the £25,000 Genesis Foundation Prize awarded to BOV’s…

20 September 2024

https://youtu.be/VccHNa8eGZ0 Ava Pickett becomes the first writer from the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays programme to be commissioned for the Almeida Theatre's main stage. Directed by Lydnsey Turner, 1536 runs from 6 May – 7 June 2025, as part…

17 September 2024

In collaboration with the Genesis Foundation and Boswell Book Festival, The Cumnock Tryst will host the latest Genesis Conversation exploring the role the arts can play in rural regeneration.  Founded by composer and longtime Genesis Foundation collaborator Sir James MacMillan…

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…

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