Press Releases
Genesis Foundation announces Joe Hill-Gibbins as recipient of the Genesis…
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 ...
Angelic voices promising to lift you to another world: The…
4 March 2025
World Premieres: Three world premieres by Lucy Walker, Millicent B James and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade explore angels as divine signs in a spiritual dimension in concerts in London and Cumnock. A new commission for Choir and Violin by Anna Clyne will be toured as part of the annual ...
The Almeida Theatre announces initial casting for the world premiere…
17 February 2025
Liv Hill, Siena Kelly and Tanya Reynolds are cast in the world premiere of Ava Pickett’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play 1536. ...
Winsome Pinnock announced as Bristol Old Vic’s first Legacy Writer…
26 September 2024
As part of a revitalised Literary Department within the theatre, in May Bristol Old Vic announced a flagship Five Year Commitment residency programme to support three writers at different stages of their careers: one legacy, one mid-career, and an early-career writer. ...
First play from the Genesis Almeida programme to be commissioned…
20 September 2024
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 of the Almeida’s new season. ...
Sophie Melville and Leah Harvey to star in Girl in…
1 August 2024
The Young Vic Theatre today announces casting for Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith (The Outrun, Nora: A Doll's House) directed by Annie Kershaw (THIS IS NOT A PROTEST, Ulysses), the 2024 recipient of the Genesis Future Directors Award. Girl in the Machine will run from Wednesday ...
New cohort of Genesis Emerging Writers announced for 2024-2025
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 Sixteen announces the 14th cohort of Genesis Sixteen
21 June 2024
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 as announcing Emma Warren as the Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar. ...
Almeida Theatre to host a Genesis Conversation, Playwriting Today: The…
29 April 2024
On Tuesday 14 May the Almeida will host a 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, which gather cultural ...
2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient Annie Kershaw directs Girl…
16 April 2024
Genesis Future Directors Award 2024 recipient Annie Kershaw brings an electrifying production of award-winning Stef Smith’s Girl in the Machine to the Young Vic this autumn. ...
Nancy Medina announces five-year commitment to new writing at Bristol…
27 March 2024
Nancy Medina today outlined her ambitious plans that will support the development of new British writing at Bristol Old Vic. This includes the beginning of a new initiative that will make a five-year commitment to three writers –made possible in its first year thanks to an award ...
Cast announced for The Earthworks directed by Andrea Ling
29 February 2024
The Young Vic Theatre today announces 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 the RSC), it will be in the Young Vic’s Clare Theatre ...
