Press Releases

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.  ...

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.  ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.    ...

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.   ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

13 February 2024

Genesis Almeida New Playwright Kendall Feaver presents her new play, Alma Mater, with a cast including Nathalie Armin, Phoebe Campbell, Liv Hill, Liam Lau-Fernandez, Lia Williams and Susannah Wise. Directed by Polly Findlay. ...

8 February 2024

Annie Kershaw is today announced as the 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient. The Genesis Future Directors Award program is made possible by the Genesis Foundation ...

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