Press Releases

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 ...

20 September 2023

The Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme is a two-year programme that supports emerging and mid-career writers to develop new plays for larger stages. The Genesis Almeida Writers for 2023-2025 are Georgia Bruce, Shahid Iqbal Khan, Martha Loader, Nikhil Parmar ...

13 June 2023

The Genesis Foundation is pleased to announce that Matt Armstrong has joined its Board of Trustees, effective 30 June 2023. ...

26 May 2023

The Sixteen is pleased to announce the names of the 22 young singers who will join Genesis Sixteen’s 13th cohort this autumn.   ...

16 May 2023

Six people with no previous formal training in performance design have been chosen from more than 50 applicants for the pilot Genesis Theatre Design Programme and have begun their studies. ...

11 May 2023

The Genesis Foundation and the Mayor of London today announce the full line-up for the Genesis Conversation to take place at City Hall on Monday 5 June.   ...

24 April 2023

The Royal Academy of Arts is pleased to announce the launch of the Genesis Future Curators Programme, a new programme enabling two 2-year Curatorial positions at the Royal Academy, presented in partnership with the Genesis Foundation. ...

17 April 2023

Applications are now open for the third annual Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers’ Programme, which covers fiction, non-fiction and poetry and includes bursaries, mentoring, peer support and an event at London’s longest-running literary festival ...

12 April 2023

The Young Vic Theatre is delighted to announce director Taio Lawson as the 2023 Genesis Fellow / Associate Director, a two-year programme for experienced directors and theatre-makers to develop their craft in directing, programming and artistic planning ...

8 December 2022

The Genesis Foundation is today announcing the launch of a free training and mentoring programme for global majority applicants who are from socially and economically challenging backgrounds who want to pursue a career in theatre as a designer.  ...

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