Winners of the 2022 Playwrights' Scheme Bursary announced

The initiative awards six bursaries a year to new theatre writers. Four bursaries are supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation (one is dedicated to the memory of literary agent Tom Erhardt) and two by Film4. Each bursary is worth £10,000.

In 2022 the successful writers will embark upon one-year attachments with the theatres outlined above, giving them the opportunity to meet a variety of theatre practitioners and to have first- hand experience of a working theatre. Their principal task during the 12 months of the bursary is to write at least one new full-length play.

The judging panel for this year’s award, chaired by Richard Eyre, included Jack Bradley from Sonia Friedman Productions, Ben Coren from Film4, Kiln Theatre artistic director Indhu Rubasingham and playwright Nicholas Wright.

The recipients of the bursaries for 2022 are:

Karis Kelly for Consumed and will work with Lyric Theatre Belfast

Amy Trigg for Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me Kiln Theatre

Natasha Brown for I Am (Not) Kanye West Boundless Theatre

Hannah Lavery for Lament for Shiku Bayo Traverse Theatre

Yolanda Mercy for Quarter Life Crisis High Tide Theatre

Nina Segal for O, Island! (The Tom Erhardt Bursary) Royal Shakespeare Company