Judges



JONATHAN HARVEY - www.imdb.com/name/nm1281893

Jonathan Harvey (born 1968) is a British playwright whose work has earned multiple awards. Hailed as "the new theatrical voice of his generation", Jonathan Harvey first serious attempt as a playwright was in 1987. Fuelled by the attraction of a £1,000 first prize to young writers from the Liverpool Playhouse, the result was The Cherry Blossom Tree, a garish blend of suicide, murder and nuns. This effort won him the National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award.





He went on to write Mohair (1988), Wildfire (1992) and Babies (1993), the latter winning him the George Devine Award for that year and The Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award for 1994. In 1993, Harvey premiered Beautiful Thing, a gay-themed play-turned-movie for which he won the prestigious John Whiting Award the following year.

Television and film works include: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing (Channel Four/Island World Productions); the 1998 hit/cult comedy series starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus, Gimme Gimme Gimme (Tiger Aspect); Murder Most Horrid (BBC); and Coronation Street (ITV).

Latest News.

12 is down to 4!

We are very happy to announce that the final four scripts are:

Congratulations to you and well done to everyone who entered. Keep your eyes open for production updates and remember to enter again next year.

August 23rd, 2010

Submission Deadline Expired.

The deadline has been and gone, keep an ear to the ground to find out the finalists.


Submission deadline: 4 July 2010

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