Submissions are now open for The Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize.
The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities. The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.
CRITERIA
- Be aged 18 – 30 (see FAQs for more details on our criteria)
- Be based in the UK (including Northern Ireland)
- Be without professional representation (i.e. an agent)
- Have no more than 2 professional writing credits
- The script submitted cannot already have been professionally staged (i.e. to a paying audience)
- The script submitted must be written by a single author
PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD
- The script must be written for stage (see FAQs on the type of work we accept)
- The script must be no more than 20 pages
- The script must be suitable for a cast of 5 actors aged 18-25
- Running length to be 30 minutes
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23rd December 2024 at 12pm
For more information, please read our FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS page.
