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. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.
Kindly supported by Bill Cashmore Award Founder Sasha Bates.
We are pleased to announce the Longlist and Shortlist for 2025.
Shortlist
The Bells of Draycliff by Bibi Lucille
The Mending Circle by Chloe Yates
people watching people by Danielle James
Icarus by Emma Howlett
Field Work by Madeline Whitby Ramsbottom
Whited Sepulchre by Sahra Warsame
Friendsgiving by Shona Graham
Y2Gay by Tom Faulkner
Longlist
Shoebox’d by Lola Rose Wood
people watching people by Danielle James
Icarus by Emma Howlett
The Siblings Who Made a Game of Death by Gareth Mattey
The Hounds of New England by Ben Ramsey
The Bells of Draycliff by Bibi Lucille
The Mending Circle by Chloe Yates
The Vortex Practitioner by Cloud McDowell
Friendsgiving by Shona Graham
Bring me the head of Doctor Vohra by Sameer Ali
Scraps by Isaac Frost
Field Work by Madeline Whitby Ramsbottom
Whited Sepulchre by Sahra Warsame
Y2Gay by Tom Faulkner
Congratulations to all the longlisted and shortlisted writers.
The winners will be announced in mid March.
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