The Bill Cashmore Award, presented by Young Lyric, offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays by writers aged 18-30, to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2026.
The award is kindly supported by the Bill Cashmore Award Founder Sasha Bates. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people through programmes, workshops and activities.
We are pleased to announce the shortlisted plays for the Bill Cashmore Award 2026: One Act Play Prize
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Title of play
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Writer Name
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| Formication | Seán Butler |
| Not That Kind Of Person | A.L.Benjamin |
| Savage | Madeline Whitby |
| Simon Says | Elizabeth Whitby |
| Stone Cold Dead | Jess Naomi |
The longlisted plays for the Bill Cashmore Award 2026: One Act Play Prize are as follows:
| Writer Name | Title of Play |
| A. L. Benjamin | Not That Kind Of Person |
| Abby J. Walker | The Beneficiaries |
| Anouk Saint | Smear |
| Aoife Parr | Renewal |
| Elizabeth Whitby | Simon Says |
| Hannah Martin | Dog Eats Dog |
| Imogen Shackleton | Three Weird Sisters |
| Jess Naomi | Stone Cold Dead |
| Joe Wiltshire | Kummerspeck |
| Kalea | SQUAD |
| Madeline Whitby | Savage |
| Rosalind Jackson Roe | Fractured Elegies |
| Sameer Ali | The Hydraulic Play |
| Seán Butler | formication |
| Susie Weidmann | Spitting distance |
| Tabitha Hayward | Koalas |
| Tiajna Amayo | Real |
| Tom Draper | I support… |
| Tom Murray | My AI Funeral |
| Will Pinhey | Gears, Tears and Scaffolding |
