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Dateline: 15th November, 2011
Bruntwood Winner Announced The winners of one of the richest playwriting prizes in the country, the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting run by Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and sponsored by property company Bruntwood, were announced on 15 November. The winning writer is another Londoner—the 2009 winner was London schoolteacher Vivienne Franzmann for her play Mogadishu—Janice Okoh for her second full-length play Three Birds about three siblings left alone at home to fend for themselves and set in the writer's native south east London. The prize is a cheque for £16,000 plus opportunities to develop her play with the Royal Exchange for a possible future production. The three runners-up prizes of £8,000 were awarded to Alistair McDowall for Brilliant Adventures, Gareth Farr for Britannia Waves the Rules and Louise Monaghan for Shadow Play. Franzmann's winning play from the last Bruntwood was seen in the main house at the Royal Exchange earlier this year to great acclaim, and her latest play, The Witness, has just been announced as part of the next season at the Royal Court Theatre in London starring Green Wing's Stephen Mangan. The judging panel for this year's prize is chaired by playwright Simon Stephens with Royal Exchange co-artistic director Sarah Frankcom—director of the current main house revival of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing—actor Sue Johnston, poet and playwright Jackie Kay, actor Maxine Peake and chairman of Bruntwood Michael Oglesby. David Chadderton
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