Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and the organisers of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting have announced Chris Urch as the winner of the inaugural Kenyon Institute Fellowship.
Urch, whose play The Rolling Stone won a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize, will attend the Kenyon Playwrights Conference at Kenyon College, Ohio in June as a representative of the Royal Exchange.
Urch’s most recent play Land of Our Fathers recently enjoyed a sell-out run at the Trafalgar Studios, London.
He said: “I'm delighted to work with some incredible creatives who will be coming together for this remarkable programme. It's a rare opportunity and one I will relish.”
The Kenyon Playwrights Conference brings together three recognised American and British theatre companies with the aim of supporting the development of new plays.