Theatre and Performance alumni win Bruntwood Prize awards for playwriting

Two recent graduates from the Goldsmiths, University of London MA Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy degree have won Judges Awards from the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015 - a competition which this year saw almost 2,000 scripts submitted.

Kendall Feaver has been recognised for 'The Almighty Sometimes' and Chloe Todd Fordham for 'Sound of Silence'. 

In its 10-year history, the Bruntwood Prize has awarded more than £160,000 to 17 different playwrights, and developed 16 full productions of new plays with 28 UK theatres.

Chair of the judging panel, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre Nicholas Hytner said: “The Bruntwood shortlist has been a pleasure to read, and it includes strikingly accomplished plays covering a startling range of urgent subject matter. It is a privilege to be able to recognise them and to be part of this imaginative and important competition.”

Fellow judge, and chair of property company Bruntwood, Michael Oglesby said on deciding to award an extra prize:

“The extraordinary strength of this years shortlist led us to make the unprecedented decision in our 10th year to award an extra prize to reflect the exciting ambition and unique talent that made it to the final ten.”

This year's judging panel comprised Hytner, Oglesby, directors Sarah Frankcom and Ramin Gray, playwrights Vivienne Franzmann and Bryony Lavery, actor and writer Meera Syal, and Observer journalist Miranda Sawyer.

The winner Katherine Soper was announced this week in Manchester by Nicholas Hytner. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, which receives more entries and offers a bigger prize than any other playwriting prize in Britain.

Find out more about this year's award winners.

Find out more about the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths and the MA in Writing for Performance with pathways in playwriting and dramaturgy.

See one of our award winners, Chloe Todd Fordham, talk about 'Sound of Silence' - "a play about music, that's also about music being silenced" - in the Royal Exchange Theatre's video: