The Women in Theatre Lab is a partnership between Jermyn Street Theatre and Her Story Productions to create a new UK version of America’s Women’s Project (WP) Lab and Australia’s Women in Theatre programme.

The Women in Theatre Lab supports 10 of the UK’s most talented emerging and mid-career female playwrights selected from an open call each year, providing them with advice from leading female playwrights, a craft toolkit, business skills toolkit, one to one mentoring, a seed commission and a showcase.

In addition, the Women in Theatre Lab works with a small number of partner theatres to help support female playwrights those theatres would like to support in order to help increase gender equality in UK theatre.

Writers selected for the 2024 cohort are:

Emma Baim 

Nina Berry 

Millie Bloom

Naomi Sumner Chan

Titilola Dawudu

Karis Kelly

Rafaella Marcus

Charlotte Small

Sumerah Srivastav

Elle Van Lil

Writers nominated by theatres are:

Lucie Lovatt, nominated by Theatr Clwyd

Ginni Manning, nominated by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse

Racheal Ofori, nominated by Fuel

Melanie Pennant, nominated by Tamasha

Contributors to the programme include leading female playwrights April de Angelis and Timberlake Wertenbaker, BAFTA winning actress Joanna Scanlan, Emmy winning actress and co-creator of Smack the Pony Doon Mackichan, Artistic Director of the Jermyn Street Theatre Stella Powell-Jones and co-Directors of Her Story Productions and the Women in Theatre Lab Jennifer Tuckett and Polly Kemp.

The programme received nearly 1000 applications in its first year and aims to support the most talented emerging and mid-career female playwrights in the UK and, via this, help improve gender equality in UK theatre inspired by the 5 year research project Women in Theatre led by Jennifer Tuckett and partnered by The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, WOW, Equity, ERA 50:50, Black Woman in Theatre and others.

 

For more information please go to http://womenintheatrelab.com