Young Playwrights Award

The first year for our Young Playwrights Award has now completed. Check back here for more updates coming soon.

The 2025 winners of our inaugural Young Playwrights Award are:

Ages 13-15
Happily Haunted by Aasiya Nsubuga
Hello, My Name Is… by Marcos Byrne
Library of the Imagination by Leon Chin-Kemp

Ages 16-18

Bad Hair Day by Sapphire Naggie
Fox Hunt by George McAree
Godot’s To-Do List by Leo Simpe-Asante

The plays were presented in a festival of professional, staged readings from 10-12 July at the Royal Court Theatre, London. You can read all the winning plays in the free, special edition e-book published by Nick Hern Books, available here: Nick Hern Books | Royal Court Young Playwrights Award Winners 2025

For 2025, the shortlisted writers were: Henry Gill, Harry Jones, Noble Laturia, Lily Knott, Salma Jaama, Charlie Swann, Jessica Obace, Keturah Peirson, Tobi Sulemon, Asia Pshenychna, Ben Hickey, Naima Onitolo, Noah Dryden, Holly Hellman and Joelthomas Coleallison.