 "Doing playwrights and the theatre at large a fine service" The Times The International Playwriting Festival has been discovering and promoting the work of new playwrights since 1986. Over the years it has consolidated the Warehouse Theatre Company's role as a powerhouse of new writing. The IPF is held in two parts: The first is a competition with entries accepted from all over the world, which are judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners. The second is a showcase of the selected plays which is held in the following March. The IPF also presents the best in new Italian playwriting, in partnership with Premio Candoni - the foremost in Italy and the best in new Greek playwriting, in association Theatro Ena, Nicosia. This enables the work of selected writers from each festival to be presented by the partners, and thus the opportunity to see their work performed internationally. Feastival Patron: Thelma Holt CBE IPF Achievements 1986 - 2002 1986 1986 Beached by Kevin Hood Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1987 Revived at the Old Red Lion 1990 Thames TV Theatre Writers' Bursary Warehouse Resident Playwright 1991 further plays: The Astronomers Garden produced Warehouse Theatre/Royal Court Theatre 1991 Sugar Hill Blues produced Warehouse Theatre/Hampstead Theatre 1990 Currently Film and TV screenwriter Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1988, also at Soho Poly 1988 Pavane for a Sad Witch by Sheila Dewey Premiere: Tabard Theatre 1989 Thames TV Theatre Writers' Bursary; Arts Council Bursary further plays: Turner's Crossing, Eva and the Cabin Boy produced Warehouse Theatre 1992/1994 Currently co-director of Warehouse Writers' Workshops Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1989 after a Solo Flight across the Atlantic by Ellen Fox Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1990 Foreign Lands by Karen Hope Premiere: The Finborough 1993 Premiere: The Man In the Moon 1992 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1992 currently TV & Film The Rock Station by Ger Fitzgibbon Premiere: Soho Theatre Company at The Cockpit Theatre 1992 Through Savage Europe by Allan Leas Produced by BBC Radio 1992 Idiots Waltz by Roy Smiles Premiere: The Finborough 1993 Arts Council Bursary Warehouse Resident Playwright 1994 further plays: The Court Jester, Dinner with the Borgias produced Warehouse Theatre 1994/1995 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1993 Arts Council Bursary Warehouse Resident Playwright 1995 further plays: Groping in the Dark/Coming Up produced Warehouse Theatre 1996/7 Commision: (RSC) The Pilgrim's Progress currently co-director of Warehouse Writers' Workshops Liberty Oregon by Steffen Silvis Premiere: The Man In the Moon & Traverse, Edinburgh 1993 Premiere: Orange Tree Theatre 1994 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1995 (retitled Nervous Breakdown) Malice by Thomas Kett Premiere: The Finborough 1994 (retitled Acid Hearts) Premiere: Warehouse Theatre 1995 Soup by Michael Mears Premiere: Salisbury Playhouse 1995/Fringe First Edinburgh 1995 Off the Bone by Richard Vincent Premiere: Courtyard Theatre 1995 Arts Council Bursary Warehouse Resident Playwright 1999 further plays: Happy & Glorious produced Warehouse Theatre 1999 Proprietà Privata (Real Estate) Warehouse Theatre/Teatro Colosseo Rome Dec 2001 Skin Deep produced Warehouse Theatre 2002 currently TV: Casualty Fine and Private Place by Peter Moffat Broadcast on BBC Radio 1997 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre and at the Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy 1996 also broadcast on BBC Radio Thames TV Theatre Writers' Bursary Warehouse Resident Playwright 1996 further plays:The Blue Garden produced Warehouse Theatre 1997, Nabokov's Gloves produced Hampstead Theatre 1998. TV: North Square, Cambridge Spies Premiere: Warehouse Theatre and at the Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy 1997 further play produced Hampstead Theatre 1998 Viva La Diva by Chris Ballance Premiere: Edinburgh Festival 2000 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre in co-production with Octagan Theatre, Bolton 1998 Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy 1999 Premiere: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000 Warehouse Resident Playwright 2001 Premiere: Warehouse Theatre and at Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy 2000 State Theatre, Yambol and State Satirical Theatre, Sofia 2000 The Shagaround by Maggie Nevill Premio Candoni-Arta Terme June 2000 Premiere: May 2001 (a co-production by Warehouse Theatre & Nuffield Theatre Southampton) at the Nuffield Theatre and then toured to Ashcroft Theatre, Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal, Brighton Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy June 2001 with Nickolas Grace, Michael Praed, Sabina Franklyn & Sue Appleby directed by Ted Craig Red on Black by Andrew Bridgmont Premiere: Hen & Chickens Theatre September 2003 2001 Knock Down Ginger by Mark Norfolk Premio Candoni-Arta Terme Italy November 2002 world premiere with Troy Glasgow, Judith Jacob, Darren Machin, William Maxwell and Sylvester Williams directed by Jeffery Kissoon Premiere: Warehouse Theatre June/July 2003 further plays: Wrong Place produced Soho Theatre October 2003 Six Black Candles by Des Dillon Premiere: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh March 2004 2002 Paradiso by Rajendranath Ramcharitar (showcased in Writers in the Wings June 2003) Black Other by Dystin Johnson (currently working with National Theatre Studio) top of page IPF 2003 IPF 2004 IPF2005 IPF2006 IPF2007 IPF2008/9 IPF 2010 IPF 2011 IPF 2012 IPF 2013 warehouse theatre home page |