Verity Bargate Award

 

Background

The winner receives £7000 in respect of an exclusive option for Soho Theatre to produce their play. Character 7 offer one writer the opportunity to develop their storytelling skills for TV drama. The writer will be drawn from the Verity Bargate Award longlist, awarded a grant and tasked with developing a number of ideas with a view to optioning one of them to take to script.

Established in 1982 to honour their co-founder, past winners include Vicky Jones, Thomas Eccleshare, Insook Chappell, Matt Charman, Bonnie Greer and Toby Whithouse.

This years's judges include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Arinze Kene, Lolita Chakrabarti and Laura Wade.

The Verity Bargate Longlist 2020 is announced
 
https://sohotheatre.com/news/soho-theatres-verity-bargate-award-2020-longlist-announced/
 

Amanda Wilkin has won the 2020 Verity Bargate Award with her play 'Shedding A Skin'

"As sponsor of the Verity Bargate Award, I could not be more thrilled that Shedding A Skin has won this years's prize. Amanda Wilkin has crafted a play that is as funny as it is warm, as profound as it is of the moments. She's captured a generation. It's a work of incredible beauty and great wit, she will go far"
Character 7's Stephen Garrett

"I was not prepared to be kidnapped by a play and a voice so completely as I was by Amanda Wilkin's Shedding A Skin. I'm excited to see this profound, funny, modern, stark and hopeful play performed at Soho Theatre. Then of course, after that, just everything Amanda puts her pen to!"
Pheobe Waller-Bridge