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.