Be an Angel!
Join a radical new scheme to ‘buy time’ for struggling new playwrights to write!
The Adopt a Playwright Award gathers individual donors together to help playwrights of quality, who have had at least one play staged and come from backgrounds that offer little encouragement or financial support, to find the time and financial backing to go on writing and take their place among our culture’s storytellers.
Thank you and your Angels for creating such a support for playwrights. Playwriting is lonely, hard and taxing – to have an organisation such as yours that says the playwright matters and that their well-being matters is magnificent…”
Kwame Kwei-Armah (Artistic Director of Young Vic)
Angels – £1,000
(equivalent to £20 a week)
- will receive monthly email bulletins reporting on the adventures and misadventures of the writing process giving a rare peep through the keyhole at a writer’s life
- will be invited to 3 events a year to meet the playwright during a workshop or for a chatty drink
- will be invited to a performed reading of the final draft where feedback is more than welcome
- will be invited to a preview night if the play is staged
- will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.
Archangels – £500
(equivalent to £10 a week)
- will receive monthly email bulletins from the playwright
- will be invited to 1 event during the year to meet the writers and catch up
- will be invited to a performed reading of the final draft where feedback is more than welcome
- will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.
Cherubim and Cherubettes
anything you can afford below £500
- will receive monthly email bulletins from the writer
- will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.
At the end of the process all supporters will have a finished play and will be the ‘parents’ of that play.
To become an Angel, please contact Sofie Mason on sofiemason@tiscali.co.uk or call 07957 344667 to talk it through – thank you!