Presenting the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025. 20 outstanding plays, selected from 1275 submissions.
The shortlist in full:
- Weeping Woman by Ellen Bannerman
- The Fingerprint Bureau by Sonali Bhattacharyya
- HIDE AND SEEK WITH JIMMY LING by Naomi Sumner Chan
- I LOVE STRANGERS by Nurit Chinn
- Sapling by Georgina Duncan
- The (Yellow) Wallpaper by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
- F**king Jane Austen by Billie Esplen
- A Patent Lie by Sarah Jane Gordon
- Three Boys by Danielle James
- Witch Play by Cordelia Lynn
- We’re Gonna Kill Billy by Alex Medland
- A to B by Tia-Renee Mullings
- Yes Chef by Laurie Ogden
- Przewalski’s Horses by Silva Semerciyan
- A Search for the End by Stef Smith
- Belongings by Jane Upton
- Up in the Mango Trees by Britny Virginia
- The Room by Manjinder Virk
- The Children of Glyndwr by Emily White
- Down Side Up by Mei Leng Yew
The Final Five playwrights will be announced in December 2025. The judging panel (chaired by Indhu Rubasingham, who’s joined by Milli Bhatia, Romola Garai, Alice Hamilton, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Mel Kenyon, Nancy Medina, Kat Pierce, Nina Steiger, and Katharine Viner) will meet in January to decide the winner, who receives £20,000 in respect of an option for Paines Plough, Sheffield Theatres and Ellie Keel productions to produce their play, as well as a publishing deal with Concord Theatricals UK.
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