King’s Cross Award for New Writing winner announced
Rob Johnston has won the King’s Cross Award for New Writing 2011.
The award, which is now in its seventh year, is run by the Courtyard Theatre. Johnston’s winning play, entitled Einstein’s Daughter, “explores the controlling relationship between a scientist and his daughter”. Johnston has been working in fringe theatre in the Manchester area for 12 years and is currently working on a piece for Oldham Coliseum.
A staged reading of Einstein’s Daughter will be presented on April 19 at the Courtyard Theatre and Johnston will be given £4,000 prize money on the same date.
The judging panel for the award consisted of writer and director Debbie Isitt, actor and playwright Robin Soans, director and playwright Jonathan Holloway, director Howard Ross, writer and academic Kenneth Pickering and June Abbott, co-artistic director of the Courtyard Theatre.
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