Chris Urch named first Kenyon Institute Fellow

The Royal Exchange Theatre and the organizers of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting have announced Chris Urch as the winner of the inaugural Kenyon Institute Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded by the Royal Exchange Theatre to winners of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

Urch, whose play The Rolling Stone won a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize, will attend the Kenyon Playwrights Conference at Kenyon College, Ohio in June 2015 as a representative of the Royal Exchange Theatre. Urch’s most recent play Land of Our Fathers recently enjoyed a sell-out run at the Trafalgar Studios, London.

The Kenyon Playwrights Conference brings together three recognized American and British theatre companies every summer at the Kenyon Institute in Gambier, Ohio, with the aim of supporting the development of new plays. The program includes a commission and a residency, enabling each company to develop a play with a writer of its choice, in conjunction with a week-long workshop for emerging and mid-career adult playwrights.

This year’s participating theatre companies are Paines Plough, Playwrights Horizons and La Jolla Playhouse. The third annual Kenyon Playwrights Conference will be presented June 7-13, 2015, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Congrats to Chris!

 

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