Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett are Joint Artistic Directors of Paines Plough, who tour (when able of course!) the best new theatre to all four corners of the UK and around the world. They decided to launch a new prize for solely female playwrights. Their first season at Paines Plough looked at inclusivity and unheard voices, entirely female and non-binary playwrights.
In the past three years they’ve produced 30 shows and performed them in over 200 places across four continents. They tour to more than 30,000 people a year from Cornwall to the Orkney Islands; in village halls and Off-Broadway, at music festivals and student unions, online and on radio, and in our own pop-up theatre ROUNDABOUT. They're intention is to bring theatre to everyone, everywhere and dispel the myths of it being a posh privilege.