NewsNick Payne wins 2009 George Devine Award
Playwright Nick Payne has won the George Devine Award for the Most Promising Playwright of 2009. The award was announced on 18th May 2009 and Nick won it with his play If There is I Haven't Found it Yet.
If There Is... will receive its premiere later this year at the Bush Theatre.
The George Devine award is an annual award for new writing for the theatre. Coming with a prize of £10 000, it is open to any playwright for an original stage play which need not have been produced. It was set up in 1966 as a memorial to the life and talent of the founding Artistic Director of the Royal Court, George Devine.
Previous winners of the George Devine Award include: Edward Bond (1968), Mike Leigh (1973), Hanif Kureishi (1980), Martin McDonagh (1996), Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh (1997), Rebecca Gilman, Mark O'Rowe (1999) and Gary Owen (2005).