Amanda Wilkin

SHEDDING A SKIN Comes to Florida Studio Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Mar 17, 2025

Florida Studio Theatre will produce the North American Premiere of Shedding a Skin, a transformational one-woman play by award-winning playwright Amanda Wilkin.

Cast & Creative Team Set for SHEDDING A SKIN at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 27, 2025

Nightwood Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times revealed a cast and creative team update for their highly anticipated April-May production of Shedding a Skin by Amanda Wilkin. See who is starring and learn more!

Full Cast Set For OTHERLAND at the Almeida Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 7, 2025

Joining the previously announced Jade Anouka, Jackie Clune, Fizz Sinclair and Amanda Wilkin in the world premiere of Chris Bush's new play are Danielle Fiamanya, Laura Hanna, Beth Hinton-Lever and Serena Manteghi.

Florida Studio Theatre Announcs Three New Plays for 2025 Stage III Series Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 5, 2024

Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is set to ignite the 2025 Stage III Series with three compelling and daring plays that promise to challenge, entertain, and provoke thought.

National Youth Theatre Reveals Lineup For Rep Season, What Lies Above and Storyfest
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2024

This summer will see the inaugural StoryFest held at the National Youth Theatre’s RIBA award-winning headquarters in North London. A month-long festival that demonstrates the NYT’s commitment to championing new work from emerging talent, many of whom are alumni of the NYT themselves. 

Verity Bargate Award Submissions Open This April
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 1, 2024

Soho Theatre has announced the April submissions launch for its prestigious new writing competition, the Verity Bargate Award, sponsored by Character 7.

BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS Will Premiere at Soho Theatre Next Spring
by Stephi Wild - Nov 16, 2023

BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS, the winner of the prestigious new writing award, the Verity Bargate Award, will have its world premiere at Soho Theatre next spring. Tickets go on priority sale to members today, and on general sale this Friday.

Rhashan Stone Revealed as Headlong's Writer in Residence for 2023/24
by Stephi Wild - Oct 5, 2023

Award-winning theatre company Headlong has announced Rhashan Stone as Writer in Residence for 2023/4. Learn more about Stone here!

37 Plays Selected as Part Of The Royal Shakespeare Company's Nationwide Playwriting Project
by Stephi Wild - Sep 21, 2023

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that the chosen 37 Plays selected as part of its nationwide playwriting project, will receive script-in-hand readings across the UK throughout the Autumn of 2023. Learn more about the lineup of plays here!

Photos: First Look at Mark Rylance in DR SEMMELWEIS at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jul 11, 2023

All new production photos have been released of Mark Rylance in Dr Semmelweis at Harold Pinter Theatre, opening this evening 11 July and running until 7 October.

Full Cast Revealed For the West End Run of DR SEMMELWEIS, Starring Mark Rylance
by Stephi Wild - Jun 5, 2023

Mark Rylance returns to the West End this summer in Dr Semmelweis opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 11 July, with previews from 29 June, and running until Saturday 7 October.

The Royal Shakespeare Company Reveals Winners of 37 Plays Competition
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2023

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced details of the final 37 Plays selected for its nationwide playwriting search: an ambitious new initiative open to anybody from anywhere in the UK.

Cast Revealed For Talawa's Major New Production, RECOGNITION
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2023

The two lead cast members and the creative team has been announced for Recognition, Talawa Theatre Company's major new production opening this summer.  Talawa, the UK's outstanding Black theatre company, is presenting the premiere of Recognition at Fairfield Halls, as part of This Is Croydon, London Borough of Culture 2023.  Recognition is inspired by the remarkable life and works of dual-heritage Black classical composer, and Croydon resident, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 

Talawa Announces 2023 Season, With New Show and Return of Talawa Stories
by Stephi Wild - Mar 8, 2023

Talawa Theatre Company, the UK’s outstanding Black theatre company, has an exciting 2023 ahead, including new productions, community projects in Croydon and the return of Talawa Stories and Talawa Firsts. 

National Youth Theatre Announces UP ALL NIGHT An All Night Takeover At The Duke Of York's Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 19, 2023

Join National Youth Theatre and some of Britain's leading voices for a world-first all-night West End youth takeover at the iconic Duke of York's Theatre on 10 February 2023. 

National Youth Theatre Announces The Tenth Anniversary Of Its Successful REP Company
by Stephi Wild - Oct 13, 2022

In 2012 Paul Roseby, Artistic Director and CEO of National Youth Theatre (NYT), launched a new REP company that would provide intensive real-world experience each year to a group of young performers and creatives.

2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Awarded to Benedict Lombe for LAVA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 11, 2022

The 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.K. playwright Benedict Lombe for her debut play Lava. In a special presentation at Shakespeare's Globe in London, the Blackburn Prize judges presented Lombe with a cash prize of $25,000, and a signed limited-edition print by renowned artist Willem de Kooning, created especially for the Prize. 

Theatre Royal Stratford East Announces Sky Arts Associates For 2022
by Stephi Wild - Apr 1, 2022

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces Nimmo Ismail and Eva Sampson as their new Sky Arts Artistic Associates. Both take up the role on 1 April 2022.

BWW Review: SHEDDING A SKIN, Soho Theatre
by Paige Cochrane - Mar 5, 2022

Myah is in her thirties, recently single, homeless, now unemployed, and agonizingly uncomfortable in her own skin. After a tense weekend at her parents it's time to get her life together... again.

Amanda Wilkin's SHEDDING A SKIN Returns to Soho Theatre in March
by Stephi Wild - Feb 4, 2022

Soho Theatre's production of the Verity Bargate Award-winning and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-shortlisted play Shedding a Skin, written and performed by Amanda Wilkin, returns Wednesday 2 – Saturday 26 March.