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Thought I'd better update our pages with some recent good news:
Ed Hime won the Prix Italia prize for best original radio drama. Ed was one of our '50' writers, a project we ran with the Royal Court Theatre. Having confessed to never listened to a radio drama before, Ed pitched his idea and it was commissioned for The Wire on BBC Radio 3. The play was also brilliantly produced by Jessica Dromgoole, my predecessor here at writersroom.
Mike Bartlett's Not Talking won both the Imison and Tinniswood prizes. Mike's original stage play came through the writersroom unsolicited system, was recommended heartily on to the Commissioning Editor of the Friday Play and subsequently produced, starring Richard Briers and June Whitfield. Nice to see the system working so well.
Levi David Addai, a young writer and another one of the '50', came on a development scheme with Eastenders in January 2007. He subsequently was taken onto the full shadow scheme and has just been commissioned for the show.
And Dystin Johnson, yet another of our '50 writers, pitched an original TV series as part of the project and her fantastic idea is now in development with BBC Drama.
Great news for all the writers involved.
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