Climate Playwriting Prize 2026

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 will uncover the most exciting new plays about the climate crisis, and support them to find their audiences. 

Shakespeare’s Globe, Climate Spring and Fern Culture are hosting a series of workshops with each of their Associate Partners. These sessions are an opportunity to think creatively and critically about how theatre can respond to the defining challenge of our time. Together we’ll explore how climate stories can become compelling drama: from finding the human stakes inside global issues to building characters, conflict, and theatrical worlds.

As an Associate Partner on the Climate Playwriting Prize, New Earth Theatre hosted the Climate Storytelling for the Theatre: A Workshop for Playwrights which will focus on Climate Justice and how to tell climate stories that are meaningful to diverse audiences who may feel the effects of the climate crisis differently than the majority, and Script Development Table Reads to help with the development of the scripts. 

The Climate Playwriting Prize is a partnership between Shakespeare’s Globe, Climate Spring and Fern Culture, in association with Chichester Festival Theatre, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Mercury Theatre Colchester, New Earth, Pentabus and tiata fahodzi.

If you’re interested in learning more about the workshops offered by the other partners, please visit here.