2025 Theater 503 International Playwriting Award Winner – Theater News

Olga Brega has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Theater 503 International Playwriting Award for her game Donbas. Olga accepted the award from the theater 503 chair James Decker and Artistic Director Anthony Simpson Pike, a joint host of the award event, which was held at 503 studio in No Elms.

Olga Brega is a London -based Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter. It was a finalist for the 2023 Theater 503 International Playwriting Award to the sending of his play return. His other plays include leave (which had a weekly stage as a rock paper scissors in Brookly Jack). She was the winner of a playwright award at the end of the West and was shortlisted for the New Writing Award for the Virtual Bargate Award, Phil Fox Award, and Travors Theater, and a long list for the Brent Wood Prize. He is currently affiliated with the National Theater and the Under Commission for RSC.

Olga's award -winning game Donbas's World Premier Production will be placed in the theater 503 as part of the award. The award also includes £ 6000, a production license, and the publication of the play by Concord Theater company, Samuel French Limited.

Donbas is a tough picture of survival and calm resistance, which suggests a way out of frustration, while a frozen conflict and its echoes show a fracture in the Western world. After the service of time, Sashar visits his father Srivaga and the new girlfriend Marianka in a town in a war -torn Ukrainian town. Their story is found with local soldiers Dmitry and Alexei when they visit a landscape in the form of conflict and are curious with the height of extremism.

Donbas was selected from 1377 dramas from authors from 49 countries. In the Judging Panel, Walid Akhtar (dramatist), Jack Bradley (Dramourg), Tian Brown-Sampson (Director and Theater 503 Board Member), Chris Bush (Playwright), Pooja Ghai (Artistic Director, Spectacular), and Papepipa Hill (Dramaireg and Producer). The other finalists were:

A slave of Ennis, Joslin Hulei (Evanston, USA)
Dead Vol
Dog Dog Dog by Terry Jade Donovan (Stockport, UK)
Last boarding call via Stephani Koo (New York, USA)

Olga Berga, Theater 503 International Playwriting Award: “It is an extraordinary honor to win 2025 Theater 503 International Playwriting Award. I am surprisingly grateful to the theater 503 that it is important to believe in this game, and I am not waiting for such a happy team to bring about such a team now. It has been welcomed to welcome the community to welcome which to welcome which is welcomed, which is welcomed by more than ever.

James Decker, the panel's chair + theater decides about the 503 chair: “Selected from the first drama of 1377, presented by a really remarkable range of international playwrights, this year's shortlist belongs to the English -speaking world, and such sounds, gender and the sound of the sound of the sound, and the sound of the sound.

Anthony Simpson Pike, Theater 503 Artistic Director: “We are glad that the Judging Panel has chosen Donbas to win our International Playwriting Award. The competition was tough and all our finalists are extraordinary writers who fire in their stomachs. There is an amazingly exciting future for lighting.

The 2025 Theater 503 International Playwriting Award has been generous by Philip Corn MBE & Christine Corn and Samuel French Limited, a Konkord Theater company.

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