Press Coverage
2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient Annie Kershaw directs Girl…
18 April 2024
In April 2024, the Young Vic announced that the 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient Annie Kershaw will direct Girl in the Machine by award-winning playwright Stef Smith in Autumn 2024. ...
Genesis Almeida writer Ava Pickett wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
12 March 2024
In March 2024, Genesis Almeida writer Ava Pickett won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a prestigious playwriting award for women+ playwrights, with her play 1536. ...
29 January 2024
The latest musical to be developed through the Genesis Music Theatre Programme is The Witches, a rip-roaring musical version of Roald Dahl’s timeless tale, which opened in the Olivier Theatre in November 2023. ...
Genesis Conversations: The Future of British Musical Theatre
11 September 2023
The first of the latest series of Genesis Conversations took place on 07 September 2023 and was hosted in partnership with the National Theatre. ...
Taio Lawson Announced as 2023-24 Genesis Fellow / Young Vic…
13 April 2023
In April 2023, the Genesis Foundation and the Young Vic Theatre announced director Taio Lawson as the 2023 Genesis Fellow, a two-year programme for experienced directors and theatre-makers to develop their craft in directing, programming and artistic planning. ...
Genesis Theatre Design Programme
13 February 2023
The Genesis Theatre Design Programme is a free two-year part-time course which will train and support six designers with the aim of improving global majority representation among theatre designers in the industry ...
Tower of London | A Tribute to Elizabeth II: A…
24 November 2022
In October 2022, the Genesis Foundation commissioned ‘A Tribute to the Life and Reign of Elizabeth II: A Garland for the Queen’, a concert held in the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London, performed by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. ...
Honours awarded for philanthropy halve in five years | The…
9 February 2021
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Britain should do more to lure foreign philanthropists | The…
9 February 2021
For the public good, philanthropy needs to become more deeply entrenched in our culture. It is not just a matter of money but of mindset. ...
Genesis Kickstart Fund’s Advisory Council
12 November 2020
The Genesis Kickstart Fund will be rolled out in 2021, the year that marks the 20th anniversary of the Genesis Foundation. It will generate structured work opportunities for a diversity of freelance creative professionals, who, as they participate in future-facing projects, will ...
£1 million Genesis Kickstart Fund
16 October 2020
The Genesis Foundation, chaired by John Studzinski, announces a new £1mn Kickstart Fund to support freelancers in the creative sector. The fund will be rolled out in 2021, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Foundation. It is designed to enable outstanding freelance artists to ...
It’s time for philanthropists to stand up for theatre’s freelancers
27 July 2020
The emergency fund created by the Genesis Foundation will go at least some way to ensuring the survival of the many freelancers involved in partner-run programmes. ...
