John Whiting Award
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The John Whiting Award is awarded annually to a British or Commonwealth playwright who, in the opinion of the drama panel of the Arts Council England, shows a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing with particular relevance to contemporary society. The play does not need to have been staged. The award was established in 1965 to commemorate John Whiting and his distinctive contribution to post-war British theatre. The award was initially worth £1000, but is currently worth £6000 per year.
| Year | Playwright | Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| Wole Soyinka | The Interpreters | |
| 1967 | Peter Nichols | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| 1968 | Peter Barnes | The Ruling Class |
| Edward Bond | Saved | |
| 1969 | Howard Brenton | Christie in Love |
| 1970 | Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) | Freehold on Antigone |
| 1971 | Mustapha Matura | As Time Goes By |
| 1972 | Heathcote Williams | AC/DC |
| 1973 | John Arden | |
| 1974 | David Rudkin | |
| 1975 | David Edgar | Destiny |
| 1976 | David Lan | The Winter Dancers |
| 1977 | ||
| 1978 | David Halliwell | |
| Snoo Wilson | The Glad Hand | |
| 1979 | Stephen Bill | The Old Order |
| 1980 | ||
| 1981 | David Pownall | Beef |
| 1982 | Karim Alrawi | Before Dawn |
| 1983 | Peter Flannery | Our Friends in the North |
| 1984 | Ron Hutchinson | The Rat in the Skull |
| 1985 | Guy Hibbert | On the Edge |
| Heidi Thomas | Shamrocks & Crocodiles | |
| 1986 | Nick Dear | The Art of Success |
| 1987 | ||
| 1988 | Iain Heggie | American Bagpipes |
| 1989 | Billy Roche | A Handful of Stars |
| 1990 | Tony Kushner | |
| Lucy Gannon | Keeping Tom Nice | |
| 1991 | Terry Johnson | Imagine Drowning |
| 1992 | Rod Wooden | Your Home in the West |
| 1993 | Martin Crimp | The Treatment |
| Helen Edmundson | The Clearing | |
| 1994 | Jonathan Harvey | Beautiful Thing |
| 1995 | Joe Penhall | Some Voices |
| 1996 | Ayub Khan-Din | East is East |
| 1997 | Ann Coburn | Get up and Tie your Fingers |
| 1998/9 | Roy Williams | Starstruck |
| 1999 | ||
| 2000 | David Greig | The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union |
| Tanika Gupta | The Waiting Room | |
| 2001 | Zinnie Harris | Further than the Furthest Thing |
| 2002 | Peter Rumney | Jumping on my Shadow |
| 2003 | Rona Munro | Iron |
| 2004 | Owen McCafferty | Scenes from the Big Picture |
| 2005 | Fin Kennedy | How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found |
| 2006 | James Philips | Rubenstein Kiss |
| Fraser Grace | Breakfast with Mugabe |
