International Playwriting Festival

The International Play writing Festival was founded in 1986 by Steve Gooch and Ted Craig and was hosted by the new playwriting theatre, Warehouse Theatre until the Warehouse Theater Company Limited went into administration in May 2012. The Festival acted to ensure its reputation and continuation and is now under the umbrella of a new company, Warehouse Phoenix Limited. The IPF is held in two parts: the first is a competition with entries accepted from all over the world, which are judged by a panel of distinguished theater practitioners. The second is a celebration and a showcase of the selected plays which is performed the following May.

The IPF has two international partners - Extra Candoni, Udine, Italy, and Theatro Ena, Nicosia, Cyprus representing Italian and Greek new writing. There are also contributions from students from the BRIT School - the Performing Arts and Technology School. "Doing playwrights and the theatre at large a fine service". Jeremy Kingston, The Times 1990.

The 2013 IPF was held at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon on the 29th and 30 June 2013 and the selected play "The Road to Nowhere" by Sean Cook was given a full production at the Aschcroft Theatre in Croydon from 2nd to 5 October 2013.

Writers discovered by the IPF include:

The Festival patron is Thelma Holt CBE.

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