We are developing new work for production with emerging and acclaimed writers. See below for details of the plays and playwrights we have commissioned recently.
Boyhood by Conor Hunt with music by Conrad Murray.
One mic. One story. One life-changing night.
Step into the world of Jay — 17, swaggering, sharp-witted, and standing on the edge of adulthood. In this explosive one-person play, rap meets real talk as we follow a teenage boy navigating mates, music, masculinity… and unexpected fatherhood.
Set to a pulsing live looped soundtrack, BOYHOOD is an unfiltered rollercoaster through grief, loyalty, and growing the hell up. From park swings and pints to playgrounds and parenthood, Jay’s world is as brutally honest as it is heartbreakingly poetic.
Boyhood was developed with young men across South London and had an R&D phase supported by Arts Council England in Summer 2025. We look forward to producing the show in 2026. Look out for more details coming soon!
Conor Hunt is a writer whose work explores everyday people in extraordinary circumstances. His first play The F Word was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival, receiving critical acclaim and his second, Who Cares? was performed at the Vault Festival, with Lyn Gardner saying it was ‘crucial theatre’. He is also Senior Creative Learning Manager at ATG where he won a UK Theatre Award for his work.
Conrad Murray is an award-winning (OFFIE Award, Pick of The Fringe, The Arts Foundation Nominee, Fringe First) theatre-maker, writer, director, actor, performer, rapper, beatboxer, livelooper and singer. Raised in Mitcham, South-West London, he is passionate about making work through hip-hop and beatbox theatre. His credits include Pied Piper – a hip-hop musical, Romeo and Juliet (Polka Theatre), and Unexpected Twist (National Tour). He is the founder and Artistic Director of BAC Beatbox Academy and was one of The Stage Top 100.
The Dons by Daniel Ward.
A play that follows the fans’ stories behind the rise of Wimbledon AFC – a fan-owned club that went from the bottom of the football pyramid to League One in only 25 years, following the original Wimbledon club being moved to Milton Keynes. Underneath the football, it’s a story about how a community coming together can make things happen.
Daniel Ward is a writer and actor from Merton. A graduate of the NYT and LAMDA, he has performed in theatres all over the country whilst continually writing and honing his artistic voice. This led to his debut play The Canary and the Crow, which opened Edinburgh Fringe 2019 to rousing accolades and sold-out performances. It went on to receive the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence before embarking on a UK tour, which included a run at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and ended 2020 on a high by winning Daniel the George Devine Award.
He wrote Unlocking Canon’s House for Attic.
Lie in It by Emma-Louise Howell
A play exploring the housing crisis and particularly the difficulties of ‘Generation Rent’. The play will explore the impact of housing insecurity on identity and mental health. The piece is being developed in three cities, all on the frontline of the housing crisis: London, Lincoln and York.
Emma-Louise Howell is an award-winning writer from East Anglia. Her debut play Patterns, won the Michael Ross Award from RADA before going on to be shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Prize. Her second play, I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life, was selected as the Mercury Theatre’s inaugural Page-to-Stage Original Production and a Pleasance National Partnerships production for Edinburgh Fringe 2024. Labelled as ‘one of our undoubted stars of the future’ (Broadway Baby), Emma has been shortlisted for the Women in Theatre Lab, BBC Writersroom, ITV Original Voices and Stage Innovation Award.
How To Be Kind by Sian Owen
A play which explores how to make the world better when all you want to do is burn the world down.
Sian Owen is a graduate of the MA Writing for Performance Programme at Goldsmiths College. Her play Restoration won the Oxford Playhouse New Writing Competition. She has been part of the Sherman Cymru Advanced Writers Group and the Royal Court Studio Group. She has been part of the invitational BBC Writers’ Group-Welsh Voices and was long-listed for the BBC/NTW Wales Writer in Residence Scheme 2019. She is currently on attachment at the National Theatre and under commission for Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre.