Be an Angel - join a radical new scheme to 'buy time' for struggling new playwrights to write!

The aim is quite simply to encourage new voices from every corner of our multifaceted society by buying them the time to write. We want to make sure that talented new writers from backgrounds that offer them little encouragement or financial support do not give up but are given a fair chance to prove themselves and take their place among our culture's storytellers.

Every year an Advisory Panel of 'talent scouts' and 'experts' will recommend and short-list new writers who show talent and need help. One writer will be chosen for adoption each year.

Paul Anthony Morris was the first playwright chosen for the scheme in 2008 and, with our help, completed his new play IDENTITY. Pericles Snowdon became the second playwright to win the award in 2009 . He is writing a play about Romany gypsies today and we are aiming to raise at least £10,000 for him by creating a family of supporters around him. The levels of support are as follows:

(equivalent to £20 a week)

• will receive monthly email bulletins from Pericles reporting on the adventures and misadventures of the writing process giving a rare peep through the keyhole at a writer's life
• will be invited to 3 events a year to meet Pericles during a workshop or for a chatty drink
• will be invited to a performed reading of the final draft where feedback is more than welcome
• will be invited to a preview night if the play is staged
• will be invited to the opening night and party if the play is staged
• will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.

(equivalent to £10 a week)

• will receive monthly email bulletins from Pericles
• will be invited to 1 event during the year to meet Pericles and catch up
• will be invited to a performed reading of the final draft where feedback is more than welcome
• will be invited to the opening night and party if the play is staged
• will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.

• will receive monthly email bulletins from Pericles
• will be invited to the opening night and party if the play is staged
• will be credited in the programme for the first and all future productions of the play.

At the end of the process all Pericles's supporters will have a finished play and will be the 'parents' of that play.

To become an Angel, please contact Sofie Mason on sofie@offwestend.com or call 020 7277 1511 to talk it through - thank you!