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Person with short hair, earrings, wearing a white shirt, standing in a dark space, possibly on stage, with a slight smile and hands positioned as if dancing or performing.
A woman wearing a pink fuzzy sweater and black pants speaking into a microphone on stage with a black background. There are three out-of-focus people in the background.
A young woman with dark skin and wearing a black top sitting in a dimly lit environment, looking to her left. She has earrings and a necklace, and her hair is styled short and curly. There are two women visible in the background, one on the right with red hair and another partially visible on the left, all in a dark setting with minimal lighting.
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At a FAFO new writing night, we give the power to the audience, and they get to vote for ‘the play they want to see more of’ - the one they didn’t want to end.

What is FAFO?

People sitting in a circle and laughing during a group discussion or meeting in a dark room.

This short play gets development support from the team to build a full draft, and then we platform this to the industry.

We’re here to bridge the gap between scratch nights and getting a play commissioned, and we showcase what’s hot, what’s smart, and what’s funny.

What we offer our

winners

The Writer chooses one of the following development pathways:

  • We provide:

    • Up to one year of script development support with directors, dramaturges and other creative practitioners as deemed suitable by the FAFO team.

    • A rehearsed reading with a small invited audience, with feedback. (Once the script is a complete draft that feels ready to be seen!)

    • At the conclusion of the script development period, a larger industry showing featuring a full cast and up to two days of rehearsal, in the FAFO stripped back style; intended for invited producers, literary agents, theatres and other industry professionals.

  • If the Writer feels that their script is production ready, we provide:

    • Six months of dramaturgical support, if the writer needs/ wants it.

    • Up to three days of Research and Development (R&D).

    • A full cast, industry practitioners to participate in the R&D, including movement directors, composers or sound and video designers etc.

    • An industry sharing following the R&D for the purpose of receiving feedback, intended for invited producers, literary agents, theatres and other industry professionals.

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Previous winners oF
FAFO

Group of women sitting on chairs against a black background, one woman in the foreground wearing a beige top and yellow sneakers, looking surprised or curious.

Pelt

By Kitty Archer
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When Mira gets a positive pregnancy test after a few months of sleeping with Finn (environmental activist, certified soft boy, trust fund baby in secret), she doesn’t know where to begin. What she doesn’t expect to find out is that what she’s carrying is something more endangered than the human race…

Four people seated on a stage in a black background, with two women in the back and a man and a woman in the front, appearing serious or contemplative.

The racial rehabilitation programme

By Jessica Enemokwu
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The year is 2025. Five years post-BLM. Racism is over. Society is healing. The black squares on Instagram remain as relics of the allies left behind. Enter Lola. She thinks she’s finally found the missing piece to her Black utopia: Che. They fall in love.
But love doesn’t fix everything. Lola still has a problem she can’t escape. White people.
So she removes herself from society and checks into the Racial Rehabilitation Programme. Because that’ll make everything better… right?