Druid supports national one-act playwriting award
3 September 2025
Photo by Ste Murray.
Druid will play a supporting role in the DLI/ADCI Playwriting Award 2025.
The DLI/ADCI Playwriting Award is an annual award for one-act plays written by amateur Irish playwrights, organised by the Drama League of Ireland and the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland, in association with The Ramor Theatre in Virginia, Co. Cavan.
The aim of the award is to promote, support and encourage improvement in play writing on the amateur One-Act Circuit in Ireland.
The winner of the DLI/ADCI Playwriting Award will be announced on Sunday 7 December, the final night of the three-day One Act Finals, hosted by Western Drama Festival, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. The winning playwright will receive a bursary (sponsored by The Ramor Theatre, Virginia, Co. Cavan) to attend a residential writing week at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan.
Druid is delighted to play a supporting role in the delivery of this year's Award. The adjudicating panel, consisting of Walker Ewart (Chair), Mary Newman (Chair of DLI) and Trish Keane (ADCI), will shortlist three plays and these will be presented as staged readings here in Galway at The Mick Lally Theatre on Sunday 2 November.
They will be read by a cast of professional actors and directed by Lianne O'Shea, the 2025 recipient of Druid's Marie Mullen Bursary and Assistant Director of our 2025 double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth.
The three shortlisted playwrights will be invited to attend rehearsals for their play reading as well as a workshop with professional playwright Meadhbh McHugh. Meadhbh, whose play Helen and I was produced by Druid in 2016, runs an ongoing Galway playwriting group at The Mick Lally Theatre.
The readings will be free to attend for members of the amateur drama community, and will be followed by a Q&A and reception.
Liam Hannaway (Chair of the ADCI/DLI Joint Committee and ADCI), Mary Newman (Chair of DLI), Ollie Kenny (Coordinator of the Playwriting Competition) and all the members of the Joint Committee commend Druid for this exciting opportunity for new writers. It is hugely encouraging for the three shortlisted playwrights to have the chance to see their work brought to life at The Mick Lally Theatre.
The deadline for submissions to the DLI/ADCI Playwriting Award is Wednesday 17 September. For full information on the submission process, please visit the websites of the DLI or the ADCI.