We're the sponsor for the Derek Jacobi Playwriting Award given annually by the National Drama Festivals Association (NDFA). The Award is open to any piece of theatre accepted by and performed at any NDFA festival between 1 July and 30 June each year. The play, not the production, must be recommended by the Festival Organiser, it must have received fewer than five public performances, and be unpublished at the time of entry.

(The competition was previously known as The George Taylor Memorial Award' and was sponsored by now defunct Amateur Stage magazine).

• 2023 Winner: 'The Keys To Life' by Brian Hutchinson
• 2022 Winner: 'Even Numbers' by Tony Domaille
• 2020 & 2021: No award programme was run
• 2019 Winner: 'A Matter Of Life And Death' by Michael Sullivan
• 2018 Winner: 'Accelerated Intimacy' by Chiara Venturini
• 2017 Winner: 'The Start Of Something' by Jamie Lakritz
• 2016 Winner: 'A Frank Exchange' by Nicholas Marsh
• 2015 Winner: 'Thank You for Protesting' by Paul Adam Levy
• 2014 Winner: 'Stay'd For' by L J McTuggle

Winners prior to our sponsorship...

• 2013 Winner: 'Delivered' by Jane Fookes
• 2012 Winner: 'Hanging About For 2059' by David Hart
• 2011 Winner: 'A Girl Walks Into A Bar' by Matthew Wilkie
• 2010 Winner: 'The Delicate Art Of Keeping In Touch by Matthew Wilkie
• 2009 Winner: 'The Door' by Tony Earnshaw
• 2008 Winner: 'Max Dix, Zero To Six' by Vincent Eaton
• 2007 Winner: 'OSWIECIM' by Emma Roskilly
• 2006 Winner: 'Sliced' by James Gillingham
• 2005 Winner: 'Going Underground' by Christopher Morgan
• 2004 Winner: 'New Place And Time' by Richard Macauley
• 2003 Winner; 'The Audition' by Richard Macauley
• 2002 Winner: 'Green' by Les Clarke