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Winner 2013

Alex-Brown

Alex Brown

Production: The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.

Alex studied English and Drama at Sussex University and graduated in 2009. In 2010 he was a director on Old Vic New Voices: 24 Hour Plays and went on to work on OVNV’s Ignite project (2010) and TS Eliot Exchange (2012). He also trained through workshops with Living Pictures and on the Young Vic’s Genesis Directors Network.

Alex has directed short plays at the Young Vic, Soho, Arcola, Old Vic, BAC and Lyric Hammersmith. As an assistant director he has worked on The River (Royal Court) The Turn of the Screw (Almeida) Platform and Late at Night (Old Vic). He has also directed youth theatre productions and run workshops for the Arcola, Roundhouse, Almeida, Lyric Hammersmith, Old Vic and Islington Community Theatre.

“The process of applying for the JMK really sharpens your thinking about putting on a production. It’s a chance to build relationships with designers, producers and other creatives and to ask big questions about the work you want to make. To answer those questions then be given the opportunity to put the play on for real is absolutely thrilling. I can’t thank the Trust enough for giving me the space and support to make that wish a reality.” – Alex Brown

02

“Commemorating 40 years since this beacon of the anti-apartheid movement was first performed, Alex Brown’s stirring revival succeeds in maintaining the tension from that famous, absurdist opening, through the long nights in the duo’s prison cell, and climaxing with their triumphant performance of Antigone. Brown achieves this partly through confident use of the traverse stage space and chiefly by eliciting strong performances from Jimmy Akingbola as Winston and Daniel Poyser as John.” – The Stage

The recipient of the 2013 runner up prize, funded by the Ian Ritchie Foundation, was Kim Pearce with her production of Road by Jim Cartwright.

The other 2013 finalists were Tom Bailey, Michael Bryher, Mel Hillyard, Anna Marsland and Jennifer Tang.

Production photos by Richard Hubert Smith

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Patrons: Dame Judi Dench, Baroness Howe, Sir Ian McKellen and Tom Morris OBE (Founding Chair).  

The JMK Trust is kindly supported by Philip Hooker, The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust, Arts Council England, the Orange Tree Theatre, The Noël Coward Foundation, Didymus,
The Thistle Trust, The Chapman Trust, The Golsoncott Foundation, The Unity Theatre Trust and all our individual donors.

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