
Ingrid Selberg and Ilayda McIntosh. Photo credit: Sharron Wallace
Congratulations of Ilayda McIntosh who won with her play Hummingbird.
Ilayda said, “I am so grateful to be awarded this year’s Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme! To receive this award at such a pivotal stage in my career is a real honour, and so incredibly affirming. With the guidance of a mentor, I’m excited to develop my voice further and create work that is even more ambitious, dynamic and challenging. I’m truly honoured, thank you.”
Ingrid Selberg, Estate of Mustapha Matura said, “This year’s winner Hummingbird by Ilayda McIntosh is a beautiful, moving and multi-layered piece, exploring love, loss and grief within a family living in Britain but with Jamaican origins. Strands of the past and the present are woven together in an original and powerful way. The characters are complex and believable, and the writing is both lyrical and witty. Hummingbird is a very accomplished piece, and it shows the great talent and promise of Ilayda McIntosh as a playwright.”
Shortlist
- Maryam Garad The Last Days
- Ilayda McIntosh Hummingbird
- Rachel Oyawale Thank God for Her
- Esther-Rennae Walker Places of Me
Longlist
- Savannah Acquah Small Revolutions
- Alexander Gallimore Boys Beware
- Maryam Garad The Last Days
- Ilayda McIntosh Hummingbird
- Rachel Oyawale Thank God for Her
- Hayley Schiffer Liar, liar, pants on fire
- CJ Simon Shadows or Fanon's Phantasy
- Esther-Rennae Walker Places of Me