PlayBox is a year-long writer-on-attachment programme offering bespoke residencies to three early-career North West playwrights to write a new play with support from Box of Tricks.

Over the course of a year-long attachment, each playwright receives a seed commission to write a new play with dramaturgical support from the Box of Tricks team and workshop development with actors. Each attachment culminates in a public rehearsed reading.

PlayBox 2023 is our fifth cycle of the initiative. Previous PlayBox writers have won awards, written for TV and radio and have had new plays produced at leading regional theatres.