Women’s prize for playwriting won by 90th birthday drama in ‘house full of ghosts’

Winner Karis Kelly, writer of Consumed, had previously been considering a complete career change' as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic

A playwright who was considering a complete career change" because of the Covid-19 pandemic's devastating impact on the arts has been announced as the winner of this year's Women's prize for playwriting.

Karis Kelly won the prize for Consumed, a drama about four generations of Northern Irish women at a 90th birthday party in a house full of hungry ghosts". Kelly, who has been writing plays since 2008, said like many others in the arts, during the pandemic, I had a complete crisis of faith ... So to go from that point to receiving recognition from such an amazing prize and panel of judges is genuinely a dream come true."