The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continues with the release in May 2011 of a CD of six new choral works from three of Britain’s most exciting contemporary composers: Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams and Ruth Byrchmore.

Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak, translated by Rory Mullarkey, has now sold out for the rest of its highly successful run at the Royal Court Theatre. The play is part of the International Playwrights Season and is supported by the Genesis Foundation who celebrate 15 years of pioneering international work with the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.

Natalie Carter and Hayley Stobo have performed on the Bolshoi stage for the first time in the prestigious annual Repertoire Concert. You can watch their final performance of the Grand Pas Duet here on Youtube.

Our Private Life by Pedro Miguel Rozo, translated by Simon Scardifield, has recently opened at the Royal Court Theatre and has attracted a wealth of praise from the national press. The play is part of the international playwrights season and is supported by the Genesis Foundation who celebrate 15 years of pioneering international work with the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.

Genesis LAMDA Scholar, Sam Swann (Class of 2010) has been chosen by the National Theatre to be featured in their main image for their new show, Greenland.

This year, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, the Royal Court Theatre marks 15 years of pioneering international work with a season of plays from two very different parts of the world: Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Over the Christmas period, LAMDA Genesis Scholar Ben Aldridge was in Toast on BBC1 alongside awarding-winning LAMDA alumnae, Victoria Hamilton and Clare Higgins. This was an adaptation of Nigel Slater’s celebrated memoir and was watched by 6.2 million viewers according to The Guardian.

The Royal Court Theatre cemented its reputation as the leading new writing theatre and hotbed for new talent in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards last night (Sunday), winning in four categories, including Best Play, Most Promising Playwright, Best Design and the Editor’s Award.

Following his success directing Martin McDonagh’s celebrated play The Beauty Queen of Leenane earlier this year, Young Vic Genesis Fellow Joe Hill-Gibbins has recently received critical acclaim for his revival of Tennessee Williams’ renowned play, The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic.

Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, has a solo show opening this week entitled 'ELOGIO DE LA BESTIA' (In Praise of the Beast) that will be held at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, in Pamplona, Spain.

The Genesis LAMDA scholars for 2010 have now been selected and we can announce that the two students receiving support from the Genesis Foundation in order to fund their studies at LAMDA are Ryan Donaldson and Sam McAvoy.