Double success for the Genesis Foundation as two of its awards recipients are the only British girls ever to have been accepted at the prestigious ballet school.

On 8 July, the Royal Court Theatre kick started its annual International Residency for Emerging Playwrights with a cream tea.  This year, nine international playwrights will spend three and a half weeks working on new plays with the Royal Court Theatre team and a dedicated group of British theatre artists.

Over the weekend, Natalie Carter's success at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy was celebrated in both The Daily Telegraph and The Independent!

Yesterday, Natalie Carter, a young girl studying at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and supported by the Genesis Foundation, passed her end of year ballet exam with a score of 4 out of 5! Natalie is now able to sign a contract for a further 3 years study and start working towards her diploma.

The Genesis Foundation has commissioned revered light artist Chris Levine to install a glass crucifix in the former Holy Trinity Church on Marylebone Road.  Levine's installation forms part of the Genesis Foundation's two-day cultural event in the heart of London.  The installation embodies light's remarkable ability to restore equilibrium between the hearts and minds of the human race, and will be on show to the public at One Marylebone from 2 June.

Samuel Barnett, a graduate of LAMDA who was supported throughout his studies by the Genesis Foundation, was recently noted as a "potentially major actor" in the theatre world by The Times.

Samuel Barnett is currently appearing in Women Beware Women at the National Theatre. For tickets please visit the National Theatre website

Anupama Chandrasekhar, an alumnus of the International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court Theatre, has received rave reviews for her latest play Disconnect. The programme has been supported by the Genesis Foundation for more than a decade and seeks to help talented international playwrights learn to write for the professional stage.