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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.

Dominic Cooke, Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre said:

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 received critical acclaim for his revival of Tennessee Williams’s renowned play, The Glass Menagerie.  Highlights from these reviews are below:

We are delighted to present this short film which follows the work of the Genesis Foundation at the Young Vic. See the progression of the Genesis Directors Network and follow the first Genesis Fellow, Joe Hill-Gibbins as he begins rehearsals for The Glass Menagerie, which opened last night.

For tickets, please visit the Young Vic website

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 Tuesday 1 June, many of London's top arts critics along with leading figures from the world of theatre, music and art gathered to celebrate the launch of the Genesis Foundation's 2010 commission, LIGHT - a light sculpture by Chris Levine.  Harry Christophers and his choir The Sixteen, which collaborates with the Genesis Foundation, accompanied Levine's work performing Genesis Foundation commissioned compositions by award-winning British composer, Will Todd.

Having worked with the Genesis Foundation for a number of years, Mel Cooper has now ended his consultancy so that he can concentrate more fully on developing a new project.  The Genesis Foundation wishes him every success with his venture. Any enquiries concerning projects Mel was working on for the Genesis Foundation should be directed to infogenesisfoundation [dot] org [dot] uk.

Greta Alfaro is the first beneficiary of the new Genesis Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art.  A postgraduate photography student from Valencia, Spain, she has been offered a place on the two-year M.A. programme and will receive £10,000 per year from the Genesis Foundation.  Her work deals with the importance and significance of images in contemporary Western society.

This video, entitled In Ictu Oculi, is a recent example of her work.

Jean-Philippe Calvin, the French composer, has written a short piece of music dedicated to Genesis Founder and Chairman John  Studzinski. The piece is called Sophia (Wisdom, in the Ancient Greek language). The piece is profoundly spiritual and is mixed with Oriental Timelessness, aspiring to the depth and feeling of a Byzantine Chant. Here is an exclusive preview on the Genesis web site from a live performance given in May 2007 in Paris. Asked about this piece, Calvin said: “I admire John Studzinski and his enlightened philanthropy enormously.

Jean-Philippe Calvin, the French composer, has written a short piece of music dedicated to Genesis Founder and Chairman John  Studzinski. The piece is called Sophia (Wisdom, in the Ancient Greek language). The piece is profoundly spiritual and is mixed with Oriental Timelessness, aspiring to the depth and feeling of a Byzantine Chant.