Roxana Vilk announced as joint winner of Kevin Elyot Playwriting award 2026

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/august/kevin-elyot-2025.html

Selected as a playwright for the Bristol Old Vic Early Career Playwrights. And currently writing ‘Tehran/Bristol’ full length play with Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
Winner of Kevin Elyot Theatre Writing Award 2025/6 to develop my next play Sheida / شیدا alongside the Kevin Elyot Archive at the Theatre Collection
Lullabies ( Artist in resident at Trinity Community Arts Bristol ) community storytelling and song project exploring migration to Bristol through stories of lullaby songs - featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC TV News.
Circle / دایره Performer/writer in an immersive touring project created with Squidsoup and refugee communities. Performed at Egg Theatre Bath, Arnoflini, Bristol Beacon, Hull Freedom Festival and Plymouth, Portsmouth - funded by Arts council Touring Fund.
Poetry

Still Light (2024) Poem runner-up, Bournemouth Writing Prize (published in anthology).
Diaspora Poetry Festival (2024) — Second place prize for her poem ‘Longing and Belonging’
Roxana’s performed her poems at Bristol Harbour Festival 2025

‘Trouble Sleeping’ feature film about the expeirences of asylum seekers in Scotland co-written with Palestinian Ghazi Hussein winner of Scottish BAFTA

‘Poets of Protest’ Al Jazeera English - Roxana Story Produced the whole series and directed three of the episodes about the so called ‘Arab Spring’
MTV ‘IRAN THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED’ co-director and story producer

Human Again
Writer/Director of a short film about modern slavery in the UK. Winner: Unchosen Award, Encounters Festival (Audience Award).
The Remembered
Writer/Director in an experimental short film about women accused of witchcraft. Winner: Best Experimental Film, NRFF Amsterdam.
Leila Short drama film about a young refugee girl who arrives in Glasgow produced and commissioned by Cineworks Glasgow