The play Verbranntes Land (Salty Irina) by Eve Leigh has been nominated for the Austrian Nestroy Prize 2025 in the category Best Play. The play had its German-language premiere on March 15, 2025, at the Vienna Schauspielhaus, directed by Tobias Herzberg, in my translation.

Eve Leigh, born in New York in 1984, writes plays and texts for performances and installations and is part of the artist group Coney, which develops interactive theater games. In 2017, she was resident writer at the Greek National Theater in Athens. Her dance theater piece While You Are Here (Dance East 7 The Place, London) and the commissioned work The Trick (Bush Theatre, London) premiered in 2019. Also in 2019, she received the Jerwood/Royal Court New Playwright Award. Commissioned works for the Bush Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Sheffield Theatre are in preparation. (Rowohlt Theaterverlag)