YORK playwright Mike Kenny's The Boy Who Cried Wolf has been nominated in the Best Play for Children and Young People category at the 2014 Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards.

York Theatre Royal and Leeds company Tutti Frutti toured their co-production around Britain in 2013/14 and the show is now enjoying a Christmas run at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield until December 28.

The Writers Guild awards give professional writers from across Great Britain the opportunity to honour their peers and celebrate the importance of writing to the creative industries, both nationally and abroad.

Responding to his nomination, Mike says: "I'm really delighted about being shortlisted. To be nominated for a Writers Guild award is a huge honour because it comes from your peers, other writers, so you can't slip much past them. It's also a thumbs-up to Tutti Frutti because of their consistent policy of commissioning new writing."

Tutti Frutti’s artistic director, Wendy Harris, is "really thrilled" by Mike's nomination.

"It is so well deserved, and we're delighted at the response the play evoked from children and families on its national tours in 2013 and 2014," she says.

"This award is important as it reminds us of the value of work for younger children and the importance and need for the young to have access to their cultural entitlement. It's also important for Tutti Frutti as it endorses our commitment to finding new ways of working with writers to create magical and relevant creative experiences for our young children.”

The other nominated plays in the category are Minatour by Kevin Dyer for Polka Theatre and Girls Like That by Evan Placey, a Unicorn and Synergy Theatre Project production.

This Christmas, Tutti Frutti have two productions on stage in Yorkshire, not only the aforementioned The Boy Who Cried Wolf but also another Mike Kenny work, his adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess And The Pea, running in the Sheffield Crucible Studio until January 3 next year.