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Locality: Sydney, Australia

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Address: Level 3, 10 Hickson Road 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 Yet another stunner from our 2020 Ignition Program. Big Name, No Blankets by Ursula Yovich and Anyupa Napangarti Butcher, with Sammy Butcher and Kumanjayi Butcher, is a work with live music telling the story of the iconic, much-loved Warumpi Band. Creative development is with Ilbijerri Theatre Company. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned this week as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

24.01.2022 Are you interested in writing for puppetry? Check this out from Terrapin!

24.01.2022 Hot on the heels of 'Dear Australia', we are thrilled today to announce more than $370,000 in commissions and assistance that will go directly to playwrights and their collaborators. Dear Australia was an astonishing Australian online work that all theatregoers should watch a deeply impressive act of collective imagination and a polyphonic suite of dramatic shorts that holds a mirror to the national soul (The Age). But it mustn’t stop there. ... Our theatres are, at best, needing to operate like skeletons or, at worst, staring at insolvency. The best thing PWA can do right now to is help ensure that there is a rich, diverse array of outstanding new works available when these theatres are once again able to open to audiences. That’s why we’ve made a substantial investment directly in playwrights and their closest collaborators. In recent years some of the greatest successes of the Australian theatre have been new plays by Australian playwrights. That momentum mustn’t be lost.

22.01.2022 And here is another Ignition Project for 2020. The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham is a stage adaptation of Pham’s debut novel of the same name, a teenage love story set in the vertigo of 1990’s Cabramatta. Creative development is with Belvoir St Theatre Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

21.01.2022 The Copyright Agency are encouraging playwrights to register their eligible works to be included in the fee collection and royalty disbursement work of the agency. Info at the link below! https://help.copyright.com.au///360000111075-Royalty-Claim

20.01.2022 We're celebrating the incredible works that have been selected in our Ignition Program. Mudskipper by Walter Waia and John Harvey is a play that traverses love, loss and longing for home, when a man collapses and begins to speak threads of his forbidden language Kala Lagaw Ya from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Creative development is with Queensland Theatre. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned this week as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

18.01.2022 Australian Plays have launched their NIMROD 50 Collection celebrating 50 years since the founding of Nimrod Theatre Company in 1970. The Collection includes previously unpublished, out-of-print & refurbished plays. Explore here bit.ly/2RySgpU

18.01.2022 The lastest script by James Elazzi!

18.01.2022 Kirsty Marillier (VIC) is the winner of the $30,000 Max Afford Award! The Award is part of more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support made this week (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN). Kirsty's play THE ZAP is a high intensity, schoolgirl, coming-of-age play set in Helix, a town feeling the brunt of an impending bushfire disaster. THE ZAP is a feminist, genre-bending work exploring the complexity of gender within marginalised groups.... Kirsty Marillier is an actor and emerging playwright currently based in Melbourne / Naarm. Being a South African woman of colour, Kirsty uses her writing to reclaim her identity and deconstruct the relationships people of colour have with gender, religion, migration and disempowerment, putting social change at the forefront of her intersectional practice. Kirsty trained as an actor at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and on stage has performed in Coma Land with Black Swan State Theatre Company, Shabbat Dinner with Rock Surfers Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth with Sport For Jove Theatre. In 2018, Kirsty was a part of the Besen Writers Group with Malthouse Theatre and had her short story Potato Country feature in Black Inc Books Growing Up African anthology. She is currently developing her debut play Orange Thrower - and two other works. Kirsty also performed in the Australian premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. The Max Afford Award is offered by Perpetual in association with PWA and is an initiative of the late Thelma May Afford, whose will established a fund to offer a prize in memory of her husband.

17.01.2022 Another work to shout about from the rooftops, included in our Ignition Program. The Market by Elena Carapetis is a large-scale immersive experience, part concert, part ritual and part food safari, based on the true histories of the stall owners of Adelaide Central Markets. Creative development is with State Theatre Company South Australia. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned this week as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

15.01.2022 Malthouse Theatre have announced their new Playwriting Innovation Award. All the information is on their website but the basics are: The Award invites playwrights to consider what innovation means to them in the context of their practicebe it in audience development, content, form, process or collaboration. We're interested in how writers relate to this paradigm of 'innovation', where they see their practice shifting, and where they want to take it next. The recipient will ...be awarded a cash prize and full play commission to the total of $20,000, plus a creative development workshop and the support of Malthouse Theatre’s team to develop the work. Open submissions: Wednesday, 3 February 2021 Close submissions: Sunday, 28 March 2021 Recipient announced: Thursday, 6 May 2021 https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au//malthouse-theatre-pl/

15.01.2022 It's not over yet! Our colleagues at Australian Plays have published a digital volume of the 50 Monologues.

13.01.2022 We are thrilled to have Campion Decent as part of our 2020 Ignition Program. Black Summer builds on Decent’s 2003 verbatim play Embers and examines how the public conversation around large scale bushfires has grown from a matter of regional concern to an issue of national and global significance. Creative development is with HotHouse Theatre. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned this week as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

13.01.2022 Andrea James' Sunshine Super Girl!

12.01.2022 Part 3 of Dear Australia streams today from 5pm (AEST). At the end of tonight's final program, writes Cassie Tongue, "the screen fades to black, but god that light? You can almost see it." "It’s here that, in reckoning with our damage, our playwrights point us towards the future. They see our flaws but they sense, too, fertile ground for growth." ... 50 playwrights have written 50 postcards to Dear Australia. Catch the the final collection today. There is light. https://www.theguardian.com//over-three-nights-australias-

11.01.2022 SA and NT artists- for you.

10.01.2022 Our podcast program playwrights: this is how we do it is still up on Spotify. Five playwrights have interviewed five notable Australian playwrights and asked, how do you do it?. The conversations are revelatory. Check it out here: spoti.fi/3mqZKJX

10.01.2022 A Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Creative and Cultural Industries and Institutions has just been announced, carried out by the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts, and chaired by Nationals' Dr David Gillespie MP, Member for Lyne in regional NSW. We know a lot of artists have submission fatigue. If you do have the energy, here are the terms of reference and details on how to submit by Thursday 22 October. https://www.aph.gov.au//Communica/Arts/Terms_of_Reference

09.01.2022 Here’s an update from Playwriting Australia and Australian Plays on progress towards the new national organisation for Australian playwriting, including membership of the new National Advisory Panel. The new organisation is expected to be operational early next year. The National Advisory Panel is:... Elena Carapetis, playwright (SA). Patricia Cornelius, playwright (VIC) Isaac Drandic, director and dramaturg, Resident Dramaturg Queensland Theatre (QLD). Eamon Flack, director and playwright, Artistic Director Belvoir (NSW). Declan Greene, playwright and director, Artistic Director Griffin Theatre Company (NSW). Jamila Main, playwright and actor, Co-Chair Equity Diversity Committee, 2020 Carclew Fellow (SA). Nathan Maynard, playwright (TAS). Eva Grace Mullaley, director, Artistic Director Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company (WA). Rosemary Myers, director, Artistic Director Windmill Theatre Company (SA). Maddie Nixon, playwright, Youth & Education Producer La Boite Theatre Company (QLD) Mark Pritchard, dramaturg and director, New Work Manager Malthouse Theatre, and Co-founder Centre for Dramaturgy and Curation (VIC) Paige Rattray, director, Associate Director Sydney Theatre Company (NSW). S. Shakthidaran, playwright, Artistic Director Kurinji, Artistic Lead Co-Curious, and Artistic Associate Belvoir (NSW) Annette Shun Wah, Executive Producer Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP), and Artistic Director OzAsia Festival (SA/NSW) Alexis West, playwright and director, Resident Writer/Director State Theatre Company of South Australia (SA).

08.01.2022 @griffintheatre has opened EOIs for the 2021 Studio program. They are looking for 4 artists to join the team artists will receive a $10,000 stipend, a year-long attachment from the artistic team, tickets and a seat at the programming table. Apply here bit.ly/3hFWK8M

05.01.2022 Diversity Arts Australia event coming right up!

03.01.2022 Congrats to Sally Sara. PWA was part of the journey of her work early on.

03.01.2022 The Nick Enright Award for playwrighting is open again this year. There have been some age-of-covid changes to eligibility. More details below.

03.01.2022 And the 2020 Ignition hits keep coming. Going Home by Kirli Saunders is a story told in two parts, across two timelines and two First Nations lands in the regional communities of the south coast of NSW. Creative development is with Merrigong Theatre Co. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. Stay tuned as we roll out all of our incredible Ignition commissions. Ignition was announced with more than $370,000 of PWA commissions and support announced recently (more at bit.ly/3gIz0AN).

03.01.2022 Australian Play Transform (APT), the new national play development and publication organisation, is seeking a highly motivated and visionary candidate to become its first Executive Producer/CEO. This is an opportunity to help shape an important new force in Australian theatre. APT is the result of a merger between Playwriting Australia (the national body for the development of Australian playwriting) and Australian Plays (digital publisher, and the leading online catalogue o...f Australian plays). The creation of this consolidated entity was the key recommendation of the independent RE Review into play development in Australia. HOW TO APPLY Applicants are advised to carefully read the Executive Producer Application Pack, which can be downloaded from the websites of both Australian Plays and Playwriting Australia. Recent updates on the progress towards APT can also be found on those websites. As background, we also encourage you to read the RE Review. To apply, submit a cover letter, current CV and no more than 4 pages expressing your reasons for applying for the role, and the vision, skills and experience that you would bring to this new organisation. Please send your application as one single PDF document. If you need the application pack provided in another format, please get in touch. Applications are due by 5pm AEDT on Monday 22 February, emailed to [email protected] . For more information, head to our website https://bit.ly/3heqP0s

02.01.2022 I Am Always With You by Emele Ugavule is part of our Ignition 2020 program. The work tells the story of three cousins who we meet on the 99th day of mourning for the passing of their Bubu (grandmother) and discover the creatures of Fijian spiritual and aqua life. Original literary development supported by Lost in Books and Create NSW. Creative development is with Monkey Baa. Ignition enhances the creation of ambition and diverse Australian work, through commissions with Playwriting Australia. For more on Playwriting Australia's 2020 programming click here: bit.ly/3gIz0AN.

01.01.2022 And Dear Australia is a wrap! Thanks to all the wonderful playwrights, actors and theatre companies who gave their all, and especially the team at Arts Centre Melbourne for guiding us to the finish line with such care. All three parts can be viewed until 1 September. Best place is here: https://bit.ly/2Bvjzxa The scripts will be published by Australian Plays tomorrow: https://australianplays.org/script/ASC-2255... Thank you!

01.01.2022 *** Applications this Monday 22 Feb! *** Are you the person to lead an important new force in Australian theatre? A new, national play development and publication organisation a merger of Playwriting Australia and Australian Plays is seeking its first Executive Producer/CEO. Download the application pack to learn more about the new organisation and the opportunities ahead. ... https://www.pwa.org.au//applications-for-apts-inaugural-e/ See more