Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award
The Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award is an Australian annual award started in 1996, given "to a playwright whose work demonstrates an original and compelling theatrical voice".[1] Recipients of the award must be under the age of 35 years and a resident of New South Wales.
The award is presented as part of the Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture, given annually at the Belvoir St Theatre. The winner is selected on the basis of a completed and produced script and an outline for another work. The winner receives a full commission from the Belvoir to develop their outline into a full play.
The award is named in honour of Dr Philip Parsons AM (1926-1993) who was a co-founder of the performing arts publishing company, Currency Press, and "an influential teacher and mentor to many of the students, scholars, actors, directors and playwrights who created the new wave of Australian theatre in the 1970s."[1]
Winners of the award
- 2011 - Zoe Coombs Marr - And That Was the Summer That Changed My Life
- 2010 - Matthew Whittet -Old Man [2]
- 2009 - Tahli Corin - Blush
- 2008 - Khoa Do - To 100 Years of Happiness
- 2007 - Tommy Murphy - Holding the Man[3]
- 2006 - Patrick Brammall and John Leary - Vital Organs
- 2005 - Brendan Cowell[4] - Walk Don't Run (2001)
- 2004 - Kate Mulvany - The Seed (2008)
- 2003 - Jonathan Gavin - A Moment on the Lips
- 2002 - (to be identified)
- 2001 - (to be identified)
- 2000 - Emma Vuletic - Imago
- 1999 - Adam Grossetti - Lost Lagoon[5]
- 1998 - Niamh Kearney [6]
- 1997 - (to be identified)
- 1996 - Suneeta Peres Da Costa[7]
See also
Notes
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References
- Arts NSW - Philip Parson Young Playwrights Award (Retrieved 11 March 2008)
- Belvoir St Theatre (Retrieved 11 March 2008)
- interview with Kate Mulvany (Retrieved 11 March 2008)
