Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award

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The Philip Parsons Emerging 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[]

  • 2017 – Emme Hoy – Exctinction
  • 2016 – Holly Austin, Adriano Cappelletta and Jo Turner – Ruby's Wish
  • 2015 – Nakkiah Lui – Kill the Messenger and – A Counting and Cracking of Heads (two fellowships were awarded)
  • 2014 – – Samson
  • 2013 – Ian Meadows – Between Two Waves
  • 2012 – – Heaven
  • 2011 – Zoe Coombs Marr – And That Was the Summer That Changed My Life
  • 2010 – -Old Man [2]
  • 2009 – – Blush
  • 2008 – Khoa Do – To 100 Years of Happiness
  • 2007 – Tommy Murphy – Holding the Man[3]
  • 2006 – Patrick Brammall and – Vital Organs
  • 2005 – Brendan Cowell[4] – Walk Don't Run (2001)
  • 2004 – Kate Mulvany – The Seed (2008)
  • 2003 – – A Moment on the Lips
  • 2002 – (to be identified)
  • 2001 – (to be identified)
  • 2000 – – Imago
  • 1999 – – Lost Lagoon[5]
  • 1998 – [6]
  • 1997 – (to be identified)
  • 1996 – Suneeta Peres Da Costa[7]


See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b "Tommy Murphy receives Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award 2007". Australian Stage. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  2. ^ http://www.belvoir.com.au/productions-1/old-man Old Man
  3. ^ "Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award". Currency Press. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  4. ^ "Brendan Cowell wins Young Playwright's Award". Arts News. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  5. ^ "Plays by Adam Grossetti". The Playwrights database. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  6. ^ "Playwright profiles – Niamh Kearney". Australian Script Centre. Retrieved 11 March 2008.[dead link]
  7. ^ "Three plays by Suneeta Peres Da Costa". ABC Classic FM. Retrieved 11 March 2008.

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