More about the Australian Script Centre
The Australian Script Centre is the only national arts organisation based in Tasmania. It grew out of an initiative of Barbara Manning and the Salamanca Theatre Company, called the Salamanca National Script Resource Centre. Initially the centre was a distribution service for playwrights writing for theatre-in-education. It ran successfully throughout the 1980’s and in 1993 separated from the Salamanca Theatre Company to become the Australian Script Centre. The centre’s collection rapidly grew as it began to incorporate all styles of play and radio scripts. We now house the largest and most comprehensive collection of unpublished contemporary Australian play scripts in the world. As only a relatively small percentage of Australian performance writing is ever published, this represents a significant cultural and historical resource.
The Australian Script Centre is the only national organisation that collects, archives and distributes contemporary, unpublished Australian plays.
In 2009, the ASC will celebrate its 30th anniversary.
The Board
The ASC is governed by a Board of Management with representatives elected from the national membership.- David Lander, Chair
- Allan Jeffrey, Vice-Chair
- Debbie Sadler, Treasurer
- Susan Larsen-Scott, Public Officer
- Campion Decent
- Chris Thompson
- Chris Tugwell
National Advisory Group
Convenor: Chris Tugwell (SA)
Donna Abela (NSW), Michael Beresford (QLD), Richard Buckham (VIC), Angela Chaplin (WA), Campion Decent (NSW), Kate Gaul (NSW), Dr Laura Ginters (NSW), Tom Gutteridge (WA), Michael Hill (SA), Kathryn Kelly (QLD), Fin Kruckemeyer (TAS), David Lander (TAS), Andrea Lemon (VIC), Jessica Machin (SA), Peter Matheson (NSW), Suellen Maunder (QLD), Charlie Parkinson (TAS), Sue Ryder (QLD), Jeremy Rice (WA), Phil Thomson (WA).
Readers & Advisors
Thank you to our readers and advisors who generously volunteer their time and expertise to assist with the selection of plays for each anthology.Readers for Collection #7: Donna Abela, Donna Cameron, Angela Chaplin, Angela Costi, Louise Fischer, Kate Gaul, Michael Hill, Wendy Joseph, Kathryn Kelly, David Lander, Jacinta Legge-Wilkinson, Peter Matheson, Tony Nicholls, Jeremy Rice, Leigh Swinbourne, Chris Thompson, Phil Thomson and Chris Tugwell.
Patrons
- David Williamson, playwright
- Robyn Archer, performer & festival director
Sponsors
The Australian Script Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Commonwealth Government's arts funding and advisory body, and the arts ministries of the state governments of Tasmania, NSW, WA and SA.
We also thank the very wonderful people at Tweezy New Media and Workhorse Design, without whose advice and generous support the centre would be lost.
