Opportunities for Playwrights
Updated 22 June 2009
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The Creative Business Toolbox is a joint initiative of Arts Queensland and The Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry. It is specifically designed to provide people in the arts and creative industries with the skills, knowledge and resources to build viable and sustainable businesses. It is available at http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/publications/cbt.html
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REMINDER TO ALL ASC REGISTERED PLAYWRIGHTS: If you have written a new draft of a play since registering it with the Australian Script Centre please send the new version in a word doc format to our script manager at info@ozscript.org
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AWARDS, COMPETITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Kate Challis RAKA Award
$25,000 award for indigenous scriptwriters. The writer must be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. For scripts performed between July 2004 and July 2009.
Application forms and information: http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/public/awards/
Call for Applications - Varuna-Playlab Residency for Playwrights 2009
Funded by the Macquarie Group Foundation LongLines program and Arts Queensland.
Playwrights from Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Western Australia, ACT South Australia, and from regional areas of NSW and Victoria are invited to apply for this year's Varuna-Playlab Residency Program. Now in its third year, successful applicants are supported to spend one week at Varuna ˆThe Writers' House in the Blue Mountains near Sydney NSW. This unique program allows playwrights and dramaturgs to work together without the constraints or expectations of outcome or deadlines in a famously supportive environment.
For successful Queensland applicants the Residency includes:
- Travel to and from Varuna
- Full board and accommodation (including meals)
- The Varuna Program fee of $275
For successful interstate applicants, the Residency includes:
- Full board and accommodation (including meals)
- The Varuna Program fee of $275
Your dramaturg is selected by mutual agreement between you and Playlab. One place will be guaranteed for a Queensland playwright.
When: 26th October (arrival) to 1st November 2009 (departure)
Apply: by email info@playlab.org.au for an application form
Application deadline: June 30
With the application form, send a hard copy of your play, which should be at least a completed first draft. The application form includes a short paragraph outlining what you would like to achieve during the residency, and the name of a preferred dramaturg if you have one.
Applications to be sent to:
Playlab Inc.
Studio 3.8, Metro Arts
109 Edward Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
When will I be notified?
The successful playwrights will be contacted by July 31st.
Call for entries: National Play Festival 2010
Hot on the heels of the 2009 Festival, we are now calling for submissions for Australia’s premier performance showcase for new plays in 2010.
The National Play Festival is a unique opportunity to develop and present your work, in performance, to a national and international audience of theatre companies and producers. It is Australia’s leading market for showcasing new unproduced plays. Works showcased at the Festival in 2008 have gone on to be selected for production in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide, and include Helly’s Magic Cup by Rosalba Clemente (Windmill Performing Arts), Rock, Paper, Scissors by John AD Fraser (Tamarama Rock Surfers), Concussion by Ross Mueller (Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company), Savage River by Steve Rodgers (Griffin Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Tasmanian Theatre Company). We expect similar success for the works showcased at the recent 2009 Festival in Hobart.
Applications are now invited from any Australian playwright with a new, unproduced work ready for performance. You may be working independently or in a creative team with a director or dramaturg, and nominations from Australian theatre company are also welcome. Please download the application information pack for guidance on eligibility and how to submit your application.
Applications:
Applications must be physically received at PlayWriting Australia by 5pm on Friday 31 July, 2009.
When: Brisbane,
February, 2010
More information:
Download full application details from the PlayWriting Australia website
IPSWICH ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL
7,8 and 9 August 2009
Senior and Intermediate Sections of Ipswich One Act Play Festival Groups may enter plays in the rest of the Ipswich One Act Play Festival in two different categories:
Intermediate Category - actors
aged from 12 to 18 years at the time of performance
Open Category - open to actors of all ages. Entry fee is $25 for Open
play
Entry fee: is $20 for an Intermediate play
CLOSING DATE: Friday 26 June for entries in this year's Ipswich One
Act Play Festival.
CONTACT: Please email suzanne@matulich.org or call (3281
4748) if you need further information.
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL NEW WORK GRANTS
New work grants support one-off projects that result in the creation of new
contemporary theatre work. This can include a new production of an
existing text. There are three types of new work grants: Creative
development supports the development stages of a new work, such as
research, creative development workshops or commissioning a writer,
Production supports a public performance of a new work and any
stages leading up to it, where a presenting partner has already committed to the project, Young artists initiative supports either the
creative development or production of a new work. Applications for
production grants (including Young Artists Initiative grants for the
production of new work) must have a presenting partner involved in
the project. A presenting partner is defined as anyone able to provide
or raise the resources needed to present the work to the public, and
could include (among others) venues, festivals, other theatre
companies, local governments, museums or independent producers.
More details: www.australiacouncil.gov.au
Closing date: 3 November 2009
Decisions advised: March 2010
Projects may start: 1 April 2010
NEW WORKS OF MERIT PLAYWRITING CONTEST
Accepting scripts through June 30, 2009 for new works that:
- Enhance self-realization
- Support peace and social justice
- Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
- Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
- Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
- Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
- Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization
- Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on and the values we present to the world today
PLAYWRITING MASTERCLASSES
A series of intensive workshops with leading playwrights at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta:
Timothy Daly - 29th AugustFor further information and bookings visit www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp
GO SEE FUND
Australia Council for the Arts - Go See Fund for presenters - ongoing.
The Go See Fund provides travel assistance for professional Australian presenters to attend performances by Australian artists. For more information visit http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au
CROSSOVER AUSTRALIA 2009
Calling all writers, theatre directors, filmmakers, digital media artists, web developers, composers, and choreographers!
Applications are now open for Crossover Australia 2009. Crossover Australia is a residential laboratory where the primary goal is the development of conceptual prototypes for groundbreaking interactive project. This year, Crossover Australia is stressing that our definition of cross platform is not solely in the digital area and we are looking for ways to expand notions into crossovers into live performance, visual arts and writing‚. Participation is free but places are limited so get in quick.
Visit http://www.crossover.org.au/ for more info.
AUSTRALIAN SCRIPTS WANTED - USA
New Jersey Repertory Company, a small professional theater in Long Branch,
New Jersey, seeks new plays for production. NJR is a ten year old company
dedicated to premiering and promoting new work. We are particularly
interested in plays with a distinctly theatrical aesthetic. We are actively
seeking to form relationships with non-American writers. Plays submitted should not have had a professional American production and
also a cast limit of five actors.
Please send scripts to: Literary@njrep.org
Or mail to:
Literary Manager
New Jersey Repertory Company
179 Broadway
Long Branch, NJ 07740
USA
INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE
PlayWriting Australia offers a range of internships for HSC and university students, graduates and emerging artists seeking professional development. From three days to two weeks or several months, internship opportunities are available in practical script development, arts administration and research.
Read full details of the kinds of internship available and contact us to discuss your interest in working with us.
SEARCH FOR SCRIPTS - BRISBANE, QLD
Are you an aspiring, emerging or fairly new playwright? Brisbane's Emerge Program, run by Switchboard Arts Co-op, is always seeking scripts for the stage, short, long, strange, rough, even unfinished, and in any style. They perform new work regularly throughout the year in professional venues such as The Judith Wright Centre. They also present informal 'picnic play readings' - an invaluable chance to test fresh scripts out on an audience. They offer playwrights a range of development options through ongoing programs. If you are interested in being part of a very successful theatre development venture email your plays and a bio to emergeproject@hotmail.com
Workshops and Seminars
MASTERCLASS - Writing Satire for the Stage
Queensland Theatre Company is offering a masterclass series on writing satire for the stage, with Australian comedy legends Max Gillies and Guy Rundle.
This new initiative is open to sketch writers, song writers, cabaret performers or writers, and comedians – as long as you want to be funny and shoot some sacred cows!
The 5 week masterclass series will begin in late July and applications close 26 June.
More information: http://www.qldtheatreco.com.au/writing/takingaim/
INCUBATOR - Artist Residence Program
In 2009 Riverland Youth Theatre (RYT) will introduce the INCUBATOR program at the recently upgraded Renmark Institute. The program offers free (in-kind) access to accommodation and rehearsal space for one to four weeks for individuals and groups of emerging, early career and independent artists as a resource towards the creation of new Australian performance work.
RYT is asking for both expressions of interest and letters of support from individuals and groups. This will provide us with evidence that there is both the need and support from the wider arts community to warrant us to progress the program.
Please contact RYT’s Artistic Director, Julie Waddington for more information.
Email: julie@ryt.org.au
Phone: 08 8586 3437
DAGS (Darwin Authors Group)
DAGS meets at the Conference Room, Frog Hollow Centre for the Arts, on the second Thursday of each month at 6pm. If you are interested in coming along to discuss your writing with other writers contact Val Clark: valclark@tpg.com.au New writers welcome.
NOTE: The Australian Script Centre has received the above notices and reprints them in good faith but cannot guarantee the accuracy of information contained within.
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