Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award (2000-)
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award provides financial assistance for playwrights during the writing or development of a play or a project. 

Notes

  • This is an annual award to encourage those working in the performing arts to develop works which convey an awareness or message of faith, hope and love.
  • Not given in 2001.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

joint winner Olivia Satchell for 'Ballkids'.
joint winner Ian Roberts with Alex Broun, for 'Into the Light'.
joint winner Alex Broun with Ian Roberts, for 'Into the Light'.

Year: 2023

winner Maxine Mellor for 'O'Mighty Make-Believe'.

Year: 2022

Year: 2021

winner Steve Rodgers for 'The Future is History'.

Year: 2020

winner Way Back When Dylan Van Den Berg , 2019 single work drama

'way back when, set in a fictional post-colonial Tasmania, sees Ghost, a take-no-nonsense apparition, set the scene for the meeting of an unlikely trio of three women. To pass the time (and forget the cold), they re-imagine the colonisation of Tasmania as a Gothic revenge drama. There’s comedy, a play-within-a-play and, as their connection to each other strengthens, revelations of personal traumas which steadily undermine the fervour of their collective revisionism.'

Source: Griffin Theatre.

Works About this Award

Prize for Play of Love Harriet Alexander , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 2005; (p. 18)
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