ATYP Foundation Commission Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Launched in 2012, the commission has been created to increase the quality of playwrighting for children aged 10 – 13. In 2016, it was expanded to include a category for playwrighting for actors aged 14 - 17.

Notes

  • 'The commission offers a successful playwright (or writing team) $10,000 to develop a short (45 – 55 minute) script suitable to be performed by actors aged between 10 and 13.' Source: http://www.atyp.com.au/ (Sighted 08/11/2012).

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2017

winner ((10-13 Year Olds)) y separately published work icon Charlie Pilgrim (or A Beginner's Guide to Time Travel) Sam O'Sullivan , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2019 14001578 2019 single work drama

'Have you ever wanted to change the past? Charlie Pilgrim has. And with the prototype of her time machine - The Mobius - ready for a test run, she was hoping to get her chance.

'Unfortunately, starting up the machine has accidentally created a closed time loop that adds a new Charlie every twenty-four hours. With the population rising and group dynamics coming into play, things go from Interstellar to Lord of the Flies pretty fast. To save her soul, and prevent the universe from collapsing under the weight of a mounting series of mind bending paradoxes, Charlie is forced to do battle...
with herself.'

Source: ATYP.

Year: 2016

inaugural winner ((14-17 Year Olds)) y separately published work icon Impending Everyone Michael Andrew Collins , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2018 14001317 2018 single work drama

'"This cannot be stopped; your history is impending. Everyone will know tomorrow, by the end of lunch, who you really are..."

'Someone at Elia’s high school has gained access to all the students’ browser histories, messages and metadata. They plan to release them. What do they want? Nothing more than everybody at the high school finding out who they, and everyone around them, really is. But the students can’t let this happen.  They have secrets that can’t come out, and less than one day to stop their impending release.

'Set within a New South Wales high school, Impending Everyone explores what happens when we have to own up to the things we have said, when anonymity is stripped away and our desires are laid bare.'

Source: ATYP.

Year: 2013

winner John Armstrong for 'Luke Lloyd Alienoyd'
winner y separately published work icon Luke Lloyd : Alienoid John Armstrong , 2014 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2014 9135314 2014 single work drama children's science fiction

'Luke is smart, funny, shy and highly imaginative – but has no friends at school. In fact, he feels like he’s not even of the same species as the other kids in his class. But that isn’t surprising, because he’s not.

'Luke’s father (whom he has never met) came from a distant planet - which makes Luke half human, half alien. He’s an ‘alienoid’. Which explains a lot, thinks Luke.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Playlab).

Works About this Award

Compass Points to Success Justin Burke , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 November 2012; (p. 14)
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