Australian National Playwrights' Centre New Dramatists Exchange
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

In 2006 The Australian National Playwrights Centre and Playworks merged to become PlayWriting Australia.

Notes

  • This annual award is arranged by the Australian National Playwrights' Centre (ANPC), supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. In an exchange program with New Dramatists in New York, an Australian playwright is chosen to work for three weeks at the home of New Dramatists, and a New Dramatists' playwright is included in the workshop program at the ANPC Conference in Australia.

    The Australian playwright is chosen by a competition. Five entries are shortlisted and submitted to New Dramatists' selection panel. The ANPC New Dramatists Exchange is open only to Australian residents.

    (Source: ANPC website, http://www.anpc.org.au/exchange.html)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2006

winner Stephen Carleton For 'Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset.'

Year: 2003

winner y separately published work icon Falling Petals Ben Ellis , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1004177 2003 single work drama satire science fiction

Year: 2002

winner y separately published work icon Bag O' Marbles Kathryn Ash , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2002 Z947039 2002 single work drama

Year: 2001

winner y separately published work icon Salt : A Play in Five Helpings Peta Murray , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z856011 2001 single work drama

Year: 1995

winner y separately published work icon Mr Melancholy Matt Cameron , 1995 Z854485 1995 single work drama

'An absurd comedy of solitude and sorrow.

'Three hermits, living in a lighthouse without a light, discover a runaway circus clown washed ashore.'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-2551). (Sighted: 25/6/2018)
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Works About this Award

Playwright Romeril Wins Inaugural Award Helen Musa , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 4 May 2003; (p. 12)
Battler Hits the Big Apple Robert Reid , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 December 2001; (p. 36)
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