The Patrick White Playwrights' Award was established by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2000. It is given in honour of Patrick White's contribution to Australian theatre and to foster the development of Australian playwrights. The award is designed to benefit both emerging writers and mid-career writers.
The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is given for a full-length, unproduced play of any genre written by an Australian playwright over 18 years of age. The readers and judges assessing the scripts look for original and ambitious works that have great potential for staging.
This award is a companion to the Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship.
Source: http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/information-for-artists/patrick-white-playwrights%E2%80%99-award-and-fellowship.aspx Sighted: 3/12/2013.
This award is a major playwriting initiative of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and the Sydney Morning Herald. A cash prize of $20,000 is awarded to a full length unproduced play by an Australian playwright over 19 years of age. The winning playwright(s) will also have the opportunity to work with STC directors and actors during a workshop culminating in a rehearsed reading of their play during the Sydney Writers' Festival.'
(The award is made for the calendar year preceding the one in which it is given, i.e. the award for 2001 was given in 2002.)
Source: http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/content.asp?cID=36
Sighted: 05/11/2003
'Written and directed by Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is a post-traumatic performance thesis, winning the 2021 Patrick White Playwriting Award.
'Starring Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, and Maurial Spearim, accompanied by a live improvisational score by smallsound, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is an absurd group therapy session held somewhere in the deepest cells of the collective mind and the colonised heart.'
Source: Matlhouse Theatre.
'A 30-something Korean adoptee finds the raucous and riotous side of family in this surreal comedy.
'Lucy fled her manic Melbourne routine to find calm in the country. But the home of her adoptive white baby-boomer parents ain’t the place for peace and quiet.
'Enter Kim Han, a charismatic K-pop star making a surprise visit to rural Victoria, who tips Lucy’s crisis into a complete tailspin.
'But there’s more to this than karaoke. As the evening rockets towards a climax, Lucy will raise the roof with the ones who raised her.'
Source: Malthouse Theatre.
'Twenty two-year-old Sydney-born Melbourne-based writer and performer Kim Ho has won this year's Patrick White Playwrights' Award, announced at a ceremony at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre on Monday night — where his winning play, Mirror's Edge, also received a rehearsed reading.'
