Currency Press

Currency Press is Australia's only specialist performing arts publisher and its oldest independent publisher still active. Their list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works.

Currency Press was founded by Katharine Brisbane, then national theatre critic for The Australian newspaper, and her husband Philip Parsons, a lecturer in Drama at the University of New South Wales. After Philip’s death in 1993, Katharine remained at the helm of the company until she retired as Publisher in December 2001 in order to devote her energies to Currency House, a non-profit association dedicated to the Australian performing arts.

In 2011, Currency Press received the Dorothy Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession at the AWGIE Awards.

Recent Titles include

• Alvin Purple (critical commentary)

by Catherine Lumby

• Beautiful Words (stage play)

by Sean Riley

• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (critical commentary)

by Henry Reynolds

• Commedia Oz: Playing Commedia in Contemporary Australia (training manual)

by Steven Gration and Nicky Peelgrane

• Don't Say the Words (stage play)

by Tom Holloway

• Stories in the Dark (stage play)

by Debra Oswald

• The Female of the Species (stage play)

by Joanna Murray-Smith

• Saturn's Return (stage play)

by Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright)

• The Great (stage play)

by Tony McNamara

• The Modern International Dead

by Damien Millar

• Toy Symphony (stage play)

by Michael Gow

• Make it Australian: The APG, The Pram Factory and New Wave Theatre (critical history)

by Gabrielle Wolf

References

• Currency Press Website
• National Library of Australia