- Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award
The Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award is an
Australia n annual award started in 1996, given to "to a playwright whose work demonstrates an original and compelling theatrical voice".cite web |title= Tommy Murphy receives Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award 2007 |publisher= Australian Stage |url= http://www.australianstage.com.au/news/national/tommy-murphy-receives-philip-parsons-young-playwrights-award-2007-807.html |accessdate= 2008-03-11] Recipients of the award must be under the age of 35 years.The award is presented as part of the Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture and the writers receive a commission to develop a piece of work for staging as part of the "B Sharp Season", downstairs at the
Belvoir St Theatre .The award is named in honour of Dr Philip Parsons AM (1926-1993) who was a co-founder of the performing arts publishing company, Currency Press, and "an influential teacher and mentor to many of the students, scholars, actors, directors and playwrights who created the new wave of Australian theatre in the 1970s."
Winners of the award
* 2007 - Tommy Murphy - " Holding the Man"cite web |title= Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award |publisher= Currency Press |url= http://www.currency.com.au/NewsletterNovember07.aspx |accessdate= 2008-03-11]
* 2006 -Patrick Brammall andJohn Leary - "Vital Organs"
* 2005 -Brendan Cowell cite web |title= Brendan Cowell wins Young Playwright’s Award |publisher= Arts News |url= http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=3810 |accessdate= 2008-03-11] - "Walk Don't Run" (2001)
* 2004 -Kate Mulvany - "The Seed" (2008) [http://www.whats-on-in-sydney.com.au/whatson.asp?id=3951 review]
* 2003 -Jonathan Gavin - "A Moment on the Lips"
* 2002 - (to be identified)
* 2001 - (to be identified)
* 2000 - (to be identified)
* 1999 -Adam Grossetti - "Lost Lagoon"cite web |title= Plays by Adam Grossetti |publisher = The Playwrights database |url= http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/grossetti-adam.html |accessdate = 2008-03-11]
* 1998 -Niamh Kearney cite web |title= Playwright profiles - Niamh Kearney |publisher= Australian Script Centre |url= http://www.ozscript.org/profiles.php?letter=K |accessdate= 2008-03-11]
* 1997 - (to be identified)
* 1996 -Suneeta Peres Da Costa cite web |title= Three plays by Suneeta Peres Da Costa
publisher= ABC Classic FM |url= http://www.abc.net.au/classic/daily/stories/s631376.htm |accessdate= 2008-03-11]Notes
References
* [http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/FundingOpportunities/Awards/PhilipParsonsYoungPlaywrightsAward/tabid/111/Default.aspx Arts NSW - Philip Parson Young Playwrights Award] (Retrieved
March 11 ,2008 )
* [http://www.belvoir.com.au/ Belvoir St Theatre - Home of Company B and B Sharp] (RetrievedMarch 11 ,2008 )
* [http://www.currency.com.au/author-of-month-Kate-Mulvany.aspx interview with Kate Mulvany] (RetrievedMarch 11 ,2008 )ee also
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List of Australian literary awards
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