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The Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award provides financial assistance for playwrights during the writing or development of a play or a project.
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This is an annual award to encourage those working in the performing arts to develop works which convey an awareness or message of faith, hope and love.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020
winner Way Back When 2019 single work drama'way back when, set in a fictional post-colonial Tasmania, sees Ghost, a take-no-nonsense apparition, set the scene for the meeting of an unlikely trio of three women. To pass the time (and forget the cold), they re-imagine the colonisation of Tasmania as a Gothic revenge drama. There’s comedy, a play-within-a-play and, as their connection to each other strengthens, revelations of personal traumas which steadily undermine the fervour of their collective revisionism.'
Source: Griffin Theatre.
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Year: 2019
winner Orange Thrower 2021 single work drama'It’s one of those suburbs where the houses all match, the gardens all match, the cars, the dogs, and the people all match. But in the stucco sprawl of Paradise, the Petersen family don’t quite match.
'While her folks are back in Johannesburg, Zadie is holding the family fort. This means keeping her little sis away from bush doofs—and smiling when her nice white neighbours try to touch her hair.
'Then, in the middle of the night, someone starts pelting their house with oranges. Just once. Then twice. Then night after night after night. Maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe someone in Paradise wants them out.'
Source: Griffin Theatre Company.
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Year: 2018
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Year: 2017
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Year: 2016
winner David Megarrity
Works About this Award
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Prize for Play of Love 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 2005; (p. 18)