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STC - Sydney Morning Herald Young Playwrights' Award
or The Sydney Theatre Company - Sydney Morning Herald Young Playwrights' Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The winners of the STC - Sydney Morning Herald Young Playwright's Award recipients receive a cash prize and permission to watch professional directors and actors work with their text and present staged readings of their plays at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Notes

  • 'The STC - Sydney Morning Herald Young Playwrights' Award is designed to encourage and assist the development of young playwrights. It also aims to complement the teaching of playwriting in the classroom, by providing an opportunity for students to submit their work to a professional theatre company, and to have their work read by theatre professionals.

    Two First Prize winners receive a weekend workshop of their script, working with a professional director, dramaturg and actors; a staged reading of their play at The Wharf; a cash prize and ongoing support from the Australian National Playwrights' Centre.'

    (Source: STC website, http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2008

(Senior Category) Tomasz Arkell
(Junior Category) Nathalie Jones

Year: 2005

winner (Senior Category) Counting Down the Days Chris Summers , 2005 single work drama
winner (Junior Category) Red Squawking Mad Sarah-Jane Cartwright , 2005 single work drama

Year: 2003

joint winner (Junior Category) y separately published work icon All's Well in Wonderland Andrew Keevers , 2003 (Manuscript version)x401332 Z1084063 2003 single work drama with Zoe Hogan
joint winner (Senior Category) y separately published work icon Gosling Zoe Hogan , 2003 (Manuscript version)x401331 Z1084057 2003 single work drama

Year: 2002

joint winner Waiting for the 9.07 Joanna Erskine , 2002 single work drama with Lauren Esplin

Year: 2000

joint winner Aden Rolfe with Philip Lesnie

Works About this Award

Young Playwrights Tackle Powerful Themes Yasmine Fathy , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 December 2008; (p. 9)
Forget the Mosh Pit - We'll Be Dancing in the Wings Sunanda Creagh , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2005; (p. 5)
Hollywood Endings? Look Elsewhere, Say These Two Lenny Ann Low , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 November 2003; (p. 4)
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