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Queensland Theatre Company / The Courier-Mail George Landen Dann Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Established in 1992, the award was presented by the Queensland Theatre Company in association with the Courier-Mail. Recipients were young playwrights, whose work was then usually workshopped and staged by the Queensland Theatre Company.

The award was reviewed in 1994, after which it was decided to present the award biannually, beginning in 1995. No awards were presented in either 1994 or 1996, when the award was again reviewed, and reinstated as an annual award.

The award was ultimately terminated in 2006, when it was replaced with a revamped Young Playwrights Program.

There were no winners in 1994, 1996 and 2001.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2006

(winner) The Rainbow Dark Victoria Carless , 2006 2006 single work drama
— Appears in: Staging Asylum : Contemporary Australian Plays about Refugees 2013; (p. 43-66)

Year: 2005

Year: 2004

winner I, Witness The Silence Aedan Whyatt , 2004 single work drama under the title 'I, Witness'

Year: 2000

winner Paul Galloway for Great Leaders of the Twentieth Century

Year: 1999

winner The Dance of Jeremiah Matthew Ryan , 2000 single work drama humour
— Appears in: Summer Wonderland [and] The Dance of Jeremiah 2007; (p. 113-183) The Australian Play Bundle # 2 2013;

Works About this Award

Controversial Inspiration Neil Melloy , 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 April 1997; (p. 15)
Scenes from a Bus Stop on the Highway of Life Debra Aldred , Neil Melloy , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 September 1997; (p. 3)
Hearing the Sound of the Southern Sky : Introduction David Berthold , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Composing Venus 1995; (p. 7-11)
Budding New Playwrights Compete for Dann Award Richard Waller , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 April 1993; (p. 23)
Warana's Different Direction Christina Thompson , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 October 1993; (p. rev 8)
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