What's on - Playwriting Festival

The first in our festival program for 2012 is the Playwriting Festival curated by award winning writer Kate Mulvany.

The Playwriting Festival will bring together some of Australia’s best and brightest playwrights, dramaturgs, artistic directors and reviewers including Van Badham, Vanessa Bates, Jane Bodie, Fraser Corfield, Duncan Graham, Timothy Daly, Kevin Jackson, Andrea James, Leland Kean, Mark Kilmurry, John McCallum, Tony McNamara, Tommy Murphy, Debra Oswald, Lachlan Philpott, Polly Rowe, Diana Simmonds, Sam Strong, Augusta Supple.

Just confirmed to join the line up are Katherine Thomson (Diving For Pearls, King Tide) and Ian Meadows (Four Deaths in the Life of Ronaldo Abok).

The program will cover the craft and business of playwriting with panels on the changing face of Australian playwriting the pros and cons of working with directors and dramaturgs what mainstage theatre companies are looking for working in the fringe theatre scene the reviewed versus the reviewer and the playwright’s role in the production process.

There will be script sales, gourmet food and coffee, plenty of free parking and you are welcome to join us on the veranda at the end of the day for a complimentary post-festival drink. NSW Writers’ Centre members also receive a generous discount on festival bookings.

NSW Writers’ Centre Members $55 / Concession Members $45 / Non-members $80.