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Best practice guides released for indie theatre, design negotiations

New guides and agreements have been released by the Australian Production Design Guild and MEAA, the later focused on the indie theatre sector.

26 Mar 2018 12:00

Richard Watts

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Anna Cordingley’s design for Bell Shakespeare’s Richard 3; photo by Prudence Upton.

A new, free and easily downloadable document intended to streamline the process of contract negotiations between designers and theatre companies has been published by the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG).

Developed by the APDG’s Live Performance Workgroup, the Live Performance Standard Agreement is specifically tailored to the needs of live performance designers.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts