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Cultural diversity the focus of new Playwriting Australia initiative

The Lotus Asian-Australian Playwriting Project provides training and mentoring for would-be playwrights.

24 Feb 2014

Richard Watts

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Image: Pauline Nguyen in Performance 4a and Griffin Theatre Company’s The Serpent’s Table. Photo by Brett Boardman.

Working across three states in an ambitious new partnership with not-for-profit organisation Performance 4a, Playwriting Australia is seeking to inspire a new wave of artistic voices in order to better represent Australia’s cultural diversity on stage.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts