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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 12:00
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 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 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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