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Funding rejection dismays Tasmanian theatre sector

The latest Arts Tasmania funding round rejected all applications by professional theatre companies, threatening the sector’s viability in the state.

9 Oct 2018

Richard Watts

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Tasmanian theatre companies have been locked out of arts funding for organisations. Image: Tasmanian Theatre Company’s 2018 production, Uprising. Photo credit: Richard Parkinson.

The latest funding round from Arts Tasmania, announced on 28 September, invested more than $700,000 to organisations such as Junction Arts Festival, The Unconformity and the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra, but rejected all applications from the state’s professional theatre companies.

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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