7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: February 2008

Tuesday 19 February 2008

The Uninvited Voice published in Brand Magazine

Donna's short play, The Uninvited Voice, will be published in the second edition of Brand magazine. Brand is published by the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Greenwich, UK, and is dedicated to experimental stories, plays, poems and creative non-fiction. This edition will be launched 6pm on Sunday 24th of February at The Langley in Covent Garden, so if you're in the area...

Saturday 9 February 2008

Writing Comedy

Steve Kaplan taught his Comedy Intensive in Sydney last August. Inscription sent Hilary Bell along to report. Read her article,
or find out more about Inscription.

Stephen Jeffreys on Playwriting

Hilary Bell's play 'Memmie Le Blanc' won the 2007 Inscription Award, which included a workshop with English playwright Stephen Jeffreys ('The Libertine', 'Art of War'). She wrote an article about her experience, which gives a broad overview of Stephen's insights into the art and craft of playwriting. Read the article

About 7-ON

7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).