7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: patrick white award 2015

Friday, 17 April 2015

patrick white award 2015

Whoot! say the Sevens, rather chuffed. There are two of us on the short-list for this year's Sydney Theatre Company's Patrick White Award. As in the short list reads:

Furthest West by Michael Collins

Ibis (a post-industrial fable-play) by Benito do Fonzo

What Has Been Taken by Verity Laughton

Tsunami by Ned Manning

The Man's Bitch by Debra Thomas

Naturally, not all of us can win, but it's nice for the plays to have a bit of an outing, eh? So chookers to the lot of us, and we hope the announcement is a fun night for winners and losers both.

There's no word as to who is being considered for the STC's Patrick White Fellowship (a former Fellow is yet another Seven, namely Hilary Bell.) But we'll be keeping a beady eye open for that result, too.

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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).