7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Our last post

Thursday 8 February 2024

Our last post—on this site

We set up this blog-cum-website more than 15 years ago. Since then technology has changed—as have media and arts environments. Although we’ve decided to stop posting on this site, it will remain available as an archive of 7-ON’s many and varied activities from the early days of the group until the end of 2023.

This blog may be no more, but 7-ON is still very much alive and kicking. And we may at some point get a shiny new 7-ON website.

Until we do, here’s how to contact individual members of 7-ON:

Donna Abela

abeladonna@iinet.net.au

Vanessa Bates

playwrightvanessabates@gmail.com

Hilary Bell

https://hilarybell.org/

Noëlle Janaczewska

https://noelle-janaczewska.com/

Verity Laughton

https://www.veritylaughton.com/

Ned Manning

https://www.nedmanning.com/

Catherine Zimdahl

https://www.instagram.com/zimdahlartspecies/

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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).