The Patrick White Playwrights Award has been an annual initiative of Sydney Theatre Company since 2000. It is held in honour of Patrick White’s contribution to Australian theatre and to foster the development of Australian playwrights. The Award exists to showcase an unproduced script.
The Patrick White Playwrights Award offers a cash prize of $7,500 for a full-length unproduced play of any genre written by an Australian playwright over the age of 18 years. The readers and judges assessing the scripts seek a work that is original and artistically ambitious, with great potential for a stage production.
STC Artistic Director Kip Williams will announce the winners of the Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship on Tue 21 May 2024. A rehearsed reading of the Award-winning play will follow, from 7pm at The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf, Sydney Theatre Company. The event is now on sale. Book tickets.
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2023 PATRICK WHITE PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD PRESENTATION
On Mon 29 May 2023, STC Artistic Director Kip Williams announced Aran Thangaratnam as the winner of the Patrick White Playwrights Award for his play love MAD GLITCH.
Following this announcement, the Company presented a rehearsed reading of the play.
love MAD GLITCH
By Aran Thangaratnam
With
Kristy Best
Nicholas Brown
Michelle Ny
Alex Pinder
Director Kenneth Moraleda
Stage Manager Matt Schubach
Patrick White Playwrights Award Judges
Wesley Enoch AM
Jane Harrison
Emme Hoy
Ruth Little
Zindzi Okenyo
With thanks to:
Jessica Arthur, Eve Beck, Madeleine Diggins, Kenneth Moraleda, Daley Rangi, Amy Sole, Shari Sebbens, Contessa Treffone, Alexei Ymer-Welsby
Director, New Work and Artistic Development Paige Rattray
New Work Development Producer Jonathan Ware
Associate Artist New Work Ruth Little
Dramaturg Jules Orcullo
Casting Director Alex Souvlis
Casting Associate Jocelyn O’Brien
In 2023, the shortlisted plays for the Patrick White Playwright Award were:
Grace Wilson, Goodbye Eli Anderson
Hoang Hoa Vu Gruber, Shadow of the Puppets
Aran Thangaratnam, love MAD GLITCH
Andrew Robartson, (Un)Common Ground
Nick Atkins, The Lemon Tree Curse