NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights

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The NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, formerly the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award, is an Australian annual award for early-career playwrights in New South Wales, offered by Belvoir St Theatre and Arts NSW from 1995. It was last awarded in 2018.

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History

The award was established in 1995, named in honour of Philip Parsons AM (1926–1993), who was a co-founder of the performing arts publishing company Currency Press, and "an influential teacher and mentor to many of the students, scholars, actors, directors and playwrights who created the new wave of Australian theatre in the 1970s". [1] [2]

Hilary Bell won the inaugural award with her play Wolf Lullaby in 1995. [3]

In 2010 Caleb Lewis turned down the award in protest against the lack of gender diversity in the company's 2010 season. [4]

From 2013 the award was renamed the Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights. [5] [6]

In 2019 (for 2020), the Fellowship evolved into the NSW Philip Parsons Early-Career Playwrights' Lab, whereby Belvoir would take on four new writers (or teams) along with one story developer or dramaturgical/ directorial participant. Successful applicants would work with Belvoir for a year (2020) on developing a new work. [7] [8] However, this did not appear to extend beyond 2020. [lower-alpha 1] [9]

Description

Recipients of the original award had to be under the age of 35 years and a resident of New South Wales; [10] but the fellowship, by 2016, was open to a playwright of any age, within the first eight years of their professional practice. [11] This requirement continued when the fellowship became the playwrights' lab in the 2020 edition, which dropped the requirement to be a NSW resident. [8]

The fellowship is presented as part of the Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture, given annually at the Belvoir St Theatre. [12] The winner is selected on the basis of a completed and produced script and an outline for another work. The winner received a full commission from Belvoir to develop their outline into a full play. [11]

Winners of the award

NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights
Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Possibly because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia?

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  6. 1 2 "2016 Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights". Theatre Network NSW. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  7. ↑ Belvoir St Theatre. "The Philip Parsons Fellowship has evolved into a Playwrights' Lab for a group of early career playwrights and story tellers". Facebook. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  8. 1 2 "2019 NSW Philip Parsons Early-Career Playwrights' Lab" (PDF). Belvoir Theatre and Arts NSW. 2019.
  9. ↑ "Awards". Belvoir St Theatre. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  10. ↑ "The Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award guidelines for 2012" (PDF). Belvoir Theatre and Arts NSW. 2012.
  11. 1 2 "2016 NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights Guidelines" (PDF). Belvoir Theatre and Arts NSW.
  12. 1 2 Wild, Stephi (4 December 2018). "Belvoir Announce Winner Of 2018 Philip Parsons Fellowship For Emerging Playwrights - Kendall Feaver". Broadway World.
  13. ↑ "A NIDA Graduate has picked up the Fellowship Award for Emerging Playwrights". The AU Review. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  14. ↑ Shihab, Zainab Hussain (11 December 2013). "Belvoir announces $20,000 fellowship winner". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  15. ↑ Old Man
  16. ↑ "Holding the Man". Australian Plays Transform. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  17. ↑ "Brendan Cowell wins Young Playwright's Award". Arts News. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
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