As winter is upon us, the theatre season is heating up! Many new Australian works are hitting our stages and we want you to get amongst it, so do take part in our giveaway bonanza below! In this edition we are excited to share our Ignition projects for 2018 and reflections of Outposts, our emerging writers program in Albury Wodonga. Plenty of playwright interviews from Audrey Journal for your perusal and there's also an opportunity to join the PWA team. Are you the Artistic Director/CEO to lead our company into the future?

Best wishes
Michelle, Christie, Jorjia, Leila & Sophie

Playwriting Australia are seeking an ambitious 
Artistic Director/CEO to lead the company into the future. This is a pivotal role within the national theatre sector. The Artistic Director/CEO will have a passion for new writing; a strong knowledge of the Australian theatre sector; and insightful advocacy and leadership skills. Expressions of interest close 5pm Friday, 18 May 2018. For more information click here

Anchuli Felicia King's play, WHITE PEARL was showcased at the 2018 National Play Festival. We asked Felicia five questions in the lead up to the Play Festival, including finding out who her playwriting heroes are. Felicia also caught up with the Audrey Journal to chat about how she finds her stories in the space where technology and tradition meet.

During this year's National Play Festival, Audrey Journal interviewed playwrights whose new works were part of the Play Festival line-up. Check out their conversation with Will O'Mahony (MINNEAPOLIS) and their conversation with Jub Clerc (THE FEVER AND THE FRET). Audrey Journal also interviewed three dynamic voices that formed TRUE WEST, a showcase of new works from Western Sydney playwrights - Nick Atkins, James Elazzi and Monikka Eliah. You can catch up on all the National Play Festival coverage by Audrey Journal here

We are proud to announce our five new and bold Ignition partnerships for 2018. Ignition is our four-year creative script-development program in partnership with producing companies. This program is part of our active vision of a society where new plays are consistently excellent and ambitious, more widely produced and embraced by audiences as central to Australian life. Check out the projects we will be working on with these producing companies to develop such bespoke new plays over a 12-24 month period.

Last month, OUTPOSTS our emerging writers program in Albury-Wodonga concluded with a well-received public playreading. OUTPOSTS, a year-long program to seek, and develop new regional stories was created in partnership with Hothouse Theatre​ and proudly supported by the Jibb Foundation, Rodney Seaborn Playwriting Support Fund and Robert Salzer Foundation. Read more about this program and reflections from the creative team involved.

In partnership with Bundanon Trust, Accessible Arts is offering up to five funded places for a one-week residency at the Bundanon property from 27 August to 3 September 2018. Applications are being accepted from NSW writers, visual artists and musicians with a lived experience of disability. Don't delay applications are due 13 June. For more information and to apply click here

Applications are now open for the 2019 Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwriting Festival.
Get involved in this international showcase of First Peoples playwriting. Six scripts will be selected to receive creative development and be presented at the Festival. Applications close midnight Friday 1 June 2018. Click here for more information and the application form. Submit your entry to 
yellamundie@moogahlin.org

Journey into a dramatic world of exquisite athleticism and human connection in Sydney Dance Company’s electrifying new piece AB [INTRA], premiering 14 – 26 May. Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela’s latest work explores the shared instincts of what drives us apart and brings us back together. To go in the running to win a double pass to the Monday 14 May, 8pm performance, email competitions@sydneydancecompany.com  Why not watch the trailer #SDCIntra
 

Natalie Yang is going up. Her debut novel, Banana Girl, detailing the endless smorgasbord of her sex life has finally hit the shelves. Her posse laud her as the voice of her generation. Enter Lu Lu Jayadi: award-winning peddler of clichéd migrant stories, who sends Natalie’s career and sense of self spiralling out of control.
There's TWO chances to win a double pass to the side-splitting comedy GOING DOWN by Michele Lee at Malthouse Theatre. Michele is one of PWA's finest playwrights; MOTHS (National Play Festival 2014) and then RICE (National Play Festival 2016) has successfully toured. To enter send your name and contact details to info@pwa.org.au

"This cannot be stopped; your history is impending. Everyone will know tomorrow, by the end of lunch, who you really are..." Set within a New South Wales high school, IMPENDING EVERYONE by Michael Andrew Collins explores what happens when we have to own up to the things we have said, when anonymity is stripped away and our desires are laid bare. Season is 20 June -7 July at SBW Stables Theatre. Our friends at ATYP are excited to offer two double passes to IMPENDING EVERYONE on the 20th, 21st or 22nd of June at 7pm. To enter email ruby@atyp.com.au with "ATYP-Impending" in the subject line!

LOST BOYS is a fierce and compelling new play by award-winning Australian playwright Lachlan Philpott (SILENT DISCO, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY). This vital and unflinching new play forces us to examine secrets held for decades, and prejudices held today. LOST BOYS was developed as part of our National Script Workshop in 2017. To celebrate its Merrigong Theatre Company debut, we have two tickets up for grabs to see the Saturday 26th May performance. Email PWA to enter. 

Ilbijerri Theatre Company is about to kick off a national tour of WHICH WAY HOME by Katie Beckett! WHICH WAY HOME was originally developed by Playwriting Australia in 2014 and to celebrate our friends at Footscray Arts Centre are giving away a double pass to the Saturday 26 May performance. To enter email PWA with your contact details. WHICH WAY HOME will be taking the stage in ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, VIC and WA throughout May-August. Don't miss the chance to see this road trip comedy 80,000 years in the making.