NEW PLAYWRITING AWARD ANNOUNCED FOR 2012
At an awards function at Downstage Theatre, on 23 November, Murray Lynch announced that in PLAYMARKET’s funding agreement for 2012 – 2014, Creative New Zealand have approved a new award – called the Playmarket Award - that will be offered from next year and come with a prize of $20,000.
Murray Lynch has, since his appointment to the role of Director of PLAYMARKET, been lobbying for the resource to offer an award for senior or established playwrights. He says it is widely acknowledged that the number of opportunities to recognise and celebrate our playwrights is a deficit in the arts scene and Creative New Zealand, after conducting its own research, agreed.
The process for deciding the winner will be confirmed next year for this no doubt hotly contested prize.
Lynch says “I am thrilled to be in a position to make this announcement and this time next year we will be awarding the first recipient.”
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PLAYMARKET incNew Zealand Playwrights’ Agent. Advisor. Bookshop.
AGENT
The rights and interests of playwrights represented
The Playmarket Agency, headed by Murray Lynch, issues and manages performance licences, advises on and negotiates commission and collaboration agreements, manages royalty payments, maintains an archive of playwrights’ work and materials related to it and circulates their plays to producers and theatres in NZ and internationally.ADVISOR
Practical support and advice to those in the business of writing plays
Our script advisors focus on supporting playwrights to write. Coordinated by Jean Betts and Stuart Hoar, and making use of a raft of resources, industry knowledge, partnerships and networks we work to support all New Zealand playwrights.
Playmarket’s Auckland office runs a development programme for Maori and Pasifika playwrights, funded by ASB Community Trust and led by Jenni Heka. This programme acts as an advisory service and also manages a number of projects in partnership with local bodies.BOOKSHOP
NZ plays available to everyone, everywhere
With a comprehensive store of New Zealand plays (published and unpublished) and managed by Pania Stevenson, the bookshop exists for all your play reading needs and enquiries.
