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New 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With a comprehensive store of New Zealand plays (published and unpublished) and managed by Pania Stevenson, the bookshop exists for all your play reading needs and enquiries.- Big Idea
Our vision is for quality New Zealand plays receiving quality productions.
Our focus is the development, support and representation of New Zealand playwrights. We are a key advocate for the continued growth of New Zealand theatre on our stages and coordinate a range of resources, services and opportunities for playwrights.
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History
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- 1 year 19 weeks
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Writing
- For saleYesQueen b by Pip Hall. Exchange by Lauren Jackson. Urban Hymns by Miria George
- For saleYes“powerfully imagined and psychologically astute… hypnotically wind(s) up the tension” New Zealand Listener
- For saleYesAn epic play tracing the lives, loves, successes and failures of several generations of a New Zealand farming family.
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