The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is an annual Australian literary award established jointly by the Sydney Theatre Company

Sydney Theatre Company

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 and The Sydney Morning Herald

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in honour of Patrick White

Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...

's contribution to Australian theatre

Theatre in Australia

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. The award was launched in 2000 and in 2011, was amended to include the Patrick White Fellowship.

The A$7,500 cash award is given for an unproduced play

Play (theatre)

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 to foster the development of Australian playwrights. In addition, the winning play is given a public reading presented by the Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival

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.

The Patrick White Fellowship is A$25,000 for an established Australian playwright whose work has been produced professionally in Australia within the last four years in recognition of their contribution to the theatre and their art form. The inaugural recipient was Raimondo Cortese.

Previous winners

• 2010: Melissa Bubnic, Beached
• 2009: Ian Wilding
• 2008: Nicki Bloom
• 2007: Angus Cerini and Timothy Daly
• 2006: Patricia Cornelius
  Patricia Cornelius
  Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.-Plays:Cornelius has written more than 20 plays, which include Slut , The Call , Good, Do Not Go Gentle… , Boy Overboard , Love Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne...
  
  
• 2005: Wesley Enoch
  Wesley Enoch
  Wesley Enoch is an Australian playwright and artistic director of Murri descent.- Life :The eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane....
  
  , The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table
• 2004: Stephen Carleton, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset
• 2003: David Milroy and Ningali Lawford, Windmill Baby
• 2002: Reg Cribb
  Reg Cribb
  -Background:Reg Cribb graduated from NIDA in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.-Plays:Reg Cribb's plays include The Return , Last Cab to Darwin, Gulpilil, Chatroom, Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Unaustralia, Mt Ragged, Night of the Sea...
  
  , Last Cab to Darwin and Ian Wilding, Even Amongst Dogs
• 2001: Brendan Cowell
  Brendan Cowell
  Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director. Cowell was born in Sydney. He stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal; he was then cast in a commercial at age 8...
  
   Bed; Toby Schmitz, Lucky and Jackie Smith, The Aliens
• 2000: Ben Ellis
  Ben Ellis (playwright)
  Ben Ellis is a playwright from Gippsland in Australia, now based in London. His significant works include Post Felicity , Falling Petals , a stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis , and more recently Poet No. 7 and The Final Shot , both premiering in London...
  
  , Who Are You, Mr James? later produced as Post Felicity; Bette Guy Three Men – Three Chairs and Ailsa Piper
  Ailsa Piper
  Ailsa Piper is an Australian writer, director and performer. She worked as an actress in theatre and television from the early 1980s until 2000. She made her first appearance on TV in 1984 in Man of Letters. She is most famous for playing Ruth Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1996 until...
  
  Small Mercies

External links

• Patrick White Playwrights' Award, Sydney Theatre Company.