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Monash Playwrights Competition
or Monash Student Theatre and Monash Student Association National Open Playwrights' Competition
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Monash University National Playwrights Competition was supported by Monash Uni Student Theatre.

Notes

  • 'Inaugurated in 2003 by Monash University for new, unproduced, full-length plays inspired from the desire to acknowledge and encourage Australian writers, including those in the student community and to bring great new works to Monash.' Source: www.msa.monash.edu.au (Sighted 15/02/2008).

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)8273607

Year: 2006

winner Declan Greene for Laugh Out Loud

Year: 2003

joint winner Inmates David McCartney , 2003 single work drama 'Inmates tells the story of a young man's progression through a profound mental collapse. To escape and as a means of understanding his ordeal, the man pens a play recording the changes taking place in his inner world. The boundaries between the two worlds however, and the characters created take on a life of their own to the torment and confusion of their author.' Source: www.judithwrightcentre.com (Sighted 15/02/2008).
winner Flywire Amelia Roper , 2005 single work drama Two students return home to the country for a holiday and confront aspects of their identity Special Monash prize

Year: 1976

winner y separately published work icon Cass Butcher Bunting : A Play in Two Acts Bill Reed , Port Melbourne : Edward Arnold Australia , 1977 Z71361 1977 single work drama
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