Mary Anne Butler is a multi award-winning playwright based in Naarm, Melbourne. A Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, an Arts NT Fellow, a Winston Churchill Fellow, a Regional Arts Fellow and an Asialink Fellow, Mary Anne is known for her sharp […]

A Year to Celebrate – Thank You for 2024! Reflecting on a Big Year for Australian Plays Transform View this email in your browser Hello! As we wrap up the year, the APT team wanted to share some quick updates […]

Our Australian First Nations Playwrights Retreat 2024 is over! Six playwrights – Alexis West, Nicola Ingram, Jada Alberts, John Harding, Jenny Fraser, and Bjorn Stewart – and two dramaturgs – Glenn Shea and Shari Indriani Irwin – recently spent ten […]

Announcing our monologue collection + Narragunnawali collaboration | APT Term 4 Education E-news View this email in your browser Education E-news: Term 4, 2024 Announcing our Monologue collection + Narragunnawali collaboration Welcome to Term 4! It’s a time of the […]

… Alex Edmondson, playwright and participant in the Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund, recently travelled from Darwin to Melbourne for a whirlwind three days! She shared how creatively energising the experience was, reconnecting with the arts and connecting with new […]

APT is very excited to announce these experienced industry professionals as mentors to our 2024 DTDSA cohort: Alexis West – Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Elena Carapetis, Chris Drummond, Jennifer Medway, Dom Mercer, and Jules Orcullo. These mentors help guide our five emerging […]

First Nations Playwrights Retreat 📢 | Story Lab Highlights ✍️ | Meet the Team! 👋 We’ve been busy. View this email in your browser Hello friends, It’s an exciting time of the year – season launch season! We love this […]

Your peek behind-the-curtains of this year’s Developing the Dramaturg (SA)’s Story Lab intensives. Written by the 2024 DTDSA cohort: Alexis West, Anthony Nocera, Bonet Leate, Kate Cheel, and Ting Zhang. … As participants in the Story Lab of the 2024 […]

The Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund supports three regional, emerging playwrights each year, connecting them with a mentor One of 2024’s participants is Sofia Abbey, who recently used the fund’s support to travel to Cairns for intensive dramaturgy sessions with […]

The Australian Plays Transform team, along with our partner companies Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Moogahlin Performing Arts, and Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, are so excited to bring you this year’s playwright participants in the First Nations Playwrights Retreat, one of our […]

Reflections on the importance retreating away from everyday life- together. Retreats as community At APT, we value and advocate for playwriting as a craft and a career. We also know that it can be an incredibly isolating experience and, for […]

APT is so thrilled to announce the participants of South Australia’s Developing the Dramaturg program. After an incredible inaugural year in NSW, we’re stoked to be partnering with leading theatre companies of South Australia to take this skills development and […]

APT is so excited to announce the participants in our pilot program APT Writers Groups: Write Together, Rise Together. There are 20 playwrights in the three cohorts – Playwrights with Disability, Mid-Career Playwrights, and Emerging Playwrights – which are led […]

APT is looking for a Creative Producer (First Nations Programs) to work with us part time over three years, primarily to lead and deliver the long-running Australian First Nations Playwrights Retreat and Development Program in partnership with Ilbijerri Theatre Company, […]

APT is very excited to bring you this year’s Duologue participants! Supported by the S,B,&W Foundation, this year’s cohort consists of 6 mid-career playwrights and their chosen collaborators. The pairs are supported to meet monthly for six months, enabling the […]

Applications for the annual First Nations Playwrights Retreat are open! This program is part of our 2024 Season – you can check out the full season here. If you have questions about eligibility and how to apply, check out this […]

Applications for the Developing the Dramaturg – South Australia program are open now! CALLING ALL: emerging dramaturgs identifying as First Nations, CaLD, and/or a person of colour, based in Kaurna/Adelaide. In 2024 we take the successful Developing the Dramaturg pilot […]

We’re looking for a highly motivated Adelaide-based producer with excellent project management and time management skills to join the team as Program Producer for our Developing the Dramaturg program in South Australia. This role is a part-time contract across six […]

APT is thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund: Alexandra Edmondson, Sofia Abbey, and Gemma Betros. These three emerging regional playwrights will be supported with a mentor over six months, and a $1000 travel […]

We are super stoked to launch our 2024 Pride Collection! Thanks to the support of Pride Foundation Australia, we’ve been able to curate this collection, which travels from theatre canon to brand new work. With recommendations from powerhouse theatremakers and […]

This ‘Hear it from the Playwright’ is an APT-exclusive collection of interviews with Lally Katz, Jane Harrison, Michelle Law, and Yve Blake. We spoke to them about their recent works, which are now part of the NSW HSC Drama curriculum, […]

APT is absolutely thrilled to announce that Amy Sole and their play “Nan’s Place” is the winner of the 2024 Max Afford Playwrights Award. It was chosen unanimously by the panel of esteemed judges as a work with distinctive voice, […]

In case you missed it: On Thursday evening last week we had our Q&A session for our pilot program APT Playwrights Groups: Write Together, Rise Together. Thanks so much to everyone who came! It was a great turnout and we […]

Applications for the Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund and the Duologue Programs are now live! These programs are part of our 2024 Season – you can check out the full season here. If you have questions about eligibility and how […]

Our 2024 program launched on Friday! You can check out all of the cool things we’ve got lined up so far by heading to our 2024 program page. Here’s a little overview for you: Keep updated! As always, make sure […]

This collection is a selection of education resources created by Belvoir St Theatre for recent premieres and Australian classics, many of which are on curriculum lists across Australia. Resources include classroom activities, production images, and insights into elements of production […]

APT is very excited to announce the launch of our Sustainability Collection! Curated and compiled by our Education Consultant Zoe Hogan, this collection highlights sustainability as one of the Australian Curriculum’s three cross-curriculum priorities. While tailored to educators, this collection […]