Young Playwrights Program

Young Playwrights Program (2009)
L-R Margie Brown Ash, Catherine Terricini,
Damien Cassidy, Andy Barclay and Scott Witt

"The playwright development programs I have participated
in at Queensland Theatre Company have inspired,
challenged and educated me, and helped me attain
a commission to write a show for the company!"
- Maxine Mellor, Playwright

In 2010 our Young Playwrights Program Finalists are Anna McGahan, Bianca Butler and Tom Slater.

Over the next two months all three playwrights will continue working on their scripts with professional dramaturges, actors and directors and a play reading for each script will be presented at Brisbane Writers Festival on Thursday 2 September from 5.30pm.

The playwrights will also take part in a panel discussion at the festival chaired by Wesley Enoch about their writing process on Wednesday 1 September from 10.50am. Below is a list of the finalist’s work and our commended list of entrants.

Finalists

He is seeing other people now. by Anna McGahan
If It Wasn’t For You by Bianca Butler
Rudie Can't Fail by Tom Slater

Commendations

Passing Wind by Natalie Nunan
Last Rights by Loren MacDonald
The Lost Sock by Ryanna Clayton
Broken by Rachel Rollo
Polite Violence by Amelia Dowd
The Break Up by Alisinn Healy
Butterflies by Angela Stoneman
Broken by William Wilson