ASC Annual Report 2008

The Australian Script Centre Annual Report 2008

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About us The Australian Script Centre has been selectively collecting, promoting and distributing contemporary Australian plays in manuscript form since 1979. The Centre’s work supports playwrights in particular by filling the gap left by the very small number of Australian plays that achieve commercial publication.

Our new ecommerce website, australianplays.org, which went live at the end of 2008, gives playwrights a global distribution and marketing network for their work as well as giving producers everywhere a simple access point for professionally written and production-ready Australian plays.

The ASC is a non-profit association with a membership base comprising a diverse community of theatre makers, including many playwrights, drama educators, students, theatre companies and producers. It is the only national arts organisation based in Tasmania.

History The Australian Script Centre grew out of an initiative of Barbara Manning and the Salamanca Theatre Company, called the Salamanca National Script Resource Centre. Initially the centre was a distribution service for playwrights writing for theatre-in-education. It ran successfully throughout the 1980s and in 1993 separated from the Salamanca

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Theatre Company to become the Australian Script Centre. The centre’s collection rapidly grew as it began to incorporate all styles of play and radio scripts. We now house the largest and most comprehensive collection of contemporary Australian playscripts.

The ASC collection represents a significant cultural and historical resource.

Our Mission The ASC’s mission is to be an integral part of the Australian theatre industry by providing a gateway to the best of contemporary Australian performance writing.

Our Values In all areas of practice and operation, we strive to: • Recognise the inherent importance of finding innovative, responsive and creative new ways to promote Australian playwriting, and • Ensure that integrity underlines all business and is evident through our systems of good governance, financial and legal responsibility.

The Australian Script Centre Annual Report 2008 Contents Chair’s Report

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Director’s Report

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The Team

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The Board

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New Plays Received in 2008

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Audit Report

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Special Thanks

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Australian Script Centre ABN: 6343 945 689 77 Salamanca Place Hobart Tasmania 7004 P +61 3 6223 4675 F +61 3 6223 4678 E admin@ozscript.org www.ozscript.org

Our patrons: David Williamson Robyn Archer

The Australian Script Centre is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by State Ministers for the Arts through Arts Tasmania, NSW Arts, Arts WA, and Arts SA.

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chair’s report 2008 has been a momentous year for the Australian Script Centre. We have been designated a Key Organisation by the Australia Council for the Arts and funded triennially. We are now endowed with a significant role in the Australian theatre industry and have substantial funding to carry it out for the next three years. This is an extraordinary achievement; the result of sustained commitment, integrity and service, and a fitting result for the work of the staff and Board over the last few years.

I wish to acknowledge, in particular, the work of Anita Favretto, Director, Deb Sadler, Treasurer and Chris Thompson on the Strategic Plan, which was the core of our submission for triennial funding. It is an extraordinarily well-written document – forceful, eloquent and undeniable – and the ASC owes its current security to this plan and its writers.

There have been great changes in Board membership and staffing. Anita Favretto, Director, and Deb Sadler, Treasurer, have left. In addition to writing the Strategic Plan, Anita, over her two and a half years, steadied the ASC during a time when the entire national script-development landscape was being radically re-defined. Her administrative thoroughness, her determination to establish partnerships nationally and her gift for team-building were the hallmarks of her tenure.

On her arrival, Deb Sadler rationalised our accounting system and, during the 4

Director’s Report time of turmoil, gave such wise advice that funding bodies saw the ASC was indeed in safe hands, and that it should be allowed to get on with the job unscathed.

It has been a source of great personal and professional pleasure to me to have worked with such selfless people. The ASC owes a great deal to Anita and Deb. In late 2008 the Board was able to appoint the brilliant Gail Cork as Director. Gail has exceptional experience in arts administration and is the ideal person to lead the ASC into its new era of e-marketing and digital publishing. She is a confident, creative user of technology and the ASC will have an exciting future in her hands.

Already, the website we manage in collaboration with Playwriting Australia and Currency Press, australianplays.org, is up and running, and our own website, ozscript.org, is being redesigned for educators and playwrights.

Plans are in place for our 30th birthday celebrations in late March and for our collaboration in the National Play Festival, which is taking place in Hobart. Two Pairs of Shorts, initiated by the ASC, will bring readings of four short new plays to Tasmanian audiences during Ten Days on the Island. This is, indeed, an intoxicating time.

Those who know the history of the ASC are astonished at our new identity. This small organization, geographically far from the centres of national theatre

making, and once merely a small library of Theatre-in-Education scripts, has transformed into an innovative, cuttingedge dynamo, attracting major funding and driving sales of new Australian scripts.

By any measure, it’s been quite a year for the Script Centre. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the board and my predecessor, Anita Favretto, the organisation stepped up to a new level of achievement made possible by digital technology.

Lindie Lupo has taken over as Treasurer and David Gurney, Dianne Nicol and Lisa Harris have brought enormous experience, skills and energy to what is virtually a new Board. Chris Tugwell, Chris Thompson, Campion Decent and Alan Jeffrey have continued to bring new ideas and energy to every meeting and to maintain the principles of good governance that have characterized the Board’s work over the years.

The catalyst was the Theatre Board’s decision to fund the design and build of australianplays.org an e-commerce portal for Australian plays, managed by the ASC in collaboration with Currency Press, Playlab and Playwriting Australia.

Building began in May and, by the time Anita left in September to take up new challenges, the foundations were in place for the ASC’s transition from print to digital, a transition that would transform the way we do business.

This is my final report as Chair. I have been privileged to lead a Board of astute, informed and questioning professionals who have freely given their time and expertise in the service of Australian playwrights. Meetings were always awash with generosity and humour, and I thank everyone who has participated with me in the ASC’s journey of the last few years.

Under the new Chairmanship of Campion Decent, the Board will redefine itself and find a fresh approach to supporting the staff of the ASC. I wish Campion, Gail, Board members and staff the very best for the future.

Thank you all.

David Lander Chair March 2009

Then came the big news. The Theatre Board had awarded the ASC Key Organisation status, accompanied by triennial funding for 2009-2011. This resounding vote of confidence in the ASC’s audacious vision for the future had a galvanising effect on the team.

By the end of 2008, two months ahead of schedule, the current catalogue of more than 800 scripts had been digitised and australianplays.org was ready to go live. Formerly bulging filing cabinets were emptied, the daily outflow of snail mail slowed to a trickle, the trusty office photocopier fell strangely silent. Online, it was, and continues to be a hive of activity as script sales gather momentum and the ASC prepares to roll out further digital upgrades in 2009.

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The team In the midst of these major changes, the ASC’s core business of selectively collecting and distributing Australian playscripts did not miss a beat. 2008 saw the release of Stand Alone, a collection of 20 audition pieces for young actors and Collection #7, a stylish CD featuring 27 new plays.

Production of these collections was the work of Script Manager, Lian Tanner.

The ASC is fortunate indeed to have Lian on the team. An accomplished writer herself, Lian’s work in shaping and building the ASC catalogue over the past eight years, her good judgement, fastidious eye for detail and her care for the ASC’s wellbeing make her a wonderful colleague and one of the ASC’s most valuable assets.

The ASC’s good fortune does not stop there. David Roberts brings an astonishing level of savvy and can-do technical wizardry to his role as Online Producer and Marketing Manager.

Before she left to have a baby, Coordinator Beatrix Bae Bouwman took care of the daily minutiae and gave the office a makeover into the bargain.

When the time came to digitise the catalogue, Beatrix rose to the challenge with vigour and efficiency. I also acknowledge other valued members of the team in 2008; Essie Kruckemeyer who left the position of Office Manager in May, Sarah Briggs who kept the books in order after Essie’s departure and Project Manager Anne Morgan who steered australianplays.org through to its successful completion in December.

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An organisation can only ever be as good as its people. The ASC’s achievements in 2008 are testament to the rigour and strategic intelligence of its board and team. I would like to pay special tribute to retiring Chair David Lander for his unfailing support of the organisation through good times and bad. David is an inspirational leader whose robust humour and boundless generosity of spirit will be much missed.

Onwards and upwards.

Gail Cork Director March 2009

Director Anita Favretto (to September 2008) Anita worked at the Australian Writers’ Guild (Melbourne office) for several years before joining local government where she coordinated a festival program and assisted with arts policy development. Prior to joining the ASC, Anita was coordinator at LIVE Tasmania, an arts marketing consortium of theatre producers and presenters. She has also produced independent theatre and freelanced as a researcher and writer for film and new media projects. Anita left the ASC in September 2008 to pursue new opportunities in education program development.

Director Gail Cork (from October 2008) Gail has a diverse background in arts management, specialising in books and writing. Her previous positions include manager of the Australia Council’s Literature Board and executive director of the Australian Society of Authors.

She has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, columnist and reviewer. Her freelance work has appeared in many publications including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

She has served on the boards of the Copyright Agency Limited, the Australian Copyright Council, the Australian Society of Authors and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. Gail is also an accredited and experienced commercial mediator.

Script Manager and A/g Director Sept 2008 Lian Tanner Lian is a children’s fiction author and playwright. Her first children’s novel, Rats! was published by Lothian Books in 2004 and she has just finished her second children’s novel, Museum of Thieves, written with support from an Australia Council Literature Board grant.

She has had two radio plays, Inquest into the Disappearance of a Sensible Woman and Underworld, broadcast on Radio National’s Airplay. Other plays for adults include Corpus Nullius (1996 International Festival of Puppetry, Budapest), Invertebrate (2004 Mountain Festival) and Windpiece (2006 Mountain Festival). Lian’s children’s plays include I’ve Got Wind (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra), Heroes and Yolla (both for Terrapin Theatre). Her stories have been regularly published in School Magazine, the NSW Department of Education’s literary magazine for children. Lian has a degree in Earth Sciences and an Associate Diploma in Performing Arts.

She occasionally works as a freelance editor and copywriter.

Online Producer and Marketing Manager David Roberts (from July 2008) David brings an impressive array of website development, marketing and project management skills to this newly-created position. He came to the ASC from a marketing role with Federal Group where he acquired wide experience of e-marketing campaigns, customer relationship management, 7

search engine optimisation and data analysis. David holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship.

Office and Subscriptions Manager (to February 2008) Essie Kruckemeyer Essie has worked with leading South Australian youth theatre companies.

She completed an Emerging Artist Scholarship at Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble and assisted in the creative development of company productions.

Essie has worked with various arts organisations including Hobart Fringe Festival, Hobart Comedy Festival, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Tasmanian Writers’ Centre, Is Theatre and Salamanca Arts Centre.

Office Coordinator (from May 2008) Beatrix Bae Bouwman Beatrix joined the ASC in May after working for Salamanca Arts Centre and Lucrative Arts Business (LAB). She has worked across a range of artforms with special focus on theatre, music and the visual arts. She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and won numerous awards for her own arts practice.

Project Manager – australianplays.org (May-December 2008) Anne Morgan Anne is a widely published children’s writer with a PhD in writing and many years’ experience in education and project management. Her varied background also includes website development and acting with Queensland Theatre Company.

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Graphic Designer Gordon Harrison-Williams Gordon works with designers Patrick Badger and Kieran Bradley at Workhorse Studio. Established in Hobart in 1992 Workhorse offers expertise in concept, identity, retail, print, package, web and environmental design. Gordon has provided identity and promotional material including design and production of the Collection Series for the ASC since 1998 and most recently ASC’s newest publications, Stand Alone, Collection #7 and Two Pairs of Shorts – Celebrating The Australian Script Centre’s 30th Anniversary.

David Lander Chair and Public Officer (TAS) Member since 2003 BFA Theatre, University of Victoria, Canada. David has had an extensive theatrical career as a writer, performer, director, teacher and lecturer in England, Canada and Australia. He has been a broadcaster and theatre reviewer for ABC Radio National/3LO/ 3RRR and was Artistic Director for the Gippsland Summer School in Theatre and Drama. He has lectured in theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne State College, the University of Calgary and Rose Bruford Theatre School, England. His professional theatre directing credits include three seasons of It’s a Dad Thing (2000-2007), including a Tasmanian tour, Bottom’s Dream by Alan Lovett (2000), which toured Canada and The Crimson Parrot

by Juliann O’Brien. His play Mate has received productions in Sydney and Hobart. He is a founding member of Playwrights Anonymous.

Web Development Tweezy New Media Tweezy New Media was formed in 1999

by Tasmanian IT professionals Tony Phelps and Phil Wood. Tweezy offers a wide range of services including website design, database design and development, web site hosting and graphic design. The team at Tweezy assists the Australian Script Centre with a range of web-based and online database services, making the collection of Australian playscripts more accessible online.

Accountant Rendell Ridge Rendell is a registered company auditor with Max Peck & Associates. He has many years’ experience as auditor for Tasmanian arts organisations.

Allan Jeffrey Deputy Chair (TAS) Member since 2005 Allan divides his time between his theatrical pursuits and as Managing Director of Jeffrey Human Resources Pty Ltd, management consultancy. He has over 30 years experience providing consultancy services to companies and government organisations. His areas of expertise are in organisational change, human resource management training, market research and leadership mentoring. Allan has a Bachelor of Arts,

University of Tasmania and has lectured in organisational behaviour for the Bachelor of Education. Allan has been prominent nationally as a judging panel member for the Australian Training awards and as an evaluator for the new registered training organisation national accreditation program. Allan has recently been contracted by the Commonwealth Government’s Innovation program to develop strategic planning and business improvement services to industry.

Debbie Sadler Treasurer (TAS) (to March 2008) Member since 2002 Bachelor of Commerce, University of Tasmania, Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants. Debbie was the Assistant Director (Accounting Policy) for the State Government and was responsible for developing accounting policy for the inner Budget sector, including the ongoing review of the financial management legislative framework. Prior to this, she held many responsible positions within the Department of Treasury and Finance.

Lindie Lupo Treasurer (TAS) Member since October 2008 Lindie has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Tasmania.

She has many years of experience managing projects for large and small organisations in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors. She is currently working for Northern Tasmanian Development as Corporate Manager 9

and is responsible for all finances and projects of the organisation. She is studying for an MBA. Chris Thompson (VIC) Member since 2004 Chris is a writer, director and arts educator. A former Artistic Director of St Martins Youth Arts Centre, he was a founding Artistic Directorate member of HotHouse Theatre in AlburyWodonga and has written for theatre, film and television. His plays for young audiences have received two AWGIE awards and two further nominations and his screenplay for the feature film The Tumbler was nominated for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and won the 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. He was co-creator and head writer for two seasons of Shock Jock on TV1-Foxtel and has worked as a writer with the Melbourne Planetarium, the Victorian Arts Centre and many other companies. He reviews youth literature for Viewpoint Magazine and has been a script assessor for the Australian Writers’ Guild. In addition to his involvement with the ASC, he currently lectures at ACU in theatre and playwriting, is a member of the Grants Panels for the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and is Chair of the Victorian Writers’ Centre.

Chris Tugwell (SA) Member since 2005 Chris is a playwright and novelist; his work has been performed by Patch Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth, 10

Magpie and the Acting Company.

His play Seasonally Adjusted was showcased at the 1987 Come Out Festival, while Runaway toured regional NSW for 12 months. He was a writer for the ABC TV children’s series Finders Keepers, directed by Scott Hicks. Solo Spots, a book of monologues for senior drama students was co-edited with Ruth Starke and published by Oxford University Press in 1998. His stage play X Ray, about the plight of Australian David Hicks held in Guantanamo Bay, was part of the 2004 Adelaide Fringe and 2005 Darwin Festival. The radio version was broadcast on ABC’s Airplay in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and won a bronze medal at the New York Festival’s international radio awards in 2006. A feature film adaptation is in development.

Campion Decent (NSW) Member since 2007 Campion is a playwright and Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre in AlburyWodonga. His previous positions include Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival, Festival Director of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Chair of the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre. He has held senior positions at State and Federal funding agencies. Campion holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and a Master of Arts (Theatre Studies) from the University of NSW. His play Embers, commissioned

by HotHouse and produced in 2006

with Sydney Theatre Company, won an AWGIE Award and a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2007.

David Gurney (TAS) Member since May 2008 David Gurney is a well known creator of animated cartoons. He executive produced and directed Hoota & Snoz (3 series), Time Cracks (2 series), Mörmel Spots (3 series), The Dog and Cat News (2 series), Bang the Cat (2 series), and Pixel Pinkie (2 series). He also created Erky Perky for Ambience Entertainment, and has consulted to Becker Entertainment and Chapman Pictures. David was Creative Director of The Hoota & Snoz Official Website and the multi award winning Dog and Cat News Website, based on the television series. David consults and has conducted seminars and workshops for many clients, including the ABC, AFC and Screen Australia. David is currently directing Blue Rocket’s latest TV series Pixel Pinkie and is Creative Director of the online component of My Place, a cross platform project based on Nadia Wheatley’s award winning book.

(Dr) Dianne Nicol (TAS) Member since October 2008 Dianne is a Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Tasmania in Australia. She has a PhD in biology from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an LLM in intellectual property law from the University of

Tasmania. She is interested in many aspects of intellectual property law. Her main research focus is on intellectual property issues in health and biotechnology, particularly on use of patented inventions. She teaches in the areas of intellectual property law, equity, media law, IT law and biotechnology and the law.

Her administrative duties include Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Research Coordinator in the Law Faculty. She is a Deputy Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics, a research group based at the University of Tasmania and Melbourne University.

Lisa Harris (TAS) Member since October 2008 Canadian by birth and now Tasmanian by choice, Lisa Harris completed a Bachelor’s degree in Music at King’s College, University of London, and a Graduate Diploma, Library and Information Studies, at the University of Tasmania. Her first fulltime job was in the Development Office at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York where she stayed for three years until her move to Tasmania. Various jobs in administration, marketing and management have led her to the TSO as Manager, Philanthropy and Special Events. Her job is the management of the TSO’s philanthropy programs, fundraising events and the TSO Foundation. Lisa has two children at university and counts music, theatre and bridge as her other interests.

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New plays received in 2008

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Putting Back The Fest Hell’s Belles Red Sky Morning Unto Us A Son Is Born Aladdin Due Monday Borrowed Time Seatown Precipice Rock, Paper, Scissors Helly’s Magic Cup Wiredancer’s Waltz The Man With The September Face In The Violet Time Savage River Concussion (Currency Press) Sleep Easy Chill Better Than This Macbeth Re-Arisen Drought Breaker Deeply Offensive And Utterly Untrue Eichmann In Jerusalem My Bed Is A Crocodile CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) Memmie Le Blanc Gate 38 The Speechwriter Blotto The Sheltered Workshop Anxious But Not Alarmed Are You Happy?

Monsters Transactions Glutton For Punishment Waiting On Jamie Oliver Mum, We Love You Trivia Love Song Dedications Local Hero This Uncharted Hour When Salome Met Hamlet (A Domestic Tragedy)

Michael Jeffery Deborah Mulhall Tom Holloway Tony Nicholls Tony Nicholls Lachlan Philpott Stephen House Stephen Faulds Catherine Ryan John Fraser Rosalba Clemente Sven Swenson Kylie Trounson Sue Smith Steve Rodgers Ross Mueller Jamie Forbes Pauline Hosking David Mence Linda Stainton Version 1.0 David Blackman Pauline Hosking Version 1.0 Hilary Bell David Megarrity Anna Bennetts Jeremy Johnson Jeremy Johnson Scott Mcateer Scott Mcateer Scott Mcateer Scott Mcateer Scott Mcateer Gerry Greenland Clem Gorman Stephen Vagg Stephen Vagg Nicole Smith Fin Kruckemeyer Steve Chinna

VIC NSW VIC TAS TAS NSW SA WA VIC NSW SA QLD VIC NSW NSW VIC VIC VIC VIC NSW NSW VIC VIC NSW NSW QLD WA NSW NSW VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC NSW NSW NSW NSW VIC TAS WA

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1031 1030 1027 1028 1029 1018 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1013 1010 1011 1012 1014 1015 1016 1017 1004

Generation B The Girl I Left Behind Me There’s A War On, You Know Sinking Marmalade And Egg A Thing Called Snake Just Like That Machiavelli, Machiavelli A Tree, Falling Renaissance Controlled Crying Wrongful Life Lexie Turns To Stone Dispatch The Seven Needs The Call Random Acts Stop Means Go The Greatest Show On Earth The Littlest Bird Hot Dogs Shift Swapping Nude All-Stars On The Mango Planet Of Love Destination The Reckoning Plaything The Role Model Concerto For Humans And Semtex The Couples Scattering Robert Fragmented The Mozart Faction Shadow Passion Colder Smashed A Solitary Choice Seeds Last One Standing

Gail Evans Alex Nicol Peter Flanigan Rod Ainsworth Melissa Cantwell Stephen House Stephen House John Upton Ron Elisha Ron Elisha Ron Elisha Ron Elisha Patrick Carr Penelope Bartlau 7-On Patricia Cornelius A.F Lall Chris Thompson Donna Abela David Ryding David Ryding David Ryding Simon Luckhurst

NT NSW WA QLD WA SA SA NSW Vic Vic Vic Vic QLD Vic NSW VIC VIC VIC NSW Vic Vic Vic NSW

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Samantha Graham Bridget Di Certo Simon Dodd Bruce Hoogendoorn Simon Luckhurst Alison J Cooper Stephanie Mccarthy Suzanne Ingelbrecht Kate Rice Anthony Crowley Lachlan Philpott Nathan Luff Sheila Duncan Michelle Pettigrove Ned Manning

QLD QLD NSW ACT NSW QLD SA WA WA Vic NSW NSW VIC NSW NSW

4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 4-Feb-08 29-Jan-08 29-Jan-08 29-Jan-08 28-Jan-08 28-Jan-08 28-Jan-08 28-Jan-08 28-Jan-08

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Independent Audit Report

Profit & Loss Statement INCOME Australian Script Centre Inc Income Statement for year ended 31 December 2008

2008

2007

177,750 5,000 182,750

75,000 3,000 78,000

12,000 12,000 72,039 5,000 4,000 105,039

12,000 12,000 29,000 4,700

2,818 2,509 550 5,621 8,749 6,675 26,921 ______ $ 314,710

2,615 2,434 671 2,505 8,756 7,350 24,331 ________ $ 160,031

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2006

Commissions, workshops, events 7,482 Marketing, Promotion 3,960 Overheads 93,282 Projects, New Initiatives 13,509 Royalty payments 1,420 Salaries, Staff Oncosts 173,599 ______ Total Expenses 293,252 ______ Net Profit $ 21,459

4,997 35,580 10,835 840 103,267 ________ 155,519 ________ $ 4,402

Australia Council Theatre Board Literature Board Total Australia Council States Arts WA NSW Arts Arts Tasmania Arts SA National Library of Australia Total States Other Income Bank Interest Other funding Other Income Publications Scripts Subscriptions Total Other Income Total Income

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57,700

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Balance Sheet

Special Thanks 2008

Australian Script Centre Inc Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2008

Assets Cash and Deposits 157,439 Other Current Assets 17,806 Non-Current Assets: Office, computer equipment 26,440 Deduct Accumulated Depreciation -9,198 ______ Total Assets 192,487 Liabilities Arts Tas Loan Grants in advance GST Payables (- Receivables) Payroll Liabilities Royalties Payable Total Liabilities Net Assets Equity Retained Earnings Current Earnings Total Equity

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2007

95,465 6,160 26,440 -8,835 ________ 119,230

1,711 148,725 -65 6,233 1,051 ______ 157,655 ______ $ 34,832

3,471 85,632 7,181 9,573 ________ 105,856 ________ $ 13,374

13,374 21,459 ______ $ 34,832

8,972 4,402 ________ $ 13,374

The ASC would like to thank the many individuals who have very generously given their time and expertise in 2008. They include; Catherine Fitzgerald Eamon Flack Anita Favretto Chris Doolan Sue Smith Debra Oswald Adam Grossetti David Young Deirdre Monk Sally Marsden Helen French Ron Mac an Ultaigh Debbie Sadler Chris Mead Campion Decent Charlie Parkinson Chris Thomas Chris Tugwell Donna Abela Donna Cameron Finegan Kruckemeyer Gordon Harrison-Williams

Harvey Yarnall Jacinta Legge-Wilkinson Jane Polley Jeremy Rice Kathryn Kelly Leigh Swinbourne Louise Gough Louise Fischer Maggie Gillam Maryanne Lynch Michael Hill Tony Nicholls Paul Duncombe Paul Yarnall Peter Matheson Phil Thomson Rebecca Skeers Richard Buckham Suellen Maunder Tony Phelps Wendy Joseph

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Photos reproduced in this publication were selected from our recently released Collection #7.

To preview Collection #7, visit australianplays.org Photos by page: Cover The Kursk by Sasha Janowicz Photo: Michael Futcher. Actors: Julienne Youngberry, Jonathan Brand, Sasha Janowicz, Dirk Hoult, Amanda Mitchell, Eugene Gilfedder Page 3: A Solitary Choice by Sheila Duncan Production: Holden Street Theatre.

Photo: Steve Duggan. Actor: Tamara Lee Page 5: Enemy Material by Simon Froehling Photo: Patrick Pfeiffer. Actors: Max Merker, Guenter Baumann, Katja Tippelt, Oliver El-Fayoumy Page 9: Left Marmalade And Egg by Melissa Cantwell Production: Perth Theatre Company. Photo: Jon Green. Actors: Bill McCluskey, Sarah Borg, Stuart Halusz. Right Memmie Le Blanc Hilary Bell by Melissa Cantwell Photo: Jon Green. Actor: Anni Lindner Page 10: Mrs Petrov’s Shoe

By Noëlle Janaczewska Photo: Kirrilly Brentnall.

Actor: Jude Beaumont Page 11: Nailed, by Caleb Lewis Photo: Rob McFarlane. Actor: Ursula Yovich Page 13: Precipice by Tommy Murphy Production: Cranbrook School. Photo: Petri Kurkaa Actors: Arthur Rothbury, Artin Tsambazis Page 17: True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea

by Kit Lazaroo Production: Here Theatre.

Photo: Ponch Hawkes. Actor: Fanny Hanusin

The Australian Script Centre has been celebrating fine Australian playwriting since 1979. From modest beginnings as a dedicated archive for theatre-ineducation scripts, it has grown into a dynamic entrepreneurial agency representing the world’s largest collection of contemporary Australian plays.

COLLECTION

#6

30 new scripts from The Australian Script Centre

Page 18: Victor And Sass by Kathleen Cantarella Photo: Michael Marzik. Actors: Anthony Ring, Toma Hartley Inside back cover: True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea by Kit Lazaroo Production: Here Theatre.

Photo: Ponch Hawkes. Actors: Lliam Amor, Julia Zemiro

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Australian Script Centre 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart Tasmania 7004 Phone: +61 3 6223 4675 Fax: +61 3 6223 4678 Email: admin@ozscript.org www.ozscript.org

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Thank the gods for Ozscript’s Collection, which turns the spotlight on unpublished new writing and gives us a fighting chance of getting our work in front of a wider audience.

Peter Fyfe, playwright