PLAYMARKET INFORMATION

Playmarket issues and manages performance licences and royalty payments, circulates clients’ plays in New Zealand and internationally, advises on and negotiates commissions, translation and collaboration agreements, and maintains an archive of playwrights’ work. Playmarket offers a raft of development resources such as clinics, readings, and events; and industry discourse, partnerships and networks. Our bookshop provides every published New Zealand play in print and has a comprehensive catalogue of unpublished plays to download or purchase. Playmarket also offers advice to all New Zealand playwrights, theatremakers and producers.

FACTS AND FIGURES

1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020

Professional performance licenses issued: 33 Community performance licenses issued: 72 International licenses issued: 15 School/Tertiary performance licenses issued: 116 Scripts circulated: 5800 Scripts/drafts received: 442 Paid script assessments: 7

PUBLISHING 2020

NZ Play Series

Purapurawhetū by Briar Grace-Smith | Series Editor: David O’Donnell | Design: Cansino & Co | Editing and Production: Whitireia Publishing The Pink Hammer by Michele Amas and Flagons and Foxtrots by Alison Quigan and Ross Gumbley | Series Editor: David O’Donnell | Design: Cansino & Co | Editing and Production: Whitireia Publishing

Playmarket Annual

Editor: Mark Amery | Design: Cansino & Co | Editorial assistants: Salesi Le’ota and Murray Lynch

Playmarket Guidelines Series

Caring for Your Audience by Lori Leigh | Editors: Salesi Le’ota and Murray Lynch | Design: Cansino & Co

eBulletin

Published monthly via email. News and opportunities for those interested in New Zealand plays | Editor: Salesi Le’ota

edBulletin

Published biannually via email. Resources and opportunities for teachers and educators Editor: Salesi Le’ota

AWARDS, COMPETITIONS AND PROJECTS

Playmarket Award Winner 2019:

Sarah Delahunty

Bruce Mason Award Winner 2019:

Nancy Brunning

Adam NZ Play Award Winner 2020:

This Particular Room by Jess Sayer Runner Up: Blocked by Siobhan Rosenthal

Best Play by a Māori Playwright:

Second to God by Sarah Browne

Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright:

Scholars by Tanya Muagututi’a

Best Play by a Woman Playwright:

This Particular Room by Jess Sayer

McNaughton South Island Play Award:

An Unlikely Season by Carl Nixon

Playwrights b4 25 Winner 2020:

Homemade Takeaways by Ben Wilson

Playmarket Plays for the Young Competition

2019: Prince Charming by Shaun Swain (3 – 8 year olds), Whetū and Nick by Mike Hudson (8 – 12 year olds), A Gaggle of Ducks by Aroha Awarau and The Gangster’s Paradise by Leki Jackson-Bourke (teenage)

Brown Ink Development Programme 2019:

Fah (Whā) by Fraser Findlay and Temperance by Annette Morehu

Asian Ink Development Programme 2019:

Not Woman Enough by Hweiling Ow

Scotland Residency with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Magnetic North and CNZ:

Uther Dean Te Hono / Connector: Grace BentleyTsibuah and Miriama McDowell, Mike Hudson and Margaret Mary Hollins and Philippa Campbell, Ben Hutchison and Gary Henderson, Alex Lodge and Hilary Beaton, Poata Alvie McKree and Dione JosephKouratoras, Suli Moa and Gary Henderson, Joni Nelson and Ahilan Karunaharan, Siobhan Rosenthal and Ralph McCubbin Howell, Ankita Singh and Nathan Joe, Renaye Tamati and Shane Bosher

Rebecca Mason Executive Coaching 2020:

Courtney Rose Brown, Finnius Teppett

Playwrights in Schools programme with

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura 2019: Dave Armstrong, Holly Gooch, Leki JacksonBourke, Oscar Kightley, Alex Lodge

Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Residencies

2019: Michael Stevens, Fifi Colston, Karen Wrigglesworth, Young Writers Festival, Sue Gerrard

CLINICS, SCRIPT ADVISORY, READINGS AND WORKSHOPS

1 July 2019– 30 June 2020:

Congregation by Gavin McGibbon, Good Grief by Louise Proudfoot, Lloyd Dobbler is Dead by Rene Le Bas, Politics in Little Paradise by Vela Manusaute, thursdays.child by Benny Marama, The Surprise Party by Dave Armstrong, Breathless by Courtney Rose Brown, Movers by James Cain, The Secret Life of Seaweed by Julie McKee, The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh, The Beak of the Bird by Apirana Taylor, Rupture by Craig Thaine, PAT Fresh off the Page, Atawhai Festival.

Through Lines 6 – 7 September 2019:

Dramaturgical Kick-In-The-Pants with Iain Sinclair, Getting Started with Fiona Samuel, Script Editing with Iain Sinclair, Dramaturgical Best Practice with Stuart Hoar and Allison Horsley, Too Too Funny: Writing Comedy with Dave Armstrong and Jamie McCaskill, How Do I Get My Play Programmed? with Kathryn Burnett, Roanna Dalziel, Colin McColl, Nathan McKendry and Dolina Wehipeihana, Building Community with Jo Randerson, Ahi Karunaharan and Tanya Muagututi’a, Moving Forward with Johanna Smith, Victor Rodger and Roy Ward, Pronouns+ with Daedae Tekoronga-Waka and Felix Desmarais, Worst Case-Best Case Scenario with Fasitua Amosa, Philippa Campbell and Gary Henderson. Te Tira Tā Mai o te Upoko facilitated by Jamie McCaskill

Playmarket Playfellows 2019 - 2020:

The Wallace Foundation, Alister McDonald CONTACT US Suite 4/35 – 38 Cambridge Terrace PO Box 9767, Wellington 6141 Director: Murray Lynch director@playmarket.org.nz |+64 4 382 8464

Licensing Administrator and Bookshop

Administrator: Ivana Palezevic ivana@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 1

THEATRE CALENDAR 2020 CONTINUED:

Gladys and Alfie by Jane McLauchlan Lyttelton Arts Factory 17 – 25 Jan 2020

Frickin Dangerous Bro 2020 by Jamaine Ross, James Roque and Pax Assadi Bread and Circus 24 Jan – 2 Feb 2020

Treasure Island by David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache Rollicking Entertainment Botanic Gardens 29 Jan – 16 Feb 2020 DUNEDIN

Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything by Uther Dean Arcade Theatre University of Otago Bookshop 26 Jul – 3 Aug 2019

Crunchy Silk by Jess Sayer Suitcase Theatre New Athenaeum 14 – 17 Aug 2019

The Passion of the [Redacted] by Kerry Lane

Publication and Event Coordinator:

Salesi Le’ota sal@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 2 Script Coordinator: Nathan Mudge nathan@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 2 Script Advisor: Stuart Hoar scripts@playmarket.org.nz |+64 382 8462 ext 1 Website www.playmarket.org.nz

Playmarket thanks our partners for their

support: Creative New Zealand; Foundation North; Adam Foundation; Auckland Live; Bruce Mason Estate; Capital E: National Theatre for Children; Circa Theatre; Drama New Zealand; Downstage Foundation; FAME Trust; Hannah Playhouse; Massive Company; Musical Theatre New Zealand; NZ Theatre Month; NZ Writers Guild; Playwrights Guild of Canada; Playwrights’ Studio Scotland; Playwriting Australia; Read NZ Te Pou Muramura; Taki Rua Productions; Tawata Productions; Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre; The Actors’ Program; The Writers’ Cottage Trust; Theatre Archives New Zealand; Theatre New Zealand; The Underwood Family; Whitireia Publishing; Young and Hungry Arts Trust and all of the professional theatre companies.

PREVIOUS PAGE: Renée and Sarah Delahunty, Playmarket Accolades, 2019. Image: Philip Merry.

Sacrilege Productions University Bookshop 12 – 14 Mar 2020

Other venues South Island

Aperture by Martine Baanvinger Suter Theatre, Nelson 24 – 25 Oct 2019

Waiting for Greta by Paul Maunder Kiwi Possum Productions Left Bank Gallery, Greymouth 14 Sep 2019, Imagine Theatre, Motueka 9 Nov 2019 The Survival of Thomas Brunner by Tall Tales Co-op Left Bank Art Gallery 15 Sep 2019

Moon Tales by Birdlife Productions Nelson Provincial Museum 18 Jan 2020

The Bicycle and the Butcher’s Daughter by Helen Moulder and Sue Rider Willow Productions Shopfront Theatre, Nelson 15 Jul – 16 Aug 2020