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PLAYMARKET INFORMATION Playmarket issues and manages performance licences and royalty payments, circulates clients’ plays in Aotearoa 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 Our bookshop provides every published Aotearoa play in print and has a comprehensive catalogue of unpublished plays to download or purchase. Playmarket also offers advice to all Aotearoa playwrights, theatremakers and producers.
FACTS AND FIGURES Professional performance licences issued: 29 Community performance licences issued: 55 International licences issued: 13 School/tertiary performance licences issued: 117 Scripts circulated: 5613 Scripts/drafts received: 311 Paid script assessments: 8 PUBLISHING Maria Dronke: Glimpses of an Acting Life by Monica Tempian | Design: Cansino & Co | Editing and Production: Whitireia Publishing Playmarket Guidelines 05: Caring for Your Audience by Lori Leigh | Design: Cansino & Co Playmarket Annual Editor: Mark Amery | Design: Cansino & Co | Editorial assistants: Salesi Le’ota and Murray Lynch eBulletin Published monthly via email. News and opportunities for those interested in Aotearoa plays | Editor: Salesi Le’ota
edBulletin Published biannually via email. Resources and opportunities for teachers and educators Editors: Salesi Le’ota, Nathan Mudge and Isaac Martyn AWARDS, COMPETITIONS AND PROJECTS Bruce Mason Award Winner: Nathan Joe Adam NZ Play Award Winner: & Sons Emily Duncan Runner Up: The Haka Party Incident Katie Wolfe Best Play a Māori Playwright: The Haka Party Incident Katie Wolfe Best Play a Pasifika Playwright: Sons of Vao Vela Manusaute Best Play a Woman Playwright: & Sons Emily Duncan McNaughton South Island Play Award: & Sons Emily Duncan Dean Parker Award: The Haka Party Incident Katie Wolfe Highly Commended: A Rich Man and The Future of the Party Sam Brooks
