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 Our bookshop provides every published Aotearoa play in print and has a comprehensive catalogue of unpublished plays to download or purchase.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

Playwrights b4 25 Winner:

Lip Sync, Kanikani, Twerk Off! Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana

Playmarket Plays for the Young

Competition: Gillian: Dog in the Big City Kieran Craft and Jonathan Vanderhoorn (3-8 year olds), Monarch Beth Kayes (8-12 year olds), Spilt Milk Catherine May (Teenagers)

Brown Ink Development Programme:

Departures DF Mamea, Our Side of the Fence Rawinia Parata

Asian Ink Development Programme:

How to Throw a Chinese Funeral Jill Kwan

He Pia Māori Kaihāpai Tuhinga:

Erina Daniels

Creative New Zealand Playmarket Pasifika

Script Advisor Residency: Suli Moa

Playwrights in Schools programme with Read NZ Te Pou Muramura:

Lauren Jackson, Leki Jackson-Bourke

Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Residencies:

Karen Wrigglesworth, Holly Walker, Heather McQuillan, Angie Farrow, Emma Hislop, Pennie Hunt, Karen McMillan, Sudha Rao

Building Communities Conference:

6 August 2021, Auckland Live

CLINICS, SCRIPT ADVISORY, READINGS AND WORKSHOPS

Blitz Kids Ken Blackburn, A Rich Man Sam Brooks, Hole Lynda Chanwai-Earle, The Complete History of Palmerston North Greg Cooper, World on Fire Mike Hudson, Margaret-Mary Hollins and Georgia DuderWood, The Little Mermaid Simon Leary and Gavin Rutherford, Eleanor Crane Alex MacDonald, Haere Mitch Tawhi Thomas, New Gold Mountain Cassandra Tse, Let’s Talk About Me April Philips, How’s Your Asana? Georgia Duder Wood, Toi Whakaari Duncan Sarkies Workshop, PAT and Ahi’s Writing Classes, Ōtepoti Theatre Lab, Proudly Asian Theatre Fresh off the Page.

Te Tira Tā Mai o te Upoko:

Fortnightly Wellington playwriting group facilitated by Jamie McCaskill Playmarket Playfellows: Alister McDonald

ABOVE: Sing to Me by Alex Lodge, Taki Rua Productions, Te Whaea Theatre. Image: Philip Merry.

Book Now Musical Theatre Auditions

New Zealand Diploma in Performing Arts – Musical Theatre Starting early 2023

Sing, act, dance. Be a ’triple threat’ as a versatile performer. Every year you’ll perform in a major show. Work with musical directors and choreographers who are in high demand.

Auditions are online 22nd October 2022 26th November 2022 27th January 2023

Email Kate Marshall: � Kate.Marshall@whitireia.ac.nz to book an audition. CONTACT US PO Box 9767, Wellington 6141 Suite 4/35 – 38 Cambridge Terrace 6011 Director: Murray Lynch director@playmarket.org.nz |+64 4 382 8464

Licensing and Bookshop

Administrator: Joanna Cho jo@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 1 Kaihāpai Tuhinga Māori: Jason Te Kare jason@playmarket.org.nz

Publication and Event

Coordinator: Salesi Le’ota sal@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 2 Script Advisor: Allison Horsley scripts@playmarket.org.nz |+64 382 8462 ext 1 Script Coordinator: Isaac Martyn isaac@playmarket.org.nz | +64 382 8462 ext 2 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; FAME Trust; Hannah Playhouse; Musical Theatre New Zealand; NZ Writers Guild; Playwrights’ Studio Scotland; Proudly Asian Theatre; Read NZ Te Pou Muramura; Taki Rua Productions; TAPAC; Tawata Productions; The Actors’ Program; The Writers’ Cottage Trust; Theatre Archives New Zealand; Theatre New Zealand; Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, The Underwood Family; Whitireia Publishing; Young and Hungry Arts Trust and all of the professional theatre companies.