Patrick White Playwrights' Award

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The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is an annual Australian literary award established jointly by the Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald in honour of Patrick White's contribution to Australian theatre. The award was launched in 2000.

The $20,000 cash award is currently Australia's playwrighting award with the highest cash prize, and is given for an unproduced play to foster the development of Australian playwrights. In addition, the winning play is given a public reading presented by the Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Writer's Festival.

[edit] Previous winners

  • 2006: Patricia Cornelius
  • 2005: Wesley Enoch, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table
  • 2004: Stephen Carleton, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset
  • 2003: David Milroy and Ningali Lawford, Windmill Baby
  • 2002: Reg Cribb, Last Cab to Darwin
Ian Wilding, Even Amongst Dogs
Toby Schmitz, Lucky
Jackie Smith, The Aliens
  • 2000: Ben Ellis, Who Are You, Mr James? later produced as Post Felicity
Bette Guy Three Men – Three Chairs
Ailsa Piper Small Mercies

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