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About the ASC 1 Chair’s Report 3 Director’s Report 4 The Team 5 The Board 7 New Plays 10 Auditor’s Report 13 Special Thanks 17

“It was a beautiful production, truly ensemble, with just the right energy, staging and some fine acting, capturing the irony in the script too. I was so pleased to be able to see it and do thank the Script Centre for your part in administering and making the play available.”

- Playwright About the ASC

The Australian Script Centre is the Our Mission What We Do only national organisation devoted to the selective collection, promotion Our mission is to be an integral part Our resources are directed into three and sale of Australian plays in of the Australian industry by main areas, namely; manuscript form. It is recognised by providing a gateway to the best of the Australia Council for the Arts as a contemporary Australian performance The Catalogue Key Organisation providing essential writing. Playscripts are the ASC’s lifeblood. infrastructure services to the theatre We strive to collect and publish a sector. The ASC’s script catalogue catalogue of works that represent supports playwrights in particular by Our Values the full spectrum of Australian filling the gap left by the very small performance writing in terms of genre, number of Australian plays that In all areas of practice and operation, style, cultural diversity, intended achieve commercial publication. Our we strive to: audience and subject matter. ecommerce website, AustralianPlays. org, gives playwrights a global • Promote and support the work of AustralianPlays.org distribution and marketing network contemporary Australian playwrights; Set up and managed by the ASC, for their work. We also facilitate the AustralianPlays.org is a one-stop shop production of Australian plays by • Find innovative, creative and for theatre professionals, community acting as a central clearing house for responsive solutions; groups, researchers, educators, production enquiries and through our students and others with an interest photocopying and production licensing • Ensure that integrity underlines all in Australian performance writing. Its services. aspects of our business and is evident robust ecommerce system allows the through systems of good governance, ASC to offer a low-cost distribution Through AustralianPlays.org, we financial and legal responsibility. service to other Australian theatrical market and sell not only plays in the publishers, providing a focal point ASC’s catalogue but also playscripts for sector-wide collaboration and and associated support materials resource sharing. published by other theatrical publishers, providing a single entry Licensing point to the full range of contemporary To help simplify rights management Australian playwriting. for playwrights and theatre practitioners, the ASC acts as a licensing agent for photocopying and amateur productions of works in its catalogue. It also enters into licensing agreements with various suppliers for the distribution and sale of Australian theatrical works. “The ASC does a wonderful job and I’m a huge fan. I tell my students about ASC all the time” The Australian Script Centre page 1 - Educator and playwright Annual Report 2011 About the ASC

Our History

The organisation started life as the catalogue of plays but also the print National Script Resource Centre, format catalogues of Currency Press, established in 1979 by Tasmanian Playlab Press and several smaller theatre-maker, Barbara Manning and specialist publishers. Once in the the Salamanca Theatre Company. After digital marketplace, script sales, many years as a distributor of scripts production enquiries and website for the drama education sector, it was traffic quickly shot to record levels and re-launched in 1993 as the Australian have since continued on a trajectory of Script Centre with an expanded healthy annual growth. brief to service the wider theatre community. Today’s ASC is a broad church of strategic collaborations and joint From this point forward, the catalogue ventures which extend well beyond grew rapidly into what it is today, the its own curatorial interests. While world’s largest collection of Australian still firmly committed to supporting playscripts, incorporating most styles individual playwrights through its own of professionally written, production- unique catalogue, the organisation, ready works for theatre and radio. through its various marketing In 2009, the catalogue, comprising initiatives and the low cost distribution almost 1,800 scripts, was recognised service it provides to other theatrical “I doubt my shows by the National Library of Australia publishers, is making a tangible as a collection of national cultural contribution to the overall vibrancy would still be alive a significance. It was subsequently and viability of Australian theatrical decade on from their consolidated and almost 1,000 scripts publishing. documenting the early development of premieres if not for the theatre in education were archived and transferred to the NLA for preservation support of the ASC.” and ongoing management. Playwright Also in 2009, the organisation made the transition from print to digital publishing and launched AustralianPlays.org, which quickly established itself as the primary online source of Australian plays, distributing not only the ASC’s own fully digitised

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In the third year of the Australian Accordingly, we were pleased to have After nearly five years on the Board Script Centre’s brave new digital an increased presence at a number of I am stepping aside to make way adventure we ‘give good stat’ – as significant events this year including for new energy and ideas. I would, our Director Gail Cork attests to in Drama Australia’s national conference therefore, like to take a moment her report – in fact, the organisation and the Queensland state conference, to thank Board members, past and has met or exceeded 80% of the key the Arts Marketing Summit, the present, with whom I have served. targets it set for itself three years ago. Women Playwrights Solutions Fellow directors, Rosalba Clemente, Roundtable, the National Play Festival Wesley Enoch and Chris Tugwell are This success (“It worked, gosh, what and the Australian Theatre Forum. also standing down and I’d like to next?”) provided a platform for the acknowledge their contribution and Board to ‘think smarter’ as we began The fact is a presence in the life world especially thank Chris who is retiring mapping our plans for the next keeps us connected in the digital as the longest-serving of us all. I’d three years – and we are pleased and world, as did the appointment of also like to welcome lawyer Richard grateful that these plans have met Briony Kidd in the new ongoing role Howroyd, who joined the Board in with endorsement and continued of Online Producer. Briony quickly March. funding for 2012-2014 from our key insinuated the Centre into digital stakeholders, the Australia Council networks and industry events to great My final thanks are reserved for our and Arts Tasmania. effect and saw us partnering with Director, Gail Cork. The Centre is a number of organisations for the lucky to have her and I will miss her In addition to oversight and assistance first time to generate digital content phone calls that always begin with a with the preparation of a New for shared promotional and/or polite, ‘How’s my timing?’ Needless Business Plan, the Board’s focus in documentation purposes. to say, her timing and much else are 2011 has ranged across a number of perfect. But more importantly we’ve issues like resecuring the Centre’s Our one-stop-shop for playscripts, had a lot of fun together steering the lease with Salamanca Arts Centre AustralianPlays.org continued to ‘Grand Old Lady of the Filing Cabinet’ for an extended period, approval of be greased and oiled, tweaked, into digital waters. capital refurbishment and equipment and tinkered with (including the upgrade expenditure and review of introduction of a popular new library But enough from me. Adieu. Long photocopying and playwright royalties pass system) under the diligent eye may the Centre continue to serve to ensure we continue to meet or of the Centre’s Online and Marketing a national community of theatre exceed industry standards. Manager, Glenn Jeffrey; whilst Literary artists and educators from its home Much of this work is slightly dry but Manager, Tom Healey astutely curated base in Hobart. nonetheless necessary for it underpins our script offerings and Business the internal health of the organisation Manager, Angelica Clunes kept our and allows it to more fully engage aspirations and finances in harmony. with those it seeks to serve, including Campion Decent drama educators, the theatre industry and playwrights. March 2012

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The time of reckoning has arrived once in to share online with those above all, the playwrights – who held again at the ASC, that time of year who could not be there. In this way, we fast through tough times to the vision when statistical data for the year just worked steadily to build the visibility of a vibrant and thriving future for passed are consolidated and measured of Australian playwrights and re-affirm our heroic little organisation. The against the aspirations of business the rightful place of the script at the future they imagined and strived for plans and funding agreements. The heart of Australian theatre. has arrived at the ASC and it is my season of audits, annual reports and privilege to enjoy the benefit of their grant acquittals can be a sobering As the third and final year of the 2009- legacy. Thank you to my trailblazing period but happily, this third 2011 business plan drew to a close, predecessors for the solid foundation, consecutive year of robust growth and 2011 also became a year of transition and indeed the sturdy new carpet, on diversification at the ASC produced to a new three-year vision for the ASC. which the ASC now stands. what a certain former Federal Treasurer With the ambitious digitisation strategy might have described as a beautiful firmly in place and print publishing Congratulations to my talented set of numbers. Sales income up 24%, already fading into memory, the colleagues on the ASC team who found website visitors up 37%, production triennium ahead loomed large with its new ways to raise the bar in 2011. My licensing up 29%, production enquiries own opportunities and challenges. The sincere thanks to the board whose up 32%, international sales almost new business plan 2012-2014 ushers vision, intelligence and commitment doubled, and so it goes. The statistics in a period of continuing expansion to the ASC’s wellbeing steered the say it all; interest in Australian focussed squarely on artistic vibrancy, organisation safely through another playscripts both locally and overseas, innovation and marketing. While our year of galloping change. For Campion has never been higher. strategies have changed to keep pace Decent, in the final weeks of his with changing times, we remain as unstinting three-year term as Chair, Close followers will have noticed new steadfast as ever in our fundamental only a standing ovation will do. Finally, vigour in the ASC’s marketing approach goal of connecting Australian our thanks and very best wishes to in 2011. The board’s decision to playwrights more effectively with the the 460 Australian playwrights who direct more resources towards market for their works. entrusted their work to the ASC in online production capacity paid early 2011 and gave the organisation its dividends with a flood of first-time For the ASC team, 2011 will also be reason for being. We look forward visitors attracted by our invigorated remembered as the year we replaced to continuing the journey with you social networks and an exponential the threadbare office carpet, a small through 2012 and beyond. increase in the amount of original luxury beyond imagining three content on AustralianPlays.org such as short years ago. Reflecting on the news, features, interviews and videos. organisation’s frequently tenuous As the year progressed, we ventured and cash-strapped history to this Gail Cork further afield with microphone and point, I pay tribute to the ASC’s March 2012 camera, recording many interviews past and present champions – the and highlights of important events board members, the administrators, such as the National Theatre Forum artsworkers, theatre-makers and

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Gail Cork Tom Healey Cathy Craigie Director Literary Manager Indigenous Curator (from April 2011)

Gail has a diverse background in Since graduating from the Victorian Cathy is a Gamilaroi and Anaiwan arts management, specialising in College of the Arts and Music (VCAM) woman from Northern NSW (Moree books and writing. Her previous in 1989 Tom has worked as an and Armidale). She has worked positions include manager of actor, a director and a dramaturg in the arts and media for more the Australia Council’s Literature with companies and projects around than fifteen years in many roles, Board and executive director of the nation. Positions held include including arts administrator, artist, the Australian Society of Authors. Curator of the Australian National writer, producer, creative developer, She has worked as a ghostwriter, Playwrights’ Conference (2006), broker, dramaturg, policy advisor editor, columnist and reviewer. Her Artistic Associate of Playbox (1999 - and mentor. As a playwright, Cathy’s freelance work has appeared in many 2003), Artistic Directorate (Hothouse work has been produced at Belvoir publications including The Theatre 2006-09), Casting Consultant Theatre, Sydney Festival, Out of the Morning Herald and The Australian. and Artistic Counsel (Malthouse Box Festival and elsewhere. One of She has served on the boards of Theatre 2005 - 07) and Panellist the original founders of Koori Radio, the Copyright Agency Limited, the (Arts Victoria Performance Panel). she has also been Director of the Australian Copyright Council, the As a dramaturg he has worked with Australia Council’s Aboriginal and Australian Society of Authors and the Australian playwrights both emerging Torres Strait Islander Arts Board and Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. Gail is also an accredited and experienced and established, and he has directed Deputy Director General of the NSW commercial mediator. premieres of many new Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs, a works. He has also directed and member of the Arts Advisory Council developed works in contemporary of the NSW Ministry for the Arts and , cabaret and music theatre Chair of its Indigenous Arts Reference and taught at the universities of Group, as well as a variety of key Melbourne, Ballarat and La Trobe as positions in other Aboriginal arts, well as the VCAM and NIDA. health and housing organisations. Most recently, Cathy curated Guwanyi, the 3rd National Aboriginal Writers’ Festival in March 2011.

In 2011 AustralianPlays.org received 135,068 visits, an increase of 60% from 2010

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Glenn Jeffrey Briony Kidd Online and Marketing Manager Online Producer John Langford Auditor, Macquarie Accounting Pty. Ltd. Glenn came to the ASC from Arts Briony graduated from the Victorian Tasmania where he was Program College of the Arts in 1998 with a John is co-founder of Macquarie Officer for performing arts and music. Bachelor of Film and Television. She Accounting Pty Ltd, Hobart and has In his previous position as Director has made numerous short films, over 30 years’ practical experience of LIVE Performing Arts Tasmania, he including Learning the Ropes (2002 in public accounting. He studied at was responsible for the design and a documentary commisssioned by the Tasmanian College of Advanced delivery of audience research and SBS Independent, and Starring Xavier Education and at the University of audience development programs. He (2003), funded by Screen Tasmania. Tasmania. He holds the position of has also worked as a freelance graphic She wrote the script for the award- Executive Officer of the Federation designer and holds a degree in Fine winning animation, Sam and Piccolo of Australian-American Associations Arts. Glenn is currently studying (2006), produced by Adam Walker and Treasurer of Virtuosi Tasmania for a Masters degree in Arts and Film. As a freelance writer, Briony along with directorships of several Entertainment Management. specialises in film and the arts. Her proprietary companies. His experience features, reviews and opinion pieces covers a broad range of specialisation have appeared in many publications through accounting, taxation and Angelica Clunes including Australian Stage Online. She superannuation. Business Manager also co-wrote and directed Gigoloed!, two one-act plays inspired by the Having worked as a director, work of Joe Orton, for the Melbourne Debra Jeffrey coordinator, project manager and Fringe Festival. Bookkeeper, Leumas Accounting Pty Ltd administration officer for numerous arts organisations over the past Debra provides high level thirteen years, Angelica brings a Support Crew bookkeeping services to the ASC. wealth of business and administrative She is the principal operating officer skills to the ASC. Most recently she Tony Phelps of Leumas Accounting and manages was the Director of ‘This is Not Art’ Web Development,Tweezy New Media all aspects of its business services festival. She is currently studying www.tweezy.com.au capabilities. She has many years towards her Masters Management Arts of hands-on experience in various and Culture. Tony has more than 20 years’ aspects of small to medium business experience in software and financial operations both as a team database development. Since 1999, member and team leader. Debra is a Tweezy New Media has offered a certified BAS agent, MYOB Consultant wide range of technical services, and a member of several professional currently specialising in website and bodies including the National Institute database design and development. of Accountants. Working closely with the ASC team, Tony is responsible for the build and ongoing maintenance of AustralianPlays.org.

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Campion Decent Lisa Harris Diane E Matthews

Chair (VIC) Deputy Chair (TAS) Treasurer & Public Officer (TAS) Member since October 2007, Member since March 2008, Member since April 2009, Chair since March 2009 Deputy Chair since March 2009 Treasurer since April 2009

Campion is a playwright, dramaturg Canadian by birth and now Diane is a partner and co-founder of and freelance theatre worker. He Tasmanian by choice, Lisa Harris Macquarie Accounting with some 23 was most recently Artistic Director completed a Bachelor’s degree in years’ practical experience in public at HotHouse Theatre (2007-2010). Music at King’s College, University accounting firms. She has a Public Previous appointments include Literary of London, and a Graduate Diploma, Practice certificate and is a Fellow Manager at , Library and Information Studies, at Practising National Accountant with Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival, the University of Tasmania. Her first the National Institute of Accountants. Festival Director for Sydney Gay & full-time job was in the Development Diane is also an arts enthusiast with Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Chair of the Office at the Lincoln Center for the an outstanding record of philanthropic Australian National Playwrights’ Centre. Performing Arts in New York, where support to arts and community He has also held senior positions she stayed for three years. Various causes. at State and Federal arts funding jobs in administration, marketing and agencies. Campion holds a Bachelor management have led her to the TSO of Creative Arts from the University as Manager, Philanthropy and Special of and a Master of Arts Events where she is responsible (Theatre Studies) from the University for the management of the TSO’s of NSW. He also attended the NIDA philanthropy programs, fundraising Playwrights’ Studio. His most recent events and the TSO Foundation. Lisa play Embers was commissioned by is also on the board of Colony 47. HotHouse Theatre and produced in 2006 with Sydney Theatre Company. It won an AWGIE Award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Drama Script (Stage) in 2007 and toured nationally in 2009. He is currently undertaking PhD studies at La Trobe University. 1233 customers purchased more than 2500 playscripts at AustralianPlays.org in 2011.

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Michael Beresford Rosalba Clemente Wesley Enoch Member since March 2010 (TAS) Member since March 2011 (SA) Member since March 2010 (QLD)

Michael was appointed Associate Rosalba is a highly regarded theatre Wesley is a distinguished playwright, Professor in Theatre at the University director, actor and playwright. She director and current Artistic Director of Tasmania in 2010. Originally from has directed many plays, including of Queensland Theatre Company. He Tasmania, he completed his Masters world-premiere seasons of the highly is the eldest son of Doug and Lyn Research degree at James Cook acclaimed plays Holy Day and My Enoch who hail from Stradbroke Island. He has directed productions for STC, University and then his PhD at Griffith Vicious Angel. Her work has been QTC, Playbox, Ilbijerri, MTC, Company University. Michael’s research interests nominated for many awards including B, Malthouse, and include Imagist theatre, Beckettian Sydney Theatre Critics Circle, Victorian others. His extensive directing credits theatre, new Australian writing and Green Room Awards, Mo Music include Kooemba Jdarra-Murri Love, the language of performance. Michael Industry Entertainment Award and The 7 Stages Of Grieving, Little White has written and directed professionally The Helpman Awards. Her first play, Dress, Changing Time, The Dreamers, for several years in North Queensland Helly’s Magic Cup received the Rodney Radiance, Purple Dreams, Bitin’ Back, for Tropic Line, Tropic Sun and Jute Seaborn Australian Playwriting Award Black-Ed Up, Sunshine Club, Fountains Theatre companies. His produced for 2008. Her second play Disarming Beyond, Black Medea, The Sunshine works include Persona non Grata 2, Rosetta premiered at HotHouse Club, Stolen, Romeo and Juliet, The Dump, Body Parts, Ginger Boy, Snap Theatre in March 2011. and Tiptoe which was published by Dreamers, Conversations with the Dead, Capricornia, Parramatta Girls, Playlab Press in 2008. She has served on many boards and advisory bodies, including the Belvoir Yibiyung, The Sapphires, Man From Formerly Artistic Director of HardSun Street Theatre board, the dance Mukinupin, A Life of Grace and Piety Theatre Co in , Michael and drama advisory committee to and The Cherry Pickers. His writing was on the Board of Interplay, the the NSW Ministry of the Arts, and credits include The 7 Stages of RADAF (Regional Arts Development theatre advisory committee to the Grieving, A Life of Grace and Piety, The Committee of North Queensland) and South Australian Department of the Sunshine Club, Black Medea, Grace (a a member of the Peer Assessment Arts. In 2010, Rosalba completed a short film) and Cookie’s Table which Panel for Arts Queensland. Michael is 3-year term as Chair of the Australia won the 2006 Patrick White Award and also an Adjunct Professor in Theatre at Council’s Theatre Board. She is also was shortlisted for both the NSW and James Cook University, Cairns. on the Artistic Directorate of Hot Victorian Premier’s literary Awards. House Theatre Company. In her Wesley conceived and directed My Skin previous role as Artistic Director of the My Life, the Indigenous segment of Theatre Company of South Australia the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 from 1998 to 2004, she established Melbourne Commonwealth Games. an innovative theatre laboratory to His other roles have included Artistic bring new Australian works to the Director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous mainstage. Performing Arts, Associate Artist QTC, Resident Director, STC, Artistic Director Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre, member of HotHouse Theatre’s Artistic Directorate, Associate Artistic Director of Company B, Belvoir St Theatre, Artistic Director of the Australian Delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts and Trustee of the .

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David Gurney Australia, Screen Tasmania, Screen opened in New Mexico in November Member since May 2008 (TAS) West and Wide Angle Tasmania. 2005. The radio adaptation was David has also served on the board broadcast on ABC Radio National’s David Gurney co-founded Blue of Events Tasmania and is a member Airplay and won a bronze medal at Rocket Productions with business of the Course Advisory Committee the New York Festival’s international partner Alicia Rackett, in 1999. Since for University of Tasmania’s School of radio awards. The screen adaptation then he has created and produced Computing and Information Systems. was runner-up in Adelaide Film animation projects for television and Festival’s Best Unproduced Screenplay multiplatform including Australia’s Competition in 2007. first CGI television series, Hoota Richard Howroyd & Snoz which sold into over 100 Member since March 2011 Chris has served on the SA Film countries worldwide. David has Corporation’s Film Advisory executive produced and directed Richard is a Hobart-based legaI Committee, the SA Youth Arts Board numerous animated television series practitioner with an abiding interest Advisory Committee, the National for Blue Rocket including 3 series of in the arts. In addition to his law Executive of the AWG, and helped Hoota & Snoz, Time Cracks (2 series), degree from Monash University, he establish the Adelaide Film Festival’s Mörmel Spots (3 series), The Dog and holds a BA (Hons) in History. He is Unproduced Screenplay Competition. widely travelled and has worked in Cat News (2 series), Bang the Cat (2 London, Adelaide and Darwin. He has series), Pixel Pinkie (2 series), Mega been in private practice since 1986. Bites and short film Spikey Joe’s Truck. Prior to that, he worked in various David was the creative director of government departments including The Hoota & Snoz Official Website, the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s the multi award winning Dog and Office and the NT Department of Law. Cat News website, the Pixel Pinkie website and online content for the AFI award winning My Place (for Matchbox Chris Tugwell Pictures). David was the creative “Thanks again Member since August 2005 (SA) director of Blue Rocket’s mobile content which sold content to over 40 for your excellent Chris has written more than 50 plays countries worldwide. He also created that have been performed by such service, it’s very Erky Perky and co-created RFTV for companies as Patch Theatre, Urban Ambience Entertainment. Erky Perky Myth, Riverland Youth Theatre, Magpie much appreciated” was nominated for an AFI Award in and the Acting Company. He was 2010. a writer for the ABC childrens’ TV Customer series Finders Keepers directed by David has given lectures, conducted Scott Hicks and editor of Solo Spots, seminars and consulted to numerous a book of monologues for senior organisations including ABC Executive drama students, for Oxford University Leadership Group, ABC Multiplatform, Press in 1998. His stage play X Ray ABC Radio, ABC Regional Managers, (about Australian David Hicks time ACS, AFC, AFTRS, AGIdeas, AIMIA, in Guantanamo Bay) was performed Arts Tasmania, Becker Entertainment, at the 2004 Adelaide Fringe and the DCITA, Digital Media World, FFC, 2005 Darwin Festival. A US production Film Victoria, PFTC, SAFC, Screen

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Title Author State Added

AS I LAY DREAMING Catherine MCKINNON NSW 16 Dec 2011

FORGING AHEAD Margaret DAVIS NSW 16 Dec 2011

WHAT ARE THE ODDS? Angela MURPHY QLD 2 Dec 2011

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Deborah MULHALL NSW 2 Dec 2011

FORGET ME NOT Damon LOCKWOOD WA 2 Dec 2011

MUTTABURRASAURUS Damon LOCKWOOD WA 2 Dec 2011

THE MEN Chris DICKINS VIC 2 Dec 2011

BOXING DAY TEST Michael HILL SA 2 Dec 2011

MOSS LANE Damon LOCKWOOD WA 2 Dec 2011

CHARM Michael BUTLER SA 1 Dec 2011

BEAUTIFUL Carrie MCLEAN TAS 26 Nov 2011

SUGAR Andrea GILLIES VIC 18 Nov 2011

FREE RADICAL Russell BEEDLES VIC 18 Nov 2011

THE GULLY David MENCE ACT 29 Oct 2011

AURORA'S LAMENT Donna ABELA NSW 28 Oct 2011

THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING Elise GREIG QLD 28 Oct 2011

MANDRAGORA David SHARPE NSW 27 Oct 2011

TANGO FEMME Merrilee MOSS VIC 24 Oct 2011

KYNASTON Stephen KAKAVOULIS Greece 20 Sep 2011

SAVE FOR CRYING Angus CERINI VIC 20 Sep 2011

CINDER TALES Jane AHLQUIST NSW 20 Sep 2011

BRILLIANT MONKEY Alan DUKES NSW 20 Sep 2011

BROOM(E) Jane AHLQUIST NSW 20 Sep 2011

THE BIRD PARLIAMENT Jane AHLQUIST NSW 20 Sep 2011

THE BIRD PARLIAMENT Chris DICKINS VIC 28 Aug 2011

THE TROLL FROM THE BOWL Justin CHEEK WA 6 Aug 2011

MRS MACQUARIE'S CELLO Donna ABELA NSW 31 Jul 2011

FATTY WOMBAT Justin CHEEK WA 31 Jul 2011

THE SCHELLING POINT Ron ELISHA VIC 14 Jul 2011

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Title Author State Added

A HOAX Rick VIEDE NSW 28 Jun 2011

CROSSED Chris SUMMERS VIC 28 Jun 2011

1975 Stephen CARLETON QLD 28 Jun 2011

CAFE SCHEHERAZADE Therese RADIC VIC 25 Jun 2011

HEAVEN Kit BROOKMAN NSW 22 Jun 2011

SWEETEST THINGS Kate RICE WA 22 Jun 2011

THE REAL WORLD Melissa REEVES VIC 22 Jun 2011

NEW LIGHT SHINE Shannon MURDOCH VIC 22 Jun 2011

RUST AND BONE Caleb LEWIS NSW 22 Jun 2011

QUIVER Kit LAZAROO VIC 22 Jun 2011

SMALL LIFE Zoe HOGAN NSW 22 Jun 2011

THE DAMNED Reg CRIBB WA 22 Jun 2011

MUSIC Jane BODIE VIC 22 Jun 2011

SWAMPLANDS Van BADHAM NSW 22 Jun 2011

BONDI DREAMING Sam ATWELL NSW 22 Jun 2011

LIVE ACTS ON STAGE Michael GOW QLD 20 Jun 2011

NIGHT BREAKFAST Merrilee MOSS VIC 20 Jun 2011

ADAM AND EVE Genevieve YATES QLD 20 Jun 2011

THE BLOOD ON HELMUT LANGE Gerry GREENLAND NSW 15 Jun 2011

AMELIA BRADSHAW TURNS EIGHT Michael BUTLER SA 7 Jun 2011

WOMEN OF TROY Ned MANNING VIC 6 Jun 2011

MR BLIGH'S THIRD MUTINY Stella KENT TAS 1 Jun 2011

PASTICHE Mij TANITH SA 4 Apr 2011

MADELEINE Jenny KEMP VIC 13 Mar 2011

KITTEN Jenny KEMP VIC 13 Mar 2011

THE PEPPERCORN TREE Alison CAMPBELL RATE VIC 6 Mar 2011

AT THE CENTRE OF LIGHT R. JOHNS VIC 6 Mar 2011

THE VON TRAPPED FAMILY Stella KENT TAS 5 Mar 2011

THE RIVER, THE DIRT, AND US Shaun CHARLES QLD 5 Mar 2011

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Title Author State Added

SANCTUARY Chris DICKINS VIC 16 Feb 2011

THE CAT'S PAW Christine CROYDEN VIC 30 Jan 2011

THE FALLEN TREE Christine CROYDEN VIC 30 Jan 2011

CALL ME KOMACHI Christie NIEMAN VIC 30 Jan 2011

KING GOLGRUTHA Stephen SEWELL NSW 11 Jan 2011

THREE FURIES Stephen SEWELL NSW 11 Jan 2011

SILVER Matthew WHITTET NSW 7 Jan 2011

12 Matthew WHITTET NSW 7 Jan 2011

THE JETTY Catherine FARGHER NSW 6 Jan 2011

DR EGG AND THE MAN WITH NO EAR Catherine FARGHER NSW 6 Jan 2011

THE VIOLIN PLAYER Catherine FARGHER NSW 6 Jan 2011

THE STARRY MESSENGER Justin FLEMING NSW 6 Jan 2011

HIS MOTHER'S VOICE Justin FLEMING NSW 6 Jan 2011

ORIGIN Justin FLEMING NSW 6 Jan 2011

THE DEPARTMENT STORE Justin FLEMING NSW 6 Jan 2011

GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF Angela BETZIEN NSW 3 Jan 2011

PORKY PIES Alex LEE VIC 3 Jan 2011

UNCONFIRMED SIGHTINGS Michael BERESFORD TAS 3 Jan 2011

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The ASC would like to thank the many individuals and organisations who gave generously of their time and expertise in 2011. They include;

Diat Alferink Michael Beresford Maryrose Casey Rosalba Clemente Campion Decent Wesley Enoch David Gurney Lisa Harris Richard Howroyd Debra Jeffrey Ray Kelly Diane Matthews Charlie Parkinson Tony Phelps Liza-Mare Syron Chris Tugwell

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