26th Patrick White Playwrights Award

Celebrate bold new Australian playwriting as Sydney Theatre Company announces the winner of this year’s Patrick White Playwrights Award, followed by a special reading of the award-winning play.

One of the nation’s most significant honours for new writing, the award offers $7,500 for an unproduced script that is daring, ambitious and unmistakably theatrical. Over its 25-year history, previous winners have included Angus Cerini (The Bleeding Tree), Wesley Enoch (The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table), Ra Chapman (ABC TV’s White Fever) and Patricia Cornelius (Do not go gentle…).