Lonely Company

Here is the deal:

We take on three playwrights every six months. One will work with Fleur Kilpatrick, one with Bridget Mackey and one with Morgan Rose and we will support and meet with them over the course of a year.

Our playwrights set their goals and mode of working and we will endeavour to make their process less lonely, more connected and to help find avenues for their script to continue to grow once their year with us is over.

Our next intake will be mid-year 2017. However, we also want to help the wider playwriting community and will aim to host public events – forums, workshops and reading parties – every few months all with the goal of making playwriting less lonely and more connected to our community.

The three founders (Kilpatrick, Mackey, and Rose) all have extensive background in theatremaking, and believe in the ability of artists to assist and be creatively inspired each other. Bridget Mackey has worked as Literary Manager for five.point.one and written a number of works for the stage including Kindness (Theatre Works, 2015). Morgan Rose is an internationally produced playwright who has had work staged in Melbourne at MTC-NEON, Theatre Works, and La Mama. Fleur Kilpatrick is a multi-award winning playwright, an arts commentator, and dramaturge, who is currently the Artistic Coordinator of Monash Academy of Performing Arts.

Lonely Company acknowledge the Kulin nation and the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to local Elders and to the Elders, past and present, of all communities and cultures across Victoria. We acknowledge that these lands have been stolen, that sovereignty has never been ceded and that this always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.