Script Competitions

*May 1940 Melbourne New Theatre Competition - won by Leslie Rees for play about Peter Lalor

*May 1945 PAB 1st Competition  - won by 'Son of the Morning' by Catherine Duncan

*Apr 1946 Playwrights Advisory Board 2nd Competition - equal first ‘Ha Ha Among the Trumpets,’ by George Landen Dann and ‘And the Moon Will Shine’ by Miss Lynn Foster

*Nov 1946 Wagga Play Competition (with PAB) - My Life is My Affair by Oriel Gray see here

*Dec1947 Playwrights Advisory Board 3rd Competition - won by 'The First Joanna' by Dorothy Blewett

 * Dec 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Play Competition - won by 'Tether a Dragon’ by Kylie Tennan

*Sept 1955 Playwrights Advisory Board 4th Comp - won by The Doll and The Torrents see here

*Jan 1957 - 1957 First Annual Award by Journalist Club for works of Australian creative art - won by The Shifting Heart 

*Aug 1957 London Observor Play Competition  - The Shifting Heart came third - and Swamp Creatures in top 25.

*Oct 1957 Ballarat competition won by Oriel Gray Drive a Hard Bargain see here

*Dec 1958 General Motors-Holden Theatre Award - first prize Slaughter of St Teresa's Day see here

*March 1959 - Shell Australian TV Drama Prize - won by The Day Called Black by Robin Corfield

*Oct 1959 Melbourne Little Theatre Guild Competition (in association with JC Williamson) - won by Burst of Summer by Oriel Gray

*April 1960 - Journalist Club TV Play Prize - won by The Sergeant of Burralee and J Warner's World Without End.

*April 1960 - General Motors Holden Theatre Award - Wal Cherry for a View from the Bridge (see here - I think just for direction)

*Feb 1961 - General Motors Holden theatre comp see here - no winner but four prizes, 'Donny Johnson' by Alan Seymour 'Zelda Trio' by Laurence Collinson, 'Hateful Face in the Mirror' by John Pinkney, 'Wish No More' by Marien Dreyer

*June 1961 - ATV Play Competition - won by No Decision 

*March 1962 - Adelaide Comp won by Wall to Wall

*April 1962 - Journalist Club Prize - won by When the Gravediggers Come and The Tower - see here

*Jan 1963 - General Motors Holden Musical Theatre award given see here - first prize Lesley Patching and C Phillips, 'The Captain's Ladies',

*May 1964 - Journalist Club Prize - won by Bandicoot on Burnt Ridge by Marian Dreyer,

 

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