04.04.24
Hello Grif-friend,
My title’s Jules and I’m the Literary Affiliate at Griffin Theatre Firm. Final time we spoke I used to be telling you about how my job largely entails hanging out with writers. I’m a little biased however I believe playwrights are the best folks to take a seat with at a cocktail party. They’re stuffed with drama, are at all times prepped with strange trivia and are nice at asking questions!
Certainly one of my private playwriting heroes is Louis Nowra—at all times probing, at all times stuffed with coronary heart and at all times with a glass of chardonnay in hand. With Griffin at present staging his epic The Lewis Trilogy, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to see not solely the reveals (Summer time of the Aliens is my private fave—convey some tissues!) however the audiences too. I price how good a Griffin present is by whether or not an viewers continues to be speaking a couple of present by the point they arrive down our stairs. Of an evening, from my workplace (a superb 60 toes away from the theatre doorways) I can hear the sobs, laughter and chatter of audiences nonetheless speaking in regards to the present (on a weekend it’s the particular deal with of seeing an viewers develop right into a mini present household).
Different folks you’d like to have at a cocktail party are the in-house artists who type Griffin Studio. Sadly, our 2023 cohort are formally ending their year-long artistic residency this week. I’d like to take the prospect to thank the superb artists who’ve come on board with us this yr: Michelle Lim Davidson, Emma Maye Gibson and Randa Sayed. It’s been a pleasure to have you ever across the workplace, to see your artistry develop and your work flourish—consider me, this won’t be the final we see of any of their works! Watch this area!
Not one of the folks I share an workplace with will agree with this however I want I had a drum at my desk for moments like this. Re-geared to playwrights able to take the leap from promising to confirmed, this yr’s Griffin Studio choice course of was thrilling and intensive. With 57 submissions, an in depth longlisting course of and a sequence of interviews with an extremely proficient shortlist, three new playwrights might be becoming a member of this superb community and creating new works for the corporate. The envelope please… our 2024 Studio cohort is…
Josipa Draisma. Jorjia Gillis and Jacob Parker! They’ll be becoming a member of us for a yr and turning into embedded within the firm’s Creative workforce, they’ll participate in boards and masterclasses, obtain an business mentor in addition to creating a brand new work for the Griffin stage. Can’t wait to see what they’ll rise up to.
Griffin may even be partnering up with Accessible Arts for his or her Subsequent Degree Inventive Mentorship program. We’ll be welcoming again Create NSW Incubator shortlistee and Griffin Studio alum, the superb Bedelia Lowrenčev. They’ll be receiving artistic {and professional} mentorship from the Griffin Creative workforce and receiving venture funding to develop a pitch for an modern work of their selecting!
That’s all for me this time however as I at all times say, invite a playwright to a cocktail party you received’t remorse it. Additionally, I’ve now admitted that I can hear you from my desk if you go away the theatre so solely say good issues about me.
From,
Julian
Julian Larnach
Literary Affiliate
