Welcome to Stages
Stages offers assistance to new, emerging and established writers for performance across a range of styles and genres. Through a broad ranging program of services and initiatives, Stages exists to help writers produce work to the very best of their ability, and to guide them towards practical outlets for their work to be further developed and shared.
If you are writing for performance and living and working in WA we can offer you support in the following ways:
Script Development
Theatre is a collaborative process. Surprisingly few writers produce a first draft that is instantly ready for production. Stages takes significant care to ensure that new, emerging and established performance writers across a range of styles and genres get the best and most suitable development process for their particular requirements.
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Playwright Development
Stages offers writers across the breadth of writing experience a range of opportunities to recharge their creative batteries. For the new writer there is The Dynamic Stage, a ten week skills-based studio, for the emerging and established writers there is an annual weekend workshop with a nationally recognised theatre practitioner.
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Residency
Most writers long for the opportunity to work in isolation, uninterrupted by the disturbances of the modern world. During the warmer months Stages provides the opportunity for a WA playwright to live and work in glorious solitude at Albany’s heritage listed Vancouver Arts Centre.
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Mentorships
Being a writer is a practical as well as a creative profession. The Stages Mentorship Program provides an opportunity for Western Australian theatre companies to build relationships with emerging and established local writers, and for playwrights to develop a more symbiotic and practical understanding of companies’ artistic policies and visions.
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Special Projects
These include joint projects with other organisations, regional initiatives and potential advocacy opportunities. There are two ongoing annual projects, the Stages Mentorship Program and the Albany Residency, and other projects are developed dependent on resources, partnerships, and as the occasions arise.
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Photographs from top to Bottom:
Jessica Craig-Piper, Sophie Dunham, Bek Smith, Veronica Mistry, and Matt Hardie in Luke Milton’s Terrible Infants of Christmas. Photo: Crispian Chan
Mark Maitland in Prickly Pear Ensemble’s production of Steven Snell’s Keeper Photo: Peter Stone.
Crispian Chan in Barking Gecko Theatre Company’s production of Shirley van Sanden’s Hidden Dragons. Photo: James Rogers
Rohanna Angus and Craig ‘Chook’ Pickett in Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre’s production of David Milroy’s Windmill Baby. Photo: Jon Green
Peter Docker in Black Swan Theatre Company’s production of Ian Wilding’s Torrez.
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s production of Damon Lockwood’s Muttaburrasaurus. Photo: Nicholas Higgins
