Patrick White Playwrights' Award
The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is an annual Australian literary award established jointly by the Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald in honour of Patrick White's contribution to Australian theatre. The award was launched in 2000 and in 2011, was amended to include the Patrick White Fellowship.
The A$7,500 cash award is given for an unproduced play to foster the development of Australian playwrights. In addition, the winning play is given a public reading presented by the Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Writers' Festival.
The Patrick White Fellowship is A$25,000 for an established Australian playwright whose work has been produced professionally in Australia within the last four years in recognition of their contribution to the theatre and their art form. The inaugural recipient was Raimondo Cortese, and subsequent recipients have included Patricia Cornelius and Hilary Bell.
Previous winners
2025: Karolina Ristevski, River Was Here ; Sheridan Harbridge 2024: Wendy Mocke, Realish ; Joanna Murray-Smith 2022/23: Aran Thangaratnam, love MAD GLITCH ; Wesley Enoch 2021: Kamarra Bell-Wykes Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM, ; Emme Hoy 2020: Ra Chapman, K-BOX ; Angus Cerini- 2019: Keziah Warner, LuNa ; Anchuli Felicia King
- 2018: Mark Rogers, Superheroes ; Nakkiah Lui 2017: Kim Ho, Mirror's Edge ; Sue Smith 2016: Lewis Treston, Hot Tub ; Andrew Bovell 2015: Neil Levi, Kin ; Tommy Murphy 2014: Debra Thomas, The Man's Bitch ; Kate Mulvany 2013: Chris Summers, King Artur ; Angela Betzien 2012: Anna Barnes, Minus One Sister ; Hilary Bell 2011: Phillip Kavanagh, Little Borders ; Patricia Cornelius 2010: Melissa Bubnic, Beached ; Raimondo Cortese 2009: Ian Wilding, Forever Seven2008: Nicki Bloom, Bloodwood2007: Angus Cerini, Wretch and Timothy Daly, The Man in the Attic2006: Patricia Cornelius, Do Not Go Gentle...2005: Wesley Enoch, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table2004: Stephen Carleton, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset2003: David Milroy and Ningali Lawford, Windmill Baby2002: Reg Cribb, Last Cab to Darwin and Ian Wilding, Even Amongst Dogs2001: Brendan Cowell Bed; Toby Schmitz, Lucky and Jackie Smith, The Aliens2000: Ben Ellis, Who Are You, Mr James? later produced as Post Felicity; Bette Guy Three Men - Three Chairs and Ailsa Piper ''Small Mercies''