14 - 20 August
KXT ON BROADWAY
It’s time for the next round of great, unproduced Australian plays to be given the spotlight.
Now in its fourth season, Storytellers Festival has proven to be an incredible engine for getting new Australian writing to our stages, with a stellar alumni of programmed plays in its wake.
Storytellers Festival @ KXT is a one-week, pop-up celebration of playwrights and new Australian writing. It’s an opportunity to showcase unproduced work, test writing that has never been heard, and come together as a playwriting community. The Festival is curated by playwright Joanna Erskine, in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre.
This year we’re looking for full length plays ready to showcase, and works in development that are ready to test in front of an audience.
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The Storytellers Festival is curated, programmed and managed by JOANNA ERSKINE
the 2022 Storytellers festival featured the work of 11 playwrights, 10 directors and 50 actors:
PLAYWRIGHTS
Josephine Gazard, Erica Brennan, Kate Gaul, Callum Mackay, Brian Obiri-Asara, Xavier Coy, Meg Goodfellow, Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou, Stephen Sewell, Lucy Green, Wendy Mocke
DIRECTORS
Jo Bradley, Camilla Turnbull, Hayden Tonazzi, Bruce Koussaba, Jay James-Moody, Kim Hardwick, Madeleine Diggins, Sophie Benassi, Shaun Rennie, Amy Sole
ACTORS
Alison Bennett, Laura Djanegara, Kieran McGrath, Christopher Moro, Marcus Rivera, Annie Stafford, Simon Thomson, LJ Wilson, Poppy Lynch, Tom Dawson, Rachel Seeto, Abhilash Kaimal, Ziggy Resnick, Ed McCullough, Callum Stephen, Eddie Orton, Damon Manns, Whitney Richards, Nancy Denis, Brian Obiri-Asare, Xavier Coy, Mandy Bishop, Luisa Panucci, Sarah-Jane Kelly, Zoe Carides, Elouise Eftos, Alex Sideratos, Gen Papadopoulos, Georgia-Paige Theodos, Sophie Kouknas, Karen Vickery, Deborah Kennedy, Maggie Blinco, Mark Owen Taylor, Charlotte Friels, Jeremi Campese, Jamie Oxenbould, Deborah Galanos, Justin Amankwah, Wendy Mocke, Dalara Williams, Maryanne Fonceca, Kurt Ramjan, Margaret Pittas, Lungol Wekina, Annie Stafford, Emma O'Sullivan, Toby Blome
AND
The Hero Leaves One Tooth: Lyrics and music by Jake Neilson. Musical direction by Alexander Lee-Rekers
SUPPORT
Thanks to Charlie Vaux; Camilla Turnbull, Jacob Parker, Sean Landis, Mitchell Bourke
Storytellers Festival is a showcase of new work.
The Festival provides an opportunity to share work and invite people to hear your work, to further generate audience interest in new Australian writing, create new industry connections for writers, and encourage industry to hear work that is ready for production.
Plays that were first seen at Storytellers and have gone on to full production include:
Son of Byblos by James Elazzi ~ You're Not Special by Sam O'Sullivan ~ Orange Thrower by Kirsty Marillier ~ Lilac by Jackson Used ~ Dead Skin by Laneikka Denne ~ The Princess Party by Samira Spring ~ Kangaroo by Miranda Gott ~ Omar and Dawn by James Elazzi ~ 44 Sex Acts in One Week by David Finnigan ~ The Park by Simon Thomson ~ Hairworm by Emma Wright
plays have been staged at: KXT - Kings X Theatre; 25a Belvoir St Theatre; Griffin Theatre; Sydney Festival; Touring; LA; Seymour Centre; Old 505 Theatre
STORYTELLERS 2019
Those pages in the ‘bottom drawer.’ That play you wrote five years ago that still hasn’t been picked up. That monologue you loved that got cut a week before the production because it didn’t propel the story forward. Killed darlings. Buds never blossomed. Every writer has them, tucked away, whether just starting out or a veteran of the stage: Fragments of stories that didn’t make it, or haven’t made it yet; fragments that won’t exist if they are not seen or heard.
STORYTELLERS 2018
STORYTELLERS is curated and facilitated by JOANNA ERSKINE