The Lysicrates Prize celebrates the best new Australian writing by mid-career writers.

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One of the 2024 Martin-Lysicrates Prize finalists will have her play performed in Sydney from 4th to 19th April 2025!

Izabella Louk's play to be performed at Kings Cross Theatres on Broadway

The script is being produced by Blinking Light and the production will play for 2 weeks.

After the finals last year, Izabella was the recipient of the Shellharbour Council's Incubator Artist Residency. During her month-long residency she had the chance to workshop the script with local young people, and ultimately finished a full draft of the play.

The script is also supported by bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company through their residency program at KXT on Broadway, where Izabella was able to continue workshopping the script with actors.

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WHAT IS THE PRIZE?

The Lysicrates Prize encourages early to mid-career playwrights to focus on the first act or ‘setup’ of a brand-new play yet to be written in full.

These first acts are performed in front of a live audience who then vote for the winner, who receives a $15,000 prize to commission the full play and is then supported with a dramaturg and development process to hopefully see that play through to production.

Playwrights were required to submit the first act or setup of (no more than 15 pages) of a play that is yet to be written. All submissions are read by a panel of industry leaders to determine the three finalists. The three finalists have their submissions performed as a moved reading by a professional director and cast at either the Verbrugghen Hall at the Conservatorium of Music or at the Riverside Theatres, where the audience will then vote for the winning play.

Last year’s prize was supported by the St George Foundation, Australian Plays Transform, and the Australian Writers’ Guild

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The history of Lysicrates

The origin and inspiration behind the annual playwriting competition Lysicrates Prize.

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The Martin-Lysicrates Prize Event 2023 overall winner!

The Martin-Lysicrates Prize celebrates the best of Australian playwriting for children and they get to vote for the winner! Joseph Brown, for his play “Nothing Scares Us Any More” receives a Lysicrates commission of $12,000 and the help of a dramaturg to get the play fully ready for performance.

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