At the end of last year I received some amazing news! I’ve been offered a place on the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in USA.
And it was in one of the most enthusiastic and welcoming invitation letters I’ve ever received 🙂 The opening paragraphs from Executive Director, Margot H. Knight read:

“YES. One of the pleasures of this job is saying YES to artists. You have been selected to be a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program during the 2015 season. This is a remarkable achievement—867 artists applied for 66 residencies.
The quality, integrity and direction of your work clearly impressed our panelists.
Congratulations. Let me say it again—YES! Oh, and once more. YES!”

This will be such a wonderful opportunity to focus completely on a new play, tentatively titled ‘Subversive’ – but more of that another time. Needless to say, this play continues my fascination/obession with science in theatre and in society.
I only know that the last residency I held at the Cummins Theatre in Merredin was amazing! I truly appreciated the space and time to just write – it’s so wonderful to immerse oneself in the world of a play, and hopefully this immersion is realised through the play text as well.
Just a quick update to the ‘Botany’ play that I wrote during my Merredin residency, Stages WA Playwrights Consortium is supporting a workshop with the wonderful director, Emily McLean, and some very talented actors, to help move this text closer towards production. I changed the title to ‘The Orchae’ but I think I might change it again, as that one’s a bit obscure, perhaps. I’ll keep you posted…
Anyway – back to my research of ‘Subversive’!
And here’s to a productive and happy 2015 to you all ☺