04.04.24
Hello Grif-friend,
My title’s Jules and I’m the Literary Affiliate at Griffin Theatre Firm. Final time we spoke I used to be telling you about how my job largely entails hanging out with writers. I’m a little biased however I believe playwrights are the best individuals to sit down with at a cocktail party. They’re stuffed with drama, are at all times prepped with strange trivia and are nice at asking questions!
One among my private playwriting heroes is Louis Nowra—at all times probing, at all times stuffed with coronary heart and at all times with a glass of chardonnay in hand. With Griffin presently staging his epic The Lewis Trilogy, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to see not solely the reveals (Summer time of the Aliens is my private fave—convey some tissues!) however the audiences too. I charge how good a Griffin present is by whether or not an viewers remains to be speaking a couple of present by the point they arrive down our stairs. Of an evening, from my workplace ( 60 toes away from the theatre doorways) I can hear the sobs, laughter and chatter of audiences nonetheless speaking concerning the present (on a weekend it’s the particular deal with of seeing an viewers develop right into a mini present household).
Different individuals you’d like to have at a cocktail party are the in-house artists who type Griffin Studio. Sadly, our 2023 cohort are formally ending their year-long artistic residency this week. I’d like to take the possibility to thank the wonderful artists who’ve come on board with us this yr: Michelle Lim Davidson, Emma Maye Gibson and Randa Sayed. It’s been a pleasure to have you ever across the workplace, to see your artistry develop and your work flourish—imagine me, this won’t be the final we see of any of their works! Watch this area!
Not one of the individuals I share an workplace with will agree with this however I want I had a drum at my desk for moments like this. Re-geared to playwrights able to take the leap from promising to confirmed, this yr’s Griffin Studio choice course of was thrilling and intensive. With 57 submissions, an in depth longlisting course of and a collection of interviews with an extremely gifted shortlist, three new playwrights will probably be becoming a member of this wonderful community and creating new works for the corporate. The envelope please… our 2024 Studio cohort is…
Josipa Draisma. Jorjia Gillis and Jacob Parker! They’ll be becoming a member of us for a yr and turning into embedded within the firm’s Inventive crew, they’ll participate in boards and masterclasses, obtain an business mentor in addition to growing a brand new work for the Griffin stage. Can’t wait to see what they’ll stand up to.
Griffin may also be partnering up with Accessible Arts for his or her Subsequent Stage Inventive Mentorship program. We’ll be welcoming again Create NSW Incubator shortlistee and Griffin Studio alum, the wonderful Bedelia Lowrenčev. They’ll be receiving artistic {and professional} mentorship from the Griffin Inventive crew and receiving mission funding to develop a pitch for an progressive work of their selecting!
That’s all for me this time however as I at all times say, invite a playwright to a cocktail party you gained’t remorse it. Additionally, I’ve now admitted that I can hear you from my desk if you depart the theatre so solely say good issues about me.
From,
Julian
Julian Larnach
Literary Affiliate
