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The 2008 Annual Report for the Australian Script Centre
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The Australian Script Centre Annual Report 2008
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Contents
Chair’s Report 4
Director’s Report 5
The Team 7
The Board 9
New Plays Received in 2008 12
Audit Report 14
Special Thanks 17
Australian Script Centre
ABN: 6343 945 689
77 Salamanca Place
Hobart Tasmania 7004
P +61 3 6223 4675
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www.ozscript.org
The Australian Script Centre Annual Report 2008
About us
Our patrons:
David Williamson
Robyn Archer
The Australian Script Centre has been
selectively collecting, promoting and
distributing contemporary Australian
plays in manuscript form since 1979. The
Centre’s work supports playwrights in
particular by fi lling the gap left by the
very small number of Australian plays
that achieve commercial publication.
Our new ecommerce website,
australianplays.org, which went live
at the end of 2008, gives playwrights
a global distribution and marketing
network for their work as well as giving
producers everywhere a simple access
point for professionally written and
production-ready Australian plays.
The ASC is a non-profi t association with
a membership base comprising a diverse
community of theatre makers, including
many playwrights, drama educators,
students, theatre companies and
producers. It is the only national arts
organisation based in Tasmania.
History
The Australian Script Centre grew out
of an initiative of Barbara Manning
and the Salamanca Theatre Company,
called the Salamanca National Script
Resource Centre. Initially the centre was
a distribution service for playwrights
writing for theatre-in-education. It ran
successfully throughout the 1980s and
in 1993 separated from the Salamanca
Theatre Company to become the
Australian Script Centre. The centre’s
collection rapidly grew as it began to
incorporate all styles of play and radio
scripts. We now house the largest
and most comprehensive collection of
contemporary Australian playscripts.
The ASC collection represents a
signifi cant cultural and historical
resource.
Our Mission
The ASC’s mission is to be an integral
part of the Australian theatre industry
by providing a gateway to the best of
contemporary Australian performance
writing.
Our Values
In all areas of practice and operation,
we strive to:
• Recognise the inherent importance
of fi nding innovative, responsive
and creative new ways to promote
Australian playwriting, and
• Ensure that integrity underlines all
business and is evident through
our systems of good governance,
fi nancial and legal responsibility. The Australian Script Centre is assisted by the
Australian Government through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body, and by State
Ministers for the Arts through Arts Tasmania, NSW
Arts, Arts WA, and Arts SA.
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making, and once merely a small library
of Theatre-in-Education scripts, has
transformed into an innovative, cutting-
edge dynamo, attracting major funding
and driving sales of new Australian
scripts.
Lindie Lupo has taken over as Treasurer
and David Gurney, Dianne Nicol and
Lisa Harris have brought enormous
experience, skills and energy to what
is virtually a new Board. Chris Tugwell,
Chris Thompson, Campion Decent and
Alan Jeffrey have continued to bring
new ideas and energy to every meeting
and to maintain the principles of good
governance that have characterized the
Board’s work over the years.
This is my final report as Chair. I have
been privileged to lead a Board of
astute, informed and questioning
professionals who have freely given
their time and expertise in the service
of Australian playwrights. Meetings
were always awash with generosity
and humour, and I thank everyone who
has participated with me in the ASC’s
journey of the last few years.
Under the new Chairmanship of
Campion Decent, the Board will re-
define itself and find a fresh approach
to supporting the staff of the ASC. I
wish Campion, Gail, Board members
and staff the very best for the future.
Thank you all.
David Lander Chair
March 2009
2008 has been a momentous year for
the Australian Script Centre. We have
been designated a Key Organisation by
the Australia Council for the Arts and
funded triennially. We are now endowed
with a significant role in the Australian
theatre industry and have substantial
funding to carry it out for the next
three years. This is an extraordinary
achievement; the result of sustained
commitment, integrity and service, and
a fitting result for the work of the staff
and Board over the last few years.
I wish to acknowledge, in particular, the
work of Anita Favretto, Director, Deb
Sadler, Treasurer and Chris Thompson on
the Strategic Plan, which was the core of
our submission for triennial funding. It is
an extraordinarily well-written document
– forceful, eloquent and undeniable
– and the ASC owes its current security
to this plan and its writers.
There have been great changes in
Board membership and staffing. Anita
Favretto, Director, and Deb Sadler,
Treasurer, have left. In addition to
writing the Strategic Plan, Anita, over
her two and a half years, steadied the
ASC during a time when the entire
national script-development landscape
was being radically re-defined. Her
administrative thoroughness, her
determination to establish partnerships
nationally and her gift for team-building
were the hallmarks of her tenure.
On her arrival, Deb Sadler rationalised
our accounting system and, during the
time of turmoil, gave such wise advice
that funding bodies saw the ASC was
indeed in safe hands, and that it should
be allowed to get on with the job
unscathed.
It has been a source of great personal
and professional pleasure to me to have
worked with such selfless people. The
ASC owes a great deal to Anita and Deb.
In late 2008 the Board was able
to appoint the brilliant Gail Cork
as Director. Gail has exceptional
experience in arts administration and
is the ideal person to lead the ASC into
its new era of e-marketing and digital
publishing. She is a confident, creative
user of technology and the ASC will
have an exciting future in her hands.
Already, the website we manage in
collaboration with Playwriting Australia
and Currency Press, australianplays.org,
is up and running, and our own
website, ozscript.org, is being re-
designed for educators and playwrights.
Plans are in place for our 30th birthday
celebrations in late March and for
our collaboration in the National
Play Festival, which is taking place in
Hobart. Two Pairs of Shorts, initiated
by the ASC, will bring readings of four
short new plays to Tasmanian audiences
during Ten Days on the Island. This is,
indeed, an intoxicating time.
Those who know the history of the ASC
are astonished at our new identity. This
small organization, geographically far
from the centres of national theatre
chair’s report
By any measure, it’s been quite a year for
the Script Centre. Thanks to the tireless
efforts of the board and my predecessor,
Anita Favretto, the organisation stepped
up to a new level of achievement made
possible by digital technology.
The catalyst was the Theatre Board’s
decision to fund the design and build
of australianplays.org an e-commerce
portal for Australian plays, managed by
the ASC in collaboration with Currency
Press, Playlab and Playwriting Australia.
Building began in May and, by the
time Anita left in September to take up
new challenges, the foundations were
in place for the ASC’s transition from
print to digital, a transition that would
transform the way we do business.
Then came the big news. The Theatre
Board had awarded the ASC Key
Organisation status, accompanied by
triennial funding for 2009-2011. This
resounding vote of confidence in the
ASC’s audacious vision for the future
had a galvanising effect on the team.
By the end of 2008, two months ahead
of schedule, the current catalogue
of more than 800 scripts had been
digitised and australianplays.org was
ready to go live. Formerly bulging
filing cabinets were emptied, the
daily outflow of snail mail slowed to
a trickle, the trusty office photocopier
fell strangely silent. Online, it was, and
continues to be a hive of activity as
script sales gather momentum and the
ASC prepares to roll out further digital
upgrades in 2009.
Director’s Report
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In the midst of these major changes,
the ASC’s core business of selectively
collecting and distributing Australian
playscripts did not miss a beat. 2008
saw the release of Stand Alone, a
collection of 20 audition pieces for
young actors and Collection #7, a
stylish CD featuring 27 new plays.
Production of these collections was the
work of Script Manager, Lian Tanner.
The ASC is fortunate indeed to have
Lian on the team. An accomplished
writer herself, Lian’s work in shaping
and building the ASC catalogue
over the past eight years, her good
judgement, fastidious eye for detail and
her care for the ASC’s wellbeing make
her a wonderful colleague and one of
the ASC’s most valuable assets.
The ASC’s good fortune does not
stop there. David Roberts brings an
astonishing level of savvy and can-do
technical wizardry to his role as Online
Producer and Marketing Manager.
Before she left to have a baby,
Coordinator Beatrix Bae Bouwman took
care of the daily minutiae and gave
the office a makeover into the bargain.
When the time came to digitise the
catalogue, Beatrix rose to the challenge
with vigour and efficiency. I also
acknowledge other valued members of
the team in 2008; Essie Kruckemeyer
who left the position of Office Manager
in May, Sarah Briggs who kept the
books in order after Essie’s departure
and Project Manager Anne Morgan who
steered australianplays.org through to
its successful completion in December.
Director Anita Favretto
(to September 2008)
Anita worked at the Australian Writers’
Guild (Melbourne office) for several
years before joining local government
where she coordinated a festival
program and assisted with arts policy
development. Prior to joining the ASC,
Anita was coordinator at LIVE Tasmania,
an arts marketing consortium of theatre
producers and presenters. She has also
produced independent theatre and
freelanced as a researcher and writer
for film and new media projects. Anita
left the ASC in September 2008 to
pursue new opportunities in education
program development.
Director Gail Cork
(from October 2008)
Gail has a diverse background in arts
management, specialising in books and
writing. Her previous positions include
manager of the Australia Council’s
Literature Board and executive director
of the Australian Society of Authors.
She has worked as a ghostwriter,
editor, columnist and reviewer. Her
freelance work has appeared in many
publications including The Sydney
Morning Herald and The Australian.
She has served on the boards of
the Copyright Agency Limited, the
Australian Copyright Council, the
Australian Society of Authors and the
Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. Gail
is also an accredited and experienced
commercial mediator.
Script Manager and A/g Director Sept
2008 Lian Tanner
Lian is a children’s fiction author and
playwright. Her first children’s novel,
Rats! was published by Lothian Books
in 2004 and she has just finished her
second children’s novel, Museum of
Thieves, written with support from an
Australia Council Literature Board grant.
She has had two radio plays, Inquest
into the Disappearance of a Sensible
Woman and Underworld, broadcast on
Radio National’s Airplay. Other plays
for adults include Corpus Nullius (1996
International Festival of Puppetry,
Budapest), Invertebrate (2004 Mountain
Festival) and Windpiece (2006 Mountain
Festival). Lian’s children’s plays include
I’ve Got Wind (Tasmanian Symphony
Orchestra), Heroes and Yolla (both for
Terrapin Theatre). Her stories have been
regularly published in School Magazine,
the NSW Department of Education’s
literary magazine for children. Lian
has a degree in Earth Sciences and an
Associate Diploma in Performing Arts.
She occasionally works as a freelance
editor and copywriter.
Online Producer and Marketing
Manager David Roberts
(from July 2008)
David brings an impressive array of
website development, marketing and
project management skills to this
newly-created position. He came to
the ASC from a marketing role with
Federal Group where he acquired wide
experience of e-marketing campaigns,
customer relationship management,
The team
An organisation can only ever
be as good as its people. The
ASC’s achievements in 2008 are
testament to the rigour and strategic
intelligence of its board and team. I
would like to pay special tribute to
retiring Chair David Lander for his
unfailing support of the organisation
through good times and bad. David is
an inspirational leader whose robust
humour and boundless generosity of
spirit will be much missed.
Onwards and upwards.
Gail Cork Director
March 2009
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Graphic Designer
Gordon Harrison-Williams
Gordon works with designers
Patrick Badger and Kieran Bradley at
Workhorse Studio. Established in Hobart
in 1992 Workhorse offers expertise in
concept, identity, retail, print, package,
web and environmental design. Gordon
has provided identity and promotional
material including design and
production of the Collection Series for
the ASC since 1998 and most recently
ASC’s newest publications, Stand Alone,
Collection #7 and Two Pairs of Shorts
– Celebrating The Australian Script
Centre’s 30th Anniversary.
Web Development
Tweezy New Media
Tweezy New Media was formed in 1999
by Tasmanian IT professionals Tony
Phelps and Phil Wood. Tweezy offers
a wide range of services including
website design, database design and
development, web site hosting and
graphic design. The team at Tweezy
assists the Australian Script Centre
with a range of web-based and
online database services, making the
collection of Australian playscripts more
accessible online.
Accountant
Rendell Ridge
Rendell is a registered company auditor
with Max Peck & Associates. He has
many years’ experience as auditor for
Tasmanian arts organisations.
David Lander
Chair and Public Officer (TAS)
Member since 2003
BFA Theatre, University of Victoria,
Canada. David has had an extensive
theatrical career as a writer, performer,
director, teacher and lecturer in
England, Canada and Australia. He
has been a broadcaster and theatre
reviewer for ABC Radio National/3LO/
3RRR and was Artistic Director for the
Gippsland Summer School in Theatre
and Drama. He has lectured in theatre
at the Victorian College of the Arts,
Melbourne State College, the University
of Calgary and Rose Bruford Theatre
School, England. His professional
theatre directing credits include three
seasons of It’s a Dad Thing (2000-2007),
including a Tasmanian tour, Bottom’s
Dream by Alan Lovett (2000), which
toured Canada and The Crimson Parrot
by Juliann O’Brien. His play Mate has
received productions in Sydney and
Hobart. He is a founding member of
Playwrights Anonymous.
Allan Jeffrey Deputy Chair (TAS)
Member since 2005
Allan divides his time between his
theatrical pursuits and as Managing
Director of Jeffrey Human Resources
Pty Ltd, management consultancy. He
has over 30 years experience providing
consultancy services to companies and
government organisations. His areas of
expertise are in organisational change,
human resource management training,
market research and leadership
mentoring. Allan has a Bachelor of Arts,
University of Tasmania and has lectured
in organisational behaviour for the
Bachelor of Education. Allan has been
prominent nationally as a judging panel
member for the Australian Training
awards and as an evaluator for the
new registered training organisation
national accreditation program. Allan
has recently been contracted by
the Commonwealth Government’s
Innovation program to develop strategic
planning and business improvement
services to industry.
Debbie Sadler Treasurer (TAS)
(to March 2008)
Member since 2002
Bachelor of Commerce, University
of Tasmania, Member, Institute of
Chartered Accountants. Debbie was
the Assistant Director (Accounting
Policy) for the State Government
and was responsible for developing
accounting policy for the inner Budget
sector, including the ongoing review of
the financial management legislative
framework. Prior to this, she held
many responsible positions within the
Department of Treasury and Finance.
Lindie Lupo Treasurer (TAS)
Member since October 2008
Lindie has a Bachelor of Commerce
degree from the University of Tasmania.
She has many years of experience
managing projects for large and small
organisations in both the profit and
not-for-profit sectors. She is currently
working for Northern Tasmanian
Development as Corporate Manager
the board
search engine optimisation and data
analysis. David holds a Bachelor of
Commerce, majoring in marketing and
entrepreneurship.
Office and Subscriptions Manager
(to February 2008) Essie Kruckemeyer
Essie has worked with leading South
Australian youth theatre companies.
She completed an Emerging Artist
Scholarship at Southern Youth Theatre
Ensemble and assisted in the creative
development of company productions.
Essie has worked with various arts
organisations including Hobart Fringe
Festival, Hobart Comedy Festival,
Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Tasmanian
Writers’ Centre, Is Theatre and
Salamanca Arts Centre.
Office Coordinator (from May 2008)
Beatrix Bae Bouwman
Beatrix joined the ASC in May after
working for Salamanca Arts Centre
and Lucrative Arts Business (LAB). She
has worked across a range of artforms
with special focus on theatre, music
and the visual arts. She has completed
a Bachelor of Fine Arts and won
numerous awards for her own arts
practice.
Project Manager – australianplays.org
(May-December 2008) Anne Morgan
Anne is a widely published children’s
writer with a PhD in writing and
many years’ experience in education
and project management. Her varied
background also includes website
development and acting with
Queensland Theatre Company.
support
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with Sydney Theatre Company, won
an AWGIE Award and a Queensland
Premier’s Literary Award and was short-
listed for a NSW Premier’s Literary
Award in 2007.
David Gurney (TAS)
Member since May 2008
David Gurney is a well known creator
of animated cartoons. He executive
produced and directed Hoota & Snoz
(3 series), Time Cracks (2 series),
Mörmel Spots (3 series), The Dog and
Cat News (2 series), Bang the Cat (2
series), and Pixel Pinkie (2 series). He
also created Erky Perky for Ambience
Entertainment, and has consulted to
Becker Entertainment and Chapman
Pictures. David was Creative Director
of The Hoota & Snoz Official Website
and the multi award winning Dog
and Cat News Website, based on the
television series. David consults and has
conducted seminars and workshops for
many clients, including the ABC, AFC
and Screen Australia. David is currently
directing Blue Rocket’s latest TV series
Pixel Pinkie and is Creative Director of
the online component of My Place, a
cross platform project based on Nadia
Wheatley’s award winning book.
(Dr) Dianne Nicol (TAS)
Member since October 2008
Dianne is a Professor in the Law
Faculty at the University of Tasmania
in Australia. She has a PhD in biology
from Dalhousie University in Nova
Scotia and an LLM in intellectual
property law from the University of
and is responsible for all finances and
projects of the organisation. She is
studying for an MBA.
Chris Thompson (VIC)
Member since 2004
Chris is a writer, director and arts
educator. A former Artistic Director
of St Martins Youth Arts Centre, he
was a founding Artistic Directorate
member of HotHouse Theatre in Albury-
Wodonga and has written for theatre,
film and television. His plays for young
audiences have received two AWGIE
awards and two further nominations
and his screenplay for the feature film
The Tumbler was nominated for the
Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
and won the 2007 Victorian Premier’s
Literary Award. He was co-creator and
head writer for two seasons of Shock
Jock on TV1-Foxtel and has worked as a
writer with the Melbourne Planetarium,
the Victorian Arts Centre and many
other companies. He reviews youth
literature for Viewpoint Magazine
and has been a script assessor for the
Australian Writers’ Guild. In addition
to his involvement with the ASC, he
currently lectures at ACU in theatre and
playwriting, is a member of the Grants
Panels for the Lord Mayor’s Charitable
Foundation and is Chair of the Victorian
Writers’ Centre.
Chris Tugwell (SA)
Member since 2005
Chris is a playwright and novelist; his
work has been performed by Patch
Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth,
Magpie and the Acting Company.
His play Seasonally Adjusted was
showcased at the 1987 Come Out
Festival, while Runaway toured regional
NSW for 12 months. He was a writer
for the ABC TV children’s series Finders
Keepers, directed by Scott Hicks. Solo
Spots, a book of monologues for senior
drama students was co-edited with
Ruth Starke and published by Oxford
University Press in 1998. His stage play
X Ray, about the plight of Australian
David Hicks held in Guantanamo
Bay, was part of the 2004 Adelaide
Fringe and 2005 Darwin Festival. The
radio version was broadcast on ABC’s
Airplay in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and
won a bronze medal at the New York
Festival’s international radio awards in
2006. A feature film adaptation is in
development.
Campion Decent (NSW)
Member since 2007
Campion is a playwright and Artistic
Director of HotHouse Theatre in Albury-
Wodonga. His previous positions
include Literary Manager at Sydney
Theatre Company, Artistic Director of
Next Wave Festival, Festival Director
of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
and Chair of the Australian National
Playwrights’ Centre. He has held senior
positions at State and Federal funding
agencies. Campion holds a Bachelor
of Creative Arts from the University
of Wollongong and a Master of Arts
(Theatre Studies) from the University of
NSW. His play Embers, commissioned
by HotHouse and produced in 2006
Tasmania. She is interested in many
aspects of intellectual property
law. Her main research focus is on
intellectual property issues in health
and biotechnology, particularly on
use of patented inventions. She
teaches in the areas of intellectual
property law, equity, media law, IT
law and biotechnology and the law.
Her administrative duties include
Associate Dean for Research and
Graduate Research Coordinator in the
Law Faculty. She is a Deputy Director
of the Centre for Law and Genetics, a
research group based at the University
of Tasmania and Melbourne University.
Lisa Harris (TAS)
Member since October 2008
Canadian by birth and now Tasmanian
by choice, Lisa Harris completed a
Bachelor’s degree in Music at King’s
College, University of London, and
a Graduate Diploma, Library and
Information Studies, at the University of
Tasmania. Her first fulltime job was in
the Development Office at the Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts in New
York where she stayed for three years
until her move to Tasmania. Various
jobs in administration, marketing and
management have led her to the TSO
as Manager, Philanthropy and Special
Events. Her job is the management
of the TSO’s philanthropy programs,
fundraising events and the TSO
Foundation. Lisa has two children at
university and counts music, theatre
and bridge as her other interests.
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Id Title Author State Added
1073 Putting Back The Fest Michael Jeffery VIC 23-Dec-08
1071 Hell’s Belles Deborah Mulhall NSW 15-Dec-08
1070 Red Sky Morning Tom Holloway VIC 9-Dec-08
1069 Unto Us A Son Is Born Tony Nicholls TAS 11-Nov-08
1068 Aladdin Tony Nicholls TAS 10-Nov-08
1067 Due Monday Lachlan Philpott NSW 10-Nov-08
1066 Borrowed Time Stephen House SA 8-Sep-08
1065 Seatown Stephen Faulds WA 5-Aug-08
1064 Precipice Catherine Ryan VIC 11-Jul-08
1062 Rock, Paper, Scissors John Fraser NSW 23-Jun-08
1063 Helly’s Magic Cup Rosalba Clemente SA 23-Jun-08
1061 Wiredancer’s Waltz Sven Swenson QLD 23-Jun-08
1058 The Man With The September Face Kylie Trounson VIC 17-Jun-08
1059 In The Violet Time Sue Smith NSW 17-Jun-08
1057 Savage River Steve Rodgers NSW 17-Jun-08
1060 Concussion (Currency Press) Ross Mueller VIC 17-Jun-08
1056 Sleep Easy Chill Jamie Forbes VIC 3-Jun-08
1055 Better Than This Pauline Hosking VIC 26-May-08
1054 Macbeth Re-Arisen David Mence VIC 29-Apr-08
1053 Drought Breaker Linda Stainton NSW 22-Apr-08
1049 Deeply Offensive And Utterly Untrue Version 1.0 NSW 31-Mar-08
1051 Eichmann In Jerusalem David Blackman VIC 31-Mar-08
1052 My Bed Is A Crocodile Pauline Hosking VIC 31-Mar-08
1050 CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) Version 1.0 NSW 31-Mar-08
1048 Memmie Le Blanc Hilary Bell NSW 18-Mar-08
1047 Gate 38 David Megarrity QLD 17-Mar-08
1046 The Speechwriter Anna Bennetts WA 17-Mar-08
1044 Blotto Jeremy Johnson NSW 11-Mar-08
1045 The Sheltered Workshop Jeremy Johnson NSW 11-Mar-08
1037 Anxious But Not Alarmed Scott Mcateer VIC 3-Mar-08
1038 Are You Happy? Scott Mcateer VIC 3-Mar-08
1039 Monsters Scott Mcateer VIC 3-Mar-08
1040 Transactions Scott Mcateer VIC 3-Mar-08
1041 Glutton For Punishment Scott Mcateer VIC 3-Mar-08
1042 Waiting On Jamie Oliver Gerry Greenland NSW 3-Mar-08
1043 Mum, We Love You Clem Gorman NSW 3-Mar-08
1036 Trivia Stephen Vagg NSW 26-Feb-08
1035 Love Song Dedications Stephen Vagg NSW 26-Feb-08
1034 Local Hero Nicole Smith VIC 25-Feb-08
1033 This Uncharted Hour Fin Kruckemeyer TAS 25-Feb-08
1032 When Salome Met Hamlet Steve Chinna WA 25-Feb-08
(A Domestic Tragedy)
New plays received in 2008
Id Title Author State Added
1031 Generation B Gail Evans NT 18-Feb-08
1030 The Girl I Left Behind Me Alex Nicol NSW 18-Feb-08
1027 There’s A War On, You Know Peter Flanigan WA 12-Feb-08
1028 Sinking Rod Ainsworth QLD 12-Feb-08
1029 Marmalade And Egg Melissa Cantwell WA 12-Feb-08
1018 A Thing Called Snake Stephen House SA 11-Feb-08
1019 Just Like That Stephen House SA 11-Feb-08
1020 Machiavelli, Machiavelli John Upton NSW 11-Feb-08
1021 A Tree, Falling Ron Elisha Vic 11-Feb-08
1022 Renaissance Ron Elisha Vic 11-Feb-08
1023 Controlled Crying Ron Elisha Vic 11-Feb-08
1024 Wrongful Life Ron Elisha Vic 11-Feb-08
1025 Lexie Turns To Stone Patrick Carr QLD 11-Feb-08
1026 Dispatch Penelope Bartlau Vic 11-Feb-08
1013 The Seven Needs 7-On NSW 5-Feb-08
1010 The Call Patricia Cornelius VIC 5-Feb-08
1011 Random Acts A.F Lall VIC 5-Feb-08
1012 Stop Means Go Chris Thompson VIC 5-Feb-08
1014 The Greatest Show On Earth Donna Abela NSW 5-Feb-08
1015 The Littlest Bird David Ryding Vic 5-Feb-08
1016 Hot Dogs David Ryding Vic 5-Feb-08
1017 Shift Swapping David Ryding Vic 5-Feb-08
1004 Nude All-Stars On The Mango Simon Luckhurst NSW 4-Feb-08
Planet Of Love
1005 Destination Samantha Graham QLD 4-Feb-08
1006 The Reckoning Bridget Di Certo QLD 4-Feb-08
1007 Plaything Simon Dodd NSW 4-Feb-08
1002 The Role Model Bruce Hoogendoorn ACT 4-Feb-08
1003 Concerto For Humans And Semtex Simon Luckhurst NSW 4-Feb-08
1009 The Couples Alison J Cooper QLD 4-Feb-08
1008 Scattering Robert Stephanie Mccarthy SA 4-Feb-08
999 Fragmented Suzanne Ingelbrecht WA 29-Jan-08
1000 The Mozart Faction Kate Rice WA 29-Jan-08
1001 Shadow Passion Anthony Crowley Vic 29-Jan-08
998 Colder Lachlan Philpott NSW 28-Jan-08
996 Smashed Nathan Luff NSW 28-Jan-08
995 A Solitary Choice Sheila Duncan VIC 28-Jan-08
994 Seeds Michelle Pettigrove NSW 28-Jan-08
997 Last One Standing Ned Manning NSW 28-Jan-08
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INCOME 2008 2007
Australia Council
Theatre Board 177,750 75,000
Literature Board 5,000 3,000
Total Australia Council 182,750 78,000
States
Arts WA 12,000 12,000
NSW Arts 12,000 12,000
Arts Tasmania 72,039 29,000
Arts SA 5,000 4,700
National Library of Australia 4,000
Total States 105,039 57,700
Other Income
Bank Interest 2,818 2,615
Other funding 2,509 2,434
Other Income 550 671
Publications 5,621 2,505
Scripts 8,749 8,756
Subscriptions 6,675 7,350
Total Other Income 26,921 24,331
______ ________
Total Income $ 314,710 $ 160,031
EXPENSE 2007 2006
Commissions, workshops, events 7,482
Marketing, Promotion 3,960 4,997
Overheads 93,282 35,580
Projects, New Initiatives 13,509 10,835
Royalty payments 1,420 840
Salaries, Staff Oncosts 173,599 103,267
______ ________
Total Expenses 293,252 155,519
______ ________
Net Profit $ 21,459 $ 4,402
Australian Script
Centre Inc
Income
Statement for
year ended
31 December
2008
Profit & Loss StatementIndependent Audit Report
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2008 2007
Assets
Cash and Deposits 157,439 95,465
Other Current Assets 17,806 6,160
Non-Current Assets:
Office, computer equipment 26,440 26,440
Deduct Accumulated Depreciation -9,198 -8,835
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Total Assets 192,487 119,230
Liabilities
Arts Tas Loan 1,711 3,471
Grants in advance 148,725 85,632
GST Payables (- Receivables) -65 7,181
Payroll Liabilities 6,233 9,573
Royalties Payable 1,051
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Total Liabilities 157,655 105,856
______ ________
Net Assets $ 34,832 $ 13,374
Equity
Retained Earnings 13,374 8,972
Current Earnings 21,459 4,402
______ ________
Total Equity $ 34,832 $ 13,374
Australian Script
Centre Inc
Balance Sheet as
at 31 December
2008
The ASC would like to thank the
many individuals who have very
generously given their time and
expertise in 2008. They include;
Catherine Fitzgerald
Eamon Flack
Anita Favretto
Chris Doolan
Sue Smith
Debra Oswald
Adam Grossetti
David Young
Deirdre Monk
Sally Marsden
Helen French
Ron Mac an Ultaigh
Debbie Sadler
Chris Mead
Campion Decent
Charlie Parkinson
Chris Thomas
Chris Tugwell
Donna Abela
Donna Cameron
Finegan Kruckemeyer
Gordon Harrison-Williams
Harvey Yarnall
Jacinta Legge-Wilkinson
Jane Polley
Jeremy Rice
Kathryn Kelly
Leigh Swinbourne
Louise Gough
Louise Fischer
Maggie Gillam
Maryanne Lynch
Michael Hill
Tony Nicholls
Paul Duncombe
Paul Yarnall
Peter Matheson
Phil Thomson
Rebecca Skeers
Richard Buckham
Suellen Maunder
Tony Phelps
Wendy Joseph
Special Thanks Balance Sheet
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Photos reproduced in this publication
were selected from our recently released
Collection #7.
To preview Collection #7, visit
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Photos by page:
Cover
The Kursk by Sasha Janowicz Photo: Michael
Futcher. Actors: Julienne Youngberry, Jonathan
Brand, Sasha Janowicz, Dirk Hoult, Amanda
Mitchell, Eugene Gilfedder
Page 3: A Solitary Choice by Sheila Duncan
Production: Holden Street Theatre.
Photo: Steve Duggan. Actor: Tamara Lee
Page 5: Enemy Material by Simon Froehling
Photo: Patrick Pfeiffer. Actors: Max Merker,
Guenter Baumann, Katja Tippelt, Oliver El-Fayoumy
Page 9: Left Marmalade And Egg by Melissa Cantwell
Production: Perth Theatre Company. Photo: Jon
Green. Actors: Bill McCluskey, Sarah Borg, Stuart
Halusz. Right Memmie Le Blanc Hilary Bell by
Melissa Cantwell Photo: Jon Green. Actor:
Anni Lindner
Page 10: Mrs Petrov’s Shoe
By Noëlle Janaczewska Photo: Kirrilly Brentnall.
Actor: Jude Beaumont
Page 11: Nailed, by Caleb Lewis
Photo: Rob McFarlane. Actor: Ursula Yovich
Page 13: Precipice by Tommy Murphy
Production: Cranbrook School. Photo: Petri Kurkaa
Actors: Arthur Rothbury, Artin Tsambazis
Page 17: True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea
by Kit Lazaroo Production: Here Theatre.
Photo: Ponch Hawkes. Actor: Fanny Hanusin
Page 18: Victor And Sass by Kathleen Cantarella
Photo: Michael Marzik. Actors: Anthony Ring,
Toma Hartley
Inside back cover: True Adventures of a Soul Lost at
Sea by Kit Lazaroo Production: Here Theatre.
Photo: Ponch Hawkes. Actors: Lliam Amor,
Julia Zemiro
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