04.04.24
Hi Grif-friend,
My identify’s Jules and I’m the Literary Associate at Griffin Theatre Company. Last 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 feel playwrights are the best individuals to take a seat with at a cocktail party. They’re filled with drama, are at all times prepped with strange trivia and are nice at asking questions!
One of my private playwriting heroes is Louis Nowra—at all times probing, at all times filled with coronary heart and at all times with a glass of chardonnay in hand. With Griffin at present staging his epic The Lewis Trilogy, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to see not solely the reveals (Summer of the Aliens is my private fave—carry some tissues!) however the audiences too. I fee how good a Griffin present is by whether or not an viewers continues to be speaking a couple of present by the point they arrive down our stairs. Of an evening, from my workplace (a superb 60 ft 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).
Other 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 inventive residency this week. I’d like to take the possibility to thank the superb artists who’ve come on board with us this 12 months: 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!
None 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 12 months’s Griffin Studio choice course of was thrilling and intensive. With 57 submissions, an intensive longlisting course of and a sequence of interviews with an extremely gifted shortlist, three new playwrights shall be becoming a member of this superb 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 12 months and changing into embedded within the firm’s Artistic crew, they’ll participate in boards and masterclasses, obtain an business mentor in addition to creating a brand new work for the Griffin stage. Can’t wait to see what they’ll rise up to.
Griffin may also be partnering up with Accessible Arts for his or her Next Level Creative Mentorship program. We’ll be welcoming again Create NSW Incubator shortlistee and Griffin Studio alum, the superb Bedelia Lowrenčev. They’ll be receiving inventive {and professional} mentorship from the Griffin Artistic crew and receiving venture funding to develop a pitch for an modern 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 received’t remorse it. Also, I’ve now admitted that I can hear you from my desk once you depart the theatre so solely say good issues about me.
From,
Julian
Julian Larnach
Literary Associate