subtlenuance is proud to announce the winner of the 2019 Silver Gull Play Award
Field of Vision by Joanna Erskine
We would also like to congratulate the writers of the shortlisted plays
I Damo by Pauline Bleach
The Deal by Kel Vance
Breathless by Deborah Mulhall
Son of Byblos by James Elazzi
We would like to thank
the Old 505 Theatre for hosting the award event,
Helen Tonkin and her team of actors who presented excerpts from the winning plays,
our judges - Nick Atkins, Joy Minter, Helen Tonkin, Daniela Giorgi and Paul Gilchrist,
and all the writers who submitted a play for the award.
We would particularly like to thank our generous sponsor The Buzz From Sydney.
The Silver Gull Award recognises an outstanding play by a local writer that explores philosophical or political themes.
Entries will open for the 2020 award later this year.
Previous winners of the Silver Gull Play Award
2015 TickTickBoom by Melissa Lee Speyer
2016 People Will Think You Don’t Love Me by Joanna Erskine
2017 For Unknown Reasons by Zoe Cooper
2018 Lions and Tigers and Bears by Phillip James Rouse
Previously Shortlisted Plays
2015
Between the Streetlight and the Moon by Melita Rowston
Furthest West by Michael Collins
The Block Universe (Or So It Goes) by Sam O’Sullivan
The Last Executioner by Mark Swivel
TickTickBoom by Melissa Lee Speyer
2016
People Will Think You Don’t Love Me by Joanna Erskine
A Matter of Life and Death by John AD Fraser
The Ink Trail by Louis Klee
This, This Is Mine by Duncan Ragg
I sat and waited but you were gone too long by Olivia Satchell
2017
The Bees Are All Dead by Kit Brookman
Dead Wen by Elias Jamieson Brown
For Unknown Reasons by Zoe Cooper
A Spy in the House of Love by Zoe Hogan
Human Activity by Katie Pollock
The Blackbird and the Whale by Alison Rooke
2018
Disinhibition by Christopher Bryant
Alabaster Burning by John AD Fraser
People Inside Me by Katie Pollock
Superheroes by Mark Rogers
Lions and Tigers and Bears by Phillip James Rouse
Photo of seagull by Glen Fergus (Own work, Moreton Bay, Australia) via Wikimedia Commons
The Silver Gull Play Award
