The Legacy Project will be back for another year and is offering emerging writers the opportunity to have a new work performed on stage as part of the 2016 Auckland Pride Festival. Now in its third year running, the Legacy Project has teamed up with Playmarket New Zealand to provide script advisor support. Playmarket has a long history of empowering and representing New Zealand playwrights which fits with Legacy Project’s aims to nurture emerging LGBT Kiwi voices, providing development opportunities for all corners of the queer community to grow and share their stories on stage. Cole Meyers, who wrote Negative Space for the 2015 Legacy Project, says the opportunity was life changing; “It was such an important moment in my life because it enabled me to work with so many other talented writers, directors and actors, to see my first play professionally staged, and to feel like writing was actually something I could do and was good at.” Roy Ward is set to be the project script advisor for our third year of development, a freelance actor, theatre director and television writer Ward co-developed and directed the 2013 Auckland Fringe show Black Faggot, which won 4 fringe awards, including Best Theatre Production. The show has received great success and has toured around New Zealand and to Edinburgh, Brisbane and Melbourne (twice). The call is out for writers to submit a short script and emerging directors to commit to their next big challenge. Submissions close Friday 31 October and script workshops will take place in late November. For detailed submission criteria and more information about the project, check the Legacy Project website.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Thursday, 1st October 2015 - 8:57am