Past recipients: The R E Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards

Past recipients of The R E Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards have included new writers along with well-known contributors to Melbourne's theatre scene.

These writers have worked on a wide range of scripts, many of which have made their way into production after a successful development process.

2011

• Jane Montgomery Griffiths, A little piece for her sister
• Jane Miller, True love travels on a gravel road
• Peta Brady, Strands
• Diane Stubbings, The parricide

2010

• Barry Dickins, A kind of fabulous hatred
• Xenia Hanusiak, Ward B
• Felix Nobis, The boy out of the country
• Glenn Shea, Three magpies perched in a tree

2009

• Bridgette Burton, Rhonda is in therapy
• Angus Cerini, Save for crying
• Declan Greene,  Pompeii, LA
• Thomas Henning, Raging in the name of the dead

2008

• Angela Betzien, The orphanage opera
• Barry Dickins, Whiteley's incredible blue
• Lally Katz, Return to earth
• Carly Nugent, Shots

2007

• Penelope Bartlau, Dispatch
• Aidan Fennessy, Big noise
• Declan Greene, A black joy
• Tom Holloway, Love my black dog
• Kit Lazaroo, Topsy
• Glenn Perry, The children's Bach

2006

• Patricia Cornelius, Do not go gentle...
• Suzanne Ingleton, The flower of Malaya
• Lachlan Philpott, Colder
• Monica Raszewski, Egg shell
• Vivienne Walshe, I shot the albatross (but I taught it how to land)

2005

• Bridgette Jane Burton, Killing Jeremy
• Darinka E Kralj, Sand in the glass
• Mari Lourey, Bear witness (to my savage heart)
• Robert Reid, A mile in her shadow
• Shane Taylor, Ghosts and lepers
• Jianguo Wu, Kites of broken strings

2004

• Anthony Crowley, Shadow passion
• Sandra Long, Duets for lovers and dreamers
• Nic Velissaris, Brother boy
• Pauline Whyman, That's a good question

2003

• Catherine Lazaroo, True adventures of a soul lost at sea
• Alexandra Collier, Still waiting
• David Blackman, The revisionist
• Tee O'Neill, Best possible world