Now in its fifth season, Storytellers Festival has proven to be an incredible engine for getting new Australian writing to our stages, with a stellar alumni of programmed plays in its wake.
It’s time for the next round of great, unproduced Australian plays to be given the spotlight.
Storytellers is curated and managed by festival founder Joanna Erskine
Festival support: Charlie Vaux, Andrew McMartin, Claudia Elbourne, Emily Buxton
Storytellers Festival Part (1)
SUNDAY 11 MAY at 5pm
Zoe Hogan - The Bureau of Imagined Genealogy
MONDAY 12 MAY at 7.30pm
Grace Malouf - First, Do No Harm
TUESDAY 13 MAY at 7.30pm
Katie Pollock - People Inside Me
WEDNESDAY 14 MAY at 7.30pm
Domenic Anthony - Heaven
THURSDAY 15 MAY at 7.30pm
Charley Allanah - Stable
FRIDAY 16 MAY at 7.30pm
Vernon Sik Chuan Pua - The Best Zombie You Can Be
STORYTELLERS FESTIVAL PART (2)
MONDAY 02 JUNE 7.30PM
Danny Ball - La Malattia
TUESDAY 03 JUNE 7.30PM
Joanna Erskine - The Mews
WEDNESDAY 04 JUNE 7.30PM
Lincoln Vickery - Counsel
THURSDAY 05 JUNE 7.30PM
Bianca Watkins - Have A Safe Trip
FRIDAY 06 JUNE 7.30PM
Angus Cameron - Sunrise Set
Felicity Nicol - Sex. Riot. Repeat.
SATURDAY 07 JUNE 7.30PM
Denise Chan - Kopi-Diem
Vivian Nguyen - A Survivor’s Guide To Revenge
SUNDAY 08 JUNE 5.00PM
Phil Rouse - Father John
Imagery: All Boys Storytellers 2023 All Boys was a part of the of KXT2024 program, played a sold-out season ALL BOYS 2024
please note the Wednesday performance has been moved to the Matildas-friendly time of 6.30 pm
MONDAY 14 Aug
Shitbag by Hayley Edwards
Prevail by Donna Abela
TUESDAY 15 Aug
Sucklings by Jem Lai
Trash Wizard by Bella Battersby
WEDNESDAY 16 Aug
Probe by Becca Hurd
THURSDAY 17 Aug
ALL BOYS by Xavier Hazard
FRIDAY 18 Aug
The House Collector by Charley Sanders
SATURDAY 19 Aug
Fortress by Erica Brennan
SATURDAY 19 Aug
Doris Fitton by Justin Fleming
CALIFORNIA ORANGE STELLAR by Grace Wilson
SUNDAY 20 Aug
The Devil Girls from Planet M by Noelle Janaczewska
2022 the 2022 Storytellers festival featured the work of 11 playwrights, 10 directors and 50 actors:
PLAYWRIGHTS Erica Brennan, Kate Gaul, Callum Mackay, Brian Obiri-Asare, Xavier Coy, Meg Goodfellow, Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou, Stephen Sewell, Lucy Green, Wendy Mocke
DIRECTORS Jo Bradley, Camilla Turnbull, Hayden Tonazzi, Bruce Koussaba, Jay James-Moody, Kim Hardwick, Madeleine Diggins, Sophie Benassi, Shaun Rennie, Amy Sole
ACTORS Alison Bennett, Laura Djanegara, Kieran McGrath, Christopher Moro, Marcus Rivera, Annie Stafford, Simon Thomson, LJ Wilson, Poppy Lynch, Tom Dawson, Rachel Seeto, Abhilash Kaimal, Ziggy Resnick, Ed McCullough, Callum Stephen, Eddie Orton, Damon Manns, Whitney Richards, Nancy Denis, Brian Obiri-Asare, Xavier Coy, Mandy Bishop, Luisa Panucci, Sarah-Jane Kelly, Zoe Carides, Elouise Eftos, Alex Sideratos, Gen Papadopoulos, Georgia-Paige Theodos, Sophie Kouknas, Karen Vickery, Deborah Kennedy, Maggie Blinco, Mark Owen Taylor, Charlotte Friels, Jeremi Campese, Jamie Oxenbould, Deborah Galanos, Justin Amankwah, Wendy Mocke, Dalara Williams, Maryanne Fonceca, Kurt Ramjan, Margaret Pittas, Lungol Wekina, Annie Stafford, Emma O'Sullivan, Toby Blome
ANDThe Hero Leaves One Tooth: Lyrics and music by Jake Neilson. Musical direction by Alexander Lee-Rekers
SUPPORT Thanks to Charlie Vaux; Camilla Turnbull, Jacob Parker, Sean Landis, Mitchell Bourke
STORYTELLERS 2019
Those pages in the ‘bottom drawer.’ That play you wrote five years ago that still hasn’t been picked up. That monologue you loved that got cut a week before the production because it didn’t propel the story forward. Killed darlings. Buds never blossomed. Every writer has them, tucked away, whether just starting out or a veteran of the stage: Fragments of stories that didn’t make it, or haven’t made it yet; fragments that won’t exist if they are not seen or heard.
STORYTELLERS 2018
STORYTELLERS is curated and facilitated by festival founder JOANNA ERSKINE