Membership

We extend and encourage membership in MWT to playwrights of any level as well as actors, directors, producers or anyone who has an interest in the process of playwriting and theatre performance.

Full Membership benefits include:

• Participation in monthly meetings with a community of like minded members
• Access to our script development process, including constructive feedback
• The opportunity to submit scripts for Melborn 2012
• A Monthly Newsletter, Playbill, which includes MWT updates, industry news, and playwriting competitions and opportunities.
• The additional opportunity to submit scripts for additional productions such as Monologue, and Short play evenings.

Full Membership: $60.00 per annum

Associate Membership: $30.00 per annum

Note: Associate Membership benefits do not include submission rights.

Please download the PDF Membership form: www.melbwriters.org. or come to the next monthly meeting to join.

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Please note that as from March 1st 2011 our membership fees have increased to $60 per year for a full member and $30 per year for an associate member, and although this is not what is written on the membership form this is the correct fee.

Please post your form to: The Melbourne Writers' Theatre, PO Box 1049, Carlton, Victoria 3053 along with a cheque or money order.

Alternatively, please feel free to bring your form to our next monthly meeting (held at 7pm on an early Monday of every month at the Carlton Courthouse Theatre) and we’ll be happy to welcome you then.

If you have any questions about membership, please contact us by email at melbournewriterstheatre@gmail.com

MelBorn 2011

The MelBorn 2011 season will comprise the work of the writers who submit longer plays for consideration with a view to being selected as an MWT Resident Writer. The Courthouse will be available to the selected writer, director and designated production team for the reduced member rate of $400 per week.

MelBorn 2011 will also include season of short plays, which will be produced by MWT.

Resident Writers:

Resident Writers for 2011 will be selected based on the following process.

    *  A call for submissions for plays written by members that are between 45 and 90 minutes in length, to be produced autonomously and credited as part of MelBorn 2011 and 'in partnership with MWT'  as with the 2009 production of The Cat's Paw by Christine Croyden which was produced by Hoypolloy theatre.

    * These submissions should include:
          o The play being submitted
          o Any dramaturgical reports
          o The name and bio of the director
          o Production details /company
          o Writer's bio and previous productions
    * An established independent  dramaturge will then be paid to make an assessment of the plays submitted and select the MelBorn program for production. The plays will all be assessed without author and director details and those selected will have a report written by the dramaturge to outline why the play has been chosen.


MelBorn 2011 season will then be programmed.

One play/autonomous production 2 weeks

One play/ autonomous production 2 weeks

Short plays 2 weeks

For Submission Form go to Home and Click on MelBorn 2011 Submissions

We believe that this approach enables the MWT to return to its original ethos of script development and the model we propose has synergies with those found in other well reputed independent theatre organisations we have researched, including  the New Dramatists, Playwrights Foundation,  and Chicago Dramatists in the US, and Tarragon Theatre and Finborough Theatre in the UK.

We plan to continue our regular monologue nights and also introduce play workshops  as part of our program in 2011.