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Funding rejection dismays Tasmanian theatre sector

The latest Arts Tasmania funding round rejected all applications by professional theatre companies, threatening the sector’s viability in the state.

9 Oct 2018 12:00

Richard Watts

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Tasmanian theatre companies have been locked out of arts funding for organisations. Image: Tasmanian Theatre Company’s 2018 production, Uprising. Photo credit: Richard Parkinson.

The latest funding round from Arts Tasmania, announced on 28 September, invested more than $700,000 to organisations such as Junction Arts Festival, The Unconformity and the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra, but rejected all applications from the state’s professional theatre companies.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts