Despite winning the Sydney Theatre Company’s (STC) Patrick White Playwrights Award in 2006 for Do Not Go Gentle – alongside numerous other awards both nationally and internationally – Patricia Cornelius has not had a single play staged by the STC… until now.
Among the other awards Cornelius received for Do Not Go Gentle were the R E Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Award in 2006, the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Drama and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Drama that same year, plus the 2011 Major AWGIE and the AWGIE Award for Stage.
