Welcome to The Parramatta Play Project
About the Project
The Parramatta Play Project is a collaborative, place-based playwriting project that brings together eight writers to create a new, full-length Australian play inspired by Parramatta's layered histories and contemporary identity.
The process for this new development has been practiced and refined in place-based projects, residencies and theatres across Australia, Canada, USA, Romania, The Netherlands and Germany.
The play will be written at various sites across Parramatta and developed through a series of prompts, provocations and collaborative exercises.
Developed in partnership with Baramadagal Knowledge Holders, local cultural organisations and heritage experts, The Parramatta Play Project centres Western Sydney artists.
The Parramatta Play project will commence in February 2026 and will culminate in a reading at The Rex Cramphorn Studio, University of Sydney in April 2026
Our Team
Led by award-winning writer and creative producer Augusta Supple, the project brings together an acclaimed team of playwrights, cultural knowledge holders, dramaturgs and actors with deep connections to Western Sydney.
Playwriting team includes: award-winning essayist, playwright and novelist Linda Atkins; former journalist and playwright Saurabh Bhattacharya; accomplished screenwriter and playwright Micharne Cloughley; queer writer and actor Laneikka Denne; philosopher, academic and acclaimed writer Chris Fleming; AWGIE and AACTA nominated screenwriter and DJ Marcus Khoudair; multi-award winning poetess and performer Paris Rosemont; brought together by award winning writer and Creative Producer Augusta Supple.
Baramadagal Dharug collaborators include Jayne Christian, Julie-Ann "Aunty Jules" Christian and Linda Sainsbury.
Funders, Partners and Supporters
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, is proudly supported by The NSW Government through Create NSW.
Project partners include: Barabirang Projects, National Trust of Australia (NSW), Museums of History NSW, Parramatta and District Historical Society, National Theatre of Parramatta and Riverside Theatres, Australian Plays Transform, Western Sydney Creative, Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre, and through a residency at Theatre and Performance Studies, The University of Sydney, and is administered by Auspicious Arts Projects.