Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Adam NZ Play Awards

The 2023 Adam NZ Play Awards, recognise the best in new unproduced writing for the Aotearoa theatre.

Albert Belz – ADAM NZ PLAY AWARD WINNER and Best Play by a Māori Playwright – for Supernova.

Keagan Carr Fransch – RUNNER UP and Best Play by a Woman Playwright –

for Mitochondrial Eve

Viki Moananu – Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright –

for Icky

Sam Brooks – Dean Parker Award –

for Em adapted from Emma by Jane Austen

Steven Page – McNaughton South Island Play Award –

for Give Way – The Musical

Congratulations also to the shortlisted playwrights Kathryn Burnett, Anders Falstie-Jensen, Maraea Rakuraku, Cassandra Tse and Tainui Tukiwaho.