Currency Press

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Founded1971
Country of originAustralia
Headquarters locationSurry Hills, Sydney
Currency Press Pty Ltd
Founded1971
FoundersKatharine Brisbane and Philip Parsons
Country of originAustralia
Headquarters locationSurry Hills, Sydney
DistributionRegency Media
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsPerforming arts
Fiction genresPlays and screenplays
Official websitecurrency.com.au

Currency Press is a leading performing arts publisher and its oldest independent publisher still active. Their list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works.

Currency Press was founded by Katharine Brisbane, then national theatre critic for The Australian newspaper, and her husband Philip Parsons, a lecturer in Drama at the University of New South Wales.[1] After Philip's death in 1993, Katharine remained at the helm of the company until she retired as Publisher in December 2001 to devote her energies to Currency House, a non-profit association dedicated to the Australian performing arts.[2] Currency press is currently run by her son Nicholas Parsons

Description

Currency Press is a leading Australian specialist performing arts publisher, and its oldest independent publisher still active. It is located in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills.

Awards

In 2011, Currency Press received the Dorothy Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession at the AWGIE Awards.[3]

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