Gasworks Script Lab 2025
Showcase Nights

Watch as the new plays written by talented playwrights in GASWORKS SCRIPT LAB 2025 are brought to life on stage.

In 2025, in partnership with Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne Writers’ Theatre again presented the immersive playwriting program Gasworks Script Lab. In the Emerging stream, participants learned to write a short play from scratch. In the Experienced stream, participants were supported to strengthen their existing plays. Between July and September all writers attended Saturday afternoon workshops in the Art & Craft Studio at Gasworks Arts Park. Under the guidance of facilitators Clare Mendes (Emerging) and Laura Lethlean (Experienced), they discussed their scripts with their peers, workshopped them with actors, and then wrote a final draft in preparation for sharing these new works with the public.

Like to see what we created in Gasworks Script Lab this year? Keen to support new theatre? Whatever your interest, we warmly invite you to join us for the Showcase Night of your choice – or enjoy both nights, with the Double Showcase offer. These plays are original, bold and surprising, They explore an endless array of themes – love and dating, politics and power, technology and future worlds – guaranteeing a memorable evening of brand new theatre performed by talented local actors.

Showcase Night #1 – Emerging

Friday 17th October @ 6.30 – 8.30 pm

At this showcase we will present the following short plays:

Family Practitioner by Lochlan Gibbons-Tighe

Contiki by Bek Schilling

Obituary by Rachael Vassallo

Sia & Anthony by Shahrin Shamim.

No-one is Safe in Lululemon by Michelle Adams

Sunscreen by Keelan Armstrong

Mind Meld by Matthew Chan.

Directed by: Karyn Lee Greig, Performed by: Frances Lee, Jack Palit, Janine McGrath, Lochie Laffin-Vines, Rachel Edmonds, Amir Rahimzadeh.

Showcase Night #2 – Experienced

Saturday 18th October @ 6.30 – 8.30 pm

At this showcase, we will present the following full-length play excerpts:

OUT! by Hiroki Kobayashi

Just Like That by Anita Barar

The Voice by Megan Scolyer-Gray

Transfusion by Stephen Najera,

Football Evangelism by Michel Tuomy

Not a cancer play – a cellular undoing by Noemie Huttner-Koros.

Directed by: Cathy Hunt, Performed by: Frances Lee, Jack Palit, Janine McGrath, Lochie Laffin-Vines, Rachel Edmonds, Amir Rahimzadeh.