RETURNING 2025
At Home Grown, we know how challenging it can be getting your work out there. We know what it's like to work like a slave creating something, and we know what it's like when faced with the question of 'what next?'. It's easy to be daunted by the rocky and fragmented road of Development and that's where The Grassroots Initiative comes in.
The Grassroots Initiative is an open-access development program that provides a series of opportunities for writers to hone their craft and skill and develop a piece of work. This is born out of Home Grown's strong belief that the way forward to a strong industry of Australian-made musical theatre is to pay due focus to the development of writers and the skill of writing in this country, and not just the development of a piece for production.
Thanks to the continued support of the Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne, writers will have access to rehearsal using the wonderful facilitates at the VCA, plus use of their theatre space to present a reading from which the Home Grown panel of industry experts will offer constructive and craft driven advice and feedback on your work, all without cost!
2016
'The Oasis' by Bradley McCaw
'In Stitches" by Steven Kreamer & Alex Giles
'Bettie' by Nicole Melloy & Derek Rowe
'Einstein: Master of the Universe’ by Jess Newman
'Famous' by Amity Dry
'Stealing Picasso' by Joel Paszkowski and Tom Reed
2017
'Sincerely, Yours' by Jason Arrow & Kohan van Sambeeck
'Woman' by Vidya Makan
'The Point of Light' by Amberly Cull & Greg Lavell
'Tan Toey's House' by David Peake
'Dookie: The Musical' by Wade Gregory, Helen Rankin & John Head
'A Sharp Intake of Breath' by Lucy O'Brien
2018
‘The Little Princess’ by Bradley McCaw
‘Unrequited’ by Sally Whitwell & Emma Green
‘The Insatiable Moon’ by Jamie Burgess
‘Beau Wants To Be A Billionaire’ by Jackson Peele & Conor Neylon
‘Fearless’ by Shanon Whitelock
‘Moonlite’ by Gabriel Bergmoser & Daniel Nixon
2019
'Sincerely, Us' by Aysa Garcia & William Hinz
'Falling Forward' by Katie Weston
'The Great Emu War of 1932' by James Court & Simeon Yialeloglou
'The Lonley Leaf' by Christopher Harley
'Flat Earthers: The Musical' by Jean Tong, Lou Wall & James Gales
'Jack Frost: The Musical' by Joseph May-Dessmann
2022
'Bearded' by Sean Donehue & Nick Waxman
Proudly supported by the Victorian College of the Arts.