Currency Press is Australia's only specialist 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. 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. In 2011, Currency Press received the Dorothy Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession at the AWGIE Awards.. Also supplier for all Nick Hern Books titles
Blackrock by Nick Enright – It's Toby Ackland's birthday party down near the surf club – and that means grog, drugs and fun; by the morning a young girl is dead – raped and bashed with a rock
The Chapel Perilous by Dorothy Hewett – depicts the painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner
Cloudstreet by Nick Enright & Justin Monjo – an adaptation of Tim Winton's classic novel, and winner of the 1999 Gold AWGIE Award
Dead Heart by Nick Parsons – winner of the 1994 Australian Human Rights Award, the 1993 NSW State Premier's Literary Award – Play Award and the 1993 AWGIE Award for Drama
Don's Party by David Williamson – Williamson's brilliant satire examines a society on the threshold of emerging from a generation of comfortable, conservative political and social values
Holding the Man by Tommy Murphy – an adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's best-selling memoir
Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson – winner of the 1990 AWGIE Award – Stage Award, 1990 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Drama and the 1990 Green Room Award for Best Play
Macquarie by Alex Buzo – traces the decline of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's authority in the infant colony of New South Wales; it was the first play published by Currency Press
Norm and Ahmed by Alex Buzo creates an image of race prejudice as a profoundly irrational force in the behaviour of ordinary Australians
The Removalists by David Williamson – winner of the 1972 AWGIE Award – Best Stage Play and Best Script, as well as the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright
The Season at Sarsaparilla by Patrick White – neighbours are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death
Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell – winner of the 1997 AWGIE Award – Stage Award; this is the play upon which Lantana was based
Stolen by Jane Harrison – this tender and moving story brought the tragic history of the Stolen Generations to the Australian stage; winner of the 2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler – a defining moment in Australian theatre history, and a beacon in the Australian dramatic canon
The Time is Not Yet Ripe by Louis Esson – a political comedy from 1912 in which the forces of socialism, feminism and conservatism fight out an election and an engagement to marry
The Woman in the Window by Alma De Groen – supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council and short-listed for the 1999 NSW Premier’s Award for Drama
Screenplays
Blue Murder by Ian David – a powerful and frightening story about police corruption and Sydney's underworld
Chopper by Andrew Dominik – goes inside the mind of Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read, one of Australia's most notorious criminals
Muriel's Wedding by P. J. Hogan – Muriel, an unhappy young woman in dismal surroundings, sets out to overcome obstacles such as her family, her joblessness, and her obsession with 70s glam rockers ABBA
Rabbit Proof Fence by Christine Olsen – three Aboriginal girls are forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of official government policy
Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce – an exuberant story about the struggle for love and creativity in a world limited by greed and regulation
