Create NSW has today announced the recipients of funding from the Regional Arts Touring for Organisations. Fourteen NSW-based arts organisations have received a collective total of $1.08m to be put towards touring a variety of programs ranging from children’s theatre to classical chamber and Australian composition.

Ensemble Theatre’s The Queen’s Nanny. Photo © Phil Erbacher.

Monkey Baa Theatre has been awarded a total of $118,794 to be put towards program touring. In 2025, the children’s theatre organisation is set to tour Josephine Wants to Dance across metropolitan and regional venues in NSW and regional venues across Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. The currently-in development Where is the Green Sheep is another prospective tour, co-presented by QPAC’s Out of the Box Festival.

Red Line Productions’ adaptation of the popular book by Tim Winton, The Bugalug Bum Thief, has been awarded $109k for touring.

Ensemble Theatre receives $100k to fund a 2025 tour of The Queen’s Nanny, a Melanie Tait play drawing on the real-life story of the nanny to the British royal family. The work debuted at Ensemble in September of this year.

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