Australia's richest prize for playwrights. The 2010 first prize of A$20,000 was awarded to Caleb Lewis; Hellie Turner was awarded the runner-up prize of A$10,000. The prize was not awarded in 2011 and new guidelines were drawn for 2012. The award was shared in 2012 by Ingle Knight and Tommy Murphy who would each receive a commission of $15,000 at the completion of a new play. No further awards have been announced and the award has ceased, Burton was patron of the Black Swan State Theatre Company from 2009 to 2012. She is a supporter of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She was a board member of Agelink, a theatre company for older actors. Established in 2007 She presents the Sally Burton Awards, a prize pool of A$4,000, to the two most talented performers of Shakespeare texts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Production In 2009 she launched the independent production house Onward Production whose productions ran from 2009 to 2011. In October that year she produced the Australian première of the international touring anthology Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners at the Playhouse Theatre in Perth and Noël Coward's Private Lives at Perth's Subiaco Arts Centre. She is also the executive producer of the British documentary series Great West End Theatres. Private life Burton had moved to Perth, Australia to be closer to her brother and his family. She first moved into a house in Subiaco, then purchased a recently built nearby house in 2007. In August 2017 she put her home on the market and returned to the UK to live in Suffolk. Bibliography Books Book reviews 2011: , reviewed: Other writings References External links 1948 births English expatriates in Australia English theatre managers and producers English women novelists English women philanthropists Living people Patrons of literature People from Braintree, Essex Writers from Essex