Currency Press was founded in 1971 by Katharine Brisbane, then national theatre critic for The Australian, and her husband Philip Parsons, a lecturer in Drama at UNSW who worked passionately to bridge the gap between the university and the profession. The company began as a play publishing service but its scope has broadened well beyond that. Currency is now Australia's foremost publisher of the performing arts and its oldest independent publisher still active. Our list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works. Currency Press is managed by Chairman Nick Parsons—son of founders Katharine Brisbane and Philip Parsons—who combines a career as a writer and director with responsibility for Currency’s Screen Publishing list, Claire Grady, (Publisher), Deborah Franco (Marketing/Sales Manager), Victoria Chance (Business Manager) and Emma Smith (Editorial Assistant).