The Australia Council’s Market Development section aims to create more demand for Australian contemporary arts through supporting the promotion of Australian contemporary arts and developing new markets and audiences, in Australia and internationally.

Program – youth arts grants provide three-year funding to youth theatre companies which develop and present the voices and stories of young people, and which offer professional development pathways with the potential to help young people become artists or artsworkers.

The Go See Fund provides travel assistance for professional Australian presenters to attend performances by Australian artists. Through a quick-response program, presenters can travel to view live work.

multiyear grants provide funding to a limited number of outstanding organisations to make high quality theatre works themselves, or to create opportunities for others to do so.

Skills and artform development grants support activities that provide professional development opportunities to individual theatre workers or that contribute to the overall development of the artform of theatre in Australia.