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.

[1] 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.

[2] Currency press is currently run by her son Nicholas Parsons Currency Press is a leading Australian specialist performing arts publisher, and its oldest independent publisher still active.

[3] Seven of these plays have been included in the Australian Society of Authors' list of Australia's 200 best literary works.