Adam Grossetti

Adam Grossetti was born in Innisfail, Far North Queensland and raised in Cairns. His plays include Dogs, Pitchfork, Lost Lagoon, ...

Adam J.A Cass

Having written approximately forty produced plays, ing the Emerging Writer Award at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, continues to be produced ...

Adriane Daff

Adriane Daff is an actor and theatre-maker based in Perth, Western Australia. She is an Artistic Associate of Side Pony ...

Aidan Fennessy

Aidan Fennessy is a writer and director. His work has been produced extensively both here and overseas. His writing credits ...

Alana Valentine

In 2013, Alana Valentine won three AWGIE Awards, including the Major AWGIE, the inaugural David Wiliamson Prize and the Youth and ...

Alexander Bayliss

Alexander Bayliss is a playwright from Brisbane. In 2019 his play Squad Goals was produced by Share House Theatre Company and ...

Alexander Lee-Rekers

Alexander Lee-Rekers is a Sydney-based writer, director and composer. Born into an acting family and encouraged to explore artistic pursuits, ...

Alexandra Collier

Alexandra is playwright who has worked in the US at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, New Group, Women’...

Alison Mann

Alison Mann is a playwright based in Hobart, Tasmania. Alison is the recipient of several awards including a First Draft ...

Alison Rooke

Alison Rooke is a writer and dramaturg from Sydney. A graduate of NIDA and AFTRS, Alison also has an MA (...

Amy Bell

Based in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest, Amy is inspired by remote landscapes and the darker interactions of human ...

Andrea Fernandez

Andrea Fernandez is a Yamatji woman with family ties in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and India. An actor ...

Andrea Gibbs

Andrea Gibbs is the co-founder and artistic director of Barefaced Stories, Australia’s longest-running program of refreshingly honest, bold and ...

Andrea James

Andrea James is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta and Gunnaikurnai Aboriginal nations and a graduate of the Victorian College ...

Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and died in Victoria in 2019 at age fifty-two. Most of his adult life, ...

Angela Betzien

Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV. The Dark ...

Angela Murphy

Angela is a Cairns-based playwright, editor, story writer and trained facilitator. She completed, with High Distinction, a Master of Letters (...

Angus Cameron

Angus Cameron is a playwright and academic based in Melbourne. He is the author of Australia Open, which was part ...

Angus Cerini

Angus Cerini is a writer, performer and director with a background in dance and the creation of works of performance ...

Anita Heiss

Dr Anita Heiss is an award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She ...

Anna Yen

Anna Yen is a performer, writer, theatre maker & teacher, and Feldenkrais Method practitioner. Upcoming shows: Anna is in debase productions’ ...

Anne Harris

Dr Anne Harris is an American-Australian playwright and Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Monash University (Melbourne) and has ...

Anne-Louise Sarks

Anne-Louise Sarks is the resident director at Belvoir. She works professionally as an actor, director and dramaturg. In 2011, Anne-Louise held ...

Anthony Newcastle

Anthony has worked as a freelance artist with Kooemba Jdarra for the past three years. During this time, Anthony has ...

Arnold Denham

Not much is know about Arnold Denham, other than that he was born Arnold Denham Boulger, circa 1873, that he worked ...

Arthur Adams

Arthur Henry Adams, born in Otago, New Zealand in 1872, was a poet, playwright, journalist and novelist, committed to the development ...

Arwin Arwin

Arwin Arrived in Australia in 2012; he left Afghanistan in hope of a new home and a new life. He began ...

Back to Back Theatre

Based in the Victorian regional centre of Geelong, Back to Back Theatre is widely recognised as an Australian theatre company ...

Benjamin Schostakowski

Benjamin Schostakowski graduated from Directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2013. Benjamin directed and wrote A Tribute of ...

Bianca Butler Reynolds

Bianca Butler Reynolds is a Brisbane-based playwright, actor, director and theatre producer. Her original play Gumpoldskirchen was staged by Underground ...

Binh Duy Ta

Binh Duy Ta was trained in mime and acting in Vietnam. Binh came to Australia in 1988 to attend the International ...

Brad Jennings

Brad Jennings is the Artistic Director of Markwell Presents. Brad has been writing, directing and producing live performance with young ...

Breakthrough Cre8tive Training

Breakthrough Cre8tive Training's Inez Fainga’a was born in Fiji to Tongan parents and raised in a small Aboriginal ...

Brendan Cowell

BRENDAN COWELL is a writer and director working in theatre, film and television. Brendan wrote and directed the feature film ...

Brendan Ewing

Born and raised in Hong Kong then moving to Perth at 17, Brendan Ewing began playing electric bass, singing and writing ...

Bridget Boyle

Bridget Boyle is part of the artistic ensemble for deBASE Productions, which employs a highly physical and collaborative approach to ...

Cameron Hurry

Neuroqueer actor and writer Cameron Hurry is based in Brisbane and was trained through the University of Southern Queensland. His ...

Campion Decent

Campion Decent is a playwright and dramaturg. His plays include The Campaign, Unholy Ghosts, Embers, Shootings, Baby X, and Three ...

Caroline Dunphy

Caroline is the Co-Artistic Director at Belloo Creative and a current Artistic Associate at NORPA. She has worked over the ...

Christine Comans

Christine Comans is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. She has had a ...

Christopher Bryant

Christopher Bryant is a Griffin Award nominated playwright (Home Invasion, 2015), performer, and NIDA graduate (Master of Fine Arts (Writing for ...

Ciella Williams

Ciella is a writer from Darwin/Gulumoerrgin. She is a member of the IGNITE Collective; an initiative of New Ghosts ...

Cievash Arean

Cieavash was born in Tehran, Iran. The instruments that he performs include Kamanche, Nay, Tar, Flute, Daf ( hand drum), Zorna ... ...

Cindy Hudson

Over the last 40 years, Cindy Hudson has worked closely alongside her husband David. Together they have shaped a long, diverse, ...

Claire Christian

Claire Christian is a youth arts facilitator, writer and theatre-maker from Queensland. In 2013 she was selected as one of the ...

Dan Giovannoni

Dan's plays include SLAP. BANG. KISS. (Melbourne Theatre Company), Loaded (with Christos Tsiolkas, adapted from his book of the same ...

Daniel Evans

Daniel Evans is a writer, listener, libertine and pop aficionado. Partial to the fantastical and absurd, Daniel wrote his first ...

Daniel Keene

Daniel Keene has written for the theatre since 1979. He has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama twice, ...

Daniel Lammin

Daniel Lammin is a graduate of Directing at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and the Bachelor of Performing Arts ...

David Atfield

David Atfield received a BA from UNSW in 1986, simultaneously studying acting at Hayes Gordon’s Ensemble Studios. He helped form ‘...

David Bindi Hudson

Dr. David Hudson is an internationally renowned musician, artist and entertainer, and a proud Western Yalanji/Ewamin man of North ...

David Brown

David Brown has been commissioned to write for the Brisbane Festival (1998), the FreeWheels Theatre Company (2000) and the Queensland Arts Council (2003) ...

David Burton

David Burton is an award-winning writer from Queensland, Australia. Lazarus Won’t Get Out of Bed was his first professionally ...

David Knijnenburg

David Knijnenburg first began writing short plays and entertaining his classmates in primary school. He continued creating and performing comedy ...

David Megarrity

David Megarrity is a writer, composer, musician and performer creating at the intersection of music, performance and projected image. Recipient ...

Dean Bryant

Dean created Gaybies for the Midsumma Festival 25th Anniversary, and directed the Sydney premiere. His musicals with composer Mathew Frank ...

Deborah Mailman

Deborah Mailman is one of Australia’s most popular and successful actors who received national acclaim in 1998 winning both the ...

Dennis McIntosh

Dennis’s first two books, Beaten by A Blow and The Tunnel were published by Penguin Books. He has also ...

Dorothy Blewett

Dorothy Blewett was born in Northcote, Victoria, in 1898. She won a scholarship to the Methodist Ladies College in Melbourne for ...

Dr David Morton

David is a writer, director and designer, and the Creative Director of Dead Puppet Society. Over the last fourteen years ...

Elaine Acworth

Over the last 27 years, Elaine Acworth has practiced as a playwright, researcher, theatre producer, teacher and mentor. She has written ...

Elise Greig

Elise has been recognized by the Matilda Awards on four occasions for her outstanding contribution to Queensland Theatre. She is ...

Emilie Collyer

Emilie Collyer writes plays, fiction, essays and poetry. Her work often asks difficult questions about humanity via the existential or ...

Emily Burton

Emily Burton is an actress, theatre-maker, playwright and teaching artist. As an actress, her production credits include: Storm Boy (MTC/...

Emily Calder

Emily Calder is a graduate of NIDA’s Playwrights Studio and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of ...

Emily Wells

Emily Wells is a proud Kamilaroi producer and playwright working across theatre, contemporary dance and festivals. Emily is passionate about ...

Emma Mary Hall

Emma is an Australian actor, writer and theatre-maker. Ode to Man (2017) is Emma's second full-length theatre work. Her first, We ...

Emme Hoy

Recipient of the 2017 Belvoir Philip Parson’s Fellowship, Emme completed her Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Performance at ...

Errol O'Neill

Errol O’Neill has worked since the early 1970s as an actor, playwright, director, dramaturg and producer, specialising in the ...

Esther Dougherty

Esther Dougherty is a Meanjin writer and theatre maker whose work is a personal queering and reckoning with their own ...

Eugene Gilfedder

Eugene Gilfedder has been involved with professional theatre and music performance since 1981. In that time he has accrued more than 100 ...

Favel Parrett

In 2011, Favel Parrett's career was launched with her critically acclaimed debut Past the Shallows. A heartbreaking novel, it sold internationally ...

Finegan Kruckemeyer

Finegan has had 92 commissioned plays performed on six continents and translated into eight languages. His work has enjoyed seasons in ...

Future D. Fidel

  Future D Fidel was born in eastern DRC. In 1996 during the civil war, he was forced to flee as ...

Gail Evans

Gail Evans is a Darwin-based writer and performer. She is the co-artistic director of Knock-em-down Theatre (with Stephen Carleton) and ...

Geoffrey Atherden

Geoffrey is best known for his award winning television comedy series Mother and Son which has been dubbed into French, ...

George Kemp

George is a Sydney based actor, director, writer and educator. He trained at London’s Royal Central School of Speech ...

George Landen Dann

George Landen Dann was one of Australia’s most prominent early playwrights. Born in 1904, George developed a lifelong interest in ...

Gretel Vella

Gretel is a Sydney-based writer and graduate of NIDA's MFA in Writing for Performance. Her most recent credit is Tony ...

Hannah Belanszky

Hannah Belanszky is an emerging writer, actor and Yuwaalaraay woman based in Brisbane. Her focus is on telling Aboriginal stories ...

Harry Fritsch

Harry is a creative and professional writer who has applied his craft across a variety of literary mediums and genres. ...

Hayley Lawson-Smith

Hayley holds a Masters of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has completed internships with ...

Helen Howard

Helen Howard is an actor, writer, acting coach, dialect coach and co-founder (with Michael Futcher) of Matrix Theatre. As a ...

Henrietta Drake-Brockman

Henrietta Drake-Brockman was born in Perth in 1901 and was schooled in both Australia and Scotland before attending University in Western ...

Henrietta Marrie

Henrietta Marrie (Masters in Environmental and Local Government Law; Dip. T; Grad. Dip. of Arts [Indigenous Studies]) is an Elder ...

Henry Melville

Henry Melville (1799 – 1873) was a journalist, publisher and playwright living in Hobart, Australia. In March 1830 he bought the Colonial Times and ...

Honor Webster-Mannison

Honor Webster-Mannison is a performance maker and playwright working across Brisbane and Melbourne. Honor uses a variety of mediums to ...

Humphrey Bower

Humphrey is an award-winning actor, writer and director based in Perth. He's worked with major and independent companies and artists ...

Ian Brown

Ian (aka E.C.) Brown originally trained as an actor at James Cook University in Townsville, graduating in 1984. He worked ...

Ian Wilkes

Ian Wilkes is a proud Noongar man of the Wadjuk and Balladong people, born in Perth, January 1990. He spent most ...

Indija N. Mahjoeddin

Indija Mahjoeddin is an Australian-Indonesian writer/performer whose performance practice has consciously engaged her Sumatran heritage. She first formulated ideas ...

James Elazzi

In July 2022, James wrote, directed and produced his first short film, Yannis. James’ stage play Son of Byblos (finalist in ...

Jamila Main

Jamila Main is an actor and playwright making performance works infused with the survivalist humour of living in a queer, ...

Jane Bodie

Jane Bodie is a playwright, screenwriter, teacher and dramaturg. Jane’s plays include Music (Griffin 2014) Hinterland (NIDA 2013) This Years Ashes (...

Jane Modric

Jane Modric is a writer and musician who lives in Cairns, North Queensland. She is the author of several plays, ...

Janis Balodis

Janis Balodis is a freelance writer, director and dramaturg.  Major plays; Too Young for Ghosts (1985), No Going Back (1992), My Father’...

Jason Klarwein

Jason has worked with most Australian theatre companies. He has directed acclaimed works for Queensland Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney ...

Jessica Bellamy

Jessica Bellamy is a Sydney-based playwright. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art in Playwriting (NIDA) and Bachelor of ...

Jessica Lamb

Jessica is a regionally-based arts educator and researcher specialising in applied theatre. Her practice centres around developing new work in, ...

Jimi Bani

Jimi Bani is a Wagadagam man from Mabuyag Island in the Torres Strait. Jimi has worked with most Australian theatre ...

Jo Turner

Jo works as a writer, theatre maker, director and actor across a wide range of theatre, film and tv. He ...

John AD Fraser

John AD Fraser has over 20 full-length and short plays performed in Australia, Canada and the UK, winning several awards including ...

John Armstrong

John Armstrong is one of Australia’s leading performance writers for young audiences. He was recently the script producer and ...

John Harvey

John Harvey is of Saibai Island (Torres Strait) and English descent and is a director, producer and writer across stage ...

Josephine Collins

Josephine Collins is a writer and musician from central Victoria. The Way Out, developed through Red Stitch Actors Theatre’s ...

Joshua Maxwell

Joshua is a 28-year-old queer theatre-maker and writer from the Central Coast, NSW. He’s worked professionally in the arts ...

Joyce Taylor

Joyce Jattu Taylor was born in Monrovia, Liberia. Due to civil war, Joyce was forced to leave her homeland at ...

Jub Clerc

Jub Clerc is a Nyul Nyul/ Yawuru woman whose descendants reach as far into the Bardi and Juru tribes of ...

Julia-Rose Lewis

Julia-Rose Lewis is a writer based in Sydney. Julia has worked with companies including Belvoir St, Queensland Theatre Company, The ...

Julian Hobba

Julian Hobba is a theatre writer and director and the Artistic Director of Aspen Island Theatre Company, a contemporary Australian ...

Julian Larnach

Julian Larnach is a Sydney-based playwright and is Literary Associate at Griffin Theatre Company. 2022 sees the premieres of his stage ...

Karen Lee Roberts

Karen Lee Roberts has performed extensively in Australia and overseas, acting and singing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in ...

Kate Mulvany

Kate Mulvany is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Kate has had two new plays premiere in 2019. In January her hit ...

Kate Walder

Kate is a theatre-maker, director, performer and the Founder/Artistic Director of Steps & Holes Theatre Company Ltd. Since graduating ...

Katherine Lyall-Watson

Katherine Lyall-Watson is the co-artistic director of Belloo Creative. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for ...

Kathryn Ash

As JUTE Theatre Company’s Creative Producer, Kathryn Ash is a Cairns-based dramatist and dramaturg, working on a variety of ...

Kathryn Marquet

Kathryn is an actor and a playwright. Her theatre performances include Magpie (Playlab),  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Glass ...

Katy Warner

Katy Warner is a playwright and actor based in Melbourne. She studied playwriting at the Victorian College of the Arts, ...

Kristina Olsson

Kristina Olsson was born in Brisbane, of Swedish and Australian descent. She is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and ...

Kylie Coolwell

Kylie Coolwell started out as an actor after graduating from NIDA in Acting in 2007. She has acted in plays for ...

Lachlan Philpott

Lachlan is a Sydney-based writer, dramaturge, teacher and director. As a recipient of an Australia Council Literature Residency, he will ...

Lally Katz

Lally Katz is the most frequently produced Australian playwright of her generation. Her recent work includes Neighbourhood Watch at Belvoir, ...

Lauren Sherritt

Lauren Sherritt is a playwright and director. Her plays Sans Love (2014) and One Black Mark (2015)were produced at Anywhere Theatre ...

Laurie Trott

Laurie Trott is a Mission Beach-based playwright, prize-winning poet, writer and editor with a special interest in tourism and the ...

Leah Mercer

Leah Mercer is a director/deviser/writer with the ensemble The Nest which develops and produces new works for performance. ...

Lewis Treston

Lewis Treston is an award-winning playwright and researcher from Queensland. Plays include: An Ideal Husband (after Oscar Wilde), IRL, Hubris &...

Lili Sanchez

Lili Sanchez is the Cultural Competency Coordinator at MDA. Lili arrived in Australia in 1988 as a Refugee on a Humanitarian ...

Lily Fish

Lily Fish is a writer, director, performer and maker. She is a founding member of multi-award winning queer physical comedy ...

Linda Hassall

Linda has worked in the theatre industry as a director, dramaturge and playwright for 20 years. Her first play Post Office ...

Linden Wilkinson

Linden Wilkinson graduated from NIDA as an actor in 1976; since then she has performed with theatre companies across the country ...

Lisa O’Neill

Lisa O’Neill is a dancer, performer, choreographer, performance director and educator working across mediums in dance, theatre, contemporary performance ...

Liz Skitch

Liz works as an actor/ writer/ director and comedian. She studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology and following ...

Lorna Bol

Lorna Bol came to playwriting from a background in theatre, having worked as an actress, director and producer. Bol began ...

Louis Esson

Louis Esson was born Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson in 1878 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was three years old Esson and ...

Lynne Bradley

Lynne Bradley has worked as a director, choreographer, performer and actor-trainer in Brisbane and abroad for the past 25 years. In 1992 ...

Madelaine Nunn

Madelaine is an award-winning writer, actor and producer who has worked across theatre, film and radio since graduating from the ...

Madeleine Border

Madeleine Border is a Meanjin/Brisbane theatre maker, performer and writer. A voice that mixes political satire and quirky dialogue, ...

Marcel Dorney

Marcel Dorney is a writer, director and performer. He was born in Brisbane, graduated from the University of Queensland, and ...

Marcus Clarke

Marcus Clarke was born in London in 1846 and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1862 following the death of his father. Known ...

Margaret Hickey

Margaret Hickey is a playwright and a lecturer at La Trobe University, Shepparton. She is currently undertaking a PhD in ...

Margery Forde

Margery’s playwrighting credits include commissions for La Boite Theatre - James and Johnno and Milo’s Wake. International productions ...

Margi Brown-Ash

Margi Brown Ash: deviser/performer/writer/director/acting trainer/ psychotherapist. Trained/ worked in USA, Europe, Australia. Brisbane is home: writing, ...

Mark Rogers

Mark Rogers is a multi-award winning playwright and theatre-maker. In 2019 he won both the Griffin Award and Sydney Theatre Company’...

Mark Sheppard

Born and raised in Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Mark Sheppard is a Muluridgi/ Mbarbarrum man. Currently working for La Boite ...

Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne is a Darwin based playwright whose plays have won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Literary ...

Maryanne Lynch

Maryanne Lynch works across art forms as a writer, director and dramaturge, and has won several awards for her work. ...

Matthew Ryan

Matthew Ryan's work includes: Brisbane (Queensland Theatre Company 2015), Kelly (Queensland Theatre Company National Australian Tour 2015/Queensland Theatre Company 2012), Packed co-written ...

Matthew Whittet

Matthew Whittet is an actor and writer who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television for the past 15 years. ...

Max Afford

Max Afford was born in Adelaide in 1906 and began writing as a reporter. Soon he found himself in the groundbreaking ...

Maxine Mellor

Maxine Mellor is an award-winning, Brisbane-based playwright of over twenty works for the stage. Awards include the Queensland Theatre's Young ...

May Jasper

May Jasper has been involved with a number of projects at La Mama Theatre including Speaking, her first play to ...

Melissa Bubnic

Melissa Bubnic is a writer for stage and screen. Melissa is currently working on her own original projects with UK ...

Melita Rowston

Melita Rowston is a writer, director and performer. She’s a graduate of NIDA (Directing), VCA (BFA- Painting) and UTS (...

Merlynn Tong

Merlynn Tong is an Actor and Playwright. Playlab has published three of her works. These include her one-woman shows, Ma ...

Michael Andrew Collins

Michael Andrew Collins is a playwright from Perth who lives in Sydney. He has been nominated for the Patrick White (...

Michael Beresford

Michael’s produced works include Persona non Grata 2, Dump, Body Parts, Ginger Boy, and Snap. Formerly artistic director of HardSun ...

Michael Costi

Michael is a playwright and screenwriter based in Sydney. In 2021 Michael wrote the narration for Universal Woman produced by the ...

Michael Forde

With his partner, Margery, Michael co-wrote for La Boite Milo’s Wake (published by Currency Press. Winner 2001 New South Wales ...

Michael Futcher

Michael Futcher has worked over the past 25 years with many of Queensland’s major theatre companies in various capacities, including ...

Michael Watts

Michael Watts wrote Train Dancing for the Adelaide Festival and Under the Rain Tree for Red Dust Theatre Productions before ...

Michele Lee

Michele Lee is an Asian-Australian playwright and theatre-maker working across stage and audio. Her works are about female identity, otherness, ...

Mike Dickinson

After working as a director and lecturer in Britain, Mike relocated to Australia in 1994. He was appointed the Artistic Director ...

Miranda Michalowski

Miranda Michalowski (she/her) is a multidisciplinary writer and performer living on Gadigal Land who is passionate about creating female-driven ...

Monkey Baa

Monkey Baa was established in 1997 by three actors, Tim McGarry, Sandra Eldridge and Eva Di Cesare. Based in Sydney, the ...

Muhammed Akram

Muhammad Akram was born in Quetta, Pakistan. He is from the Hazara People who are originally from the central highlands ...

Nadine McDonald-Dowd

Nadine McDonald was the Artistic Director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts Company from 2001 to 2004. She first joined Kooemba in 1996 ...

Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui is a writer and Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman. She was an associate artist at Belvoir from 2012 ...

Narelle Thorne

Narelle is a proud Yamatji Wajarri-Noongar Wilman woman. She has always been passionate about telling stories of her people, whether ...

Nathaniel Moncrieff

Nathaniel Moncrieff is a Perth-born playwright and screenwriter. His first play, Sleepyhead, won The Fellowship of Australian Writers’ 2009 Di Cranston ...

Ngoc Phan

Ngoc is an actor and playwright based in Brisbane. Some of her theatre performances include The Mathematics of Longing and ...

Nick Atkins

NICK ATKINS is a playwright and director. He graduated from UNSW with a BA Media and Communications with 1st Class ...

Noëlle Janaczewska

Noëlle Janaczewska writes plays, performance texts, monologues, poetry, essays, gallery and on-line explorations, and radio scripts across drama and ...

Norman Price

Norman Price, (playwright/director/actor/theatre scholar), graduated from NIDA (Acting) in 1961. Norman has worked for over 30 years in the ...

Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and dramaturg. She has written over 25 plays and they include: Do Not Go ...

Peter Beaglehole

Peter Beaglehole writes plays and performance work. In 2022 he received the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award for his performance text ...

Pippa Ellams

Pippa is a writer/performer from Western Sydney. Her first play The Carousel was shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborne Playwrights ...

Piri Eddy

Piri is an award-winning playwright, writer, screen writer, and producer working and living on Kaurna country. He received the 2020 Jill ...

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Priscilla Jackman

Priscilla is a director of theatre and opera, whose background in acting has informed her work in both Sydney and ...

Rachael Coopes

Rachael Coopes was awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Marten Bequest Scholarship in 2004 and studied theatre in Paris at ...

Randolph Bedford

George Randolph Bedford was born in Sydney in 1868 and started writing as a journalist in the late 1880s in response ...

Rebecca Sparrow

Rebecca Sparrow’s first novel The Girl Most Likely was published in 2003. It was the joint winner for the citywide ...

Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan is an award-winning playwright from Brisbane, whose work has been performed in the UK, Australia, and the United ...

Rob Pensalfini

Rob is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) and an Associate Professor in Linguistics and Drama at ...

Robert Kronk

Robert is the co-founder and director of deBASE productions, one of Queensland’s leading youth theatre companies. He has a ...

Rod Ainsworth

Rod Ainsworth is a creative producer, writer and director working in Bundaberg in regional Queensland. Together with three other people ...

Roger Bennett

Roger Bennett’s (1948-1997) plays include Funerals and Circuses, Up the Ladder and Yowie. An indigenous playwright, Bennett managed to ...

Ross Mueller

Ross Mueller is a multi-award winning playwright. Currently Ross is working on The Right Fit a long form 6 episode radio ...

Russell Leonard

Russell Leonard is a singer, dancer, actor, acrobat and puppeteer whose recent involvement in King Kong the musical won him ...

Saengthien Klamkaew

Maggie was born in the province of Chai Nat in Thailand in 1970. She migrated to Australia in 2008 and became an ...

Sam Nerida

Sam Nerida is an independent theatre maker, producer, and award winning playwright, working and living in Boorloo on Whadjuck Noongar ...

Sam O'Sullivan

Originally from Perth, Sam completed a Bachelor of Arts at Curtin University, majoring in Film and Television before moving to ...

Sam Watson

Sam wrote his first published novel, The Dadaitcha Sung in 1990. He won the National Indigenous Writer of the Year in 1991. ...

Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson has previously been published for her journalism in Arts Hub and Beat, for her poetry in fourWtwenty and ...

Sandra Eldridge

Sandra Eldridge is a WAAPA acting graduate and has a Master of Arts (Practice) for directing CSU. As a director ...

Sandra Thibodeaux

Sandra Thibodeaux is a playwright and poet. She has written over a dozen plays that have been staged as part ...

Sara West

Sara West is a Sydney-based actor and writer who has worked with some of Australia’s leading theatre and television ...

Sarah Hope

Sarah Hope is an emerging playwright and theatre-maker who graduated from the University of Queensland in 2008. Sarah has experience in ...

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is an emerging Brisbane based writer. She is currently studying a dual Arts/Science degree at the University ...

Sasha Janowicz

Sasha Janowicz is primarily an actor who grew up in Minsk, Belarus. He graduated from the literature department of the ...

Sasi Victoire

Victoire arrived in Australia in 1970, a time when Australia was emerging as a country, eager to trial Multiculture as a ...

Scott McArdle

Scott is a Perth-based writer and director and is the artistic director of Second Chance Theatre. He is currently shooting ...

Seán Dowling

Unconditional is both Seán’s professional writing and performing debut. Merging her background as a Theatre Maker, Graphic Designer ...

Sean Mee

Throughout his career, Sean has pursued his passion for creating and producing Australian theatre with a particular emphasis on the ...

shake & stir theatre co.

Established in 2006, shake & stir has become one of Australia's leading contemporary youth theatre companies. shake & stir theatre co-currently, ...

Shane Pike

Shane is a writer/director based in Brisbane, Australia. He has a PhD (Performing Arts — Directing) from the Western Australian ...

Shaun Charles

Shaun Charles is a playwright and director. His plays include Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris, Three Points of Contact, ...

Shock Therapy Productions

Shock Therapy Productions was founded in 2015 by Sam Foster and Hayden Jones and has quickly established itself as one of ...

Side Pony Productions

Side Pony Productions supports the productions of director Zoe Pepper. Under her leadership the company creates predominantly devised theatre; building ...

Silva A Sal

Silva A Sal is a director, writer and performer. He has worked across the middle east on multiple productions prior ...

SNAFU Theatre

SNAFU Theatre: May Jasper and Sam Wilson founded SNAFU Theatre in 2002, collaborating to produce eight original theatre pieces, all directed ...

Steele Rudd

On Or Selection took on its first form as a book written by Arthur Hoey Davis (known as Steele Rudd) ...

Stefo Nantsou

STEFO NANTSOU has been writing, directing and acting in over 150 theatre productions in his almost 40 year career. Specialising in theatre-in-education, ...

Stephen Carleton

Stephen Carleton is one of Australia’s leading and award-winning playwrights. Based in Brisbane, where he teaches drama and playwriting ...

Stephen Davis

Born in Glasgow, Stephen was inspired to write by his grandfather, Alfred. Alfred wrote poems about his false teeth. Stephen’...

Stephen Sewell

Stephen Sewell is one of Australia’s most celebrated and experienced writers. Well-known for his film and theatre work, including ...

Steve Pirie

Steve Pirie is a writer, theatre maker and youth arts worker currently based in Brisbane. A graduate of the University ...

Steve Rodgers

Steve Rodgers was born in Newcastle, grew up in Tasmania, and spent a couple of years in Canberra before training ...

Steven Gration

Steven Gration is a professional freelance Actor, Teacher, Director, Writer and Puppeteer. Steve has taught Drama, Acting and Media Studies ...

Steven Oliver

Steven Oliver was born in Cloncurry in North West Queensland and is currently based in Brisbane. He is a writer/...

Sue Hayes

Graduating from the Ensemble Studios, Sue has performed, co-written & devised various physical theatrical pieces including Women on Wings, Ode ...

Sue Rider

Sue is a Brisbane-based writer, director, dramaturg, producer, actor, and mentor. She has over 150 stage productions to her credit in ...

Sue Smith

Sue Smith is an experienced and multi-award-winning screenwriter and playwright. Her credits include the recent ABC telefilm Mabo, the miniseries ...

Suzie Miller

Suzie Miller is a multi-award winning Australian/ International playwright. She is a NIDA graduate, has an MA from UNSW in ...

Sven Swenson

Dubbed 'The Bard of Brisbane' by fellow playwright Michael Gow, Sven Swenson is acclaimed for works within his interconnected series, ...

Tahli Corin

Tahli Corin graduated as an actor from the Centre for the Performing Arts (ACArts) in 2002. Her debut play Bumming With ...

Tammy Weller

Since graduating in 2006 from the University of Southern Queensland with a Bachelor of Theatre Arts majoring in Acting, Tammy has ...

Tanya Hennessy

Tanya Hennessy is multimedia FORCE. An AACTA nominated comedian, dual ACRA winning radio announcer, TV presenter, multi-bestselling author and social ...

Tara Clark

Tara Clark has always found it incredibly difficult talking about herself. A graduate of the Actors’ College of Theatre and ...

Tessa Rose

Tessa Rose - Deniny Ngangiwumirri/Malfiyin Daly River/Peppimenarti Northern Territory Australia Diploma in Dance - National Aboriginal Islander Skills ...

Therese Collie

Therese Collie toured with the Popular Theatre Troupe before studying at the Lecoq School in Paris. A playwright, director, actor ...

Tobias Manderson-Galvin

Tobias Manderson-Galvin is a contemporary Australian playwright, poet and performance maker, best known as co-Founder/Creative Director of MKA: Theatre ...

Tom Gardiner

Tom trained as an actor at QUT and worked in Brisbane Theatre for several years with companies including Queensland Theatre ...

Tom Holloway

Tom Holloway is a multi-award winning playwright whose work has been seen internationally. In 2016, he has been librettist on the ...

Tom Wright

Tom Wright started as a member of Barrie Kosky’s Gilgul in the early 90s, then with Michael Kantor’s ...

Victoria Carless

Victoria Carless has performance writing credits with Backbone Youth Arts, Queensland Theatre Company, Just Us Theatre Ensemble, Mudlark Theatre, The ...

Virag Dombay

Virag is a passionate teaching artist, theatre-maker and author who is committed to creating works that connect audiences, whether it ...

Wayne Blair

Wayne Blair is an award winning writer and director for both film and theatre. His film and television credits include; ...

Wesley Enoch

Wesley Enoch is a writer and director for the stage. He was the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company from 2010 ...

Zac James

Zac, a TO Wongi, Yamatji man, studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, specialising in acting and performance. ...

Zoë Coombs Marr

Zoë Coombs Marr is a writer, theatre-maker and comedian. She grew up in Grafton, where she and her best friend ...

Zoe Pepper

Zoe Pepper is a director and writer whose practice spans theatre, film and participatory gaming. She is a recipient of ...