Mary Anne Butler

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Mary Anne Butler is an Australian playwright living in Darwin in the Northern Territory. [1]

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In 2016 she won the $100,000 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for literature for her play Broken. It was the first time a script had won the award. [2] Broken also won a Northern Territory Literary Award for best playscript in 2014. [3]

In June 2014, Butler was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study theatre practice in Dublin, Ireland.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "News – Working with Words: Mary Anne Butler". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. Steger, Jason (29 January 2016). "Playwright Mary Anne Butler wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  3. Blake, Elissa (2 August 2016). "Mary Anne Butler puts Northern Territory theatre on the map with Broken". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2016.