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Matt Cameron (born 1969) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter and director, born and based in Melbourne.
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Matt Cameron (born 1969) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter and director, born and based in Melbourne.
Mr Melancholy (1995) was produced by Griffin in Sydney, La Boite in Brisbane and won the ANPC/New Dramatists Award, which led to a New York production with New York Stage & Film.
Tear from a Glass Eye (1998) which won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award and was produced by Playbox in Melbourne and the Gate Theatre in London where he was nominated Most Promising Playwright in the Evening Standard Awards.
Footprints on Water (2000) won the British Council International New Playwriting Award and was produced by his company, Neonheart, for Griffin in Sydney, La Mama in Melbourne and ABC Radio.
Ruby Moon (2003) was short-listed for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and produced by Théâtre Claque in Lausanne, Switzerland (2004).
Hinterland (2004) was produced by Melbourne Theatre Company at the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne (2004) and short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2005). [1]
His play Poor Boy (2009) was selected by the Melbourne Theatre Company to open the Southbank Theatre.
Cameron wrote for Full Frontal during 1994–1995. He was the co-creator, co-writer and director for the 2000 comedy television series Introducing Gary Petty , for which he won an AWGIE, and Small Tales & True for The Comedy Channel on Foxtel.
He also created and wrote or co-write Jack Irish (2012-2016), Sunshine (2017) and Safe Harbour (2018).
Jane Harrison is an Indigenous Australian playwright, novelist, writer and researcher.
Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.
Constance Lalage "Lally" Katz is an American and Australian dramatist writing for theater, film, and television. She now resides in Los Angeles.
Debra Oswald is an Australian writer for film, television, stage, radio and children's fiction. In 2008 her Stories in the Dark won Best Play in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She created and was head writer of the Channel 10 drama series Offspring, now on Netflix, for which she won the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Award and the 2014 AACTA Award for best TV screenplay. Her novel Useful was released in 2015, followed by her novel The Whole Bright Year in 2018, both published by Penguin Random House. Her novel The Family Doctor was published by Allen and Unwin in March 2021. Oswald's one-woman stage show, Is There Something Wrong With That Lady, premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre in April 2021.
Justin Fleming is an Australian playwright and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, opera, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France. Fleming has been a barrister and vice president of the Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre.
Nicholas Paul Enright AM was an Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director.
David Berthold is one of Australia’s most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. As a theatre director, he has directed for most of Australia’s major theatres companies, as well as in London and Berlin. As an Artistic Director, he has led transformational change at several significant arts organisations. He was Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals and Queensland’s largest arts and cultural event. Through his tenure of five festivals, 2015–19, Berthold transformed the Festival into Australia's largest major international arts festival, presenting more works to more people than any other, with an audience of more than one million people.
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director. He created and was head writer for the 2022 TV series Significant Others. He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man. His most recent plays are Mark Colvin's Kidney and Packer & Sons.
Tim Conigrave was an Australian actor, activist and author of the internationally acclaimed memoir, Holding the Man.
Caleb Lewis is an Australian playwright and game designer. He is known for his play Dogfall, first produced in 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.
Gideon Obarzanek is an Australian choreographer, director and performing arts curator. He was Artistic Associate with the Melbourne Festival (2015–2017), co-curator and director of 'XO State' at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (2015–2017). Obarzanek was appointed Chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2015 and Strategic Cultural Engagement Manager at Chancellery at the University of Melbourne in 2018.
Toby Schmitz is an Australian actor and playwright.
Suzie Miller is an Australian/British playwright, librettist and screenwriter. In April 2022, Miller made her West End debut with Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer.
Julia Britton was an Australian playwright. Britton was perhaps best known for her literary adaptations and biographical plays.
Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.
Holding the Man is a stage adaptation by Tommy Murphy of Tim Conigrave's memoir of the same title. It is one of the most successful Australian plays of recent times and the winner of multiple awards. It premiered in Sydney, and then across Australia, as well as internationally–on London's West End and in Los Angeles.
Lachlan Philpott is an Australian theatre writer, director, and teacher. He graduated from the University of New South Wales, the Victorian College of the Arts, and NIDA Playwrights Studio. He was Artistic Director of Tantrum Theatre in Newcastle, writer-in-residence at Red Stitch in Melbourne, and the Literary Associate at ATYP. His 18 plays have been performed across Australia as well as Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He was Chair of the Australian Writers' Guild Playwrights’ Committee between 2012 and 2016, and was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship Inaugural Professional Playwriting Scholarship in 2014.... In 2012 his play Silent Disco won the Stage Award at the 45th annual AWGIE Awards.
Aidan Fennessy was an Australian playwright, stage director and actor, known for his work with the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC), where he was at one time aAssociate director.
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