Australian Playwright
MFA Candidate '13
Yale School of Drama, USA
(Howard Stein Scholarship)
Site last updated: Jan '12
DEREK TODAY!
Amuse Bouche @
Pavement Group, Chicago, 2011
Cast of 2, any gender
A DUCK ON A BIKE
Langston Hughes Festival, Yale, 2011
Cast of 6, three women, three men
"a writer with extraterrestrial playwriting skills" Inpress
SHE RODE HORSES LIKE THE STOCK EXCHANGE
Moscow Playwright & Director Theater, Russia, June 2011
Yale New Play Lab, USA, February 2011
Cast of 4 or 5, two women, two or three men
"brilliant comedy" The Age
HONG KONG DINOSAUR
(A REAL AUSSIE LOVE STORY)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, USA, July 2011
Yale Cabaret Workshop Production, USA, 2011
Showcase in NYC with mentor Will Eno, USA, 2010
Melbourne Theatre Company Commission, AUST, 2009
Australia Council for the Arts JUMP recipient 2010
Cast of 5, two men, three women
"real bleeding talent"
Guerrilla Semiotics
BIG SKY TOWN
Published by Full Dress Publishing, 2009
Won the St Martins Emerging Playwrights' Award, 2007
Two sold-out productions and a regional tour, AUST, 2008/9
Listed on the Victorian secondary school syllabus 2009
Cast of 5, four men, one woman
"a literary madness"
CAMBERWELL HOUSE
Theatre Masters: Colorado & New York City, USA, 2011
Boston Playwrights Theatre, USA, May 2011
Three Australian productions, 2010-11
Union Theatre, London, UK, 2010
A play for one woman, age 75
FLYWIRE
Won the MUST Tertiary Playwriting Award 2003
Sold-out production, AUST, 2005
"complex and dark" "brilliant work
from this unique creative mind"