Australian Playwright
Yale School of Drama, MFA '13
Cheryl Crawford Scholarship
SHE RODE HORSES
LIKE THE STOCK EXCHANGE
Old Vic, New Voices: London showcase, July 2012
Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Residency, July 2012
National New Play Network MFA Festival: Kennedy Center, 2012
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
Cast of 6, three women, three men
"a writer with extraterrestrial
playwriting skills" Inpress
"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
**Publication details coming soon**
Theatre Masters: Colorado & New York City, USA, 2011
Boston Theater Marathon, USA, 2011
Forty Forty Home, Australia, 2010
Union Theatre, London, UK, 2010
A play for one woman, age 75
DEREK TODAY!
Pavement Group, Chicago, 2011
10 minute play, two actors, any gender
FLYWIRE
Won the MUST Tertiary Playwriting Award 2003
Sold-out production, AUST, 2005
First play, put out to pasture
"complex and dark" "brilliant work
from this unique creative mind"
SCHOLARSHIP
The Cheryl Crawford Scholarship (2012), The Howard Stein Scholarship (2011), The Dame Joan Sutherland Cultural Study Award (2011), Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2010/11/12), Australia Council for the Arts JUMP Mentorship with mentor Will Eno (2010), St Martins National Emerging Playwright’s Award (2007), Monash National Student Play Award (2003).
MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama (completing 2013) under Jeanie O’Hare, Paula Vogel, Sarah Ruhl, Doug Wright, Deborah Stein, Lynn Nottage, Frank Pugliese (Film), Rachel Sheinkin (Libretto), Ken Prestinizi & Dean James Bundy. Teaching Assistant to Sarah Ruhl at Yale College. Bachelor of Arts, double majors History & English, from Monash University (Australia, 2005).
