Jack Davis
Jack Davis (1917–1999) began writing when he was fourteen years old. The fourth child in a family of eleven, he spent his childhood in the West Australian mill town of Yarloop. He worked for several years as a stockman in the north before returning…
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Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour, born 1927 in Fremantle, Western Australia, is an Australian playwright and author best known for his play The One Day of the Year (1958). When Alan was nine, his father was killed in a wharf accident, after that he was raised by his …
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Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra was born in Melbourne. His plays include Page 8 (with David Page), The Woman With Dog's Eyes, The Marvellous Boy, The Emperor of Sydney, Inner Voices, Visions, Inside The Island, The Precious Woman, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, …
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Barry Dickins
Barry Dickins is an author, artist and playwright based in Melbourne. His writing for the stage spans more than two decades and includes the plays: Royboys, A Dickins’ Christmas, The Death of Minnie, Reservoir by Night and Insouciance…
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David Williamson
David Williamson’s first full-length play, The Coming of Stork, premiered at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in 1970. He went on to pen over thirty plays and become Australia’s most successful playwright. His plays have been produced throughout …
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Alma De Groen
Alma De Groen was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia at the age of twenty-four. De Groen is the author of many plays, of which The Rivers of China is probably the best known. It won the Premier's Literary Award for Drama in both New …
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Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His AWGIE award-winning play Speaking in Tongues has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as Lantana. Both the …
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Ray Lawler
Ray Lawler was thrust into prominence when his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, in which he appeared in the role of Barney, became a hit for the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, and subsequently toured with enormous success throughout …
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Louis Esson
Louis Esson (1879–1943), influenced by W. B. Yeats, pursued the idea of Australian folk drama on the model of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Esson met W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge while travelling, and both advised him, against his inclination, to …
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Drusilla Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska is possibly one of our most acclaimed writers. She was born in England but has lived in Australia since 1971. Her books include Exiles at Home, Banjo, NSW Premier's Award-winning Poppy, Sisters, which she co-edited, the Nita B.…
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