Education | Training
2019 Victorian College of the Arts, MFA in Writing for Performance (first class honours)
2015-2016 16th Street Actors Studio, Full Time Program
2012 New York University, Writers in New York Summer Program
2008-2009 National Institute of Dramatic Art, Young Actors Studio
Awards | Grants | Commissions
2024 ATYP Senior Foundation Commission (winner)
2024 Red Stitch Ink Programme (longlist)
2024 Recipient of City of Melbourne Arts Grant, Creative Development, (Our Monster’s Name is Jerry)
2023 Martin Lysicrates Prize (finalist)
2023 ATYP Senior Foundation Commission (shortlist)
2021 Canberra Youth Theatre Emerging Playwright Commission (shortlist)
2020 ATYP Junior Foundation Commission (longlist)
2020 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award (shortlist)
2020 Gasworks Arts Park Outdoor Theatre Commission (recipient)
2020 Recipient of the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants (Legends or the god killers)
2020 Recipient of the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants (They Will Know Us by Trails of Light)
2013 Express Media Award (winner)
2012 John Marsden Prize for Poetry (winner)
2009 - 2010 Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize (winner)
Publications
2024 Lemon Tree on Dreg Street, Australian Plays Transform, Pride Collection
2014 Voiceworks, Issue #84 #88 #96
2013 Award-Winning Australian Writing,
2013 Metre Maids
2011 Verandah, Issue #27
2010 Verandah, Issue #24, Voiceworks, Issue #19
2010 Island, Issue #121
2009 Verandah, Issue #2, Windmills, Issue #1, Voiceworks, Issue #76 #79
2009 Windmills
Staged Works
2025 Our Monster’s Name is Jerry, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project and Geelong Arts Centre, Theatre Works, (writer)
2023 Duck!, The Martin-Lysicrates Prize, The Rebel Theatre, ATYP, (writer)
2023 Lemon Tree on Dreg Street, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, Theatre Works (writer)
2023, Rumble Skin, Kitan Petkovski, Theatre Works, She-Writes Showcase (writer)
2023, Legends or (the god killers), La Mama Explorations, La Mama (writer)
2023, An Evening With JK, Anna Piper-Scott, Melbourne Fringe, (dramaturge)
2021 Pramkicker, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, Theatre Works (performer/producer)
2021 Myopia, Sam Boyd, Gasworks Circus Showcase, (writer)
2020-2021 Rise Again, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, Gasworks Outdoor Theatre Commission (writer/director)
2022 They Will Know Us by Trails of Light, VCA directors’ graduate showcase (writer)
2021 Menace Ridge, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre and Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, Midsumma Festival (writer/director/performer)
2019 Legends or (the god killers), VCA graduate season, Martin Myer Arena (writer)
2018 Pramkicker, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, The Meat Market, (performer/producer)
Skill Development | Residencies
2023 Creative Engine Artists Residency, Geelong Arts Centre and Performing Lines, (lead artist)
2023 Jo Clifford Writing Masterclass, Midsumma Festival and Bullet Heart Club and the Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne
2023, The Winter Lab, Antipodes Theatre Company (writing consultant)
2023 Midsumma Pathways Programme (mentored by Morgan Rose)
2022-2023 She Writes Collective, Theatre Works
2022 The Winter Lab, Antipodes Theatre Company (lead artist)
2022 SPELD Vic, ‘see it and be it’, series writer
2020 Associate Artist Programme, Theatre Works
2020 ASSITEJ Next Generation Residency, Pakistan
2014 One Seven Six, Australian Poetry, The Wheeler Centre (featured writer)
2014 Six Degrees Poetry Project (writer)
2011 Debut Mondays, The Wheeler Centre, (featured writer)
2010 Melbourne Writers Festival (featured writer)
2009 Melbourne Writers Festival (featured writer)
2007 St Martins Youth Theatre Creative Ensemble
Work Experience
2020-2021 Phantasmagoria, Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman, Theatre Works, Wielding Theatre, Aus (associate artist)
2021 Dessert, The Southwark Playhouse, 2017 (associate artist)
2017 Consumables, Louie Paxton, The Kings Head, UK (associate artist)
2010 Bird Song (workshop), Rachel Wagstaff, The Comedy Theatre (UK)
2006 King Lear, The Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), The Melbourne Arts Centre (Aus)
2004 We Happy Few, The Gielgud Theatre (UK)