CAST & CREATIVE BIOS
Angus Cerini
WRITER Patricia Cornelius
WRITER Wayne Macauley
WRITER
Angus Cerini is a playwright,
performer and theatre
maker. His works have toured
nationally and internationally.
These include the Patrick White
Playwrights’ Award winning
Wretch and Green Room Award
winning Detest (this thousand
years I shall not weep). His
production of Save for Crying
at La Mama received multiple
Green Room Awards including
Best Independent Production
and Best New Writing for the
Australian Stage. Resplendence,
as part of Melbourne Theatre
Company’s NEON Festival,
received the Victorian
Premier’s Literary Award
(Louis Esson Prize).
His Griffin Play Award
winning play The Bleeding Tree
premiered with Griffin Theatre
Company, winning the Sydney
Theatre Award for Best New
Australian Work, the NSW
Premier’s Literary Award and
multiple Helpmann Awards
including Best Play. The play
went on to win an AWGIE
Award alongside the David
Williamson Prize and enjoyed
a return season with Sydney
Theatre Company. Patricia Cornelius is a
founding member of
Melbourne Workers’ Theatre.
She is a multi-award winning
playwright, screenwriter and
novelist. Her most recent
play, Big Heart was presented
at Theatre Works this year.
Her play, SHIT, was part of
the 2017 Sydney Festival and
Darwin Festival following its
2015 Melbourne premiere as
part of MTC’s NEON Season
and its 2016 remount at
fortyfivedownstairs. Over her
career Patricia has written over
thirty plays and they include:
Savages, Do Not Go Gentle,
The Gap (What goes down in
Vegas), The Call, Love, Fever,
Boy Overboard, Slut and Who’s
Afraid of the Working Class?
(co-written with Andrew Bovell,
Patricia Cornelius, Christos
Tsiolkas and Irine Vela).
Patricia co-wrote the feature
film adaptation of Blessed,
based on the play Who’s Afraid
of the Working Class? She is
currently developing a feature
film with director Catriona
McKenzie. Patricia wrote the
novel My Sister Jill (Random
House) and many of her plays
are published by Currency
Press and Playlab. Wayne Macauley is an acclaimed
short fiction writer, novelist and
playwright. His short fiction
has been widely published and
his collection, Other Stories,
was shortlisted for a 2011
Queensland Premier’s Literary
Award. He has also written
five novels, Blueprints for a
Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan
Story, The Cook, Demons and
most recently, Some Tests (Text
Publishing, 2017). His novels
have been variously shortlisted
for the Victorian Premier’s
Literary Award (twice), the
Western Australian Premier’s
Book Award and the Melbourne
Prize Best Writing Award. The
Age has called him ‘a compelling
voice in contemporary
Australian literature’. Wayne
has also worked extensively in
the theatre over many years.
Highlights include: Tower of
Light (Melbourne Festival
1999), The Republic of Trees
(Castlemaine Festival 2013,
winner of the George Fairfax
New Theatre Award) and, most
recently, Les Messagers
(The Messengers), which is
currently touring France.
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