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From performer to comedy writer to horror fan, Margot Morales Tanjutco is not mining her own life for inspiration.
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Playwright Maurial Spearim talks about creating work that is both funny and challenging as a response to the current state of the world.
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Writer, filmmaker and first-time playwright Grace Feng Fang Juan talks about her debut experience writing for the stage, and how her Cybec Electric experience is helping.
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Jamaica Zuanetti talks about how studying acting helped her playwriting, how writing helps her make sense of her place in the world, and why the story of four women in 19th century France is still relevant today.
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Ahead of Cybec Electric 2021, playwright Benjamin Nichol discusses the value of childhood plagiarism, maintaining an ethical creative practise and not writing as part of his writing process.
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Playwright Dylan Van Den Berg talks about Black Queerness and the colonial gaze, how looking to the past can help us understand what’s happening now, and coming full circle on his theatre journey with MTC.
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Director Simon Phillips chats with MTC about live workshopping his brand new musical, which he is co-writing with Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn.
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Melbourne playwright Louris van de Geer talks about what attracted her to Elizabeth Jolley's novel, the benefits of the NEXT STAGE Writers' program, and the importance of art.
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Already a fan of Alice Pung’s work, Diana Nguyen is thrilled to now have the author’s blessing to adapt her award-winning YA novel Laurinda for the stage.
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It’s been an especially dramatic year for Andrea James, with the COVID-dictated cancellation of her MTC mainstage debut, and the awarding of a NEXT STAGE commission for her new play inspired by one of colonial Australia's first urban myths.
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Following a successful Cybec Electric reading earlier this year, Merlynn Tong is thrilled to continue developing her play as a NEXT STAGE writer-in-residence.
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Joining MTC this year as a NEXT STAGE writer-in-residence, Emme Hoy has been winning accolades and awards for her writing since high school. As a resident, she’s writing a play that’s a reaction to 2020, but maybe not in the way you’d expect...
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MTC’s new Associate Director Petra Kalive talks about her journey, and reflects on what this moment of ‘great pause’ means for theatre now and in the future.
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Susie Youssef and Peter Paltos want Laura Wade to write a Home, I'm Darling sequel, so we can find out what happens to their characters, Fran and Marcus.
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There’s something really special about the authenticity of allowing migrant actors tell their own stories, says Diana Lin.