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Writers Workshops: My Friend the Dramaturg

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Hosted by MTC Literary Director Chris Mead, with guest playwrights, NEON’s Writers Workshops return in 2014, offering the opportunity for playwrights and dramaturgs to partake in one of three sessions.

A play is a dynamic whirl of words, histories, images and possibilities – an urtext with almost no end, no end of connotations and no end to the work to be done. Is a dramaturg a nuisance, a resource or a confidant? Patricia Cornelius, currently under commission by MTC, joins Chris Mead in talking through, to and around the furious, abstract, and visceral business of play development.

When
Wednesday 30 July
2pm – 6pm
Where
Southbank Theatre

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Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius is a founding member of Melbourne Workers Theatre. She’s a playwright, novelist and film writer. She’s the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and the 2019 Green Room award for Life Achievement. She’s been awarded the Vic, NSW, Qld Premier Prizes, the Patrick White Fellowship and Mona Brand Award for playwrighting as well as numerous AWGIE Awards. She has written over 35 plays including: Runt, Shit, Anthem, Big Heart, Savages, Do not go gentle…, Slut, Love and The Call. Patricia’s novel, My Sister Jill (Random House) was published in 2002. She’s currently developing a feature film, Stolen, with director and co-writer, Catriona McKenzie. Her play My Sister Jill will premiere this year at Melbourne Theatre Company.

Chris Mead

Chris Mead

Chris is Literary Director of Melbourne Theatre Company. He has been the inaugural Artistic Director of PlayWriting Australia; Literary Manager of Company B Belvoir; Curator of the Australian National Playwrights’ Conference; Festival Director of the International Festival for Young Playwrights; and Wharf 2LOUD Producer and Literary Manager of Sydney Theatre Company. His recent directing credits include Ian Wilding’s Rare Earth (NIDA 2011) and Quack (Griffin 2010); and Damien Millar’s The Modern International Dead (Griffin 2008), which won Best New Play at the Sydney Theatre Critics’ Awards and the WA Premier’s Literary Award, as well as being shortlisted for the NSW, Queensland and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Chris has a PhD from Sydney University, was awarded an inaugural Dramaturgy Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2004 and was selected to attend New Visions New Voices at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center in 2008. His monograph What is an Australian Play? on institutional racism and outreach strategies was published by Currency House in June, 2008; and he has recently written introductions to Currency Press volumes by Lachlan Philpott and Lally Katz.

In 2009, Chris was named as one of Sydney’s 100 Creative Catalysts as part of the Creative Sydney Festival. He sat on the steering committee for the 2011 Australian Theatre Forum and on the Board of Arena Theatre Company from 2008-13, is on the artistic directorate of Hothouse Theatre, and has just joined the Board of Theatre Network Victoria.