Endangered: Three Plays

Justine Campbell is a director, writer, and actor. She is co-artistic director and co-producer of Human Animal Exchange. In 2016, their co-production with Malthouse Theatre of the award-winning They Saw a Thylacine toured Australia.

Campbell’s work as a writer includes Back From The Dead Red (Melbourne Fringe), The Dust and Us (La Mama), and Untold, which she co-wrote with Sarah Hamilton for MTC as part of Cybec Electric.

Campbell has participated in MTC’s Women Directors Program and Theatre Works’ Directors Lab. A member of the Green Room Awards independent theatre panel, Campbell’s awards include: Stand Out Performer Awards NZ Fringe 2014, Green Room Award Best Female Performer in an Independent Production 2010, and Equity ACT Green Room Award for Professional Performer 2007.

Sarah Hamilton is a writer, performer, and co-artistic director of Human Animal Exchange. Her first play, A Donkey and a Parrot, toured to Melbourne, Adelaide, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

With Justine Campbell, she has co-written The Dust and Us (La Mama), Untold (MTC Cybec Electric), and They Saw a Thylacine. Thylacine won the Best Performance and Tiki Tour Ready awards at Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and was nominated for Best Theatre at Adelaide Fringe and three Greenroom Awards: Best Writing, Best Female Performers, and Best Production.

Following a collaboration with Malthouse Theatre in 2015, Thylacine toured nationally through Performing Lines in 2016 and was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production. Hamilton holds a Masters in Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Hannie Rayson has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she holds an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Her plays have been performed extensively in Australia and internationally. They include Please Return to Sender, Mary, Leave It Till Monday, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness, Life After George, Inheritance, and Two Brothers.

She has been awarded two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell.

For television, she has written ‘Sloth’ (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999, she received the Magazine Publishers’ Society of Australia’s Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine.

Rayson made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2006, she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, a prize for a Victoria-based writer whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life.

Caleb Lewis is a multi-award-winning playwright, theatremaker, and experience designer. His plays include Nailed, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy, Dogfall, Death in Bowengabbie, Rust and Bone, Songs for the Deaf, Bluebottles, Crystal, Aleksander and the Robot Maid, The Honey Bees, In a Dark Dark Wood, Six Million Hits, The River at the End of the Road, Maggie Stone, and Clinchfield, which won the inaugural Richard Burton Award for New Plays.

His games, installations, and interactive entertainments include Exclusion Zone, Across a Crowded Room, Half an Hour Visit, and the multi-platform If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It – winner of the 2013 Ruby Award for Innovation.

A resident artist at Griffin Theatre, Australia’s premier new writing theatre, Lewis was mentored by Nick Enright (Blackrock, Lorenzo’s Oil) and Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). He is the winner of an Inscription Award, the Philip Parsons Award (in absentia), and the inaugural AWGIE (Australian Writer’s Guild Award) for Digital Narrative.

Lewis’ work has been commissioned and/or produced by Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan Theatre Company (WA), State Theatre Company of South Australia, and numerous small to large companies across Australia, as well as internationally. Current projects include commissions for Hothouse (VIC) and Sport for Jove (NSW), as well as a triptych of interactive projects for the series, Uncertain Playgrounds.

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