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Writer Grace Wilson
Dramaturg Emma Churchland
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TITLE TBC is commissioned and developed through the Telescope New Writing Program.
Grace Wilson is a 19-year-old playwright living in Meanjin, Queensland and has been involved in writing for stage for several years now. She has received awards for her works in this genre including the 2022 Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award, being shortlisted for Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, the Griffin Award and the Queensland Premier's Drama Award. She has prose published with Regional Arts Australia, and has also been longlisted for two commissions: the ATYP Foundation Commission, and the Martin Lysicrates Prize. Over the past two years, she has completed playwriting training programs including JUTE WriteSparks, Queensland Theatre’s Young Writers’ Ensemble and ATYP Fresh Ink Mentoring. She is currently under commission with Queensland University of Technology.
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Writer Samantha Hill
Dramaturg Emma Churchland
Description
TITLE TBC is commissioned and developed through the Telescope New Writing Program.
Samantha Hill is a Brisbane-based writer, teacher, and actor. She predominantly works in theatre but was one of the 2022 winners of QLD Writer’s Centre Scriptable competition for emerging screenwriters, with her TV series, ‘Miss Teen America & the Wooltown Roadkill.’ She has developed scripts with Playwriting Australia, Small & Loud, and ATYP. In 2016, she was commissioned to write ‘Binary Stars & Best Lives’ by Red Line Productions for the Old Fitz Theatre, and previously had ‘Dancing Dogs’ commissioned by St. Martin’s Youth Theatre, Melbourne. In 2017, Samantha was awarded the inaugural playwriting Hot Desk Fellowship through the Wheeler Centre (Vic). She has had two scripts published by Australian Plays Transform. In 2021, she won Best Actress at the British Web Awards for ‘Incoming: Words of War,’ and in 2016, she was nominated for the Best Emerging Talent Award at the Ozflix awards for her starring role in the feature film, ‘Trench.’