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name: Katy Warner
about: "Katy studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), receiving a Master of Writing for Performance in 2012. Her plays have been presented across Australia and in Edinburgh as part of Festival Fringe.She is an AWGIE winner (Best Children’s Theatre for Reasons to Stay Inside), recipient of the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Emerging Writer (These are the isolate) and nominee for a Green Room award for new writing (A Prudent Man). Her play, nest, recently made the long list of Theatre503’s Playwriting Award and will have its debut in London with Small Truth Theatre, directed by Yasmeen Arden for VAULT Festival.Spencer, premiered in May 2017 at Chapel off Chapel (Melbourne, Victoria) where it received excellent reviews "Katy studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), receiving a Master of Writing for Performance in 2012. Her plays have been presented across Australia and in Edinburgh as part of Festival Fringe.She is an AWGIE winner (Best Children’s Theatre for Reasons to Stay Inside), recipient of the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Emerging Writer (These are the isolate) and nominee for a Green Room award for new writing (A Prudent Man). Her play, nest, recently made the long list of Theatre503’s Playwriting Award and will have its debut in London with Small Truth Theatre, directed by Yasmeen Arden for VAULT Festival.Spencer, premiered in May 2017 at Chapel off Chapel (Melbourne, Victoria) where it received excellent reviews – including Maxim Boon for the Music who wrote, “Simply put, this may very well be the birth of a future Australian classic.”Other works include A Prudent Man (People’s Choice Award and WA Touring Award; Melbourne Fringe, 2016), Reasons to Stay Inside (Best Kids Show; Melbourne Fringe 2015, and Best Children’s Theatre; AWGIE, 2016), Dropped (Highly Commended – Best Emerging Writer; Melbourne Fringe 2013) and These are the isolate (Winner – Best Emerging Writer; Melbourne Fringe 2010).Katy is a writer with the Red Stitch Theatre Company’s INK Program. She has been a part of the Besen Family Artist Program (writers) at Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre Program. In 2018, she presented a new work, K, as part of the MTC Cybec Electric Readings season.Her fiction has received the Rachel Furnai Prize for Literature (Lip Magazine) and Overland Magazine’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for awards including the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize.Her fiction has been seen in Best Summer Stories (Black Inc.), The Slow Canoe and Overland.Katy is currently working on her debut novel, Everywhere Everything Everyone, to be published in 2019. She is represented by Grace Heifetz at Curtis Brown Australia.Katy is a proud member of the Australian Writers’ Guild." (source: https://katywarner.com/about-3/) ...more