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Hilary writes for the stage, screen and radio. Her work has been produced around Australia, and in the USA, England and Europe. Plays: Wolf Lullaby, Fortune, The Falls, The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch, Memmie Le Blanc, The Bloody Bride, The Mysteries: Genesis (with Lally Katz),The White Divers of Broome, The Splinter, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk, Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me. She also writes libretti for musicals, song cycles and opera.

Awards: Philip Parsons Young Playwrights’ Award, Jill Blewitt Playwrights’ Award, Bug’n’Bub Award, Aurealis Award for Fiction, the Eric Kocher Playwrights’ Award, the 2007 Inscription Award and an AWGIE for Music Theatre.

She is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights’ Studio in New York, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and NIDA. Hilary was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at Tennessee’s University of the South, and is currently on the Griffin Theatre’s board, on State Of Play’s artistic directorate, and on the artistic advisory panel for the Production Company, New York. She also works as a playwriting teacher, mentor and dramaturge.