MAXINE
MELLOR
ABOUT MAXINE
Playwright | Brisbane | Australia
Inspired by nature, oddballs, and difficult questions.
Maxine is an award-winning playwright and teaching artist.
Recent playwriting awards include the 2023 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for O'Mighty Make-Believe, the 2022 David Williamson Prize for Playwriting, and the 2022 AWGIE Award for Best Original Stage Play for Horizon, the 2012/2013 Queensland Premier's Drama Award for Trollop, Inscription's Edward Albee New York City Residency Scholarship, 2012, and the Max Afford Playwright's Award, 2014 for The Silver Alps.
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Recent productions include Horizon with Playlab Theatre, new versions of The Wind in the Willows for La Boite Theatre andThe Wizard of Oz (Danger Ensemble/La Boite Theatre Company), and Trollop for Queensland Theatre Company.
Her work has been performed nationally and internationally and is published by Playlab Press and the Australian Plays Transform.
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Maxine Mellor is an audacious talent with an apparently boundless imagination and will to explore the nooks and crannies of humanity.
Stage Noise, 2010
Mellor’s writing is rich and rhythmic
Sydney Morning Herald, 2006