Winner of  Queensland Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Award in 2001, Stuck, written by Mellor when she was fifteen, is a short play about Cecil, a washed up romance-novel writer who decides to revive his career by travelling to central Australia to bring an Aboriginal girl, Anna, to the city to write a story about her life. 

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Things don't go as planned when he and Anna arrive at his home. Anna feels pressured and suspicious of Cecil's motives and wants to leave, and his neglected, wheelchair-bound son has had enough too. Together, Anna and the son plan to become un-stuck.

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The inspiration for Stuck came from the competition's picture stimulus - an Australian painting.  As part of the competion win, the play was presented as a public reading with professional actors and director.  Although Stuck is a very early work, the experience ignited a passion for playwriting in Mellor that has been impossible to deny ever since.