Shannon Murdoch is the winner of the Yale Drama Series Award for her full-length play New Light Shine Produced by DeSotelle Studios in New York (2014), it has also received staged readings from Yale Repertory Theatre and the National Play Festival in Australia. It is published by Yale University Press.
Virus Attacks Heart was first produced by Pull Together Productions at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (NYC) in May 2014. It was subsequently produced by Venus Theatre (Maryland) in November 2014. It is published by Original Works.
Other plays include One Cloud (Theatreworks, Melbourne), Stupid, and Terrible (InspiraTO Theatre, Canada), Everything in Between (Smith & Kraus) and Act Accordingly (JAC Publishing). Her work has been produced in the USA, Australia and Canada.
Shannon holds a first class honours degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Griffith University and is a graduate of The Playwrights Studio at NIDA. She was an Australian delegate to the International Youth Playwrights Festival (Interplay) and has received writing fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, Bundanon in New South Wales, the Victorian Writers Centre and Hothouse Theatre.
Her first screenplay, Little Bitch, was a finalist for the Binger Lab in Amsterdam and is currently in development.
Say hello at shannon.e.murdoch@gmail.com.
Virus Attacks Heart was first produced by Pull Together Productions at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (NYC) in May 2014. It was subsequently produced by Venus Theatre (Maryland) in November 2014. It is published by Original Works.
Other plays include One Cloud (Theatreworks, Melbourne), Stupid, and Terrible (InspiraTO Theatre, Canada), Everything in Between (Smith & Kraus) and Act Accordingly (JAC Publishing). Her work has been produced in the USA, Australia and Canada.
Shannon holds a first class honours degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Griffith University and is a graduate of The Playwrights Studio at NIDA. She was an Australian delegate to the International Youth Playwrights Festival (Interplay) and has received writing fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, Bundanon in New South Wales, the Victorian Writers Centre and Hothouse Theatre.
Her first screenplay, Little Bitch, was a finalist for the Binger Lab in Amsterdam and is currently in development.
Say hello at shannon.e.murdoch@gmail.com.