In this episode: Declan Greene and Vidya Rajan

DECLAN GREENE
Declan is a theatre-maker, the Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company and has been Resident Artist at Malthouse Theatre. As a playwright, his work includes Melancholia, Moth, Po...
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In this episode: Declan Greene and Vidya Rajan

DECLAN GREENE
Declan is a theatre-maker, the Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company and has been Resident Artist at Malthouse Theatre. As a playwright, his work includes Melancholia, Moth, Pompeii, L.A., Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, I Am a Miracle, and The Homosexuals, or ‘Faggots’, which have been produced across Australia, Europe, the US, and the UK. Awards include the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the Max Afford Playwrights’ Award, the AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences, and the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing. As a director, works include Zoey Dawson’s The Unspoken Word Is ‘Joe’ (MKA/ La Mama) and Conviction (ZLMD Shakespeare), Nakkiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death, The Listies’ Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark (STC), and Wake in Fright (Malthouse). Alongside Ash Flanders, Declan co-runs queer independent theatre company Sisters Grimm. He has directed and co-created all their shows to date including Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Theatre Works/Griffin Independent), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse Theatre/STC) and Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC).

VIDYA RAJAN
Vidya is a writer, comic, and performance-maker working across devised/written performance, the screen, and the page. She has a masters in writing for performance (VCA), was a 2016 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and has trained and performed extensively in improvisation and sketch in Australia and the States. Her work has also appeared in a number of online and print publications. She was selected for a Room of One’s Own Residency, Melbourne Festival’s Director’s Lab Program, Westerly’s Emerging Writer mentorship program and Film Victoria’s Plot Twist Games Writing workshop. She has recently worked with ABC Comedy, Theatreworks (associate artist program) and is a 2018 recipient of Screen Australia’s Developing the Developer initiative.

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