Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting

Jane McCredie is an award-winning journalist, writer and reviewer who has been widely published in Australia and internationally. A former book publisher, she is the CEO of Writing NSW and the founder and director of the Quantum Words Festival of writing about science. She is the author of Making Girls and Boys: Inside the science of sex and was coeditor of the 2013 anthology of The Best Australian Science Writing.

Jane is a graduate of the Australia Council’s arts leaders program and has previously chaired both the Christina Stead and Douglas Stewart panels of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and librettist, drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice. Miller’s plays have been produced in 40 productions around the world and won multiple prestigious awards. She has been commissioned by, or been in residence at, multiple prestigious theatres; including London’s National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, Griffin Theatre Australia, Theatre Gargantua Canada and La Boite Theatre Australia. Suzie’s most recent and forthcoming productions include: Prima Facie (West End London, NY Broadway, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane); The Mathematics of Longing (La Boite Brisbane and UK), Sunset Strip (Griffin Theatre Sydney, followed by an Australian national tour); and Caress/Ache (Griffin Theatre Sydney). She is currently under commission with Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, in NYC and London; and is contracted to write four international screenplays: Prima Facie (Bunya/US), DUST (Bunya/US), Life’s Too Short (Heiress Films/Hoodlum Qld/US) and TOUCH.

For TV Miller is creating the TV series titled Now We are Young (Matchbox/NBC), and The Law of the Catt (UK/NY), she is also writing on the TV series Things Without a Name (Bunya). Suzie has a background in both science and law, and is primarily based in both Sydney and London, with regular time spent in the USA. She is represented by HLA Sydney, Australia; David Higham and Associates in London, UK.

David Berthold is one of Australia's most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. He was recently Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals, directing five record-breaking festivals, 2015-19. He is currently Director of the Centre for Creative Practices at NIDA and Executive Chair of Playwriting Australia. As a theatre director, he has directed for most of Australia's major theatres companies, as well as internationally. He has been Artistic Director of La Boite Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company, Artistic Director of the Australian Theatre for Young People, and Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company. He is a Trustee of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, a member of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Advisors’ Group, and a member of the Theatre Panel of the Helpmann Awards.

Joanne Kee is the Executive Producer of Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta responsible for the artistic and strategic direction of the Company. Her career includes being Artistic Director of Sydney Improvised Music Association, Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival and Places + Spaces. She also worked at The Song Company, Sydney Opera House, Carnivale multicultural festival and the Powershouse Museum. She has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Women’s Money and was Editor of Jazz Australia.

Joanne is committed to building capacity in an equitable and inclusive manner and is currently delivering platforms for playwrights and theatre-makers to challenge and inspire audiences with innovative and transformational work. She is a member of the Create NSW Theatre panel and as former Chair of Ausdance NSW was instrumental in setting up Critical Path, choreographic lab.