Hilary Bell is a multi-award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work has been produced nationally by leading Australian theatre companies including the Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir, as well as international theatres. Wolf Lullaby won the inaugural Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award in 1995 and remains on the school syllabus. Other awards include but are not limited to the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. Hilary is the creator, with illustrator Antonia Pesenti, of several picture books, including the best-selling Alphabetical Sydney. Currently she is writing a musical adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Gertler Gold.
