Hilary Bell is a multi-award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work, including plays, radio drama, musicals, song cycles and an opera, has been produced nationally by theatre companies including the Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin, as well as internationally. She was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South in Tennessee, and 2012’s Patrick White Playwriting Fellow at the STC. Hilary is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights’ Studio, NIDA and AFTRS. She is the creator, with illustrator Antonia Pesenti, of several picture books, including best-sellers Alphabetical Sydney and Hello Cocky. Most recently, her musical adaptation Picnic at Hanging Rock, with composer Greta Gertler Gold, had its world premiere Off-Broadway.