Hilary Bell is a multi-award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work, including plays, radio drama, musicals, song cycles and 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 the best-selling Alphabetical Sydney. Currently she is writing a musical adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Gertler Gold.