Hilary Bell is a multi-award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her plays, radio drama, musicals, song cycles and opera have been produced nationally by the major companies, and internationally by Steppenwolf and Atlantic in the US, London’s National Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe. Her ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical’ (composer Greta Gertler Gold) recently premiered Off-Broadway. Wolf Lullaby won the inaugural Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award and remains on the school syllabus.
Hilary was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at Tennessee’s University of the South, and 2012’s Patrick White Playwriting Fellow at the Sydney Theatre Company. Other awards include the Jill Blewett, Bug’n’Bub, Aurealis Fiction, the Eric Kocher, Inscription, three AWGIES, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize shortlist. She is a graduate of New York’s Juilliard Playwrights’ Studio, NIDA and AFTRS.
She is a highly regarded mentor, dramaturg and playwriting teacher, having taught for institutions including Writing NSW, Queensland Writers Centre, Writers Victoria, ATYP, New York University, Connecticut’s Wesleyan University and the University of the South, Tennessee, as well as for schools, councils and theatre companies.
The author of several picture books including best-seller ‘Alphabetical Sydney’, she is also a member of playwrights’ collective 7-ON.
www.hilarybell.org
