Mary Anne Butler

Australian playwright

Mary Anne Butler is an Australian playwright living in Darwin in the Northern Territory.^[1]

In 2016 she won the $100,000 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for literature for her play Broken. It was the first time a script had won the award.^[2] Broken also won a Northern Territory Literary Award for best playscript in 2014.^[3]

In June 2014, Butler was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study theatre practice in Dublin, Ireland.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

2014 - Broken
2014 - Highway of Lost Hearts
2012 - Hopetown
2010 - Dragons
2009 - Half Way There

References

^ "News – Working with Words: Mary Anne Butler". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
^ Steger, Jason (29 January 2016). "Playwright Mary Anne Butler wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
^ Blake, Elissa (2 August 2016). "Mary Anne Butler puts Northern Territory theatre on the map with Broken". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2016.