Emilie Collyer

Emilie Collyer is a writer, performer and teacher, with a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Her writing for theatre includes: 'Democracy Project' (2008 Old Parliament House), 'Shack' (2007 Punctum Inc), 'Sharing the Same Roof' (2006 Kensington Neighbourhood House), 'Boxed' (2005 Short and Sweet Top 30, Melbourne), 'The Morris Shed Collection' (2005 Castlemaine Festival), 'Was he an angel?' (2004 Scattergun Project: St Martins Theatre, Melbourne), 'The Last Potato Man' (2003-4 Commission: Jigsaw Theatre, Canberra), 'The Gas Connection' (2004 Shepparton Arts Festival, 2003 Gasworks, Melbourne & Bendigo), 'Damascus' (2003 National Playwrights’ Conference), 'Ripe' (2002, Kaidan short Works, Melbourne & 2001, Playworks commission, Melbourne Writers’ Festival), 'Hover' (2005, Commission: ABC Radio National, 2002, Playbox Raw reading, 2001 MTC reading, Melbourne), 'Golden Square' (2001, Bendigo), 'Promise' (2001, Winner George Fairfax Award, Castlemaine), 'Breakfast' (2000, Brickworks, Melbourne), 'Radio City' (1998, contributing writer, St Martins Theatre, Melbourne), 'Argonauta' (1998, Winner Young Playwrights’ Competition, St Martins Theatre) and 'Stuck up a Tree in the Forest of Love' (1996, Star and Garter Hotel, Melbourne).

Emilie has received support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Varuna Writers’ Centre, the Ian Potter Foundation, the ANPC, Playworks, Playbox (now The Malthouse) and MTC. She has also won awards and published fiction, non-fiction, reviews and poetry. In 2007 Emilie published a primary school book titled 'Arts and Culture' with Binara Publishing. She has extensive experience as an improviser and performer. She is a teaching artist with the Victorian Arts Centre and was a founding member of the physical comedy duo Style Bandits. She is also a founding member and board member of the contemporary arts company Punctum Inc, based in Castlemaine. In 2007 Emilie was an Artist in Residence at Kensington Primary School (Melbourne) with Arts Victoria’s Artists in Schools program. She also teaches creative writing at Kensington Neighbourhood House, a program she devised and developed and has been running since 2004. Emilie works regularly as a copywriter for a range of media and clients.