Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius, a founding member of Melbourne Workers' Theatre, is an award-winning playwright who has written over 20 plays, including Slut, The Call, Good, Do Not Go Gentle…, Boy Overboard, Cunning, Love, Jack's Daughters, Opa - a sexual odyssey, Max, Platform, Lilly and May and Hog's Hairs and Leeches. Fever and Who’s Afraid of the WorkingClass? were written in collaboration with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela. Patricia's many awards include a Gold AWGIE, numerous other AWGIEs, a Green Room Award, the Jill Blewett Award and a Patrick White Playwrights' Award. Her first novel, My Sister Jill, was published by Random House in 2002.