Louise Helfgott

Louise Helfgott is a Western Australian playwright whose plays include: ‘Who’s A Hero Anyway?’ (workshopped at the 1979 ANPC), ‘A Bed of Roses’ and ‘For Those who Die in Tin Boxes’ (public readings at the Hole in the Wall Theatre and Playhouse Theatre, WA), ‘Diathesis’ (YALDA State Theatre Festival and Festival of Little Feet, published in Dramatick Theatre Review, produced by Nanasus productions, Melbourne, 1998), ‘The Bridge’ (Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 1997 and 2006, toured South West WA, winner of 1998 Australia Day Award for Best Community Event), ‘A Closer Sky’ (MPAC 1999 and 2004, nominated for 2005 AWGIE for Community and Youth Theatre, current negotiations taking place for a film adaptation) and ‘Estuary Dream’ (MPAC 2002).

Louise’s anthology of poetry ‘Can You Hold the Sun?’ was published by Free XpresSion in 2004. She has also won a number of prizes in the Mandurah/Murray Literary Competitions for poetry, plays and prose, some of which have been published. She has a BSc (Hons in Psychology) from the University of WA, and a Grad Dip Eng from Curtin University.

THE BRIDGE
A CLOSER SKY
ESTUARY DREAM