Sara Hardy

Sara Hardy is a playwright and biographer. Her plays have been performed in Britain, USA and Canada as well as Australia. She writes mostly biographical works. Her award winning play, 'Vita - a fantasy', is about the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. It premiered in Melbourne in 1989, has been performed all around Australia, and is published in 'Heroines
- A Contemporary Anthology of Australian Women Writers' (Penguin 1991). Other plays include 'She of the Electrolux' which premiered at La Boite and was adapted for ABC Radio, and 'Radclyffe', co-authored with Adele Saleem, toured throughout Australia and to Canada. Sara's most recent production, 'Queer Fruit', premiered in Baltimore before playing in Adelaide (Vitalstatistix) and Melbourne (Radclyffe Theatre Productions). 'For the Record', a monologue for a 60+ female, is published in 'Second Degree Tampering' (Sybylla 1992), and 'Rosie Fingered Dawn', a hybrid film script by Sara Hardy and Lois Ellis, is in 'Weddings and Wives' (Penguin 1994).

Sara has written two biographies: 'The Unusual Life of Edna Walling' (Allen & Unwin 2005) and ‘Dame Joan Hammond - Love & Music’ (Allen & Unwin 2008) - the latter about the great Australian opera singer and golf champion. Sara was awarded the inaugural Peter Blazey Fellowship in 2004 and is an Honorary Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
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