Alison Mann

Alison Mann received the Melbourne Dramatists Emerging Playwright Award, supported by Melbourne Theatre Company for her play Tabula Rasa! that premiered at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2008. Her play You Make Me was performed in the Short and Sweet Festival Sydney (2007) and Melbourne (2006). She received a First Draft Award from PLAYWORKS to develop the play She’s Not Performing in 2006. Her piece Baby/Doll was part of the 3DFest showcase at the Malthouse, Melbourne (2005) and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2004). She studied writing for performance at the Royal Court Theatre and Soho Theatre in London as part of their Young Writers’ Programme between 2001 – 2003. She has a keen interest in the areas of language, physicality, gender and the forgotten places between childhood and adulthood. In July 2010 her play She’s Not Performing will be performed at La Mama in Melbourne.