Suzanne Ingelbrecht

Suzanne Ingelbrecht is a playwright based in Perth. She has written a number of full-length plays, including Fragmented and The Quiet Country (a dream play), and several shorter works including Hard Ware and the 2008 Maj Monologues’ finalist Blusher. In 2004, she began a year’s playwriting mentorship with Deckchair Theatre in Fremantle, and in the same year was the recipient of an Australia Council Literature Board grant to develop her playwriting. In 2006, she received an ArtsWA grant to produce her play Fragmented at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth. Fragmented, awarded an honorable mention for the 2005/06 Larry Corse Award, United States, was a critical success and went on to be nominated best new play in Western Australia’s 2007 Equity Guild Awards, as well as winning a 2007 Blue Room Award. In 2009, Suzanne will travel to Sydney to undertake an intensive workshop/residency of her magical realist play Angel Dreaming with acclaimed dramaturg Peter Matheson and director Iain Sinclair, funded by WA’s Department of Culture and the Arts.