Elizabeth Coleman

Elizabeth Coleman wrote her first one-act play, Sometimes I Wish I Was Jana Wendt, while attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio in 1988. Her first full-length play, It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) debuted at La Mama as part of the 1993 Melbourne Comedy Festival and went on to tour nationally in 1995. In 1999 it was produced off Broadway, with Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham. Secret Bridesmaids’ Business broke box office records when it premiered at Playbox in Melbourne in 1999. In 2000 it toured extensively and was seen by 40,000 people throughout Australia. It has since been produced by Downstage Theatre and the Auckland Theatre Company, New Zealand. Coleman's television writing credits include The Secret Life of Us, SeaChange, Something in the Air, Police Rescue and The Flying Doctors.

She lives in Melbourne.