Ben Ellis

Ben Ellis is a Gippsland-born playwright and columnist now based in London. His recent work includes an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis for a Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne) co-production (2005). His Poet No. 7 was selected for the 2006 Dublin Fringe Festival after its premiere in London in February 2006.

Currency has published three of his plays: Falling Petals which attracted furious debate in Australia—including fist-fights among audiences—for its depiction of an unsentimental and hypocritical rural community; These People, concerning Australian responses to the stories of asylum seekers in detention centres in their deserts; and Post Felicity, a black comedy which satirises the obsessions of baby boomers which won both the Patrick White Play Award and the inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize.

Read Ben’s blog: http://parachuteofaplaywright.blogspot.com/