Melissa Reeves

Melissa Reeves is a Melbourne playwright. Her plays include In Cahoots, Sweetown (winner of the 1993 Jill Blewitt Memorial Playwrights Award), Great Day, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Storming Heaven, Road Movie and Salt Creek Murders (winner of the 2001 Wal Cherry Award). She has co-written a number of plays including The Girl I Love and Never Let Me Go (with Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich); Magpie (with Richard Frankland); Who’s Afraid of the Working Class (winner of the 1999 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Drama, two AWGIEs, and the 1999 Jill Blewitt Playwright’s Award); and Fever (with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas and composer Irine Vela).