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Fleur Murphy - Founder
Originally from country Victoria, Fleur has a B.A. in Theatre Performance - Acting from the University of Ballarat, Arts Academy and completed a Masters in Writing for Performance at VCA in 2019. She is a current recipient of Career Development funding from the Australia Council to support an 18 month mentorship with award winning playwright Tom Holloway, and has also interned on Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric readings.
Her short film Rain For Morgan won multiple awards around the world including Winner of “Best Narrative Short” (Festivus Film Festival Denver, Colorado 2011), Winner of “Best International Short Film Under 50mins” (Ireland International Film Festival 2010), and Winner of “Best Sound Achievement in a Short Film” (Australian Sound Guild Awards 2010).
Fleur’s first full-length play, Shadows of Angels premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2012, and received further acclaim at the SheppARTon Arts Festival and the Owl and the Pussycat Theatre in Richmond in 2013. In October 2014 an exciting ‘immersive’ staging of the show was presented by TBC Theatre in partnership with The National Trust of Victoria. The show was staged within the gaol cells and exercise yards of Melbourne’s historic City Watch House. Shadows Of Angels was also long-listed for the Theatre503 Award in London. An excerpt from the piece also received Second Place in the Open Short Story category of the My Brother Jack Awards.
Fleur has been a writer in residence at the Old Melbourne Gaol through an initiative offered by Writers Victoria and the National Trust. This time was used to focus on writing and developing As We Come To Wake and concluded with a workshop and public reading at the Old Melbourne Gaol in July 2014. In 2016 she was commissioned along with 11 other emerging and established playwrights to develop a short play, My Country for a Peach, that was presented as part of Vessel Arts Play For Australia.
More recently Fleur worked on an adaptation of the award winning young adult novel, NOTHING, by Danish writer Janne Teller, which will premiere at Fortyfivedownstairs in October of 2021. Fleur's play Hearth was recently long-listed for the Theatre503 Award in London, and is scheduled for a production in Melbourne in 2022. www.fleurmurphy.com
Originally from country Victoria, Fleur has a B.A. in Theatre Performance - Acting from the University of Ballarat, Arts Academy and completed a Masters in Writing for Performance at VCA in 2019. She is a current recipient of Career Development funding from the Australia Council to support an 18 month mentorship with award winning playwright Tom Holloway, and has also interned on Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric readings.
Her short film Rain For Morgan won multiple awards around the world including Winner of “Best Narrative Short” (Festivus Film Festival Denver, Colorado 2011), Winner of “Best International Short Film Under 50mins” (Ireland International Film Festival 2010), and Winner of “Best Sound Achievement in a Short Film” (Australian Sound Guild Awards 2010).
Fleur’s first full-length play, Shadows of Angels premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2012, and received further acclaim at the SheppARTon Arts Festival and the Owl and the Pussycat Theatre in Richmond in 2013. In October 2014 an exciting ‘immersive’ staging of the show was presented by TBC Theatre in partnership with The National Trust of Victoria. The show was staged within the gaol cells and exercise yards of Melbourne’s historic City Watch House. Shadows Of Angels was also long-listed for the Theatre503 Award in London. An excerpt from the piece also received Second Place in the Open Short Story category of the My Brother Jack Awards.
Fleur has been a writer in residence at the Old Melbourne Gaol through an initiative offered by Writers Victoria and the National Trust. This time was used to focus on writing and developing As We Come To Wake and concluded with a workshop and public reading at the Old Melbourne Gaol in July 2014. In 2016 she was commissioned along with 11 other emerging and established playwrights to develop a short play, My Country for a Peach, that was presented as part of Vessel Arts Play For Australia.
More recently Fleur worked on an adaptation of the award winning young adult novel, NOTHING, by Danish writer Janne Teller, which will premiere at Fortyfivedownstairs in October of 2021. Fleur's play Hearth was recently long-listed for the Theatre503 Award in London, and is scheduled for a production in Melbourne in 2022. www.fleurmurphy.com
Lachlan Bray
Lachlan is a playwright and performer working both in Australia and the United States. His work has been staged in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles; it has toured regionally through California and New South Wales. His work include: God’s Waiting Room, Rivertown, This is Not Poetry, Sex Cynicism and Other Small Miracles, Life on Hiatus and Yahoos Descent. He has just finished his Masters of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of Arts.
Lachlan is a playwright and performer working both in Australia and the United States. His work has been staged in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles; it has toured regionally through California and New South Wales. His work include: God’s Waiting Room, Rivertown, This is Not Poetry, Sex Cynicism and Other Small Miracles, Life on Hiatus and Yahoos Descent. He has just finished his Masters of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of Arts.
