Bio

Hilary Bell is a playwright, librettist and lyricist. Notable works include Wolf Lullaby, Splinter, Summer of Harold and Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical (composer Greta Gertler Gold), recently playing Off-Broadway. She has been produced nationally by the Sydney Theatre Company, Ensemble, Belvoir, Griffin, City Recital Hall, Black Swan, Deckchair, La Boite, NORPA, National Theatre of Parramatta, Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne, Vitalstatistix and Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Internationally her work has been produced by Atlantic and Steppenwolf (USA), London’s National and the Edinburgh Fringe, among others. Awards include the inaugural Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award, Jill Blewett Award, Bug’n’Bub and Eric Kocher Award (both USA), Aurealis Fiction, Inscription, three AWGIEs, a Helpmann and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize shortlist. She was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South in Tennessee, and 2012’s Patrick White Playwriting Fellow at the STC. Hilary is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights’ Studio, NIDA and AFTRS. She has served on boards including Griffin, ANPC and Australian Plays. She is a member of 7-ON Playwrights and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. Hilary is the creator, with illustrator Antonia Pesenti, of picture books including best-seller ‘Alphabetical Sydney’. hilarybell.org.