Bio

Moreblessing Maturure is a Zimbabwean/Australian inter-disciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and the Creative Director of FOLK Magazine. Her written work across literature, stage and screen has included engagements with Playwriting Australia (PWA), Australian Theatre for Young People’s Fresh Ink (2016), Sydney Theatre Company’s Inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2017-19) and with Screen Australia as part of their Developing the Developer program (2019)

For theatre, ‘No Pink Dicks’ was a finalist for the 2022 Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, long listed for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize and a finalist in the Australian Theatre festival’s New Play Award. It’s a comedic anthology exploring the space between the personal and political in interracial relationships developed with support from PWA and Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) and Sydney Theatre Company. It’s a comedic anthology exploring the space between the personal and political in interracial relationships developed with support from PWA and Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) and Sydney Theatre Company. Her immersive audio/live performance work ‘Milk & Honey & Lemons’ was developed with Campbelltown Arts Centre. Moreblessing is also developing a slate of works for screen. i

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