Hilary Bell

Wolf Lullaby

Hilary writes for stage, radio, screen and music theatre. Her plays have been produced in Australia, the UK, Europe and the United States. Plays include Wolf Lullaby (Jill Blewitt Playwrights' Award; national tour; international productions), Fortune (HSC curriculum), The Eye of the Storm (Eric Kocher Award, USA), The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch (AWGIE for music theatre), The Falls (Bug'n'Bub Award, USA), Memmie Le Blanc (Inscription Award) and The Bloody Bride.

Her radio plays—Wreckage, Cruisin’, Is It You?, The Claimant and radio adaptations of Doctor Ruysch and Wolf Lullaby—were commissioned and produced by the ABC. She has written libretti for musicals (The Wedding Song, comp. Stephen Rae), song cycles (Talk Show, comp. Elena Kats-Chernin), opera (Mrs. Satan, comp. Victoria Bond) and for Phillip Johnston’s score to Murnau’s silent film Faust.

Current projects include a screenplay of Alex Miller's novel Journey to the Stone Country, a musical about Cole's Funny Picture Books called Do Good And You Will Be Happy, Perfect Stranger for Yale Repertory Theatre, The White Divers of Broome for Black Swan, and a play for the students at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She is also collaborating with designer Gaelle Mellis on Take Up Thy Bed And Walk (working title).

Hilary is a recipient of the Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award and an Aurealis Award for fiction. She is a graduate of New York's Juilliard Playwrights’ Studio, Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South, Tennessee. She has taught dramatic writing at New York University and Wesleyan University (US), and currently teaches playwriting for the Griffin Theatre.

Hilary is represented by RGM Associates

PO Box 128, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Tel. 612 9281 3911

Hilary's plays can be purchased via Currency Press (Fortune, Wolf Lullaby);The Australian Script Centre (The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch, Conversations With Jesus, Memmie Le Blanc, The Falls, The Seven Needs); and by direct email for everything else: Email Hilary Bell

AWARDS; FELLOWSHIPS

Inscription Award for 'Memmie Le Blanc' 2007

Tennessee Williams Fellowship, University of the South, Tennessee, USA 2003-2004

Music Theatre AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch’ 2003

Bug’n’Bub Award for ‘The Falls’, UA 2001

ASK Theatre Projects Writers Retreat, USA 2000

Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist, 1999

Hegebrook Writers’ Colony, USA1998

Juilliard Playwright Fellow, USA 1997 and 1998

LeCompte du Nouy Award, USA 997 and 1998

Eric Kocher Award, USA 1997

Jill Blewett Playwrights' Award, 1996

Aurealis Award for Young Adult Fiction, 1996

Philip Parsons Memorial Young Playwrights’ Award, 1994

Hilary's work has been developed through the Australian National Playwrights' Conference, 1994 & 2006; the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference, USA, 1997 & 1999; and the Russian Playwrights' Conference, 1997.