Immersive Playwriting Workshop with Mary Rachel Brown Mary Rachel Brown is a Sydney-based playwright and screenwriter with twenty-five years of industry experience which she uses in a series of playwriting workshops. She is an Australian Writers Guild Award winner and the inaugural Suzie Miller Fellow at Griffin Theatre Company. She is currently under commission with…

Former HotHouse Artistic Directorate member Maude Davey returns to the Butter Factory for a special public conversation with HotHouse Creative Director Lindy Hume AM. Now Head of Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Maude has maintained a deep connection with our region throughout her career.  Maude will share her career insights and stories of HotHouse over the decades in a conversation with Lindy on…

Working with professional actors and teaching artists from ATYP, student’s skills are going from strength to strength in these week-long school holiday workshops, with informal showings at the end of each series showcasing the participant’s talents. In August, four members of the ensemble will perform alongside drama students from all over NSW as part of the INTERSECTION…

When social historian Tessa Boase told the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds she wanted to write their early story, they refused to let her visit their archives. To a former investigative journalist, this was a challenge she could not resist. This lecture shines a light on the intriguing story of women’s love affair…