Jane Bodie

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Jane Bodie is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her plays include RIDE, Still, Fourplay and A Single Act and they have been performed worldwide, from Australia to New York and Brazil. RIDE received outstanding reviews during the 2002 International Edinburgh Festival after a sell-out season at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney the same year.

Tony-award winning Fox Theatricals has since optioned the film rights to RIDE. Jane was short-listed for the Ewa Czagor Memorial Award, nominated for the Patrick White Playwright’s Award and won a Green Room Award for Outstanding Writing for Still at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

She has been one of the writers on the Sydney Theatre Company’s Blue Prints Literary Program, worked at the Royal Court Theatre with the Young Writers Programme and was chosen for an attachment to the National Theatre in the United Kingdom in 2005.

Her play A Single Act premiered at the Hampstead Theatre and had its Australian premiere at the MTC in 2006, and won the 2007 Victoria Premier’s Award for Best Play. Jane is currently Head of Playwriting at NIDA.

In 2011 her play This Year’s Ashes premiered at The Griffin Theatre. She has also written extensively for television and radio, including The Secret Life of Us, Crash/Burn, No Angels and Moving Wallpaper.