Maxine Mellor Maxine Mellor i(A78986 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

In 2003, Maxine Mellor was an associate writer with Queensland Theatre Company's Emerging Writer's Network. She was an Australian playwright delegate at World Interplay 2005, as well as a university secondment to the organisation throughout 2005.

In 2006-2007, Mellor was the Associate Resident Artist of Interplay, helping to produce Youth Interplay 2006, Interplay's Online Festival, the 2007 World Interplay Festival, and Brisbane Interplay 2007.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 winner Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award for 'O'Mighty Make-Believe'.
2017 recipient Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists Fellowships
2013 winner Edward Albee Scholarship To develop the script 'The Great Dividing or The Silver Alps.'

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Horizon 2020 Brisbane : Playlab , 2021 18831597 2020 single work drama

'Lovers on the highway, chased down by their past.

'Cole and Sky, a young couple, are driving in a classic car from the coast into the guts of the country. Cole’s father is on his deathbed and there are rumours Cole is set to inherit the earth after a life of aimlessness. They set out with unbridled enthusiasm for the road ahead; swept up in romantic dreaming and poetic ruminations amid the boundless plains. They knit new narratives for themselves; give themselves new names and identities in sync with their seemingly unanimous versions of utopia. Their newfound freedom is underscored by a long-forgotten mix tape buried deep in the glovebox, but out of the static following the final song, a pubescent voice cracks — a younger, angrier, more violent Cole and his teenage manifesto recorded to tape.

'Equal parts Mad Max: Fury Road, Thelma and Louise, and the classic films of the Ozploitation era, Horizon keeps who we are in the rear view mirror, whilst asking what it is we can see in the warping heat-distorted bitumen ahead. With a smack of Wolf Creek, a slap of Wake in Fright, and a firm grip on the true stories of those lost to the isolation of the outback, Horizon is a high-octane journey that’s over the limit, over heating and tearing right into the heart of Australia.' (Production summary)

2022 winner AWGIE Awards Stage Award Original
2022 winner AWGIE Awards David Williamson Prize
y separately published work icon The Silver Alps 2014 2015 13570753 2014 single work drama

'Heidi and her daughter are being evicted. Her brother comes to the rescue, offering to drive them to a cabin in the mountains to start afresh.

'As the scenery shifts and the mountains divide, in a series of near-identical motel rooms, Heidi battles with past addictions and paranoia. It seems there’s an unsettling ulterior motive for this trip, but will anyone take the driver’s seat to avert the danger?

'A play of mystical mountains and itchy motel rooms, charged with sexuality and secrets, The Silver Alps rips the hood off the family car and drags things lurking out from under the motel bed.'

Source: Author's website.

2014 winner Max Afford Award
y separately published work icon Trollop 2011 Brisbane : Playlab , 2013 6485116 2011 single work drama

'Clara lives with her partner, Erik, in a clean, modern home untouched by a flood that has ravaged many parts of their town. Recently unemployed and growing fat and slovenly, her days are spent in front of the television, awash with images of disasters and destruction and programs that flaunt versions of the woman Clara could be if she tried. She is overwhelmed to the point of apathy; immobilised. Feeling so numb, she toys with Erik'’s emotions, and sends him on excursions to fetch her obscure items for a book he has obligated her to make, as if to extract some new reaction from him. She is, perhaps, trying to sabotage their comfort.

'One stormy night, Eugenie comes to the door as a Jehovah'’s Witness to speak to them about the End Days. When she is invited in to take shelter, the evening soon drips with danger, violence, and ugly truths. And Clara’'s hideous troll skin will be revealed and burst open. ' (Publisher's blurb)

2012-2013 winner Queensland Premier's Drama Award
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