Awards, Fellowships & Community Contributions
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2020 – 2022
ARC Discovery Project: Staging Australian Women’s Lives: Theatre, Feminism and Socially Engaged Art. Led by Professor Stacy Holman-Jones (Monash University)
2015
Artist-in-Residence embOLDen, Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre
2013
Solo Residency – Victoria University
2004
Australia Council Residency, Nancy Keesing Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris
2001
ANPC/New Dramatists Residency, New York
1996
Recipient of Australia Council Fellowship: Category A, Literature Board
AWGIE AWARDS
2000
Winner, AWGIE Award, Blueback
1994
Winner, AWGIE, Award Major Award/Stage Award, The Keys to the Animal Room
1990
Winner, AWGIE Award, Spitting Chips
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
Co-founder and Creative Director (retired), The Groundswell Project, 2010- 2019
Curator of Art and Public Programs, 6th International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care – 2019
AWARDS
2018
Citation: The Adrian Miles Award for Innovation, presented by the Dean of the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
2017
Runner-Up, Best Presentation: Australian Association of Gerontology – Early Career Cutting Edge Research, Victorian Division
2016
Finalist, VicHealth Awards: Building Health Through Art Category, for embolden: Creatively Ageing at Footscray Community Arts Centre
2010
Winner, Excellence in the Arts in Palliative Care, awarded to The GroundSwell Project at Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Second International Arts and Health Conference, Melbourne, for intergenerational arts-and-health project: Rain-dancing For Beginners
2003
Australian Government Centenary Medal for Services to Society – Literature
2001
Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play, Salt
2000
Winner, ANPC/New Dramatists’ Award for Best Play, Salt