Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV; her work has toured widely across Australia and internationally. Belvoir Theatre’s production of Angela’s play The Dark Room won the 2011 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian work and was also nominated for several other awards including Best Mainstage Production and Best Direction of a Mainstage production. Her play War Crimes won the 2012 Kit Denton Disfellowship and the QLD Literary Award for Playwriting; and was nominated for a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2012. Angela’s play Children of the Black Skirt toured Australian schools for three years and won the 2005 Drama Victoria Award for Best Performance by a Theatre Company for Secondary Schools. Another work, Hoods, toured extensively throughout Australia and internationally to Cortile Theatre Im Hof, Italy and Dschungel Wien Theaterhaus, Austria in 2010. Where in the World is Frank Sparrow? was commissioned by and premiered at Graffiti Theatre in Ireland in 2012.
