JOSEPHINE

A new play about the irrepressible Josephine Baker — actor, singer, dancer, civil rights activist and resistance fighter. 
In development

LOVE & THE MUSE
A CHAMBER OPERA

Music by Ross Edwards, Libretto by Wendy Beckett
An Opera about composer Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma. Alma reluctantly came to realize that a musical career of her own would not be possible and threw herself into the role of muse. 
In development

ONLY MY HAIR IS GREY

A light comedy written in the form of a contemporary farce. Two intellectuals discover love is sweeter in the later years. Set in a barber shop in an art nouveau arcade in Paris; strange and amusing things happen.
Productions: Théâtre Libre, Paris 2026
Translations: French

SAPPHO

An adult fairy tale and theatrical event that takes the audience on a thrilling, romantic journey. The play tells the story of a time early in Sappho’s life… that may or may not have happened.
Productions: Festivals in Hydra, Delphi, Andros and Rhodes (all in Greek) in Greece; Southwark Playhouse, LondonTranslations: Greek, French, Spanish

A CHARITY CASE

An adopted teenager discovers her birth mother is the bag-lady who stalks her.
Productions: Daryl Roth Theatre, NYC; Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris; Adelaide Festival
Translations: French —titled UN ESPOIR

CLAUDEL

Lover and student to the great sculptor Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel's descent into madness is a convenient lie. Her bourgeois family are to blame. Embarrassed by her unconventional behaviour they have her locked away.
Productions: Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris; Festival d’Avignon; Sydney Opera House
Translations: French

MODOTTI

Revolutionary, assassin, and artistic photographer Tina Modotti strikes fear into the hearts of conservative men. In Mexico city she befriends Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and becomes as well known for her photography as she does for her communist activism.
Productions: Theatre Row, NYC

DATIS

A play about four people locked in a room.
Productions: Sheridan Theatre Adelaide

FOR THE LOVE OF ALMA MAHLER

The feisty wife of composer Gustav Mahler believes in his genius. Her infidelities with Walter Gropius and Gustav Klimt are necessary to endure it.
Productions: Sydney Opera House

ALL MOD CONS

A play about passion for real estate.
Readings: Primary Stages, NYC

GrosZ

Three short existential playlets. Titles include: REGRESSION, PARTAKE and GROSS. Shrouded in black humour they each focus on the politically incorrect that governs our unconscious life.
Productions: Sheridan Theatre Adelaide, University of South Australia

HESTER

The story of Australian painters in the 1930s and the only woman artist among the men, Joy Hester. A life threatening illness forces her to consider her options.
Productions: Belvoir Street Sydney, Adelaide Festival, National Art Gallery of NSW

Isadora Duncan
–Without Limits

A dance–theatre piece that traces the choreographer's rise to popularity and her tragic demise.
Productions: Adelaide Theatre 62, National Australian Tour

LOSING MY RELIGION

A story that asks us to break with everything we believe in. How and what we think determines the world we inhabit. We must live with what we create.
Productions: Adelaide Theatre

Refugees

A play that sets out to diffuse the fear of the foreigner and instead discover the joy of inclusiveness and getting to know the other.
Productions: Town Hall Theatre, Port Adelaide 

Sweeping Up After the Onions

An existential tale about the layers of meaning that we shed everyday and what the layers reveal about ourselves. 
Productions: Town Hall Theatre, Port Adelaide 

The Glebe Point Road

Co-written with Jane Hyde
A comedy about the odd characters in an inner city suburb of Sydney and the journey they have undertaken to get to the big smoke.
Productions: Queensland Theatre Company 

The Philosopher's Steamship

Under Nazi Germany occupation many great thinkers of the era were killed. Others made it on to a steamship bound for distant parts of Europe. The miraculous survival of these, now famous, psychologists and philosophers has shaped and guided our modern world. 
Productions: Adelaide Theatre Company 

ANAïS NIN
Voices in the Dream

A story where the characters of Anaïs Nin's fiction are brought to life. What they reveal about their creator is compelling.
Productions: Adelaide Theatre Company 

Yankaway

A comedy about innocent individuals getting caught up and exploited in a pyramid scheme. Their instructions are to turn their relatives and close friends into customers.
Productions: Griffin Theatre, Sydney