NSW Write Night: It started with a dream

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How do stage and screen writers hang on to their original vision once they hit the rehearsal room? How much authority and protection does your writer’s hat actually give you and your work? 

Louise Fox, Sam Meikle and Tommy Murphy recall their good and bad experiences with directors and producers and discuss how they negotiate their way through. Is it a collaboration? Or a collision? 

Book now for Tuesday 10 September.

You won’t want to miss this Write Night event! 

When: Tuesday 10 September 6.30 pm for 7 pm start. 

Where: Knox St Bar, 21 Shepherd St, Chippendale 

Cost: $10 members / $15 non-members 

Please Note: Samantha Lang is no longer able to sit on this panel. 

Louise Fox

Writer, creator and producer, her credits include Love My Way, Broadchurch and Dead Europe. Creator of Glitch, Louise has won AACTA and Awgie awards and works extensively in Australia and the UK.

Sam Meikle is a highly experienced writer and creator with over 200 hours of produced credits across a broad range of prime-time television dramas, comedies, animation and web series. Short films he’s written, directed and/or produced have screened at festivals around the world and he’s been engaged to develop multiple feature film projects. 

Sam has worked extensively in program development for many of Australia’s leading production houses, along with writing and interviewing for documentary works. He has been nominated for 11 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and won 4.

Tommy Murphy is an award-winning screen writer and playwright. His TV credits include AACTA and Logie-winning miniseries Devil’s Playground and Fighting Season for Foxtel.   He is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for stage and numerous others including Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and the Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. 

Two stage plays have been produced on London’s West End with ‘Holding The Man’ regularly produced internationally. Tommy’s play Mark Colvin’s Kidney is in development with Porchlight Films. His new play Packer & Sons tells the story of Kerry and James Packer and will open at Sydney’s Belvoir in November. Tommy is currently working on a TV series for Stan.