Angela Betzien

Angela Betzien (born 1978) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter.

Angela Betzien
Born1978 (age 44–45)
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • screenwriter

Betzien was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australian in 1978.[1] She graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Master of Arts for her thesis, "Hoods: Creating political theatre for young audiences".[2]

Career

Theatre

Her first play, Dog Wins Lotto, was produced by the Queensland Theatre Company in 1997.[3] Her second play, The Postcard, won the George Landen Dann Award in 1999.[4] The following year she won a fellowship to the Royal Court Theatre in London as writer-in-residence.[4]

She subsequently won a State Library of Victoria creative fellowship (2008), Kit Denton Fellowship (2012), Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship (2013), Kim Williams' Fellowship Award (2015) and Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2017).[1]

Her play for young adults, Hoods, was first staged at the Sydney Opera House in 2006.[5] It won the inaugural Richard Wherrett Prize and the Stage Award for Theatre for Young People at the 2007 AWGIE Awards.[1]

RealTV

Betzien is co-founder of an independent theatre company called RealTV (also Real TV) with theatre director and filmmaker Leticia Cáceres.[6] Their work for young audiences include Hoods, War Crimes and Children of the Black Skirt.[7]

Film and television

Betzien was one of the screenwriters for Total Control (2019–2021), produced by Blackfella Films for ABC Television[8] and for Secret City (2019) produced by Matchbox Pictures and Foxtel.[9]

References
  1. "Angela Betzien". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  2. Betzien, Angela Jane (2007), Hoods : creating political theatre for young audiences, Queensland University of Technology, retrieved 25 July 2023
  3. "Dog Wins Lotto". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. "Rocky helps acclaimed play hit the road". CQUniNEWS Archive. 17 March 2005. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  5. "Angela Betzien Archives". Playlab Theatre. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  6. "About Realtv Theatre Company". RealTV. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  7. "Writing in the dark Angela Betzien on making theatre for young people in the Age of Anxiety". Australian Plays Transform. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  8. "Total Control". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  9. "Secret City". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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