Peta Murray - Plays

Plays

Murray's best-known play, Wallflowering, has had numerous productions in Australia and overseas. Her play Salt won the 2001 Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier's Awards. Other works include Spitting Chips, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s Blueback, The Procedure and The Keys to the Animal Room. Community theatre works include This Dying Business and The Law of Large Numbers. In 2006 she wrote Room for Playworks and the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. In 2010 two ‘micro-plays’ featured in Finucane & Smith’s The Carnival of Mysteries at the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She is currently developing a new work for performance entitled Things That Fall Over: an (anti-)musical of a novel inside a reading of a play, with footnotes, and oratorio-as-coda. She is represented by HLA Management, Sydney.

Peta has won the following Australian Writers Guild awards: 1990- Spitting Chips - Theatre in Education/Community Theatre Category; 1994- Keys to the Animal Room - Theatre in Education/Community Theatre Category, and Major Award Winner 1994; 2000- Blueback - Theatre for Young People.

In 2003 Peta was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to society and literature.