Spunner, Suzanne Sylvia (1951 - )

Feminist playwrite Suzanne Spunner's works include: Not still lives; Edna for the garden; Running up a dress; Dragged Screaming to Paradise; Overcome by Chlorine; Radio for Help and The Ingkata's Wife.

A founding member of the Home Cooking Theatre Company, in 1987 Spunner moved with her family to Darwin and established Paradise Productions. A board member of The Australian National Playwrights Centre, in Sydney, and 24 HR ART: the Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, she has been the recipient of Fellowships from the Literature Board of The Australian Council in 1988, 1991 and 1994. Both Dragged Screaming to Paradise and The Ingkata's Wife were highly commended by The Jessie Litchfield Award for Northern Territory Literature.

Events

1972	Graduated BA Hons from the University of Melbourne
1973	Graduated Dip Ed from the University of Melbourne
1975	Co-ordinator of the International Women's Film Festival in Melbourne
1976 - 1978	Reviewer of the Melbourne Times
1977 - 1978	Co-ordinator of the feminist journal Lip
1977 - 1979	Senior tutor at Deakin University
1978	Seconded to Open Universiity in the United Kingdom
1978 - 1980	Film and theatre reviews, articles and interviews in journals and magazines
1979	Conducted a weekly radio programme on theatre for 3RRR FM
1979	Victorian editor of Theatre Australia
1979	Married Ian Gray (later Chief Magistrate of Victoria), they have 2 children
1980	Lecturer in Australian studies and theatre for the School of Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts
1981	Reviewer of the Melbourne Times
1987	With family moved to Darwin
1988	Recipient of a Fellowship from The Literature Board of The Australia Council
1991	Recipient of a Fellowship from The Literature Board of The Australia Council
1994	Recipient of a Fellowship from The Literature Board of The Australia Council
1994	One of 12 playwrights chosen to represent Australia at the 3rd International Women Playwrights' Conference in Adelaide

Related Corporate Bodies

• Melbourne Women's Theatre Group (1974 - 1977)

Related People

• Walling, Edna (1896 - 1973)

  Play Edna for the Garden, performed in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.

  [1989]

Plays

• Spunner, Suzanne, Running up a dress, a mother daughter dialogue, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1988, 69 pp. [ Details... ]
• Spunner, Suzanne, Safe 'n sound : the driver as mother, 1989, 8 pp. [ Details... ]
• Spunner, Suzanne, Edna for the garden, 1989, 37 pp. [ Details... ]
• Spunner, Suzanne, Not still lives : a play and an exhibition about Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 1989, 6 pp. [ Details... ]
• Spunner, Suzanne, Dragged screaming to paradise, Little Gem Publications, Casuarina, NT, 1994, 50 pp. [ Details... ]

videorecordings

• Spunner, Suzanne, Tea and pictures, Jager, Claire and Weis, Susan, Australian Film Institute and Film Victoria, Melbourne, 1989. [ Details... ]

See also

• Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]
• Tait, Peta, 1953- and Schafer, Elizabeth, 1959- (eds), Australian women's drama : texts and feminisms, Currency Press, Sydney, 1997, 286 pp. [ Details... ]