Jane Harrison
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright, author and festival director. Her first play, Stolen , was performed across Australia and internationally for seven years, and her second, Rainbow's End , won the 2012 Drover Award. Her young adult novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier's Awards. The stage play of The Visitors was a smash hit...See more
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright, author and festival director. Her first play, Stolen , was performed across Australia and internationally for seven years, and her second, Rainbow's End , won the 2012 Drover Award. Her young adult novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier's Awards. The stage play of The Visitors was a smash hit at the Sydney Festival in 2020, and the Sydney Theatre Company's production of the play will take place in late 2023. Jane directed the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival in Melbourne in 2016, 2019 and 2022. She believes in the power of stories to strengthen cultural connection. See less
