Stephen Sewell

Described by the New York Times as "One of Australia’s leading playwrights," Stephen Sewell is a highly awarded author, particularly well known for his plays, screenplays, and novels. The descendent of a convict transported for the theft of a bottle of wine, and so coming, in the words of one of his uncles, from "a long line of drunks and thieves," his work is characterised by its passion and energy, as well as breadth of his material, from the life of Dali, in his play, "The Secret Death of Salvador Dali" to contemporary politics, in the controversially titled, "Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America, a Drama in 30 Scenes" as well as the most recent "The Lives of Eve", a play set in the world of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Sewell was Head of Writing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in till 2021, and is now happily back writing.