KEZIAH WARNER
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​Writer

Keziah is a playwright and dramaturg.
 
She is an alumna of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre Program, Malthouse Theatre's Besen Family Artist Program, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre's INK Program, Playwriting Australia’s Post-Production Program, and Soho Theatre’s Writer’s Lab, UK.
 
She has won Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights Award, been shortlisted for the Griffin Award, the Martin-Lysicrates Prize, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and the Max Afford Award, and longlisted for Soho Theatre's Young Writers Award.  In 2024, her unproduced plays, NIGHTCAPS and LUNA were shortlisted for the Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting. 
 
Her credits include POONA (Next Wave, 2021), CONTROL (Red Stitch Actor's Theatre, 2019), HELP YOURSELF (MTC's Cybec Electric, 2019), LUNA (VCA, 2019), and HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER (Hotel Now, 2018).
 
In 2023, her adaptation of FW Murnau’s NOSFERATU directed by Bridget Balodis, and HOUR OF THE WOLF, a new immersive show created with Matthew Lutton, will both premiere at Malthouse Theatre.