Jane Harrison (playwright)

Jane Harrison (born 1960) is an indigenous Australian playwright, novelist, writer and researcher.

A descendant of the Muruwari people of New South Wales, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina, Harrison grew up in the Victorian Dandenongs with her mother and sister. She began her career as an advertising copywriter, before becoming a playwright, novelist, writer and researcher. Her best-known work is Stolen, which received critical claim and has toured nationally and internationally.

Harrison's latest play, The Visitors, was part of the Melbourne Theatre Company Cybec Electric series and the Melbourne Indigenous Festival in February 2014, directed by Leah Purcell, after being work-shopped at the Yellamundie Festival in 2013. The Visitors re-imagines the arrival of the first fleet from the perspective of seven senior law men meeting on the shores of the harbour.

Stolen premièred in 1998 at Playbox (now Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne) followed by seven annual seasons in Melbourne, plus tours to Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the United Kingdom (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, with readings in Canada, New York City and Los Angeles. In Sydney, it was performed at the Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Wayne Blair. Stolen is a play about the lives of five Aboriginal people from the "stolen generations". For Stolen Harrison was awarded the Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Nomination, was co-winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and received an Honourable Mention in the CACS National Awards Individual Category for 'An Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture'. Stolen has been studied on the Victorian VCE and NSW HSC English and drama syllabi.

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