Playwriting Lecturer
The Playwriting papers (THEA 241 Playwriting and THEA 341 Advanced Playwriting) are generally taught by practising playwrights/teachers appointed for a twelve month term, July - June.
The current Playwriting teacher (to June 2012) is Suzanne Ingelbrecht.
Suzanne Ingelbrecht is a playwright based in Perth. She has written a number of full-length plays, including Fragmented and The Quiet Country (a dream play), and several shorter works including Hard Ware and the 2008 Maj Monologues’ finalist Blusher, performed Downstairs at His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth. In 2004, she began a year’s playwriting mentorship with deckchair theatre in Fremantle, and in the same year was the recipient of an Australia Council Literature Board grant to develop her playwriting. In 2006, she received an ArtsWA grant to produce her play Fragmented at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth. Fragmented, awarded an honorable mention for the 2005/06 Larry Corse Award, United States, was a critical success and went on to be nominated best new play in Western Australia’s 2007 Equity Guild Awards, as well as winning a 2007 Blue Room Award. In July 2009, Suzanne travelled to Sydney as one of two inaugural recipients of a state initiative to promote WA playwrights in the eastern states. She worked with acclaimed dramaturg Peter Matheson and director Iain Sinclair (The Seed, Beyond the Neck, Killer Joe) on her play Angel Dreaming, an absurdist black comedy inter-textually linked to Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbevilles. In April 2010, Suzanne was emerging writer in residence at Western Australia’s premier writing center, the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount where she worked on her new full-length play Sorry and facilitated drama workshops. She is currently a member of deckchair theatre’s Writers’ Studio.
In semester one 2012, Suzanne's latest piece, Breathe Out (and I Breathe You In), a commissioned work funded by the University of Otago's Performing Arts Fund, will be premiered in the Lunchtime Theatre programme.