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Kirsty Marillier Kirsty Marillier i(16577060 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: South African
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Kirsty Marillier is a South African-Australian actor and writer. She has been based variously in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

Marillier has studied a Bachelor of Arts at Curtin University and acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She has acted both on stage and in television, including in a brief role in Home and Away. In 2018, she was part of Sport for Jove Theatre Company's winter ensemble season.

Marillier's autobiography was published in Growing Up African in Australia. In late 2019, she won the prestigious Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for her play-in-development, The Orange Thrower. Her play The Zap was developed by Belvoir and Playwriting Australia as part of Darlinghurst Theatre Company's development program for 2020, with dramaturg Louise Gough, director Courtney Stewart, and actors including Henrietta Amevor, Vivienne Awosoga, Daniel Gabriel, Yerin Ha, Michelle Ny, Patrick Jhanur, and Angela Sullen. It won the 2020 Max Afford Award.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 winner Max Afford Award for 'The Zap'.
2020 recipient City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants for The Zap
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Orange Thrower 2021 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022 20801035 2021 single work drama

'It’s one of those suburbs where the houses all match, the gardens all match, the cars, the dogs, and the people all match. But in the stucco sprawl of Paradise, the Petersen family don’t quite match.

'While her folks are back in Johannesburg, Zadie is holding the family fort. This means keeping her little sis away from bush doofs—and smiling when her nice white neighbours try to touch her hair.

'Then, in the middle of the night, someone starts pelting their house with oranges. Just once. Then twice. Then night after night after night. Maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe someone in Paradise wants them out.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.
2023 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Drama
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
2019 winner Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award
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