1.30-4.30pm, Saturday 21 November 2026 at the New Sydney
Have you ever wondered about reading a play? Is it hard? Are they strange? Aren’t they meant to be watched? Come and discuss these juicy questions with playwright and avid play reader Emilie Collyer who will illuminate the peculiar and particular joys of reading plays. You will be sent some reading material in advance and the workshop will cover territory such as: reading plays for pleasure, reading plays critically, what makes language performative rather than literary, and a few exercises to tease out playwriting technique. No playwriting or play reading experience necessary.
Emilie Collyer is an award-winning Australian playwright and poet. Her writing credits for theatre include The Good Girl, Once Were Pirates, Dream Home, Contest and Super, produced in Australia, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh and Prague. She won the 2026 Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for Drama. She is currently under commission with The Street Theatre (Canberra) and is Associate Artist at Geelong Arts Centre. Her writing is widely published, and she has two award-winning poetry collections published with Vagabond Press As If I’m Really There (Wesley Michel Wright Prize) and Do you have anything less domestic? (Five Islands Prize). Emilie also works as a dramaturg, teacher and mentor and is a passionate play reader.
This workshop is supported by Fullers Bookshop.
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