Andrew Bovell

Summary
Every second Wednesday a group meets in a community hall. They are ordinary people, teachers and nurses, hairdressers and accountants, real estate agents and newsagents. Some are retired now while others are still working. No one’s too rich and no one’s too poor. They are all somewhere in the middle. But they share something else in common. They all love someone who is seriously addicted to something - alcohol, weed, heroin, ice, dexamphetamine, anti-depressants. The list is long. Here, in this hall, every second Wednesday our characters escape the chaos and come together to find strength and some joy in a strange kind of fellowship.

Bio
Works for the stage include Things I Know To Be True, a co-production between State Theatre Company of South Australia and Frantic Assembly in the UK (2016) followed by new productions at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (2019), Belvoir Street Theatre (2019) and Black Swan Theatre Company (2023); an adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel The Secret River, directed by Neil Armfield, Sydney Theatre Company / Sydney Festival 2013 , Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane seasons in 2016 and Edinburgh Festival and National Theatre London 2019; When The Rain Stops Falling, Adelaide Festival of the Arts 2008, Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company in 2009, Brisbane, Canberra and Alice Springs in 2010. The play was produced in London at the Almeida Theatre (2009) and in New York at The Lincoln Center (2010) where it won five Lucille Lortel Awards and was named best new play of the year by Time Magazine. Productions of Andrew’s plays continue to be performed throughout Asia, UK, America and Europe.