Keziah is an award-winning playwright and script developer based in Melbourne. Her focus is on character-driven genre-based work, most recently sci fi, gothic horror and ghost story.
In 2023, she had two mainstage world premieres: her adaptation of FW Murnau’s NOSFERATU directed by Bridget Balodis opened at Malthouse Theatre to critical acclaim and packed houses; and HOUR OF THE WOLF, a large-scale immersive show written by Keziah, co-created and directed by Matthew Lutton, for Malthouse Theatre.
She is currently under commission to write new plays for the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Malthouse Theatre and Red Stitch Theatre as part of their INK programme.
She has won Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights Award, been shortlisted for the Griffin Award, the Martin-Lysicrates Prize, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, the Max Afford Award and the Lysicrates Prize, highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted for Soho Theatre’s Young Writers Award.
She has worked as a dramaturg and script developer across independent and mainstage theatre. In 2022, she ran Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Stage emerging writer development program. She has also graduated as a dramaturg from MTC’s Women in Theatre Program and Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Family Artist Program
Her writing credits include: HOUR OF THE WOLF (Malthouse, 2023), NOSFERATU (Malthouse, 2023), POONA (Next Wave, 2021), CONTROL (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2019), HELP YOURSELF (MTC’s Cybec Electric, 2019), LUNA (VCA, 2019), and HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER (Hotel Now, 2018).
NOSFERATU and CONTROL are published by Currency Press.
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