Name: Mary Anne Butler
Position: Adjunct Research Fellow and published playwright
Research focus: Creative Writing, Playwrighting and Screenplays. Genres including Magic Realism, Realism, Naturalism
Email:maryannebutler@bigpond.com
Mary Anne Butler was appointed as Adjunct Research Fellow in 2014.
Formerly a lecturer in the Bachelor of Creative Writing program at Batchelor Institute, Mary Anne is now a freelance playwright. She is the recipient of a 2014 Churchill Fellowship and a peer advisor to the Australia Council for the Arts. Mary Anne’s play Broken won the 2014 NT Literary Awards for best script, and was shortlisted nationally for the 2014 Griffin Award. Her feature screenplay Hopetown won the 2012 NT Literary Awards Best Screenplay Award, and her play Dragons won the 2010 NT Literary Awards Best Script Award.
Mary Anne’s play Highway of Lost Hearts is published by Currency Press, and in 2014 had a ten-week Australia-wide tour, funded by Playing Australia.