Melissa Reeves
Melissa Reeves is a Melbourne playwright. Her plays include The Spook, which premiered at Belvoir St Theatre in 2004 and was awarded the 2005 Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier’s Awards plus two AWGIES for best new play, Tough Girls, Salt Creek Murders (winner of the 2000 Wal Cherry Award), Road Movie, Storming Heaven, Sweetown (winner of the 1993 Jill Blewitt Playwrights' Award), Great Day, In Cahoots, and The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Melissa has co-written a number of plays including The Girl I Love and Never Let Me Go (with Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich), Magpie (with Richard Frankland), and Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class and Fever (both with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas and composer Irine Vela). Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class won Best Play in the Queensland Literary Awards, two AWGIES for Best New Play, and the 1999 Jill Blewitt Playwrights' Award. Melissa is currently working on a new play, Furious Mattress, which will be produced by the Malthouse Theatre in 2010.