Verity Laughton
Verity Laughton’s work has been produced in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, the UK and the USA. It includes main-stage adult dramas, a promenade community event, a musical, adaptations, plays for child and family audiences, as well as for dance, for puppets, for theatre of image and a ‘neutral script.’
Her plays include: The Ballad of Bonnie Wheeler; The Mourning After; Carrying Light; Burning; The Snow Queen; Koala Lou (musical); Gondwana and The Nargun and the Stars (both large scale puppetry); Sweet Thing and The Ice Season. Awards include: AWGIE for Community Theatre, 2004 (The Lightkkeeper); The Griffin Prize, 2001 (Burning); AWGIE for Radio Drama, 2004 (Fox); Adelaide Critics’ Circle Best New Australian Play, 1999 (Carrying Light); Inscription Award, 2009 (The Ice Season). Two recent radio plays, Moon Door and Davy were nominated for the 2009 AWGIE Awards. The Nargun and the Stars was featured in both the 2009 Sydney Festival and the 2009 Perth International Festival.
In 2008 Verity was awarded a full year grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to write a play, What Has Been Taken. She is a member of the 7-ON group of playwrights.