Van Badham
Van Badham is the award-winning writer of more than 30 internationally-produced plays for stage and radio. Her plays have had seasons in Australia at the Sydney Opera House Studio, Wharf 2, the Seymour Centre, the Arts Centre (Melbourne), Perth’s Blue Room and the Adelaide Festival. She has had plays and music theatre staged at six Edinburgh Festivals, in London and on the UK touring circuit and in America, Iceland, Germany and Austria. Her radio-plays have been broadcast by the BBC World Service and Radio 4.
Van's plays include The Gabriels, Nikolina, Bedtime for Bastards, Letters to W, Black Hands/Dead Section and Petrograd. Awards include the British National Student Drama Festival Best Play, the Sunday Times Harold Hobson Award, best playwright at London’s annual Fringe Report, and Naked Theatre Company’s Write Now! prize. She is completing her PhD at the University of Wollongong and was writer-in-residence at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.