MPavilion Opening November 2020

Chris Summers

Chris Summers graduated from NIDA in 2012 with a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Arts (Playwriting) and in 2013 was Affiliate Writer with Griffin Theatre Company and Writer in Residence at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre. Commissioned plays include No Place Like (Union House Theatre, 2011), Crossed (La Mama, 2011) and Burnt (ATYP, 2011). Rat had a sell-out season at La Mama in March 2012 and Sandstone, developed through a JUMP mentorship with Tom Holloway, had a workshop at the Sydney Theatre Company in December 2012. Chris has won the Max Afford Award for Pedagogy (2016), the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for King Artur (2014), the University of Melbourne Union House Theatre Script Development Award (2009), the St Martins National Playwriting Award (2008) and the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwrights Award (2005).

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.