Fresh Ink> Current Fresh Ink 18-26 Writers
Jasper Marlow
Jasper Marlow is a playwright from Inner Western Sydney. His first full-length play Zetland is proud to be a part of the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival. He is a member of atyp's Fresh Ink Ensemble (2009/2010) and has had his short plays performed in schools and festivals around Australia. Jasper was also selected as 1 of 8 up-and-coming new writers in the exciting new project 'Stories from the 428' at Sidetrack Theatre.
Graduating from the Australian Film and Television Radio School's foundation Diploma, he begins his second year studying the Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting.
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Joanna Erskine
Joanna Erskine is a graduate of the NIDA Playwright’s Studio. Her writing career kick-started after winning the 2002 Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwrights Award, where her play Waiting for the 9.07 was performed in Wharf 2 at the STC. She has undertaken residencies with La Mama NYC in Umbria, Playwriting Australia, the Bundanon Trust, Shopfront Theatre and has been a delegate at World Interplay. Joanna is currently resident playwright for CRY HAVOC and a member of TEWS, a new writer’s group operating out of Company B Belvoir. In June 2009 Joanna started Cluster, an interactive blog for playwrights which has since been a catalyst for activism amongst Australian playwrights and an online hub for the discussion of playwriting issues. Her plays have been performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival UK, the Bite Size International Play Festival, Griffin Theatre, New Theatre, Short and Sweet, NIDA, Sidetrack Theatre and The Lighthouse Theatre. In her life outside playwriting, Joanna graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (International) and a Grad Dip in Education. She has been a high school English/Drama teacher, worked for the Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre in Edinburgh and is currently the Education Manager at Bell Shakespeare.
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Nakkiah Lui
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Phil Spencer
Phil studied Theatre at the University of Glasgow. Since graduating in 2007 Phil has worked professionally as a Writer, Actor and Director. In early 2010 Phil was appointed Associate Artistic Director at Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company.
His recent writing credits include – Fit For A King (Brand Spanking New, Sydney), Cardboard Castle (Imagine Festival, Cleveland Street Theatre. The Arches, Glasgow & Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Bluey, which received an Arches New Work Commission (The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney. Battersea Arts Centre, London. The Arches), Shop Lifters of the World (Carriageworks, Sydney), Rigmarole co-written with Kieran Hurley (The Arches) & Collisions Can Be Painful (West End Festival, Glasgow).
The work Phil creates is intensely collaborative; he enjoys working with artists and non-artists to produce a diverse range of performance work. Phil is cooking up various projects this year including Boxing Day, a new work being devised with Director Scarlet McGlynn for Tin Shed Theatre Company due to be completed early 2011.
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Tim Spencer
Tim Spencer performed and directed numerous shows at Sydney University Dramatic Society including Medea, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Goldberg Street and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. As a co-creator of The Genealogy of Victorian Birds, Tim established a unique method of devising theatre that he developed in Then We had Adventures (Underbelly Festival, 2008). Tim co-founded the Sydney based production company Bambina Borracha Productions in 2007 and since then has produced, written and performed for numerous shows including Beyond the Neck (B Sharp). In 2009 he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (B Sharp) and the short film Funnier Friends Than Me.
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Zoe Hogan
Zoe Hogan’s first play Gosling won the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwrights Award in 2003. Following productions and exchanges at Australian Theatre for Young People, Zoe completed a BA in Creative Writing at UTS. Zoe was a delegate at World Interplay 2009, has had her work performed by Sydney University Dramatic Society and has been long-listed (top 15) for the Patrick White Playwrights Award. By day she works for an international development organisation and by night she pursues playwriting.
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