Helen Machalias is a Sydney based writer. She has previously worked with The Street Theatre to develop a stage adaptation of Robin Klein’s People Might Hear You, as well as In Loco Parentis, which examined the cover-up of sexual harassment and assault on university campuses. In Loco Parentis premiered at The Street as part of the Made in Canberra program for the Centenary of Canberra and won a Canberra Critics Circle Award. Helen has worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Riverside Theatres and Playwriting Australia, and has been shortlisted three times for Sydney Theatre Company’s Young Playwright of the Year Award. Her first mainstage production, This Rough Magic, premiered at The Street Theatre in 2023 and is published by Currency Press.
| THIS ROUGH MAGIC by Helen Machalias |