AMY MAY NUNN

Amy May Nunn (they/them) is an award-winning Naarm/ Melbourne based writer and theatre-maker.

Their work has been featured in various publications including Voiceworks, Verandah, Windmills, Metre Maids and Award-Winning Australian Writing. They are a two-time recipient of the Mathew Rocca Award for poetry, winner of the Express Media Award for poetry and the John Marsden Prize. Their plays have been nominated for the the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, the ATYP Foundation Commission (14-17), Canberra Youth Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Commission, and they were an inaugural recipient of the Gasworks Arts Park Event Commission (2021). They are the winner of the ATYP Senior Foundation Commission (2023) and a finalist for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize (2023). They have been a featured writer with the Wheeler Centre, Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.

Amy is a graduate of the full-time programme at 16th St Actors Studio, and completed their MA in Playwriting at the VCA. They are the co-founder and artistic director of Dirty Pennies Theatre Project, a company dedicated to fostering new work from women, trans, gender-diverse and queer artists.

They were selected for the ASSITEJ Next Generation Theatre Residency in Pakistan (2020), and were recently selected to participate in the Jo Clifford ‘Finding Our Own True Voice’ Workshop for gender-diverse writers as part of Midsumma Festival (2023), in partnership with Bullet Heart Club and Arts Centre Melbourne. They are an Associate Artist alum at Theatre Works (2020-2021), a member of the She-Writes Collective (2022-2023) and the Midsumma Pathways Programme (2022-2023), under the mentorship of Morgan Rose. They have been both a lead artist and a collaborator in Antipodes Theatre Company’s Winter Lab (2022-2023), and most recently a lead artist for Geelong Arts Centre and Performing Lines’ Creative Engine Artists Residency (2023).