SUE RIDER

Sue Rider works as a director, writer and dramaturg in Australia and New Zealand across mainstream theatre, chamber theatre, opera, community theatre, theatre for young people and theatre in galleries. She has received eleven writing commissions and has won Matilda Awards for writing and direction of ‘The Matilda Women’ and ‘Dancing on the Walls of Paris’ as well as for directing work with the Queensland Theatre Company, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and La Boite Theatre, where she was Artistic Director from 1993 to 2000. In 2001 she won a Special Matilda Commendation for sustained contribution to Queensland theatre. Sue’s writing credits include the plays ‘Freedom Ride’, ‘Bumpy Angels’, ‘Federation Ragtime’, ‘Meeting Karpovsky’ (co-author with Helen Moulder and Jon Trimmer), winner of NZ Listener best new play, ‘Playing Miss Havisham’ (co-author with Helen Moulder); and youth operas ‘Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing’, ‘The Iron Man’, ‘Zoggy the Time Traveller’ (co-librettist with Jim Vile) and ‘The Silence Tree’ (composer Malcolm Fox). Sue has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland School of English, Media Studies and Art History since 2002, and received an Arts Queensland Creative Fellowship in 2006.