KIRK DODD

Kirk Dodd is a playwright and scholar of Shakespeare’s rhetoric interested in writing once again with the “Elizabethan” blank verse form. Kirk completed his PhD in Creative Writing (and Shakespeare Studies) in 2018. His Australian “Shakespearean” blank verse drama, The Tragicall Hiftorie of Woollarawarre Bennelong, Native Ambassador of Nova Hollandia, was shortlisted for the Griffin Award (2018) and his second “Shakespearean” blank verse drama, The Tragicall Historie of Agamemnon, Victor of the Trojan War and Husband to Queen Clytemnestra, is a semi-finalist in the “Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries” initiative (round four) run by the American Shakespeare Centre. Kirk is a general member of the executive of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) and teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame.