SIMON FROEHLING

Born in 1978 in Switzerland of an Australian mother and Swiss father, Simon Froehling moved to Australia in 1996 to finish his Senior Studies at St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane. Since returning to Switzerland in 2000, he has published a range of poetry and prose in magazines and anthologies in Switzerland and Germany, and has won various prizes for these. In 2002, his first audio-play, 'The Telephone Massacre', was broadcast through SWR 2, a major German radio station. Simon has written a number of plays, among them 'Double Take', for the City Theatre of Zurich's youth club, 'Going to the Sea' (Vorstadt-Theatre, Basel), 'Enemy Material' (Theatre Biel/Solothurn) and 'Feverchild', for which he won a major Swiss playwriting award.