Author of fifteen plays including Jenny and the Tennis Nut (AWGIE Award 1999) No Strings Attached (Playlab Press 1994, AWGIE nomination), Trading Hours (AWGIE nomination), Outside In (VUP 1984), Hilary has written for both stage and screen. Her plays have been performed throughout Australia and internationally in the United Kingdom, United States of America and New Zealand.

www.hilarybeaton.com  

Published Plays

No Strings Attached Playlab Press 1994

Outside In University of Victoria Press 1984

Produced Plays

Jenny and the Tennis Nut KITE Theatre, Brisbane 1998 (national Tour 1999)

No Strings Attached La Boite Theatre & Darwin Theatre Co 1994

Outside In Theatre Corporate, Auckland and many subsequent productions in NZ, UK, USA & Aust (1983-95)

On the Line Contact Youth Theatre Brisbane 1993

Worlds Apart QTC Brolgas production, Brisbane 1993-1994

Giving Up the Ghost Icy Tea, Inala Community Theatre, Brisbane 1991

Trading Hours Street Arts Theatre, Brisbane 1990

Taken for Granted with students from Grant High School, Mt Gambia, 1988

Finger Painting Theatre of the Deaf, Sydney 1981-82

Sitting on a Fortune Theatre Corporate, 1978, Auckland, Downstage, Wellington 1979 Christchurch Theatre, 1980

and Nimrod Downstairs, Sydney 1981

The Divine Sarah and the Bernhardt of the Halls with Margaret Bray, Centrepoint Theatre, NZ 1979

Play readings

Overflow Playworks/Playlab Short Works Brisbane Writers Festival 2006

Spirit of Norfolk Norfolk Island Museum, Norfolk Island 2006

Outside In Downstage Theatre/Arohata Women’s Prison, Wellington NZ 2005

Millennium Bridge Queensland Theatre Company, Subscriber Event, The Shed 1998

No Strings Attached Adam Playreadings at Downstage Theatre, Wellington NZ 1997

Where’s Your Hat Peggie Louise? Brisbane Theatre Company Puppet Workshop 1992