Patricia Cornelius


Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.

Career

Cornelius has written many plays, including Slut, The Call, Good, Do Not Go Gentle…, Boy Overboard, Love, Lilly and May and Hog's Hairs and Leeches and co-authored The Audition.
Her first novel, My Sister Jill, was published in 2003 by St. Martin's Press.
Cornelius also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2009 film Blessed, based on Who's Afraid of the Working Class, with co-writers Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Christos Tsiolkas. It won the Best Screenplay at the 2009 San Sebastian International Film Festival and an AWGIE Award for Feature Film Adaptation in 2009.

Awards

Cornelius has won numerous awards, including AWGIE Awards, Green Room Awards and in 2006, the Patrick White Playwrights' Award. Her 2005 play, Love, won the Wal Cherry Prize for New Plays. Her 2010 play Do Not Go Gentle... received the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Drama in 2011 and won the 2011 Victorian Premier's Louis Esson Prize for Drama. Cornelius won the 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Drama.
In 2018 she was awarded the Mona Brand Award for Australian women stage and screen writers. She also received a lifetime achievement award at the 2019 Green Room Awards.

Novels

  • ''My Sister Jill''

Screenplays

Drama

Lily and May Taxi Little City Blunt Love Boy Overboard Love Slut The Call Slut Good, Do Not Go Gentle… SHIT Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly Anthem Runt Hog's Hairs and Leeches Bad Boy The Audition
  • ''TRUTH''