Photograph by Sarah Walker, 2015.
CONTACT
cjabryant@gmail.com
ABOUT
Dr. Christopher Bryant is a Griffin Award nominated playwright (Home Invasion, 2015), performer, and NIDA graduate (Master of Fine Arts (Writing for Performance), 2014). He has worked with a range of companies including fortyfivedownstairs, Malthouse Theatre, the State Library of Victoria, Wheeler Centre, ATYP, La Mama, and the Emerging Writer's Festival.
Recent work includes his "rich & textured” play The Other Place (Flora Georgiou) written his SLV Creative Fellowship, which debuted at Theatre Works in 2019, and his “coup of pop culture [and] social satire” Home Invasion at Old 505 in 2018 (The Buzz from Sydney). He’s been mentored by Nicola Gunn and Amelia Roper, been developed through the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha (Disinhibition, 2018) and continued to tour his award-winning “daring experiment in audience unease”, Intoxication (Glam Adelaide). He’s also had plays published through Play Lab and Australian Plays.
As an author he’s been published by Star Observer, Hello, Mr. Magazine, That Reminds Me, and Thought Catalog. He was a finalist for Scribe’s Nonfiction Prize, Frankie Magazine’s “Good Stuff” Awards, and was the Writer-in-Residence at the Boyd Community Hub (2019), developing a memoir, Accidents Happen. He has taught with tertiary institutions around the country, and completed his Ph.D. (2020) at Monash University, under the supervision of Jane Montgomery Griffiths.
My National New Play Network profile can be found here.
My full artistic CV can be found here.
SELECTED CREDITS.
Training & Research:
2023 Participant in Access Arts NSW’s NEXT LEVEL Program, attachment to Merrigong Theatre
2022-23 Participant in Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Next In Line Program
2020 Tutor & Dramaturg: The Theatre Experience, University of Queensland
2016-20 Doctor of Philosophy (Theatre & Performance), Monash University
2019-20 Co-Design Participant - LGBTIQA+ People with Disability (Thorne Harbour Health and Inclusion Melbourne)
2017-19 Convener/Lecturer: Script Development 1, Monash University, Melbourne
2019 Writer in Residence, Boyd Community Hub/City of Melbourne
2018 Participant in the Midsumma Pathways Program for LGBTQIA+ Disabled Artists
2017 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship
2016 Gob Squad Performance Creation Workshop, Malthouse/Gob Squad
2016 Subject Coordinator, Tutor, & Dramaturg: Script Development 2, Monash University, Melbourne
2015 Russell Beedles Performing Arts Fellowship – Playwright in Residence & Researcher, State Library of Victoria
2015 Participant in Malthouse Theatre’s “Provocateurs” Program
2014 Master of Fine Arts (Writing for Performance) at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
2013 Fresh Ink National Studio, ATYP, Sydney
Awards:
2023 “Burning” - playwright, finalist for the Silver Gull Play Award
2023 “Burning” - playwright, longlisted for the Griffin Theatre Award for New Australian Playwriting
2022 “Inside Out” - playwright, finalist for the Silver Gull Play Award
2022 “Inside Out” - playwright, semifinalist for the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Award
2021 “Identity Games” - playwright, highly commended for the Silver Gull Play Award
2021 “The Other Place” - playwright, semifinalist for the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Prize (American Shakespeare Center)
2020 “Factory” - playwright, shortlisted for the Max Afford Playwrights’ Award
2019 “The Other Place” - playwright, quarterfinalist for the Screencraft Stage Play Award
2018 "Disinhibition" - playwright, shortlisted for the Silver Gull Play Award
2018 "Flotsam" - playwright, shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award
2017 "The Repetition Compulsion" - author, shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers
2017 "Intoxication" - playwright/performer, winner of the Melbourne Fringe Queer Development & Mentorship Award.
2017 "Accidents Happen" – author, finalist for Frankie Magazine's "Good Stuff" Awards
2015 “Home Invasion” – playwright, finalist for the Griffin Theatre Award for New Australian Playwriting
2015 “The Mutant Man” – playwright, finalist for the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition, New York
2014 “The Mutant Man” – playwright, finalist for the Belvoir St. Theatre’s Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights
2009 “Reading List for the Outback Housewife” – playwright, winner of the Monash University’s Andrew Bovell Award
Published Work:
2023 “Is this a dealbreaker? Intimacy, dating and disability”, author, dripfeed.life
2020 “New Balance”, author, Midsumma.org.au
2019 “The Mutant Man,” playwright, published through Play Lab
2019 “Sneakyville,” playwright, published through Australian Plays
2018 "Intoxication", author, Audrey Journal
2018 "Home Invasion", author, Audrey Journal
2018 "I Want", author, Bent St. 1
2017 “Intoxication”, playwright, published through Australian Plays
2015 “Third Reich Mommie,” playwright, published through Play Lab
2015 “Home Invasion”, playwright, published through Australian Plays
2014 “On Phone Numbers Written on Toilet Doors”, author, Hello Mr. Magazine
Production:
2021 “Intoxication,” playwright & performer - Anywhere Festival (Brisbane), dir. Emma Palackic
2020 “New Balance”, playwright & performer, Theatre Works, dir. Emma Palackic
2019 “The Other Place”, playwright, Theatre Works, dir. Jessica Dick
2019 “Disinhibition”, playwright, MUST, dir. Yvonne Virsik
2018 "Sneakyville", playwright, fortyfivedownstairs, dir. Daniel Lammin
2018 "Home Invasion", playwright, Old 505 Theatre, dir. Alexander Berlage
2017, 18 "Intoxication", playwright & performer - national tour, dir. Emma Palackic
2017 “The Mutant Man”, playwright, The Space London, dir. Heather Fairbairn
2016 “Intoxication”, playwright & performer, La Mama Courthouse Theatre, dir. Jessica Arthur
2015 “Home Invasion”, playwright & director, La Mama Theatre Melbourne
2014 “Rausch” by Falk Richter & Anouk van Dijk, dramaturg, NIDA Graduate Season, dir. Jessica Arthur
2014 “Third Reich Mommie”, playwright/performer, Midsumma, dir. Daniel Lammin
Development & Readings:
2023 “New Balance”, playwright & performer, Brand X “Ground Zero”, dir. Emma Palackic
2023 “Factory”, playwright, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, dir. Amy Sole
2018 "Disinhibition", playwright, Great Plains Theatre Conference Nebraska, dir. Colleen O'Doherty
2018 "The Mutant Man", playwright, Gasworks/Key Conspirators, dir. Emma Palackic
2018 "Lockpick Pornography", adaptor & performer, Midsumma Festival/La Mama Courthouse, dir. Emma Palackic
2016 “The Other Place”, playwright, 45downstairs ‘Play Readings’ season, dir. Yvonne Virsik
2016 “Lucky”, playwright, NIDA/Before Shot, dir. Jessica Dick
2015 “63 Days”, playwright, Apocalypse Theatre’s “ASYLUM” Season, dir. David Burrowes
2015 “Intoxication”, playwright, MKA’s "SUBTXT" Development Festival, dir. Emma Palackic
2015 “Sneakyville”, playwright, in US-A-UM’s “Play By Play” development program, dir. Imara Savage
2013 Dramaturg & Co-Curator of Before Shot’s “Readings Season” development program at The Abbotsford Convent (with Emma 2015 Palackic)