Lachlan Philpott

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Lachlan Philpott is a Sydney-based playwright. He has nine published plays, including Silent Disco (which won the Griffin Award for Outstanding New Australian play; the GAP Competition Aurora Theatre Co., USA; and the Best Stage Play at the Australian Writers Guild Awards) and Truck Stop (which won Best Play for Young Audiences at the Australian Writer’s Guild Awards). His latest upcoming work is Lake Disappointment staged by Carriageworks (Sydney).

Lachlan has done extensive work as a teacher, mentor and dramaturg at international organisations, theatre companies, schools and tertiary institutions around the world, such as Amnesty International, Checkpoint Theatre (Singapore), Griffin Theatre Company (Sydney), the Oval House (London), and The Playwright’s Foundation (San Francisco).

In 2013, Lachlan was awarded an Australia Council Cultural Leadership grant to study new play development models in several countries. He received the inaugural Australian Professional Playwright Fulbright Scholarship in 2014 to work in-residence at The American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, and Kansas State University. He was also Chair of the Australian Writers' Guild Playwrights’ Committee between 2012 and 2015.

Last Updated: 2016

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