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Kate Mulvany wins Australia’s only prize for women stage and screenwriters – Sydney Morning Herald

The playwright in part owes her 25-year career to a light-fingered thief who stole her draft of a novel.

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Last night the playwright was awarded the coveted Mona Brand Award for 2020 Australia’s only prize for women stage and screenwriters for a huge body of work judges described as “feminist, activist and very entertaining”.
Among her 30 or more plays, Mulvany is best known for her acclaimed adaptation of Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South trilogy and Friedrich Schillers Mary Stuart for the Sydney Theatre Company.
From the scraps of writing she recovered from her stolen novel around a scene crayfis…

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