Hilary Bell

Plays include Wolf Lullaby, Fortune, The Falls, The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch, Memmie Le Blanc, The Bloody Bride, The Mysteries: Genesis, The Splinter, The White Divers of Broome and adaptations of The Seagull, The Hypochonriac and of the film The Red Balloon. She also writes for opera, song cycles and musical theatre.

Hilary is the co-creator of bestselling children's books 'Alphabetical Sydney', 'Numerical Street' and 'The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour'. She is a member of playwrights' company 7-On and a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights' Studio, the National Institute of Dramatic Art and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She was the Tennessee Williams Fellow 2003-04, and the 2012 Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow at the Sydney Theatre Company.