Nicki Bloom
Playwright
Tender (2009)
Nicki Bloom is a poet, playwright and novelist. Her first play Tender was produced by nowyesnow in 2007 as part of the Belvoir Street B-Sharp season in Sydney. This production then toured to Hothouse Theatre (Albury/Wodonga) and Griffin Theatre (Sydney) in late 2008. Tender is published by Currency Press. Her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia in October 2008, and is published by Phoenix Press. Nicki's awards include the 2006 Adrian Consett Stephen Memorial Prize (Tender), the 2007 Inscription Chairman's Award for Best Play (Tender), the 2009 Inscription Playwriting Award (Bloodwood) and the 2006 Henry Lawson Prize for Prose, for Something Greater Than All of This, a fragment of her debut novel An Archipelago. Tender has also been shortlisted for several awards, including the 2008 NSW Premier's Play Award, the 2007 Philip Parsons Playwriting Award, and the 2006 Max Afford Playwriting Award. Nicki was a panelist at the 2007 Emerging Writers' Festival (Melbourne), a 2008 resident writer at Griffin Theatre Company (Sydney), and the recipient of a Goethe-Institut scholarship to 'Theatertreffen' (Berlin) in May 2009. Nicki is currently under commission from several leading Australian theatre companies including Company B Belvoir, Griffin Theatre Company, and Brink Productions. She is co-artistic director of performance company nowyesnow.
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