Angela Betzien (born 1978) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Betzien was born in

Rockhampton Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia. In the , the population of Rockhampton was 79,293. A common nickname for Rockhampton is "Rocky", and the demonym of Rockhampton is Rockhamptonite. The Scottish- ...

, Queensland, Australian in 1978. She graduated from

Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...

with a Master of Arts for her thesis, "Hoods: Creating political theatre for young audiences".

Career

Theatre

Her first play, ''Dog Wins Lotto'', was produced by the

Queensland Theatre Company Queensland Theatre, formerly the Queensland Theatre Company and Royal Queensland Theatre Company, is a professional theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia. It regularly performs in its own Bille Brown Theatre and the Queensland Performin ...

in 1997. Her second play, ''The Postcard'', won the George Landen Dann Award in 1999. The following year she won a fellowship to the

Royal Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a West End theatre#London's non-commercial theatres, non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, London, England, opene ...

in London as writer-in-residence. She subsequently won a State Library of Victoria creative fellowship (2008), Kit Denton Fellowship (2012), Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship (2013), Kim Williams' Fellowship Award (2015) and Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2017). Her play for young adults, ''Hoods'', was first staged at the Sydney Opera House in 2006. It won the inaugural Richard Wherrett Prize and the Stage Award for Theatre for Young People at the 2007

AWGIE Awards The AWGIE Awards are annual awards given by the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), for excellence in screen, television, stage, and radio writing. History The AWGIE awards were conceived in 1967, with the first event being held in 1968. Bettina ...

RealTV

Betzien is co-founder of an independent theatre company called RealTV (also Real TV) with theatre director and filmmaker Leticia Cáceres. Their work for young audiences include ''Hoods'', ''War Crimes'' and ''Children of the Black Skirt''.

Film and television

Betzien was one of the screenwriters for '' Total Control'' (2019–2021), produced by

Blackfella Films Blackfella Films is an Australian documentary and narrative film production company headquartered in Sydney, founded in 1992 by Rachel Perkins. The company produces Australian short and feature-length content for film and television with a part ...

for

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and for '' Secret City'' (2019) produced by

Matchbox Pictures Matchbox Pictures is a film and television production company headquartered in Sydney with production houses in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. It was formed in 2008 by Tony Ayres, Penny Chapman, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon and Helen Panckhu ...

and Foxtel.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Betzien, Angela 1978 births Living people 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Australian dramatists and playwrights Australian women dramatists and playwrights People from Rockhampton