Craft Bites International with Michelle Law and Radha Menon

The Australian Writers’ Guild is excited to collaborate with the Playwrights Guild of Canada in Craft Bites International, an exciting initiative designed to connect playwrights across borders.

Two AWG playwright members have been paired up with Canadian peers. These talented duos will join together to offer audiences readings from new work and discuss their craft in a free and fascinating series of webinars. These events are free and open for anyone to attend.

Craft Bites International is free to attend but registration prior to each session is essential.

About the Playwrights
Michelle Law is a writer and actor based on Gadigal Land (Sydney, Australia). She writes for print, film and television, and theatre. She is best known for the play Single Asian Female (La Boite Theatre Company), which gained 5-star reviews and had sold out seasons across Australia and in New Zealand. Her latest plays include Miss Peony (Belvoir St Theatre), which toured Australia in 2023, and Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company). Michelle is the co-creator, co-writer and co-lead of the AACTA nominated SBS series Homecoming Queens. She has also written on the award-winning SBS series Safe Home. Her accolades include two Australia Writer’s Guild AWGIE awards and a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. More recently, she was named the winner of the Arts & Culture category of the Most Influential Young Asian-Australian Awards. Her first book Asian Girls are Going Places was published in 2022. She also co-wrote the comedy book Sh*t Asian Mothers Say with her brother Benjamin Law. Michelle is a prolific speaker and regularly appears on panels and at festivals. Currently, she is working on several new screen works.

Recipient of a Chalmers Fellowship 2022, City of Hamilton’s 2020 Arts Innovation Award and the 2016 Theatre Award, animal fanatic Radha Menon began performing in British theatre and television in her youth. Stateless until age seventeen, Menon emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1995 where her performance career abruptly ended, and her writing career began. Her plays, which have been produced at theatre festivals in Canada, the US, UK and India, include Blackberry, Ganga’s Ganja, Rukmini’s Gold, Rise of the Prickly Pear, The Circus & The Washing Machine. Red Beti Theatre (RBT), Hamilton’s first feminist IBPOC theatre company was founded by Menon in 2011. Supported by a Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Grant, 5 of her plays were adapted and produced as podcasts in 2021. Winner of Toronto Fringe New Play Contest 2015, Hamilton Fringe Critics Choice Award 2015, 2020 Sanhita Manch National Playwriting Contest, Sultan Padamsee Playwriting contest 2020 & Herman Voaden Playwriting award 2021 Finalist, Rukmini’s Gold was published by Scirocco Press in 2022. Menon holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and is currently developing a suite of goddess plays, Devi Triptych. She is based in Hamilton and editing her first novel, a murder mystery, Death Cry of a Peacock.

The Craft Bites International program also features many other playwrights from around the globe. You can read more about the program here.