NATHAN MAYNARD is a Trawlwoolway, pakana man and writer and director from Lutruwita/Tasmania. Nathan’s first play, The Season, featured in the 2015 Yellamundie Festival (Moogahlin Arts). In 2016, Nathan finished a writer’s attachment with Blue Rocket animation, where he helped produce and direct a palawa kani (a Tasmanian Aboriginal language) episode of the award-winning animation series Little J & Big Cuz. Nathan wrote an episode for the second series. In 2017 Nathan co-directed Jonathan Saunders’ animation series Zero Point. Nathan collaborated with acclaimed Maori writer Jamie Mc Caskill on the children’s play Hide the Dog (to be produced by Tasmania Performs). Nathan was co-creator, dramaturg and director of Naz Dickenson’s debut play CRUMBS (2021 Yirramboi Festival, Melbourne). Nathan is currently working on the feature film project Mosquito Jack as a co-writer, alongside established writers Raimondo Cortese and Jonathan Auf Der Heide. Nathan was selected for the 2017 and 2019 PWA Aboriginal playwrights’ retreat at Bundanon. He was also the recipient of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 2006 and 2013 and the recipient of the 2018 Tasmania Aboriginal of the Year Award. He received the 2018 Errol (Tasmanian Theatre Awards) for best writing and the 2018 Green Room Award for new writing for the Australian stage. Nathan was selected by the Australia Council as the Australian delegate to attend the 2018 Dublin Theatre Festival as part of the Next Stage Program.