BEATRIX CHRISTIAN is a well-respected and awarded screenwriter and playwright. Her first play Spumante Romantica had its premiere production at the Griffin Theatre Company in 1992, only one year after her graduation from the NIDA playwright’s studio. From there she became an Affiliate Writer and then Writer-in-Residence with Sydney Theatre Company’s New Stages. Her plays include Blue Murder, winner of Best New Play (Sydney Theatre Critics Circle) and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, The Governor’s Family, selected as the one Australian play to be read at Teesri Duniya (Montreal) and nominated for an AWGIE and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Fred, shortlisted for both the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Old Masters, Faust’s House, Then the Mountain Comes, The Promised Land, Mad, Bad & Spooky, and Ten Things Not To Do On A First Date. Beatrix’s screen work includes two highly awarded feature films, Jindabyne and Hearts and Bones. The latter premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and won the AWGIE Award for Original Feature Film in 2020. Beatrix is also well known for her work across the 2018 Picnic at Hanging Rock reboot, of which her pilot episode was also nominated for an AWGIE Award.