MARIEKE HARDY is a curator, screenwriter, playwright, artist and producer. She has penned columns for The Age, The Drum and Frankie magazine, and written for numerous television shows. Marieke’s ABC comedy series, Laid, was the winner of several awards and recently adapted for the US market. Her smash hit adaptation of Dario Fo’s No Pay? No Way! premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2020 and went on to tour the UK. She was co-curator of international literary salon Women of Letters and was a regular panelist on the ABC’s Book Club for eleven years. She is a recipient of the 2015 Sidney Myer Fellowship and currently co-curates the monthly spoken word event Better Off Said.