DYLAN VAN DEN BERG is a Palawa writer and dramaturg, with family connections to the northeast of Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands. He has held residencies at Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, and was a participant in ILBIJERRI’s BlackWrights program for First Nations dramaturgs. His play Whitefella Yella Tree premiered at Griffin Theatre Company to much acclaim, receiving an Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best Original Play and the David Williamson Prize for Australian Writing. Other plays include Way Back When (The Old Fitz), Milk (The Street Theatre), Ngadjung (Belco Arts, Canberra), The Camel (Motley Bauhaus), The Chosen Vessel (The Street Theatre), All that Glitters is Not Mould (NIDA), and The Flood (National Theatre of Parramatta). He is a two-time recipient of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, one time winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, and was shortlisted for the UK’s Bruntwood International Award for Playwriting. He studied theatre at the ANU and the State University of New York, and completed a PhD in Aboriginal Gothic theatre at the University of Canberra.