MELISSA REEVES is a Melbourne playwright and screenwriter. She has written over twenty plays and won numerous awards. She has been closely associated with the Red Shed Company, and Melbourne Workers Theatre, as well as having her work performed by all the major Australian Theatre companies. Her plays include In Cahoots, The Emperor’s New Clothes (adaptation), Sweetown - winner of the Jill Blewitt Playwrights Award, The Spook, which premiered at Belvoir and was awarded the 2005 Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premiers Awards, and two AWGIES for best new play, Road Movie, Furious Mattress - shortlisted for two Premiers Awards, Happy Ending, An Enemy of the People, (adaptation) and Archimedes War - Shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Award. She has co-written a number of plays including Magpie, with Richard Frankland, and Who’s afraid of the Working Class, Fever, and Anthem with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas, composer-Irine Vela. Who’s afraid of the Working Class? won best play in the Queensland Literary Awards, two Awgies for best new play, and the Jill Blewitt Playwrights Award in 1999. Also, Rodeo Clown, and Caravan - co-written with Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, and Wayne Macauley. Melissa also co-wrote the award winning screenplay for Blessed, based on Who’s afraid of the Working Class?