DONNA HUGHES is an award-winning playwright based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her plays have been developed through Playwriting Australia National Script Workshops, The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Australian Plays Transform and La Boite Theatre Company’s development program. Trackers won an Australian Writers Guild award (AWGIE) in 2021 and has been performed by schools around Australia. Disconnected was published by Australian Plays Transform in 2017. Hit Delete, was the recipient of the Martin Lysicrates Prize in 2022. Donna’s play, Treading Water was shortlisted for the Stoddart Playwright Award and The Pact was shortlisted for the Lane Cove Literary Award in the theatre writing section. Donna’s short film Isolation in Lockdown was nominated for the New York Independent Cinema Awards and nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Writing by the WA Screen Culture Awards 2022. Her short plays, It Was Tuesday and The Next Stop were shortlisted in Australia, the United Kingdom, Dubai and Vietnam. The Next Stop won the Best Writer Award at the Short + Sweet Festival, Hollywood. Donna is currently a member of Black Swan State Theatre Company’s emerging writers’ program.