About the Writer Shannon Murdoch holds a first class honours degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Griffith University and was a graduate of The Playwrights Studio at NIDA in 2005. Her play Everything in Between has had twelve productions in the USA and Australia and is published by Smith & Kraus in The Best Plays of 2007. The Lovely was a finalist in The Creative Mechanics Theatre Company’s International Play Competition and was produced in New York, and subsequently published. Dreams in Deepest Sleep was the runner-up in the Dogwood Playwrights Initiative Play Award. The Swirl of Madness was the inaugural production of Chapel Off Chapel’s Emerging Playwright’s Forum. One Cloud was produced by Theatreworks as part of their mainstage season. Stupid, and Terrible will be produced in the Inspirato Festival in Toronto, Canada later this year. Shannon was an Australian delegate to the International Youth Playwrights Festival (Interplay) and has received writing fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, Bundanon in New South Wales and Hothouse Theatre in Victoria.