Ross Mueller – June 20 2021

Ross has been writing for theatre, radio and film for almost twenty years. He is the Artistic Director of Courthouse ARTS in Geelong, Victoria, was an affiliate of the Melbourne Theatre Company and a founding member of Melbourne Dramatists. Ross won the New York New Dramatists Playwright exchange for Concussion and The Glory won the Wal Cherry Play of the year 2007. Hard Core was short-listed for the Patrick White Award and Construction of The Human Heart was short-listed for the 2007 AWGIE Award for Best New Play and nominated for five Green Room Awards. In 2002 Ross was the Australian playwright at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London. He has been commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, Canberra Youth Theatre, Hothouse and ABC Radio National. Ross’s other plays include the monologue A Party in Fitzroy, a play with music, Little Brother, No Man’s Island, A Beautiful Gesture, Colosseum, A Town Named War Boy and ZEBRA!.

Concussion
Currency Press, 2009; ISBN 9780868198552
Full length play; 2 female, 5 male (doubling required)
Cast age: 16 to 18, 18+; Audience age: young adult – adult
Somewhere in a busy city, a man wakes to discover he has forgotten his life. He has no memory of the past and no clear sense of the present. He is concussed. Or so he is told by a doctor – who may also be his partner. Now there are flashes of something. Hunger, mourning, sexual appetite …. Bob Dylan? But why isn’t he in hospital? And what of the voices, the Blackberry, the brothers? The hammer? A comedy with attitude, Concussion explodes a simple conceit and scatters its achingly funny and filthy tales of the city like shrapnel.

The Ghost Writer
Playlab, 2007; ISBN 9780908156856
Full length play; 2 female, 2 male
When her child is murdered, Brihanna wants the killer publicly exposed – in a best selling novel. But for the truth to be told, she needs a ‘ghost’ to write it. Follow the interlocking lives of Brihanna, her ghostwriter Claudia, Claudia’s lover, and her publisher father, all of whom are affected by the young child’s murder. As each searches for the truth, they are haunted by the past and their need for intimacy.