A reminder to members that the library will be participating in Open House Melbourne from Friday 25th July to Sunday 27th July.

We are expecting an influx of visitors on those days, particularly the weekend, so the library is likely to be busier than usual.

Angus Cerini

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Angus Cerini is a multi-award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker – and was the 2019 playwright-in-residence at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library. His residency followed on from the highly successful residency by Patricia Cornelius in 2018.

Angus is the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, a Helpmann Award for Best Play, an AWGIE Award for Best Play, a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Play, multiple Green Room Awards including Best Play, the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, the Griffin Play Prize, the David Williamson Prize and RE Ross Trust Awards, and has received numerous award nominations.  

Angus creates theatre projects through his company Doubletap and has toured this work throughout Australia and in Ireland, England, Hong Kong and Germany.

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