Raging Disgracefully

Authors

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  Ariana Reines

  Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her recent books include The Rose, Wave of Blood, and A Sand Book, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award.
  
  Reines has created theatre and performance for Performance Space New York, The Whitney Museum, Works+Process at The Guggenheim, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and many others, and has given thousands of readings and master classes around the world.
  
  Her play Telephone has been been adapted and reimagined across the United States and Europe since 2009. In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, Reines created Invisible College, a study hall for poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.
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  Lally Katz

  Lally Katz is a screenwriter, playwright and memoirist, widely regarded as one of Australia’s most in-demand writers. The Sydney Morning Herald described her work as “if The Simpsons were written by Tennessee Williams.” She has written more than 50 plays produced on major stages in Australia and internationally. Her show Stories I Want to Tell You in Person toured Australia, Mexico and India and became an ABC program. She has developed projects with FX, Showtime and ABC Signature, wrote for Hulu’s The Great, and has written for Sunny Nights (Stan) and Shaun Tan’s animated series Tales From Outer Suburbia (ABC). Her memoir My Cursed Vagina is published by Allen & Unwin.
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  Marieke Hardy

  Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter and playwright, having written for series such as Laid, The Family Law, and Seven Types of Ambiguity. Her adaptation of Dario Fo’s No Pay? No Way! premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2020.
  
  She was co-curator of international literary salon Women of Letters and a panelist on the ABC's Book Club. She co-curates the monthly spoken word event Better Off Said.
  
  Her new play, Losing Face, opens at Melbourne Theatre Company in June 2026 and she is a 2015 recipient of the Sidney Myer Fellowship.
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  Em Rusciano

  Em Rusciano is a writer, singer, keynote speaker, comic and podcaster. Her podcast Emsolation was Australia’s first ever Spotify Exclusive, and her 15-date Outgrown comedy tour took Australia by storm in 2024. Em’s 2016 bestselling book Try Hard was released to acclaim, and her self-narrated audiobook was nominated for ABIA Audiobook of the Year. Em has a fierce, loud and passionately loyal social media community, with a combined following on Facebook and Instagram of more than half a million.