Jane Harrison: From Page to Stage to Screen to Opera

Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people of NSW. Her first play Stolen toured Australia and internationally. Rainbow’s End premiered in 2003 and won the 2012 Drovers Award. The Visitors (play) premiered in 2020 with a new production at the Sydney Opera House in 2023, winning the Sydney Critics Award for Best New Australian Work for 2021, the Best Production and Best Ensemble in the 2024 awards. The opera The Visitors premiered in 2023. Her novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize while her latest novel is The Visitors. She is the Festival Director of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival (2016, 2019, 2022, 2024).