Ben Ellis (playwright)

Ben Ellis is a playwright from

Theatre503, 2007), both premiering in London. The Final Shot, about the television broadcast of a man's death, featured Susannah York

Ellis' short play about the death of activist Rachel Corrie, Blindingly obvious facts, was directed by Matt Scholten and was featured in the 2007 Melbourne Top 30 season of the Short and Sweet short play competition.^[1]

1951 referendum to outlaw communism in Australia.^{[citation needed}

Rupert Goold and Robert Icke directed his work in the multi-authored Headlong project, Decade, at St Katherine's Docks, London, 2011, alongside work by writers including Simon Schama, Mike Bartlett, Amy Steel and Ella Hickson, dealing with the culture of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in New York.^{[citation needed]}

His first professional play, Outpatients, produced at the Carlton Courthouse, La Mama, Melbourne, was a satire on the treatment of

type one diabetes - which he was diagnosed with in 1979 - by the Victorian hospital system.^{[citation needed}

Awards

Ellis was awarded the inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize and the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for Post Felicity (the latter in 2000, before the play was produced,^[2] under the title Who Are You, Mr James?). He was also the recipient of the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award in 2002 for Falling Petals.

An unproduced play, Eighty-Eight, was shortlisted for the 2008 Bruntwood Prize, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester^{[citation needed]}

^ "AusStage".
^ "Patrick White Awards". Sydney Theatre Company. Archived from the original on 3 November 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2008.

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