Emilie Collyer is an award-winning Australian playwright and poet. Her writing credits for theatre include The Good Girl, Once Were Pirates, Dream Home, Contest and Super, produced in Australia, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh and Prague. She won the 2026 Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for Drama. She is currently under commission with The Street Theatre (Canberra) and is Associate Artist at Geelong Arts Centre. Her writing is widely published, and she has two award-winning poetry collections published with Vagabond Press As If I’m Really There (Wesley Michel Wright Prize) and Do you have anything less domestic? (Five Islands Prize). Emilie also works as a dramaturg, teacher and mentor.
