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English
'I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.'
Girl is spending the summer at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knit Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity but learning to understand the people who shaped you?
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (Author)
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, where she currently teaches. But the Girl is her debut novel. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature Award in the Unpublished Manuscript category. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Yen, the Sydney Morning Herald, the White Review and more. She has won various prizes and fellowships for her work, including the Felix Meyer Scholarship, Glenfern Fellowship, Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Young Writers Innovation Prize and the Best of Express Media Prize.
Nikita Waldron (Reader)
Nikita is an actor and writer. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 2017. Her theatre credits include Rules for Living, Lord of the Flies and Mosquitoes at Sydney Theatre Company, The Wolves and An Enemy of the People at Belvoir St Theatre, girl friend at Belvoir's 25a, and Youth & Destination at KXT for Manifesto Theatre Company.
Her feature film credits include The Bystander Trials directed by Katherine Millard for Macquarie University, Palm Beach directed by Rachel Ward for New Town Films and Top End Wedding directed by Wayne Blair for Goalpost Pictures Australia. Her TV credits include The Letdown (Series 2) directed by Trent O'Donnell for NETFLIX and Random and Whacky (Series 2) directed by Keaton Stewart and Monica O'Brien for Ambience Entertainment.
Prior to NIDA, Nikita commenced a Bachelor of PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at ANU. While at ANU, she directed and produced a production of 'Cosi' which was nominated for Best Director, Best Production and won Best Ensemble at the Canberra Area Theatre Awards.
Nikita has also written, produced and acted in a web series titled 'Your Mates', working closely with the late actor-director Jess Falkholt to complete the pilot episode, shortly before her passing. Her debut play 'Falling', was shortlisted for Playwriting Australia's Max Afford Award in 2020. Nikita is the 2021 recipient of the Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission for Australian Theatre for Young People.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (Author)
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, where she currently teaches. But the Girl is her debut novel. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature Award in the Unpublished Manuscript category. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Yen, the Sydney Morning Herald, the White Review and more. She has won various prizes and fellowships for her work, including the Felix Meyer Scholarship, Glenfern Fellowship, Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Young Writers Innovation Prize and the Best of Express Media Prize.
Nikita Waldron (Reader)
Nikita is an actor and writer. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 2017. Her theatre credits include Rules for Living, Lord of the Flies and Mosquitoes at Sydney Theatre Company, The Wolves and An Enemy of the People at Belvoir St Theatre, girl friend at Belvoir's 25a, and Youth & Destination at KXT for Manifesto Theatre Company.
Her feature film credits include The Bystander Trials directed by Katherine Millard for Macquarie University, Palm Beach directed by Rachel Ward for New Town Films and Top End Wedding directed by Wayne Blair for Goalpost Pictures Australia. Her TV credits include The Letdown (Series 2) directed by Trent O'Donnell for NETFLIX and Random and Whacky (Series 2) directed by Keaton Stewart and Monica O'Brien for Ambience Entertainment.
Prior to NIDA, Nikita commenced a Bachelor of PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at ANU. While at ANU, she directed and produced a production of 'Cosi' which was nominated for Best Director, Best Production and won Best Ensemble at the Canberra Area Theatre Awards.
Nikita has also written, produced and acted in a web series titled 'Your Mates', working closely with the late actor-director Jess Falkholt to complete the pilot episode, shortly before her passing. Her debut play 'Falling', was shortlisted for Playwriting Australia's Max Afford Award in 2020. Nikita is the 2021 recipient of the Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission for Australian Theatre for Young People.
