Alex Vickery-Howe is an award winning playwright and emerging director/screenwriter. In 2008 he made his writing debut with Once Upon a Midnight, a bilingual, bicultural horror rock musical. The show opened in Okinawa, Japan, before selling out again at the Adelaide OzAsia Festival. Since then, he has written for the stage in partnership with a number of theatre companies. His latest show, Out of the Ordinary, is available from Currency Press. On screen, Alex has written and directed a number of short films. Recently, he completed an internship with StudioCanal in Sydney working in screen assessment/development. He holds a PhD from Flinders University, where he specialises in writing internationally for younger audiences.