Dr Peter Beaglehole

Casual Professional

College Services, Humanities, Arts and Social Sci

+61 8 82012598

peter.beaglehole@flinders.edu.au

Drama Centre (123)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Peter Beaglehole is a playwright. His work has been performed in ATYP’s Intersection 2017, published by Currency press, and in the 2013 Come Out Festival (Now DreamBIG Children’s Festival). His play Strata was a finalist in 2018 for the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award and won the Young Playwright’s Award in 2016. He received a 2018 Carclew Fellowship to develop his new play Petrichor with the mentorship of Mary Anne Butler.
He also completed a PhD in Australian theatre history, focusing on six plays by Dorothy Hewett and approaching them from the field of Memory Studies.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Doctor of Philosophy

Honours, awards and grants

2018  Finalist in Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award
2018 Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, in a team with Dr Maggie Ivanova and Dr Alex Vickery-Howe
2018 Carclew Fellowship
2016 Strata Senior Winner STCSA Young Playwrights Award
2016 3MT Flinders Finalist
2015 Round 2 Carclew Project and Development Grant with Back Porch Theatre
2014 May Day Shortlisted STCSA Young Playwrights Award
University Medal 2012
The Caroline Macdonald Bachelor of Creative Arts/Creative Writing Thesis Prize 2012
The Ann Flaxman Prize in English 2012
The Imprints Booksellers Fiction Prize 2011