
The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are wrapping up for 2025 and in this instalment of The Next Big Thing series, we’re showcasing writers from the third intake of fellows.

Madelaine Nunn
Madelaine Nunn is an AWGIE winning writer, actor and producer working across theatre, film and radio since graduating from the VCA in 2015. Madelaine is the founder of Mad Nun Productions, co-founder of Three Birds Theatre, and Artistic Director of Rollercoaster Theatre. She has won The House of Oz Purse Prize, The Martin Lysicrates Prize, The Rebel Wilson Scholarship, The ATYP Foundation Commission and The Jopuka Eldersee Commission. She has been shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award three times; she is a three-time AWGIE nominee and has been longlisted for the Griffin Award and the Lysicrates Prize. Notable writing credits include; sitting, screaming (The Old Fitz), FLICK (La Mama/Goodwood Theatre & studios), SAAM (ATYP), Cactus (La Mama/RAV), The Chapel, the Fire & the Dead Cat (ATYP), Summer at Suspended Stone Camp (Jopuka Productions), Kinder Surprise (ABC RN) and Bin Chicken (ATYP/Griffin).