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Monikka Eliah

About

Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian-Australian writer and performer from Fairfield. She has participated in National Theatre of Parramatta’s Page to Stage program, Playwrights of Parramatta, CuriousWorks Breakthrough Screen Writing Program and STC’s Rough Draft. Her work has been published in The Big Black Thing, SBS Voices, Sweatshop Women, Runway Journal, Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin and The Saturday Paper. She received Southlands Breakthrough Award 2018, Wheeler Centre Playwright Hot Desk Fellowship 2020, Ausco Resilience Grant 2021 and Wheeler Center Next Chapter Award 2022. She has presented work at the NSW Writers Centre, Studio Stories, Wollongong Writers Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, NYW Festival, National Play Festival, WITS Festival Fatale and Sydney Festival.

Past Events

The Next Big Thing

The Next Chapter 2022 Showcase

Jumaana Abdu, Jose da Costa, Monikka Eliah, Tristen Harwood, Brooke Maddison, Luke Patterson, Micaela Sahhar, Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Xanthea O’Connor

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