Cameron's Welcomes Writer Ra Chapman

Cameron’s is delighted to welcome writer Ra Chapman to the agency.

Ra is a Korean-Australian playwright and screenwriter.

She is an adoptee and has strong ties with the adoption community, working closely with inter-country adoptees and diverse artists.

She is an alumni of the Besen Writers Group (Malthouse Theatre) and was awarded the 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Playwright Fellowship. Her play K- Box, which won the 2021 Patrick White Playwright Award, was due to premiere in 2020 on the mainstage at Malthouse Theatre but was postponed thanks to Covid-19 and will now premiere in 2022. She is also an Artist in Residence at Malthouse Theatre.

In 2018 Ra was selected to take part in StoryLab, a Film Victoria development program for diverse screenwriters and in 2019 she was the program co-ordinator for StoryLab 2.0. In the same year she attended the AFTRS State Talent Camp and subsequently earned herself a place in the highly competitive 2020 AFTRS National Talent Camp. Also in 2020, Ra received ABC Fresh Start development funding for her original digital comedy series White Fever and the following year she was granted further ABC funding to adapt the comedy into a TV series. She recently co-wrote Because The Night (a Hamlet adaptation) for the Malthouse Theatre, an immersive theatre work on a scale never seen before in Australia. Ra is currently developing various projects with other writers and makers across television and theatre, and is under commission by the Malthouse Theatre.

Ra is also an award winning stage and screen actor. She won the Best Actress award at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival, U.S. for her role as Therese in David Williamson’s film adaptation of Face To Face and was nominated for an IF Award for Best Actress for the same performance. Ra played the role of prisoner Kim Chang on 5 seasons of the award-winning Foxtel series Wentworth.

For enquiries regarding Ra Chapman please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199