Cameron's Welcomes Writer Dylan Van Den Berg to the Agency
Cameron’s is delighted to welcome writer Dylan Van Den Berg to the agency.
Dylan is a playwright and dramaturg. A Palawa person from the northeast of lutruwita/Tasmania, Dylan’s work explores Black identity by pivoting narratives that are already part of our national consciousness to embolden Indigenous perspectives. He tells stories where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have agency over their futures and draws on both Western and First Nations theatrical traditions.
Dylan is currently under commission at the National Theatre of Paramatta and the Belconnen Arts Centre. He is a 2021 Studio Artist at Griffin Theatre Company, and a member of Sydney Theatre Company’s Emerging Writers Group. With ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Dylan trained as a dramaturg through the BlackWrights Program with Kamarra Bell-Wykes.
In 2021, his play Milk premiered at The Street Theatre and won the NSW Premiers Award Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. The play was described as “a new and powerful development in Australian First Peoples’ theatre” (Canberra Critics’ Circle). Milk is published by Currency Press.
In 2020, his gothic revenge drama Way Back When won both the Griffin Award and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, was highly commended for the Max Afford Award, and shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Drama Award and the Patrick White Playwrights Award. It was developed through Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s ‘Next in Line’ program with dramaturgy from Shari Sebbens and a cast including Ursula Yovich and Megan Wilding.
Other recent work includes Whitefella Yella Tree (Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric readings, 2021), The Camel (Fringe at the Edge of the World, 2020), an adaptation of Barbara Baynton’s The Chosen Vessel (The Street Theatre: Early Phase Development Program, 2020), Apprehended (ArtsACT Homefront Funding, 2020), Why am I a Fish? (Short+Sweet, 2020) and Blue: a misery play (The Street Theatre: First Seen Program, 2017). His short plays and other writing have appeared in Island Magazine (2020), BITE Magazine (2021), and an upcoming anthology published in the USA by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (2022).
Dylan studied drama at the Australian National University and the State University of New York.
For enquiries regarding Dylan Van Den Berg please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.
