Melissa Bubnic

Writer

Melissa Bubnic is a writer for stage and screen.

Melissa’s original screenplay And Mrs for Who’s On First will have its world premiere at the 2024 Edinburgh Film Festival, and a US cinematic release soon after.

An experienced television writer, Melissa is currently writing episodes of Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime) and has written episodes of Nautilus (Disney+), Stags (Paramount Plus), A Town Called Malice (Sky Max), and Two Hands (Stan).

She also has original projects in development with UK production companies Pathe, New Pictures, Playground/BBC, Scott Free/Fifth Season/Sky, Carnival Films and is also working on Australian projects with Brouhaha Entertainment and Fremantle.

She won the Channel 4 Sonia Friedman Production Award for Best Play for Monkey Work, Baboon Chop. She won the Lysicrates Prize for Playwriting for Ghosting the Party which recently premiered at the Griffin Theatre Company to much acclaim. Her play, Hedda, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler for Queensland Theatre won universal acclaim in 2018. Boys Will Be Boys (dir. Paige Rattray), starring Danielle Cormack, was commissioned, and premiered by the STC in 2015 and has since been produced at London’s Bush Theatre and by Auckland’s Silo Theatre Company. Her play Beached won the 2010 Patrick White Award from the Sydney Theatre Company and was nominated for a 2013 Green Room Award. Beached premiered at the Melbourne Theatre Company and was staged at Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney in 2013. Her play, Stop. Rewind (dir. Anne Browning) premiered at Red Stitch Theatre in Melbourne in 2010 and toured Australia in 2012.

In 2011 Melissa completed a Masters in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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